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29/04/01(1am)-1 year ago this week/end...funny how much goes on in a year, how you've thought things slipped from your memory, but they're always there to haunt you.  and how they come back in people when you dont expect it...old scars don't die young....

well, heres the skinny on whats been doing...the 25th was more job applying and so was thursday the 26th.  on wed, i went to uconn to andrews show, "our countrys good."  wasnt bad though i fell asleep for 15 min around the end of the first act.  tech went well, acting was well, there's this girl erin, who plays the part of mary.  she's hot...yeahhhh.  show was basically about the question of whether or not the australian penal convicts should be allowed to perform such and such a play, "the recruiters..." something.  very rousseauvian.  so my grades are now a b+ in religion of ancient israel and b- in govt and politics.  2 more to go. still a good show, i'm glad i got to go, even if i saw andrew for about 2 min after the show.  i want the kilt, the sporan, and the 3 pointed hats.  those are my picks from wardrobe...

after that, i hopped on a computer at the library and scott was on, so i found out where his dorm was and went there, we chilled for a bit.  ordered some wings over storrs (ripoff on pricing, you can get the same amount in montreal for 10$ cdn that you got for 18$ us).  i met scott's friend, jake.  scott threw out a half can of beer cause he didnt like it and i was driving home.  whats up with zero tolerance, i know my limit. and one beer is not intoxicating me.  thats why drunk driving is highest in the us than any other country.  because no one knows their tolerance.  anywho, uconn was same ol, like south windsor, only bigger, and older.  mcgill needs some south windsor visitors...

thursday evening was the rane concert at uhart.  i was quite disappointed at the show, the last time i went to a uhart show on 3/4/00, there was a LOT more people than was at this one.  of course, there was that hot girl that i was staring at the whole night that was sitting on the other side of the table from me
heres the setlist:
i got there at 935 and was surprised that they were on cause i was expecting seth yacovone's band on, but alan told me later that they were out sick.  and so rane started out with bownicity, of which i just missed about the first 3 chords.  i must say, bowman owned tonight, seriously.  strong bownicity into castles.  from castles, we had blindness.  after blindness
was hazelnut.  this was a phenomenal jam.  21 minutes long.  now everyone was completely great, but i think the 3 that owned the show were alan(best rhythm out of him that ive heard), wyllys(who was rocking out at the board all through the song), and griffy(who looked like he had been smokin quite a bit of herb and was mesmorized the entire song).
after a two minute break and some instrument changes was a second set that started with feeding.  after feeding was minutes and after minutes was a slightly longer version of color.  this one had a buildup lead in, instead of the usual start.
post-color was niagara, which started with the normal intro and lacked the funky jam that dan usually does with his bass to make it sound like its electronica.  however it was still a great song and was 13 minutes long, leading into goomba.  goomba was 7 minutes long and very typical goomba, with the exception of a mid-song hava nagila jam for matt.  and ending out
the show was center of ourselves, which was 9 minutes long and kicked major ass.  i've heard the two recordings and this is my first time live and this was the best of the three.  all in all, great show, poor crowd.  just when you think that there'snot a better show. its unfortunate there wasnt an encore though.

friday was completely do nothing and i was here all day.  and today i slept in late again, took elise to the library, missed margaret as i was turning onto felt and she and her mom were turning onto oakland.  and i also picked up a router and now i need to bring home the crossover table to get it to work.  jon and scott were over briefly to watch best of chris farley and we're gonna go see rane at equator on friday and then party sometime after that...something about a carriage house...

that brings us to now.  i'm leaving for montreal again til tuesday after a back and forth, back and forth of moving or not, i'm going up, so i'm going to bed now cause i've got a nice, 6hr day of driving tomorrow.  montreal, here i come, back again..............

24/04/01-been a while but i'm now home in ct.  unfortunately, i guess.  i miss montreal.  the city is so much different than suburbia and i like the city better.  here's a recap of what's been going on.  part II of molson five will be after i go back up there on the 29th.  on the 19th, it was just a veg out day and i slept late and then went out hunting down more boxes before finally getting some at the metro at du parc.  then was my last dinner at bmh (mmm, ginger chicken :P) it sucked cause i was getting more reminiscent, saying goodbye, packing, etc.  i also went through and took a bunch of pictures from the city, the campus and me, dave and john.  they're on my mcgill pictures site...

i then spent all of thursday evening packing and i stayed up all night doing packing, not knowing where to start, but somehow managing putting something in some of the boxes.  so now i'm 2/3 of the way packed for when we head back up.  all nighter and then i left to go to the bus station at 630.  took a cab to the station, waited for boarding and got on the bus for albany.  long bus rides between transfers (i had to transfer in albany and springfield), but i slept through the major parts of the routes.  most of the way down i listened to okoumé and then rotated some other cds, read a little in my book, that was about it.  got off the bus in albany, noticed that dubya wants a tax cut to give money back to the people so they can jump start the economy and spend more.  spend more on what!?!?! crap?  man, this country spoils every kid under the age of 16.  what the hell is that about.  and also, whats with obese people?  almost 60% of the people ive seen were overweight by about 20 or more pounds.  and about 80% of them were women.  and thats why canadian women are so much better lookin than american women...  so already i was rather terrified of being back in the states.

got into hartford right on the nose at 450pm and my mom and elise were there.  so they drove me home and we chilled, my dad came home and it was right back into the vicious swing of jeopardy competition.  after that was noodling around the house and i left around 9 to go to northampton to the iron horse to see the big rane 4-20 show.  awesome homecoming show.  missing joe opened, playing across the ocean, old saybrook, martini, and a few others, not to mention alan pitched in on a cover of a samples song, which ill be damned if i could remember. 

rane opened with long road and extended the jam into a full version of sound of sleep, and then instead of the build up to end sound, they built it back into long road and then finished.  one of the better versions of both songs.  after that was a, what lars, 25 min?, kyte which i thought was one of the best i've ever heard, almost every nuance i enjoy from different shows was incorporated into this one.  then bowman stepped onto the mic (*gasp*) for a more serious moment and talked about how two years ago, his parents and sister moved to florida and that they were there tonight for their first
concert in 2 years.  and in doing that, dedicated new england song to them.  it was a rather touching moment and you could tell that bowman definitely wanted that song to be his tonight as he was mouthing the words the whole song.  for me it connected because the "every world we pass through..." verse was my last quote on the board to the people on my floor in
montreal... after that was niagara, which was a great kick for me because it had the funky beginning, the funky jam in the middle and i always love this song.  if you wanna hear my version, just im me.  its good for a laugh. just before
the last song, they broke the big news: this summer's camp tour is rane's indian summer, and is labour day weekend.  for more information, i'm sure it will be on ranetides.com shortly.  then, they were taking requests for the last song and of course everyone wanted brocas, but they said they were gonna play it at rane's indian summer.  so instead, they were gonna do a tragically hip song, after my just coming back from canada, but burst into blindness, which was a good ender (though tragically hip woulda been cooler and i was promised it for another time). 

after doing the somewhat infamous walk of the stage, dan and alan came out and did sadness for lars with alan doing lead and rhythm guitar and dan on backing vocals.  rather solemn ending.  i still was a bigger fan of december's equator show, but this one probably ranks second or third to that.  definitely a great night in rane history and a great 4/20.  lars soon had the wavs of the show up so i ripped them to mp3 and if anyone wants them, they just need to put me on their buddy list, right click on my screen name, and click "get file."

got back from the show around 130.  oh the cool thing...i went by myself, which sucked, but i saw adam larkin, whom i hadnt seen since grade 5 when he moved to simsbudy and we thought he dropped off the earth.  also, i saw sarah bowman, who was back with her family like i said.  awesome awesome awesome show.  saturday was a do nothing around the house day except we moved a forcynthia bush into the ground.  after that was pizza down in new haven at pepes.  wicked pizza and definitely better than the shit thats around in montreal.  i was stoked and then we got some desserts at libbys.  and it was good to see fran and dave again.

then sunday, i went to the mall area for a few hours.  it was terrifying.  a bunch of suburbia wannabes.  i hated it so much, people must have thought i was crazy for talking to myself because it was so unreal to go to suburbia.  but at night, i went to the concatellis and talked to them for a while before their dad brought them to uconn and did a nice job of backing into the other car, which was ironic cause we were just talking about it about 10 min before he did it.  then was just more bumming around and an unnecessary late night, then to bed.  oh yeah, and ive got a tv in my bedroom, which was 19 years in the making.  oh, and they're also building a second garage next to my room.

today was going to the high school, seeing all my teachers except bobby v, nuala, dave white (who was out), mike rollins, and babs mader.  that was it.  after that was going to the post office to pick up a job application, and then to dr. spielbergs office for a check up (after all the pitas, pizza, poutine, and booze, ive only gained 2 lbs all year.  not bad)  tomorrow is major job hunting and thats about it.  ive yet to also bring up the quebec city protests, but since this has been the short version, i'm actually feeling tired enough to go to bed...long day tomorrow morning...

19/04/01(230am)-j'ai fini mes examens. j'ai fini avec l'université pour l'année. j'suis triste. j'm'déjà manque l'cité. j'partira ce vendredi pour aller chez moi, mais chez moi, il n'est pas la même qu'quand j'y suis parti. et moi-même, j'n'suis la même personne comme j'ai été dans le commencement d'cette année. montréal est devenu chez moi.  j'suis montréalais.

this one's a completely long one and may need to be continuted later tomorrow (today)...its been a sad week.  i've been doing a lot of introspection as the school year has come to an end.  this has been one of the most phenomenal (for lack of being able to find better words) years of my short existence thus far.  i've been writing all this time about how much i've changed and its true.  it was a year ago this past weekend that i made my trip up to montreal to visit mcgill (amongst other things happening that weekend). i remember meeting up with mora judd (whom i've run into 4 times this year) and my parents and my sister and i were walking around campus, i was trying to memorize some of the buildings, the locations of things, and having no clue as to really what exactly anything was.  i remember her bringing me to a friend of hers in mcconnell and thinking that could be the place where i'd end up living this year (fortunately for me it wasn't).  molson 5 has been one of the coolest experiences in my life.  i never went to sleepover camp before and the longest i spent away from my parents prior to this was the one week of france.  instead, ive been in this city for 8 months straight, minus a 12 day break for winter.   you know what, when i came up here, i was scared of that, i was scared of losing friends, i was scared of the distance, the time, but instead, its been everything i've wanted out of university (short of the fact that i wish i had more actual canadian friends, but then again, rez is probably 50% american anyway).  i realize that the friends i may have lost were due to stupid, foolish reasons on their parts, and i've made up for it by gaining friends here.  and i think that the fact that i've been here for so long has made montreal feel like home and i've changed enough that going back home for the summer wont be the same.  the people i hang with, how i interact with them, what i do with them, its not the same, not the same as when i was home in december and not the same as when i left in august.  maybe part of it is life in the city, the never endingness of it and the fact that theres never a dull moment where theres nothing to do.  becoming adjusted to the city lifestyle will definitely make going home that much harder.

where did this come from again?  monday was easter monday, which is a holiday up here.  so i decided to try and find some boxes for packing so i had some already for starting tomorrow.  i searched the downtown and no one had any that they would give me and i figured metro and provigo had already given theirs to other perspective students.  so, i ended up hopping the metro and took it to the north part of the island, to the provigo where i went with my family on moving weekend to pick up some stock food for my room.  we then went to kam foo's for the chinese buffet where we'd also eaten in april.  so monday i get off the subway, by myself, and start walking to sherbrooke, look out and there's downtown.  8 months ago, i wouldnt have had a clue as to which direction downtown was from where i was standing.  so i went to kam foo's for dinner, then went to canadian tire for boxes, they didnt have any so i got a hockey puck, and then went to the provigo there and got 4 boxes.  8 months ago, i walked around lachine and dorval, a lost little boy, not knowing how to manoeuver a city by myself, but being able to get the boxes, and even do it in french made me recognize where i've come from in 8 months.  much more independent now, even if my parents are always on my ass to do things their way.  

so i finally got back downtown around 8 and it was probably around then that i started studying for my religion of ancient israel exam.  then went to mcclennan around 130am and walked back with devon around 330.  of course there was a fire by molson stadium that we caught the fire trucks coming up the hill, taking out the hose and spraying it down, which was exciting, but then it was bedtime, waking up, more studying, and the final at the birks building at 2pm.  of course i end up in another tiff with megan and i get one of those evil eyed looks, so i just decided "i've got other shit to worry about now like an exam than worrying about if we're gonna say hi or not"  so i took the exam, it wasnt too bad, but i dunno how i did.  came back after that, did some i dont even know what, my parents called me, i was talking to dave for a while and jon for a while and then i started cracking the books again for my IR exam.  basically i was studying from around 1ish to 530am, fell asleep til 8, got up and kept studying until my exam at 2 with the exception of a few 10 min naps every here and there.  exam wasnt too bad, although i'm not sure about my essay on the demand for international regimes, which is a shame cause i was the one that summarized that article for the group back in feb.  but i tried to give him what i thought he'd want on everything else.  one i finished that, i was done with all my exams, came back, had dinner, and have basically been putzing around since then, since i've got no exams or classes tomorrow.  smoked part of the cuban and a few sips of my kosher for passover wine (which i'll prolly end up pitching) and then i'm just so overtired now after 7 hrs of sleep in 48 hrs that i'm not sleepy tired.  cole left today, and matt left sunday i think.  and i think i'm the next to go on my floor.  tomorrow is gonna be a good packing day, getting my polisci report back, and then also getting pictures of campus and people on my floor taken, so ive got decent proof that i actually go to school here :)  so i'll prolly head to sleep soon, but since this is probably my last transmission from montreal for the next four months (watch me end up writing tomorrow just because), i'm gonna try and capture the people of molson five.

this floor's definitely got some good looking girls on it, cant deny that one.  and i think the first one i met was kim, my  neighbour across the door from me in 529.  she moved in with her dad i think and my parents kept telling me i should go over and introduce myself (as part of my parents grand plan for me to make more friends here).  somewhere along the line we had started talking somehow, i think she introduced herself first.  anyways, she's been an awesome neighbour across from me and has definitely been an influence as to what kinds of music i've been into this year.  besides my usual rane, she's got me more interested in oldschool hiphop a little, but even more so, the techno genre- house, trance, ambient, jungle, etc...she likes her wine more than her beer or other alcohol, but she's been really cool.  

next to me in 531 is tess, who was moving in the same day as me from whistler b.c. she was the first person i introduced myself to and found out she was majoring in science.  of course the fact that she's majoring in science means she's often studying in her room or downstairs with nicole or rishona or emily, but she's also been a great neighbour although i'm sure the noise of my stereo has probably annoyed her too many times.

down from tess is ashley, whom i introduced myself to second and then next to ashley's room was colleen.  didnt know too much about either of them, but they're always really nice.  next to colleen's room is omar, who's never really seen around the halls, but omar comes from jordan, along with some of his other jordanian buddies.  big metallica fan and also is apparently a phenomenal soccer player in intramural.  he taught me a few arabic obscenities in the beginning of the year when he and i used to shoot pool often, and he always beat me on account of an 8 ball scratch or miscall.  but omar was a year younger than the rest of us so he was like the baby of the floor :).

next to omar is rachel, who's from the bronx, if i'm not mistaken.  the first weeks were complaining about her accent, but then again, we all complained about everyone's accents back then.  havent had much interaction with her in the past few months and i think she thinks i've got some weird bathroom habits, but in the first semester, we just ranked on prof. patten, plato, and rousseau all semester, and bitched about the essays that we did the night before they were due.  almost anytime though, you can hear some rolling stones, the tragically hip's "constellation," or some other 60s music coming out of the mp3s of her imac and being blasted into the hall.

after rachel is jared, who comes from schenectady, new york, home of the first television transmission.  jared went to a private military school, but i forget what it was called.  in my judgmental days in the beginning of the year, he kinda sounded like he was a little naiver than he really was and he's got that whole italian/irish thing going and for some reason i thought he'd be more like me than he actually was. he's still a nice guy and as i've grown this year, i think i do identify a little more now then i did back then.

and next to jared on this wing is emma, who i also think thinks i have some kind of bathroom problem cause i was wiping the toilet and some water got on the seat and she started going off that i peed on the seat.   the first few weeks, i thought she was from france cause i mistook her name tag on her door for the person from france who was supposed to live on the floor but never did.  and not seeing her for the first few days, i didnt even know who she was.  but we've had some interesting conversations, even if she thinks that a nod or a wink to acknowledge a persons present isnt as sufficient as actually verbally saying "hi."  she got a floorfellow position next year and i can definitely see her as being a good floorfellow cause shes the kind of responsible person who can also be a good party animal.  

on the other wing of my side was lexy, whom i never really talked to much, except she's been much more nice to me as of late.  cant figure out why, but hey, i'll take it if any one is nice.  across the room from her was matt, who had my room on the other wing.  matt was a music major in trumpet and he was mainly into the jazz stuff.  he seemed a little eccentric to me and anytime i had a conversation with him, i felt like i had to keep asking questions to get him talking, or something i said was wrong and he was correcting me.  but i had seen him play three times this year at the upstairs club with his jazz combo.  they were really good each time i saw them and it was good to hear some live jazz with someone i knew.

next to matt is ishana from quatre bournes, mauritius, and i've seen her about a total of 20 times all year.  i thought she just didnt like hanging out with us cause we can be loud sometimes, but i found out in overhearing her at bmh once, that she was francophone, so most of her friends were as well.  next to ishana is stephanie, who is from guelph, but is of jamaican background.  she's really cool, and although i dont get to talk to her as much as i'd like, she's always real nice and has a good sense of humour.  then there's tania, who is also rather reserved i think, and i dont really see her much at all.

next to tania is charlie, who likes the maple leafs :P but he's done standup comedy at some clubs in the area, so thats cool cause to be any decent at stand up, you have to be good.  i dont see charlie much but when i do, he always says hi and we'll say whats going on til we get where we're going.

next to charlie is marcia, whom i kinda connected to in our first floor event, as we were talking majors and she was also doing polisci. so we had 2 courses together this semester and 2 last semester and i'm sure we'll have one or two next year.  she's one of those people who talks really fast when she's got a point to make.  but like everyone on this floor, she's really nice and has been nice enough to lend me class notes so i could fill in the gaps for my own.  just dont get her started on real world...

after marcia is theryl, whom it took me a week to realize that "th" was pronounced "t" but it was all good.  theryl comes from dauphin, manitoba  and is probably one of the most independent people ive met.  she always thinks i'm weird, but shes nice about it although there's always been things i've wanted to do that she says i should just go myself, like go out to dinner, go to a club, go to the movies.  i just feel weird doing that stuff myself.  but she spent a while in brazil and speaks fluent french and portugese, so she's got some experience in independency.

lastly on my side is christine, who was the second girl on my floor that i ended up going for, and i still would if things would work out that way.  shes really good looking and artistic, not to mention we have a similar sense of humour about things.  i must admit, i havent been as close to her since she said no as i was in the very beginning months, but she's been a good friend and id like to keep in contact with her over the summer and next year.

well thats it for molson five west wing and thats it for tonight.  i guess that means that definitely, tomorrow will be molson five east wing.

15-16/04/01-two or three other molsonites are reading this page, but i'm not sure who other than maybe jon.  like i said, the concert on thursday was phenomenal.   today's a great day, there's no clouds, the sun's going down, and its 11 out.  snows melting, some grass showing through...perfect weekend this has been for one of my last weekends in montreal.  i didnt do much on friday other than some work for my polisci conference group cause i said i'd summarize one of the articles for them, so i did that.  after that, john, dave, and me were gonna maybe go see snatch once we finished cooking dinner, but that fell through because we were late, plus there werent any other movies that were good to see at cinema du parc, so instead, i have no idea what john did, but i got a j from armando so dave and smoked it. i figured, who better than armando to get one off of and have roll it.  i had most of it, but it took a while to hit me and didnt have too much effect on me.  went to sleep late

woke up yesterday late, didnt do a whole lot for some reason.  dont know why either.  dont think i even went outside.  at night i spent 3 hours running around trying to find someone with a corkscrew, but i didnt have much luck.  finally nana got off his lazy ass and got his from his room around 1am, but it was too late then basically.  so i just watched an assload of snl and snl classic.  finally snl classic has reached the good years with all the best and funniest people and kevin nealon did weekend update.  those were the days.  i also downloaded snatch so i can watch it on my computer, but i was low on hard drive space, so i had to do another burnoff and cut the mp3s sitting on my hard drive by about 75.

as for today, its a lovely easter sunday and a pleasure to not celebrate it, but recognize religious freedom of my ancestors escaping from the egyptians and eating matzah.  tonight around now is the last time we have to eat matzah, as passover ends.  dave should be ordering the food from mammas now.  imagine.  my last few days of poutine.  i did a little straightening up of my room also today.  lars sent me 3 new rane mp3s, so that was cool because one was a phat live version of a song i hated on the album, one was a song i've heard once in the 2 or so years its been in existence, and of course a sweet version of mirage.  we were also talking about digital compression formats that sound better than mp3s and how its big in phish trading circles, but its not big enough for public use, etc...from there, dave and i went to tam tams since its the beginning of the season and since it was so nice out and the window was open, you could again hear them from my room.  wow, its been a year now and i just think about how much i've changed since the first time i was at tam tams.  i brought my camera, microcassette, and guitar with me and went around trying to capture the essence of the first tam tams of the year and unfortunately my last one this year (unless i can show my dad some stuff around the city whenever we move me into the apartment).  ran into a roommate of megans and one of her friends there near the end, saw armando playing his tams, and jammed with a snare drummer and saxophonist, which was the neatest thing.  i'm not the best guitarist, but compared to the first time i brought my guitar out to tam tams in september, i've improved tremendously.  and quite honestly, i'm amazed because the beginning of the year,i was saying to my dad i'm at the stage where i cant learn anymore by myself and i need lessons.  well i still need lessons, but i've been learning a lot more by myself and listening to the mp3s of bowmans guitar over and over again.  i owe my lead guitar work a lot to him as an influence.

so i was telling dave about how i ran into megans roommate and how she told me that megan went home.  so you would figure that megan wouldnt tell me she was going home.  i guess i shouldnt care anyways.  dave was saying how megan and i have a fairly screwed up relationship to which i say it wasnt til around mid january that it became screwed up.  i came into the year with her as friends and now i'm ambivalent about even getting to see her before i leave on friday.  i would have liked to, but shes not doing me any favours, so if she doesnt see me til whenever she sees me if she ever sees me, thats the way it is.   its been an interesting year with relationships is right.  been shot down straight through from october on...sarah, christine, rishona, megan...what can i say.  

but on the other hand, i've grown a lot as a person.  one year ago, there was so much shit i wouldnt have done.  i would have never thought myself buying a joint, let alone smoke one.  would have never thought myself to have bought the amount of alcohol i have this year, let alone drink it, even sex.  thats been one thing i've always found discomfort in because ive yet to be with enough girls to know where i stand on that, which is probably why i find it easier to make friends with guys over girls.  because i'm always afraid of being in some weird situation with girl where either she or i might get the wrong idea and then i go off about how i screwed up and go back to nowhere.  maybe its more because stuff like drugs or alcohol is just that, but sex is a moral thing, and i have yet to figure out where i stand with that.  but even in terms of morality, being here has loosened me up a little bit.  i mean, a year ago, sex jokes, saying things about sex, using sexual terms...all that stuff would have been more uptight, but its not as big a deal anymore.  i can walk around the city and people who i used to think as freakish and threatening, i dont think that way anymore.  being in the city has helped me face the real world a lot better.  its made me realize that its a real world, not small town suburbian quasi-uniqueness.

(3am) so dave, seth, and i ordered mammas around 730ish, i got a poutine and a pizza, which may be among my last days of that.  sat around and chilled for a while, listened to lewis black's white album (which is still hilarious).  then we hung around and i called back my mother and so we were fighting for about 20 min on when i'm coming back here, who i'm coming with, packing my stuff up, etc...its so damn annoying and confusing and unresolved that i'd rather just drive up here myself, have one of the guys help me move heavier stuff and then drive back myself.  dave, john, and i then went to buillon and roy to else's, where there was a small live jazz trio playing and so we all got hot ciders.  after that, went to madonnas for a slice of pizza and then walked around to frappe's to shoot a few games of pool.  not a bad last decent night.  i dunno if wed will be any good because other people have exams, but who knows.  also looked for a cuban, but no place in the immediate area was open either.  so, sucked out on that one.  we came back round 2 ish and then i basically had an info session on judaic observances and whatnot with jared and christine, so that was a while and here i am.  i might do these survey questions that one of megan's friends asked me about on snood for her media studies class.  apparently megan was nice enough to volunteer my name and email and pass it around without asking me first, but hey, whats there to blame megan for.  so i might as well do it because i'm a nice guy, i let myself be walked on, and this girl did ask me nicely anyways...

tomorrow is a good full day of studying, starting with religion of ancient israel and ending with ipe.  should be a bulldookie of fun.

13/04/01(2pm)-the concert was phenomenal, review is on my reviews page. cloudy day, possible rain :P

12/04/01-bust out some manischewitz cause exam number 1 is done.  ooh, sun shower... anywho since last time on sunday.  monday was a nothing day.  woke up really early (well relatively speaking), and wrote my final learning cell on japanese new religions and then ended up spending all day on it til the cell itself.  after that was going home and vegging, sorta. so was tuesday, altough i went to class on tuesday.  and after class, my ram finally came in, so now i'm up to 88mb of ram.  hasnt really improved my computer performance, in fact its probably just as bad.  after that was going to the bus station and picking up my bus ticket.  somewhere along the line, i have no accounting of time because i cant remember anything i did after class other than worry about what was for dinner.  i think i might have dropped 3 lbs from this holiday cause there's not much you can eat, even with some of the passover foods.  tuesday's non-bread meal was completely self-defeating: garlic orange pork chops. :P  yesterday was pretty much do nothing also.  i've been going to bed at decent hours, waking up at late hours, and still feeling mad tired.  it was such a beautiful day though with a hi of 13° and so i had to get out.  first stop around near 430ish was going to a bookstore and picking up a paperback copy of tom clancy's the sum of all fears.  i had seen movie trucks on lower university by fda a few weeks ago and the no parking sign read "all fears" so i just thought it another movie.  after all, i've seen a bunch of movie trucks in montreal.  then the other day, i hit something in a paper or something about how they were shooting the movie version of a sum for all fears, starring ben affleck because he was spotted riding around westmount in a red lambourghini convertible.  so then i did major checking cause there was a press conference on the movie covered in the montreal gazette online and it turns out they've been filming for a while here.  and since i've loved the jack ryan books/movies and never got a chance to read my dad's copy since he lent it to randy a while back, i bought my own to read.  after that went to metro and picked up some of the essential food stuffs, cheese, sauce, eggs, etc...so i could make some matzah pizza and matzah brei this weekend when bmh is closed for good friday and easter monday.

after that was dinner and bumming around some more, oh yeah, and i also made copies of marcia's govt & politics notes so i could study from them, cause hers were better.  so i studied some and then chilled with peeps on the floor.  one day when we move out of bmh, i'll have to recount the alia story cause there's people that read this site...suffice to say, its got nothing to do with me, but its funny.  i think i might do a molson hall in review when i'm done here also.  go through the people i've met, what its been like meeting with them, impressions ive gotten from different people, etc...  so after, i did more studying went to bed, got up early, put in another 3 1/2 hrs studying and took the exam.  not to bad, 10/20 ID, 2/6 essay.  for id, i did "democratic deficit in the european union," "maastrict treaty," "gaullism," "pillarisation," "the german länder," "corporatism," "the third way," "the fourth republic," "scandinavian agrarian parties," and "the autonomous regions of spain." and then for the essays on what state i think is the best model for european politics, i chose germany, for obvious reasons.  most stable, strongest economy, etc...then the other question was like, do politics influence political structures of western europe or do the structures influence the politics.  so i just went through a comparative of the major countries.  i went through a little over a book, double spaced.  i dont know what the hell the guy next to me was doing he wrote 4 books.  who the hell has 4 books worth to say in 3 hours, not to mention 4 books of relevant information?  i dont even think i had as many notes as he had books of essay answers.  oh well, i'm just hoping for a good grade.  then was dinner and now i put in another load of laundry cause today was save the commandos day (which was great because i needed commando day, i was 5 days back on laundry).  and in about an hour or so, i'm leaving to see st. germain at metropolis.  of course this means missing survivor, but somethings are actually more life-enriching than watching 6 people squabble for an hour.  such as music.  anywho.  tomorrow is good friday, maybe a good day to just hang out since there's no exams cause its a 4 day weekend and i dont have exams til tuesday and wednesday...

08/04/01(330am)-wow, after a stunningly beautiful past 2 days, nature again clobbered us for a day yesterday with some snow, but luckily today was a nice and warmer day and it didnt end up raining as predicted.  yesterday wasnt doing much.  i got up round noon, and decided i'd go to the movies earlier than what i previously decided at 330.  except i had to miss a bmh lunch, unfortunately.  so instead, i went to the 120 showing of "just visiting."  it was a good movie, my preliminary review is 3/5 stars, but i dont have time right now to write an actual view.  suffice to say, i still liked the original one better, although there were points about this one that were good as well.  after the movie, i was running around looking for kosher for passover food, but nowhere around here has any.  went to provigo, metro...nothing, not even a box of matzah.  i asked the lady in metro if she knew where i could get kosher for passover food like a box of matzah and she was like, "matzah?  do you know the word for that in french, maybe i could help you." "no, thats not english or french, that's hebrew." "i dont understand" so she asked the other lady and she didnt know either.  so finally after no luck in the downtown area, i realized that my best bet was in westmount or cote-st. luc, except that by then it was shabbos and then yentef and then i'd get no luck on the weekend, so no food.  came back to bmh, went to dinner with jon and nicole and then we got ready for the ball game.

the ball game was the expos home opener against the mets at olympic stadium.  45,100 people in attendence, which is huge for an expos game considering how much they've sucked lately.  well anyways, it was game 4 of the season for the s'pos and they came in with a 2-1 record.  ended up beating the mets 10-6.  found out today they beat the mets 10-0.  so it was me, both jareds, jon, and nicole there, and nat and his girlfriend were elsewhere cause they went later.  game was really fun, not too boring and the fact that the expos beat the 2000 national league pennant mets was great.  maybe the expos will be the team to beat this year...they havent done this well since 1994, when they were on track to win the NL pennant and possibly have faced the AL pennant contending Yankees.  i was supposed to go see a game when we came up here in 94, but a week before we came was the strike and the world series never happened...maybe this year...

after the game i chilled and then went with jon, nicole, jared 1, sarah, and tom to nicole's friend, amber's house.  yeah, this was the same amber that was with us at gerts the day that february break started and i shot pool with her against jon and nicole.  still rather cute, still rather hot, but still second year, so somehow i dont see it in the question for me...anywho.  so amber and co. were having a house party, and mainly the people there were from savoy, who did iolanthe, so it was a rather tame party, not too many people and nothing rowdy.  so basically we molson fivers chilled and then left, had a snowball fight in square st. louis and stopped for pizza on the way back.

today, woke up round noon and then went to subway and dropped off the crappy beowulf video at blockbuster.  after another stroll by the new apartment, i headed home to fix some stuff up.  regretfully, i have no idea where my st. germain cd is and i need that cd.  im a nice guy, i went music shopping on hmv and today's kims b'day, so i bought myself the old st. germain cd but gave it to her instead.  meanwhile where's my tourist copy?  oh yeah, and i'm going to see them at metropolis on thursday night, so it should be good.  fix up some stuff round here, shower and shave my head for what could be the last time in a while, and then left for the abramovitch's for the seder.  took the metro to plamondon, where they were picking me up...got out and there was an IGA and i saw some chasids and i said to myself "this is where i need to by my food."  so i'm gonna bring some duffle bags, shop, and bring home food for the entire week.  meanwhile, jon bet me 5$ that i couldn't make it through the week with food on my own because i'm on my own and i dont have like, mom making my meals and whatnot.  man, what an easy 5$ this will be.  so i got to the abramovitchs via the black mercedes convertible, and there was giles, sherri, zach, andrea, carl, hannah, carl's parents, and me.  it was a nice seder and carl's father did the entire story in hebrew, which was different from how my dad did it.  so about 5 min in, i start thinking "wait a minute, i'm the youngest here, i have to do the four questions." and then like a minute later when we get to the questions, they're like "well, i guess andrea doesnt have to do it this year, we finally got someone younger." and andrea's like "yesss...after 21 years, i finally dont have to do it..."  so anywho...i did the four questions well, particularly since i havent had to do them since my sister became able to do them...and then there was the meal.  i'm a weird kid, i dont eat gefilte fish and chopped liver like everyone else.  but the matzah ball soup was good, the brisket was good, the potatos were good, the veggie quiche was good, the chicken was good, and there was this cake afterwards that was almost the same as the one my mother makes for passover.  really nice touch from a fine seder away from home.  i like going to the abramovitch's.  i dont know them all too well and i just sit and listen to some of the gossip, but they always make me feel like i'm welcome, its always good to get a real meal, and it feels just like family.  maybe i would have had a good time at hillel, but you know it wouldnt have been the family feeling and maybe not as fun...i'm glad i actually got to go, even if it was me who got stuck doing the four questions :)  tomorrow i'm going back again, but giles, sherri, and zach wont be there, so...it should still be good.  if i didnt get to be with my own family for passover, i'm glad i got to be with another one.  now i just need some actual food for the week since i've got no jelly slices, macaroons, not even any matzah...i'd like some charoset for myself cause thats what lunches were all last year for me, charoset sandwiches...IGA tomorrow...

every year i put this up on my site and i'm going to do it again this year and make it tradition.  part of passover is that we retell the story of the exodus and remind ourselves how through the millenia, we are a religion that has survived religious persecution, slavery, genocide...and that through all the bad that has happened to us, G-d has still makes us free men.  as for the exodus story itself, i'm not going to repeat that here.  anyone could just watch "the ten commandments" on abc on easter sunday for that.  it's plenty extensive to tell.  i still have yet to understand why they show it on easter sunday if its the passover story, not the easter story, but whatever, its the higher ups that run programming and somehow there's logic and showing it on easter :P  anywho no, what i'm going to repeat is what passover is about.

Tonight started Passover.  So because this is the page owned by me, I'm going to share what passover is. Many people know of passover as Jesus' last supper, but that's purely coincidential because passover the holiday has nothing to do with jesus whatsover.

Passover is a celebration of jewish freedom, but perhaps most important because it dates back to biblical times. The story of the exodus is told in the Torah, which many gentiles know as the old testament. The story recounts the jewish plight from egypt to escape the pharoah, who was using the jews as slaves to build his cities and pyramids. Most people have at one time heard about or seen the Ten Commandments. (after all, they show it every easter). but the celebration of passover goes beyond the story of the exodus. i guess you need to have an understanding about some of the symbolism in the objects we use during this time.

The passover meal is called the seder. seder means order i believe that's in hebrew, not yiddish. the reason this is is because we follow an order the whole meal using a book called a haggadah. the meal is not just sit down and eat, but there's stuff we do. for example. there are four glasses of wine that we drink. we spill 10 drops of wine on our plate for each of the 10 plagues inflicted on the pharoah. there's some other stuff we do, all as we follow along in this book, and recount the exodus story. and just as with the holocaust, we do this so that we never forget.

On the table, there's a seder plate, with parsley (karpas), which is symbolic of spring and new life, a hard boiled egg (baytzah), which is symbolic of life, bitter herbs (maror), which is symbolic of the bitterness that our people went through as slaves in egypt, charoset-a mix of crushed walnuts and apples and cinnamon and wine- which is symbolics of the mortar used in the bricks. (that's the best tasting stuff), the last thing is the shankbone of a lamb (zaroah) which represents the lamb's blood that was put on the houses of the jews to spare their firstborn son's from the angel of death, which was the last plague brought upon the pharoah. the pharoah had a son, who was firstborn and he was taken. so....unfortunately, i didnt get to go to a siyum this year with my dad because we're both the firstborn males, and i also forgot that if you dont go to the siyum, you're technically supposed to fast on passover eve day.  however with no food here, i'll be fasting until tomorrow's seder.

we eat matzah. this is symbolic of the unleavened bread our ancestors had to eat in the wilderness. for fear that the pharoah's army would catch up with them, they were always on the move and didn't have time to let the bread rise. this is what makes it seem like a cracker, but it isn't. nothing we eat during the 8 days of passover can be made of bread products of anykind. everything we eat has to be kosher for passover. special passover cookies, candies, cereals, all made out of matzah derivatives. matzah in a factory has to be made and cooked in less than 8 min otherwise, it's no longer matzah, because the dough starts to rise at 8 min.

so tomorrow, its food shopping and the other seder, and also some work since i've got a learning cell due monday.  in addition, ive gotta pick up a bus ticket probably monday since i cant order online and get them to mail it to canada. i'm gonna take the 730 bus on the 20th so i can get in round 5ish and still go with whomever wants to go with me to the rane show at 10pm at the iron horse.  

05/04/01-wow, a stunningly beautiful past 2 days.  as you can see we've been getting daytime temps of about 6-8° which is more than warm enough to wear shortsleeves without a jacket and maybe even just plain shorts.  the snow is slowly melting and some places on lower campus can actually see grass.  of course til some of the bigger snowbanks melt...tuesday was tuesday and i dont know exactly what i did on tuesday....  oh.  before class, i went to a polisci advising session, just to have my advisor, who's also my g&p of the developed world ta, tell me that my schedule is okay as far as polisci goes and sign off on it.  and i had also written to amy and found out that she actually reads my site although its apparently too rambly.  after that was a class on the book of job, which was and wasnt interesting.  the story is interesting---about the nature of man as a sinner and how do we keep our faith in G-d when we are suffering and questioning G-d's motives.  its interesting for me because everytime i get this cough, i ask myself the same question.  why me, where did i go wrong in my life that i have to be coughing like this every 6 months...obviously it takes loads and loads of meds to keep me contained and even then the problem still takes about a month and a half to go away, why is that so?  and i really start to wonder...after class, it was back to the computer store to return the ram chip and hopefully they'll have the right one for me tomorrow.  i did get my dead sea scrolls paper back and i got an 80 (A-) on it, which is the highest i've gotten on anything here yet.  so i was happy cause i thought i did well and it took me less than two days to do it.  tuesday night?  got me.  oh right, tom was looking out his window and apparently some guy on second floor mcconnell was crankin one out with his curtain wide open.  tom comes running down here to look at kim's room number, trying to transpose it to mcconnell so they could use the phone list and call the guys room.  so i go over and everyones in toms room, but apparently the guy had already closed the curtain and the person they called sounded like he just woke up.  and then megan invited me and the guys to peel with her and her house for this girl's birthday but i wasnt quite sure, not to mention wed was my full day of classes.

wed was the usual classes all day and i got my IPE second midterm back.  did better than the first, but still not as well as i wanted.  my polisci avg other than that class is about 10 points higher than what my IPE class average is, which is kinda inconsistent.  each time i get a paper back from him, there's some new criteria that he's looking for that i didnt throw in.  i said to the ta, look, i've taken 3 exams of this format and obviously did considerably better than i've done for his test.  there is something inconsistent here and its not helping my polisci average, which is about a 69 (if you exclude IPE).  you need a 75 to get into honours.  but right now, honours isnt my main concern, its getting the rest of the average up first, which means IPE as well and prof. greene has not been helping.  like i said, i dont particularly like the guy in my meeting with him.  and part of it also has to do with the ta.  i've had four polisci tas, but the one for this class...i'm not sure about.  who knows.  in religions of east asia, we talked more about new religions and cults and my learning cell for that class is now moved from tomorrow to monday.  and after class, who knows what again.  oh, i went to saq and bought some kosher for passover wine and some smirnoff ice, which just came out here in canada.  its a vodka cooler that tastes kinda like sprite.

so dave and i went out last night.  well of course, i had 3 bottles of the ice and gave one to dave, so i was a bit buzzed by the time we headed to doug pub.  it was the last doug pub of the year so they had it upstairs, but it was pretty packed.  oh yeah, and there was some kind of sick joke yesterday.  it was the day of a million birthdays.  like, jon bergman was 16, emily mazotas was 18, lars from the rane list was 20, sarah bell from my floor was 20, ariel from 2nd floor was 19, and there were like 5 other birthdays that the guy was singing to at the special caribbean dinner at bmh last night.  anywho, so the floor was going to mckibbins to celebrate sarahs birthday so they were on their way out from doug pub when i got there.  and then dave found his "woman" (whos name he didnt even know) and he thought she was happy to see him and that he was gonna get some tail, so i left him with her and went to mckibbins (fairly drunk already).  but i had to go do the bathroom badly and reflexes when drunk arent the best, so i was running up and down ste. catherines looking for a stall and almost didnt make it, but finally got one and went to mckibbins.  of course my luck still ran low when all the floors in the pub didnt have anymore cider so i had to get a black and tan instead of a black velvet.  but it was still cool cause i brought my bowler hat and everyone was throwing compliments on it the whole night.  so the girls were all wearing it for a while (nicole still has it), and they were dancing and whatnot and so we left there round 2ish and i cabbed it back with them for like, the 3rd time since ive been here.  it was still fun and oddly, i have the most fun with the floor peeps when i'm drunk.  its definitely more relaxing.  so we got back here, chilled, i talked to megan, although i was still out of it, and basically lied down on the bed and passed out.  woke up round 5 to pee and kim was still up getting ready for bed so she prolly just came in also.

woke up today round 1 and i had to be back down at leacock at 2.  so i handed in my arts frosh application and advising sheet and then came back here and chilled.  i was gonna see if dave wanted to run but he was busy anyways and class wasnt worth going to because he wasnt saying anything i couldnt read myself or hadnt learned in hebrew school.  so it was more chill, dinner, more chill, and then survivor.  however, one of my friends from usy had said something on his web site about the u.s.-china conflict  and me, being the political debator i am, decided to respond.  rather than cutting and pasting the length, here's the site where the debate is on... http://www.jeffwilhelm.com/comments/comment.php?action=view&id=2001040508 .  tonight was also the last night of the "old" gerts, to make way for next weeks opening of the "new, supergerts" downstairs in the shatner building.  the last tnt.  probably not, they'll do tnt next year also i bet.  meanwhile, matt is teaching rachel the finer points in rolling the perfect joint.  wouldnt know myself, only had one.  the rest of the night tonight isnt anything big

tomorrow is a relatively easy day, no classes.  so i'll probably wake up late, eat lunch, go grocery shopping for a lot of kosher for passover foods (i gotta make some charoset, need matzah, lots of eggs, maybe some snacks since i cant call up mammas or pita pit), probably go see just visiting, which is almost the same as les visateurs only instead of 1993 france, its 2001 usa, do whatever else, hopefully get my ram chip, and then later at night is the screening of our film, x-treem², in the mcgill film festival.  thats bout it.  hopefully on june 16, jon and i are gonna go down to nyc and stay over at dave or seths house, and then on the 17th all go to shea stadium and see the mets-yankees game and come back that night. should be cool...and anyone wanting to go to the iron horse on the 20th to see rane and missing joe, i'm up for people coming with me.  big show...

03/04/01 (2am)-learning new software can be rather tricky.  and beating old software can be victorious.  first off, this entry is being written using frontpage 2000 (bootlegged from marcia's copy), instead of frontpage express- which i've used since the very inception of this website on xoom in 98, i think it was (ah those days before i kept a journal....), and well since my first private site on geocities in 97 and my first ever site from the internet club in fall of 96.  i'd have to say i've come a long way in 4 1/2 years in web design and even though i cheat with frontpage, i'm still glad i know the basics.  you cant do integrals on your calculator unless you can do them on paper first...and last night after my entry, i was up real late, trying to figure out how to get windows whistler off my hard drive successfully, without fucking it all up.  so after doing a lot of research online, i figured out how to edit the boot.ini file so that the default was set to win 98 and the timeout was 0 seconds, so basically it goes straight to win 98.  and thus, i was able to take out the whistler lines and then delete the 768 megs off my disc.  today i went to get sdram though, cause my processor is still not running at ideal speed and the chip i got is physically not able to fit in the expansion module, so its back to the store to return and get a 64 meg chip that fits the computer...

slept in late because lectures in gov't and politics today were supposed to be on the european union, and i already learned about the european union in doing my paper.  so i woke up to my phone call and then got ready, took my shower, etc...after all that usual am crap, i went to IPE where prof. boring lectured about germany, the deutchmark, and the european union.  then in religions of e. asia, it was learning about the aum shinri-kyo, the "cult" (or new religion, depending on your non-duality), the one that set off the poison gas attacks in the toyko subways in 95.  seems interesting.  leader seems like a crazypot, but thats dualistic thinking...from there, i went to look for the ram, but like i said, got the wrong size.  came back here, chilled a bit, i dont even know what else went on today.  called uncle alan for an hourish, and whatever else.

i think now i'm gonna be an arts frosh leader also.  the application for that is great.  how often do you drink alcohol (all the damn time, socially, never), when you drink, how much (i get shit-faced, moderately, hardly), do you object to being paired with a non-alcoholic group (hell yeah, no, yes).  but the most interesting questions were "why do you think you would make a good frosh leader in two words or less?" to which my answer, thanks to andrew, is "no hair" and to the question "what benefits do you hope to get out of being a frosh leader?" "hair."  so dave and i might be group leaders together if he decides to do it.  i figure since last years frosh sucked ass through no fault of my own, i owe it to next years frosh to give them the frosh i didnt do.

there's now a hole in the bottom of my crotch in my favourite cargo pants.  now what the hell am i supposed to do?  i'm in university, i should know how to solve this.  i know how to sew, i did everything on my backpack. i need something better.  ive been suggested by two people to use duct tape but the true university student does nothing until the hole crosses his or her entire ass and i got time...

new plans for next week...4/20 is rane in noho, but i dunno who to go with, even if its a friday night.  then rane's at uhart on 4/26.  prolly go to that also.  and 5/4 is rane at the equator and if i'm back from the move by then, maybe i'll go with jon and scott to that, then go back to uconn or ecsu or wherever they party, have a farleyfest with the new best of dvd and chill.  i'm looking to go to a lot of rane concerts this summer.  also looking for an internship anywhere, mainly gov't or law firm.  which is what i'll be spending my week home doing also.  apparently i gotta grow hair back for that though.

kind of coincidentially last night, i was going through the april 2000 page and man, its amazing what's happened in a year and how things have changed atleast for me, atleast from that point. because it's ironic that about a year ago in 2 weeks was the trip my family and i took up here, the trip when i accepted admissions and gave my deposit...the trip when shit went down.  so whats ironic about it is that carrie starts talking to me again after like 4 months and of course i'm just saying all the stuff that makes me look even weirder, but i really dont care, not like i have anything to lose.  of course halfway through the conversation, my aim starts fucking up with my keyboard so my typing starts to look like iù, q crqzy mq,:  hqrd to tell zqht the hell i wqs even trying to sqy.  so eventually it surfaces again... how its already been a year...yeah i know its been a year.  and yeah, i'm more than over it except for two things: one, going home isnt the same for me anymore.  things i thought that werent fun back then are now and things that were fun back then aren't really now.  somehow, sw doesnt seem to have changed much with most of the group back home, i feel like i'm dynamic, going to a static sw.  which does make for things being uninteresting like there's nothing even new to do or talk about.  andrew changing his major seems like the most interesting news from ct in the last 4 months.  its safe to say that i may not totally have changed, but yeah, i'm still somewhat of a different person.  the second thing is, i'm like an elephant.  i never forget.  and it may be a year and i may have more than moved on.  doesnt mean i havent forgotten.  which is similar to whats going on with megan.  regardless of what she thinks she did/didn't do, i feel burnt and maybe eventually friendship will be cool, but i wont forget being burnt.  all rather coincidental...

anyways, thursday i find out about the mcgill daily literary contest, i dont know if the winners were already notified cause if so, i didnt win.  tomorrow is class, getting my ram returned, and an advising session with a polisci advisor, basically saying that what i've got is fine and signing off on my mars sheet, even though i'm already registered.  also would be a good time to study also.  wed is prolly gonna be going out since next week is pesach and then finals and then i cant go out until i come back to move into the apartment.  getting tired (surprisingly since i've had a thing the past couple days for not going to sleep til 5-6am.  so before i go, i figure i'll put up the lyrics to the latest rane song, center of ourselves, written this year, first song in the new rehearsal space...you know what, i cant figure them all out from this recording, maybe i'll get them from the onelist first...

01/04/01-well today we had it out. back and forth, back and forth. she perceives it that she wasnt testing me and sticks to that, while anyone else has basically seen it that i've been tested and that shes not worth bothering with anymore. i guess the consensus is that we're still friends, but i'm not quite sure it'll work the same way with me. she did apologize, but she continues to maintain that she wasnt the bad guy because she wasnt intentionally leading me on, even though she was trying to get a sense of what kind of boyfriend i would be. ie, the fact that i said i was interested but never made a move (though somehow a kiss on a first date is immoral to her). now anyone who knows me knows i'm one way or the other. if i'm the boyfriend, then thats who i am. if i'm the friend, then thats who i am. and if it is the case that i'm supposed to be neither, as was the case 2 weeks ago, then i'm neither. and i dont know how the hell a "neither" is supposed to act. but anyways, if she wants to think she was ethical in what she did, fine. moving on...

so last night was molson movie night, but after we watched back to the future, seth and dave decided they wanted to rent back to the future part II and III. so i watched se7en while they were out getting membership and then we went over to seths to watch both of them. they also got jurassic park but we didnt get to that. and accouting the time shift (again, everywhere but saskatchewan), dave and i left at 5am.

obviously i woke up rather late today. and basically did nothing until later when i wandered around the hall. today was april fools day. ever since early in the year, our floor's had a longstanding feud with mcconnell. at one point, the water balloon launcher sent a balloon into one of their windows and broke it...so they came in last night and stole all the toilet paper and shower curtains. which didnt inconvienence us, only the janitor, who fixed the problem in the morning...so you know how people put shit up in their windows like "hi marcia" or "hi svenska" or "hi lars" or "hi penis"... we got everyone on our floor, on the side facing the street to each put a three foot letter in their window. perfect fit...:
"McConnell Sucks Ass"
so we were outside heading in and then matt's just standing out there with christine's shoe yelling up to her and the director and his wife are pulling in to their space and they get out of the car laughing. twas brilliant. even ishana put a letter in her window, and no one ever sees her. so when you walked up the hill, you see ass, then you see sucks, then you see mcconnell.....genius

side notes...the list of past reflections is starting to get lengthy, i'll have to restructure my tables to make it a little shorter...other side note, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu . help scientists analyse radio data in searching for extraterrestrials by downloading this screen saver. your computer helps do their work while your computer is idle. then when you connect to the net, it sends SETI the data. as of tonight, private citizens' computers have saved SETI's computers 613,496.479 years of work. it makes a difference. in the past 24 hours alone, we've saved them over 1389.442 years of work at an avg. of 18 hrs a work unit. i recommend downloading it.

i might be coming home the 20th now. might see rane at the iron horse. gotta get this metahcholine challenge done in CT and also look for a job. might visit a few people over the week if my parents will let me. decided i'll visit some people at school, then see who ventures north...

and in my last bit...i watched the "talking to americans" thing on CBC...the guy went around the states, to places like stanford, harvard, nyu, columbia, chicago, little rock, etc...asking people questions about canada. americans are rather ignorant. things coming out of their mouths: "congratulations canada on getting a 24 hour clock (said by the governor of iowa)...congratulations canada on your national igloo...congratulations canada on getting a daily newspaper...congratulations canada on opening your first university...congratulations prime minister tim horton on getting a double-double in parliament" and of course, george w. bush and his aides said they'd were more than glad prime minister "poutine" endorsed him in the election... several people were against the saskatchewan seal hunt for some reason...and also against the americans invading east timor and west edmonton, but for the bombing of giles duceppeng to americans" program...hilarious...ethnocentric americans...bah!

britcom time...

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