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Well...
Friday, April 30, 2004 - 04:31 p.m.
Music: The Juilana Theory - Top of the World
*sighs* Zones today. We actually played really well. Just not good enough though. Unfortunately.
Why is it that Asians are always so fucking amazing?
*laughs* When we told Nathan (aka Faux Squall) who'd we'd lost to he was like, "They're crazy asians! No wonder. It's damn near impossible to beat them."
XD He made me laugh. We played them first round and lost (but were figuring it out by Game 2) and then in the finals. In between we played the McCoy girls. Yes, the same ones. Beat them again. *resists the urge to yell, "TAKE THAT!"*
^___^;;; Played the crazy asians sisters again. Lost. Played a really good second game though. They forced me to the back a few times but I covered the back quite well. ^_^ I'm so proud of me.
I'm getting faster too. I got to a difficult shot and got it back over the net (I then ran into the bleachers cause I couldn't stop, but hey, that's a moot point. ^__^)
So we left with a silver medal. Which is quite satisfactory. Considering Chelsea didn't have a lot of badminton under her belt when we started. And we've only been playing together for 5 weeks or so. Schaber was happy with us. We had a hell of a season. It was a good way to end the season. And I've never made Provincials so I didn't have anything to really live up to.
I'm feeling bad for Lauren and Julia though. Julia badly sprained her ankle last night at practice. The doctors told her not to play on it today. Schaber talked to the officials and Lauren's playing with Natasha (grade 10 girl) and if they win (which is becoming increasingly unlikely) Julia can play with Lauren at Provincials. I feel bad cause they've made Provincials every year and now... As Steph put it, I would suck for them not to go in their Grade 12 year.
Anyways, the plot bunny I posted in my LiveJournal last night hasn't left me alone since. So I'm thinking there's a ficclet on the horizon. ^___^;;;
Andrea's computer needs to get better so there can be more Adamrape and stuffs. Yeah. *metaphysically kicks A's computer* ^_^
I Am Katelynn's Clever Pitas Entry
Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 12:43 a.m.
Music: Dashboard Confessional - Screaming Infidelities
Saw "Fight Club" with Andrea tonight. In case the title didn't tip you off or anything. Fucking brilliant movie. I <3 Edward Norton. He is teh sex. And an amazing actor. <3
Today, in order:
Went to mall with Andrea. Scenery was not working today. Was sad.
Bought more hairties cause my last colorful one broke. Was happier.
Played DDR at Ruckers. Saw Jared. Awed little girl and her father. Was good fun.
Bought a Booster Juice and walked to Blockbuster. Rented "Unconditional Love". Walked back to Andrea's car.
Got to Andrea's house and watched said rented movie. I want to molest Rupert Everett. Rawr... XD
Went to Boston Pizza for dinner. Eavesdropped on guys sitting behind us. Heard fun phrases like, "Stop whipping me!" and "Whores... Cheesburgers..." Got Andrea's mom a pita from Pita Pit.
Watched "Fight Club" and then the TBS "Cute without the 'E'" video to amuse ourselves.
Andrea drove me home and we discussed Adamrape.
It was a productive evening.
Now I am going to attempt to write said Adamrape.
Whilst listening to "Me vs Maradona vs Elvis" by Brand New to set the mood/atmosphere. And give me plot ideas. Good times...
Aaand randomly...
Friday, April 23, 2004 - 04:40 p.m.
Music: Bright Eyes - Lover I Don't Have to Love
XD I shagged Snape! *wanders off giggling/all proud of herself*
Kicked Some Ass and Took Some Names...
Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 10:06 p.m.
Music: The Used - Pieces Mended
Let me tell you... those McCoy girls were *not* happy when Chelsea and I kicked their asses for the 4th time in a row. Considering it was the gold medal game and all... ^__^
So, now comes the disasterous backstory. We play 3 games the first time we face them and then beat them 15-0 in the first game of the gold medal game. Then they beat us 15-9. That sucked. But, they had 14 for at *least* 6 serves. So we stayed in there pretty well. We smartened up in game 3 and beat them 15-5.
Long story short:
Yeah. Good times. I'm very happy.
And tired.
Am waiting for Andrea to come online so she can write me stuff. Will possibly work on teh Chris/Lucas thing if I feel like it. No guarentees...
I'm pretty sure that's spelled wrong. Am too lazy to check...
Quickie Post
Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 10:53 p.m.
And as I'm signing offline to go to bed...
Kekekeke...
Can't decide whether the fact that Andrea and I got the same result is a good thing or a bad thing. Hmm...
Space-waster
Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 09:11 p.m.
Music: Straylight Run - Mistakes We Knew We Were Making
They're making an album!! XDD That makes me happy. I really want to read the 'thank yous' in *this* one. XD (Am a total dork, I know).
Gots 100 on my English project. The one about Conor and suicide. Not bad for a fanfic.
Right. Got distracted... anyways... not much is going on right now. 'Cept there's badminton Cities tomorrow and I'm freaking out cause I really want to *at least* make it to Zones. *crosses fingers*
Tomorrow is early Wednesday and Andrea's gonna skip outta brass 'sectional' in order to go to Swirls with me. ^__^
Had an amazingly good day actually. Registered for Uni classes this morning. Got into all the ones I wanted to except I had to switch my Bio for Chem. And I can't get into Physics or Drama cause they're reserved or something. Dad's gonna phone tomorrow and see when they release the extra reserved seats or whatever. Yeah. Want Drama more than Physics right now... Phys and 2 Maths AND Chem. I don't think so... >_<
Am wanting to kick my BitTorrent for being so BLOODY SLOW! Am trying to download episode 2 of Kyou Kara Maou (Staring Today Maou). Which is going to be my mindless anime. Full of yaoi-ness... or at least very pointed/blatant shounen-ai. ^__^;;;
Closed the download window by accident. >______< Must resume download now... bye bye... (is a loser)
Some not-so-random Pondering
Sunday, April 18, 2004 - 06:35 p.m.
Music: Thursday - Division Street
One more of the many good things that happened on Band Tour. Landon introduced us (A and I) to Thursday. This song owns me. *goes on a downloading binge*
Yeah. I was doing my Chem homework and listening to Bright Eyes and started thinking about how songs have connotations and stuff. Like good ones and bad ones. Real ones and fantasy ones. Like the shit-load of songs that became part of the 7th Element Soundtrack Candidates list... ^_^;; Good times...
But then there's the songs with real-life connotations. Like "Centre of the World" by Bright Eyes. It happens to be the first Bright Eyes song I'd ever heard because Andrea burned it onto my vinyl CD. I listened to it for the first time in the Maple Leaf Lounge in the Calgary airport... waiting to get on a plane to go back to New Brunswick and to my Grandmother's funeral. Because of that, and the lyrics ("The alarm clock's going off, but you're not waking up. This isn't happening... It is.") the song always reminds me of my Grandmother, and her dying... Which is prolly why it made me cry on the bus to the bowling alley in Victoria; thankfully no one noticed.
When my dad's parents died, there were songs to remind me of them, and the news of their deaths. I was doing my homework and listening to Our Lady Peace (Spiritual Machines) when mom said she needed to talk to me. I was about halfway through "All My Friends" when I stopped the CD so she could tell me that Grandad had passed away. I remember the shock and denial and the crying that followed. And when the phone rang and I cried by myself at the kitchen table, I remember listening to that song. And it's lyrics. And crying even more.
"Insistence, we hope for the best. Were not making sense. In silence, wait for the day when you're better than...
"Again this time. We won't understand again I'm not waiting for some sense this time, we won't understand again I'm not waiting for..."
And the song that reminds me of Nanny was the one played at her funeral. "Wind Beneath My Wings" by Bette Midler. I was so numb and in shock between October 30th and the middle of December. Not one death, but two. In the same city, held at the same funeral home, greeting the same, strange people, wearing the same clothes. Crying for the same reason. I don't think I've heard the phrase "I wish we could've met under better circumstances." in my life. All these people either didn't know me at all, or had met me when I was two.
"Did you ever know that you're my hero, and everything I would like to be? I can fly higher than an eagle, for you are the wind beneath my wings.
"Fly, fly, fly high against the sky, so high I almost touch the sky. Thank you, thank you, thank God for you, the wind beneath my wings."
And there was no real closure. Both Nanny and Grandad were cremated before we got there, so their death's still seem unreal. Like it never happened. The denial surrounding Grandma's death in January is because she was such a strong person. Opinionated, loud, crude sometimes, and outwardly compassionate seldom. But the kind of person you never thought such a common thing like death would actually kill her. Weird but true. My cousin agrees with me.
And then their's the universal song, that wraps everything up. My cousin Conor brought this up. "The Scientist" by Coldplay. It became my theraputic song. To listen to. To play on the piano and sing along. It's about losing someone we think. He came up with the connotation, so he could probably explain it better, but I understand where he's coming from...
"Nobody said it was easy. Oh it's such a shame for us to part. Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said that it would be this hard. Oh take me back to the start..."
And that concludes Katelynn's depressing musing for now. I was just thinking about it...
Once More With Feeling
Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 10:26 p.m.
Music: Linkin Park - Numb
Hmm... *looks at song title* Kinda funny/ironic considering that's how I feel right now.
But after about 10 minutes of deliberation and attempts to distract myself, I have decided that I will not bitch about that here. I won't just post it here and hope someone happens to read it. This needs to be settled in person in order to really be settled...
Anyways, back from Band Tour 2004. Which kicked much ass. And perving on emo-boys was done. ^___^;; Have discovered that I'm crushing on Landon (Matz). Cause he's cute and nice and shares my taste in music (and Andrea's too). Too bad he's still so whipped by Lauren. It's sad actually. But he's still really cool. ^___^
Stupid Andrea for bringing it up. XD
Right. So much shit happened on tour I can't possibly put it all here without needed to archive again, so I won't.
Let's sum up the days of Tour in a few words... or sentences...
Day One, Sunday: Driving. Way too much driving. Crack cocaine cookies courtesy of Sam, Mark, Sandon and Landon (and Sam's girlfriend).
Day Two, Monday: Ferry ride. Discussion on the amusement that would come from RP-ing Rocky Horror using Emo bois. Jesse in a corset/drag makes me nosebleed.
Day Three, Tuesday: Concert #1 (of 3). No Jazz (yay!). Whale-watched but saw no whales. T_T Used the hotel's mini-gym. Saw Whitney.
Day Four, Wednesday: Concert's 2 and 3. Little kids tackled/molested Sam. Chased him around the playground. Wet and cold for outdoor concert (natch). Jazz sucked. Walking with Andrea for 2 hours in the evening did not however. Good conversations were had. Thought Dan got pushed fell into the harbour.
Day Five, Thursday: Bought Mario t-shirts and BlueNotes. Went to observatory place. Must take Astronomy at Uni now... XD Dinner theatre was crack. Funny but crack. And under-rehearsed. Got to be Russian-Italian. ^_^;;
Day Six, Friday: More driving. Ick. And ferries. And waffles on ferries. And Crazy Taxi. No emo bois in drag however, quite possibly cause Tania and Lisa were with us this time. XD Owner of 3 Galley Vap (XD) disliked us, was overly religious and wanted to kill us for being kids/socialists. Good times. It was the juice/water Stephen.
Day Seven, Today: Decided the 3 Galley Vap owner was hidding the bodies in random, locked closets around the hotel. Lotsa driving and running behind schedule. Figured out that sleeping on bus is more comfortable with seat-back back. Duh! >_<
And the only homework I had - Chem Cum Review - I did not touch. Am I screwed? Not really. It's not due til Wed/Thurs and I have tomorrow. ^_^
Am going to go and write now, since I only did one drabble on the whole tour. Damn you carsick-ness! Damn you! And download FMA-ness and drool over the prettiness that are the LiveJournal updates... XDD
Dudemanguy!
Friday, April 9, 2004 - 10:25 p.m.
@ Christiana: SONGMEANINGS IS BACK ONLINE! Kinda, sorta... like, you can login again and stuffs... XD
Yeah. ^__^ I had to do that... it's been down for *so* long. I mean, gods I joined that community in May of 2002! XD Ah, nostalgia.
Right, anyways, that is all... must go back to writing my 2nd person TBS slash for Andrea now... XD
Woah...
Thursday, April 8, 2004 - 11:02 p.m.
Music: Evanescence - My Immortal
Finally got my University calendar. Am so very happy now. Timetabling the whole thing is gonna be a *bitch* but that's life.
Have a shitload of Math courses to take (duh Katelynn. Math major!) but it looks like my first Calculus course is gonna mostly be review of what I've done in 31. Which kicks ass. ^___^
Am very excited about picking my GLER's (General Liberal Education Requirements) though. There's so many fun courses I could take. ^__^ My mom thinks I'm crazy for wanting to some History courses. But it's *coool*. History 1000 looks boring as hell, but it's a prereq for the really kickass Greek/Roman mythology course I want to take. XD
And there is *one* Astronomy course too. One! All semester! I want to take that class too. XD There's the requirement that we go to the Uni Observatory 2 nights to do stuff too. XD Exciting! And it's Physics. Which is kinda cool. Though it's gravitation it's light too. So I think I can handle it. Physics was okay, once I wrapped my brain around how to do it.
There's a Physics course too. About Waves and Optics and all the cool stuff from Physics 20/30. ^__^ Happy happy.
I can even take Japanese! XD How cool is that? I don't need any previous experience either! It's for total novices. XD
And the Drama courses don't require a Drama 30 prereq like I thought they would. XD So there's like a million and two things I could take.
My first semester looks like this right now: Math 1410 (Linear Algebra or something) and Math 1560 (Calculus I). Those are required. Then there's room for 3 GLER's. So it's like, History, or Physics or Astronomy. Or BIO! I forgot about Bio! XD
Bio 1010 seems okay and way cooler than Bio 1020. And 1010 is the prereq for the Bio 2000-something Genetics class I could take! Genetics was so much fun~! XD
And there's still Chem courses I could take... Gah!!! Too many things to do... Brain overloading... XDD
Have decided that I don't want to do Music. It looks boring. Yeah...
In other news, I got 100 on my English reading comprehension today. Can't believe it. I'm so inconsistent with those damn things. >_< It's horrible. Though I think I've figured part of it out. Poetry/stories are evil and plays/Shakespeare = kickass marks.
Yeah, love my simplistic logic. ^__^
I'm thinking I'm going to post my Conor-fic on LJ sometime before I go to Victoria. XD Yeah..
Busy night. Did Uni stuff. Watched CSI for the first time.. XD Am loving it and it's crazy plot twisty-ness. XD
Yeah... so much to do! So little time.
Only homework over Easter break is Chem Cum Review! Yay for me~! XDD
Yeah...
Wednesday, April 7, 2004 - 07:20 p.m.
Music: Collective Soul - Compliment
So, I'm working on teh Conor Project again. For English. Due tomorrow. >_<
Wishing Andrea would come online so I can make sure I'm staying consistent with my tenses and to the point of the assignment. Yeah...
Was taking a break from the whole 2 sentences I've written so far tonight and the computer decides to crash. >_< Have decided that my computer needs to get laid. Why else would it be so bitchy? Either that or it needs to be defrag-ed. Which is probably a lot like getting laid...
Where the *hell* do I come up with this stuff?
Oh, right. Dayquil...
At least it doesn't result in spooning. (XD Andrea will prolly be the only one who gets that...)
Anyways, off to finish the project. Gods is it long! >_< Will most likely end up posting it on LJ afterwards. Yay for me...
*dies*
Monday, April 5, 2004 - 10:07 p.m.
Music: Dashboard Confessional - Screaming Infedelities
Yay... M'sick. Again. Fucking hell.
Granted my last cold harassed me in January.. but I *hate* colds so much. Cause they suck and get in my way. >_< And my throat's really stratchy and dry and I've been dry coughing all day and it really *sucks*.
I also hate having to write tests when I'm sick. Like my Math31 midterm that's tomorrow... >____< Eeeevil.
But my dad has bought me Nyquil, so I will drug myself up, get Andrea to write me stuff and then shower and go to bed.
And fend off the evil Math demons as best I can...
Mr. Napkin-Face will protect me... XD
Bitchin'... XD
Saturday, April 3, 2004 - 11:15 p.m.
Music: Bright Eyes - No Lies, Just Love
I said that *points to title* way too often today. XD
So Chelsea and I kicked some ass at the tourny at school today. The longest fucking tournament I've played in for a *long* while. Anyways, we won. And I mean *won*. As in, got gold. XDD I'm so proud of us. We didn't lose a single game. ^__^ And we played really well too. So I'm very satisfied.
And then Reeve needed a mixed partner, so I played with him too. ^_^;; And we *didn't* win a single game. But we got bronze. Cause there was only 3 teams. Bitchin...
XD I'm a dork... and am really tired.
But Andrea wants me to write, so it's unlikely that I'll get to bed anytime soon. *whip cracks in the background* ^_^;;;
-Whatever that Means-
Friday, April 2, 2004 - 06:14 p.m.
Music: The Used - Noise and Kisses
I <3 The Used. ^___^ And I envy Garrett for going to Montreal to see them at Warped Tour last year. *is plotting to steal his Used T-shirt*. XD
Archived again. Yay-ness. Discovered there's a lot of archived things in teh archive. Wow. Yeah. I'm profound today too... ^_^;;
Got the English assignment. Tis a personal response about challenges. Am considering writing a story inspired by "No Lies, Just Love" (Bright Eyes). Haven't decided whether that's a good or bad/pathetic thing yet. Though it would work. And incorporating the texts he gave us would be hella easy.
Must keep reminding self that said project shouldn't include Conor Oberst slash. It could however include Conor Oberst. Anderson wouldn't know... ^__^;;;;
Went out with Dan today to play some DDR. We ended up playing one round on Non-stop mode. X_x Oi. It was interesting. The Standard songs killed me. Good times, good times.
Only 9 days til Band Tour! XD I can't wait. ^__^ Am seriously considering bringing "Road to El Dorado" with me to watch on the bus. XD
Badminton tourny tomorrow~! I'm excited. Schaber said he expects a medal from us tomorrow. Greaaat... no pressure or anything... XD
Have this urge to read some slash. I think I'll go do that... and maybe write something later tonight cause I don't hafta get up at 5:30 cause the tourny's at the school. ^_^ I only hafta be at the school by 8. Am thinking the tourny starts around 9-ish. Anyone wanting to come cheer me on (or laugh at me, whatever you prefer...) is welcome! ^__^ Later.
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