Ahh quizzy goodness

HOW MUCH HAVE YOU CHANGED IN 6 YEARS
-------------6 years ago----------

1.) How old were you?: 19
2.) Where did you go to school?: PCVS in Peterborough, Laurentian University in Sudbury
3.) Where did you work?: Nowhere
4.) Where did you live?: Sudbury
5.) Where did you hang out?: Mostly around the school
6.) Did you wear glasses?: At times!
7) Who was your best friend(s): Jenny, and Ami
8.) How many tattoos did you have? Zero
9.) How many piercings did you have?: Zero (look to this as a trend)
10.) What car did you drive? Public transport
11.) Had you been to a real party?: A few
12.) Had You had your heart broken? No
13.)Single/Taken/Married/Divorced? Newly Taken

-------------3 years ago----------

1.) How old were you? 22
2.) Where did you go to school? Laurentian University
3.) Where did you work?: The Art Gallery of Sudbury/Bingo One
4.) Where did you live?: Sudbury
5.) Where did you hang out?: My apartment/the school
6.) Did you wear glasses?: No
7.) Who were your best friend(s)?: Jenny, Jay, Liz
9.) How many tattoos did you have.? : Zero
10.) How many piercings did you have?: Zero
11.) What car did you drive?: I can't recall if this was during the Comet days or the Wagon days
12) Had your heart broken?: Nope
13. Single/Taken/Married/Divorced?: Taken

--------------------Today--------------------

1.) How old are you?: 25
2.) Where do you go to school? Graduated from LU in 2006, Applied to Trent for next year
3.) Where do you work?: Minacs
4) Where do you live?: Peterborough
5.) Where do you hang out?: Liz's house, Evan's house, the Only Cafe, Haaselton's
7.) Who are your best friend(s): Jenny, Liz, Evan, Jay
i9.) How many tattoos do you have.? : Still Zero
10.) How many piercings do you have?: Yet another Zero
11) What car do you drive?: I take the foot train most places
12) Had your heart broken?: Yep
13. Single/Taken/Married/Divorced?: Single


WHAT WERE YOU DOING...
1 MINUTE AGO: Filling this out
1 HOUR AGO: Napping
1 DAY AGO: Looking at how expensive laptop computers are
1 YEAR AGO: Prepping for a flight back home for the bro's wedding.

First piercing: has yet to happen
Last big car ride: I drove to Sudbury a couple weekends ago
Last movie seen in theaters: La Damnation de Faust
Last food consumed: An egg McBobby
Last person you texted/called: I tried to text Liz, but it didn't go through.
Last CD played: "So Tonight I Might See" by Mazzy Star
Last drink drank: Flattened Ginger Ale

More Modern Godesses of Music

Today we (I) do another salute to the amazing women of music. This will be the fourth edition of the list honouring girls who sing, play guitar, piano, harp, keyboards, or just generally rock out. Enjoy!

Original List (October 2005)

# Sharin Foo of the Raveonettes
# Bjork
# Tori Amos
# Regine Chassange of Arcade Fire
# Amy Millan of Stars/Broken Social Scene
# Meg White of the White Stripes
# Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs
# Fiona Apple
# Tegan
# Sara
# Zia McCabe of the Dandy Warhols
# Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth
# D'Arcy Wretsky of Smashing Pumpkins

Amendments (as of September 2006)

# Leslie Feist (Solo/Member of Broken Social Scene)
# Emily Haines of Metric/Broken Social Scene
# Amanda Palmer of Dresden Dolls
# Sarah Beam of Iron & Wine
# Becky Ninkovic of You Say Party! We Say Die!
# Krista Loewen of You Say Party! We Say Die!

Further Amendments (December 2007)

# Regina Spektor
# Abby & Amanda of The Ditty Bops
# Chan Marshall (Cat Power)
# Jenny Lewis
# Joanna Newsom
# Victoria Bergsman
# Gwen-O, RiotBecki & Rosay of The Pipettes

Even More Amendments (November 2008)

# Marnie Stern

If anyone ever says girls can't play guitar, all you need do is play them any track off of Marnie Stern's latest album, This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That, and they will apologize.

# Mirah

Cute little voice, after 9pm lyrics. Ooo la la... She's been described as Liz Phair, but not as cynical. Plus, her cover of "Dancing in the Dark" is hilarious.

# Olga Bell

Olga Bell would be on this list if only for her stellar (and incredibly competent) cover of "Videotape/The Eraser," but her debut EP of original material is striking, energetic, and constantly surprising.

# Brooke Waggoner

Brooke Waggoner GAVE AWAY her debut EP "Fresh Pair of Eyes," and I still feel guilty I didn't pay for it. If her music is any indication of her personality, I want to hang out with her. I love how every song has a really positive vibe to it, and will occasionally break into an "I can't keep it in anymore" sort of revelry.

That's it for right now. I'm trying to be practical this year, not bestowing a "goddess" ranking on anyone I have a mild infatuation for, or who has one song I get hung up on and am unable to name another song from their catalog. Fabulous women who may yet make the list from this year are:

Laura Veirs

Olivia B. Merilahti of The Do

Romi and Sari Lightman of Ghost Bees

Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes

Top 5 Records

Hey kids! Who wants to play like they work at Championship Vinyl with Rob Gordon, Jack Black and the gang? Here we go! The category is:

Top 5 Side 1, Track 1

Extraordinary Machine - Fiona Apple (from Extraordinary Machine)

Our Hell - Emily Haines (from Knives Don't Have Your Back)

Pink Moon - Nick Drake (from Pink Moon)

March Into the Sea - Modest Mouse (from We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank)

Untitled 1 - Sigur Ros (from ( ))











Liz, Angelo, Anyone else? What you got?

Before she was Sarah Palin...

Liz: What made you think I was gay?
Jack: Your shoes.
Liz: Well, I'm not gay.
Jack: Those shoes are definitely bi-curious.



Liz: I'm sorry, you're saying you want us to use the show to sell stuff?
Jack: Look, I know how this sounds.
Liz: No, Jack. We're not doing that. We're not compromising the integrity of the show to sell-
Pete: Wow, this is Diet Snapple?
Liz: I know! It tastes just like regular Snapple, doesn't it?
Frank: You should try "Plumigranite." It's amazing.
Cerie: (to camera) I only date guys who drink Snapple.
Jack: Look, we all love Snapple. Lord knows I do, but focus here. We're talking about product integration.

Oh You (AC)!

I have begun the process for applying to Teacher College in an official capacity now (ie/ I started paying fees). Two things are starting to worry me about this whole set-up. They are as follows:

1) They contact successful candidates on April Fool's Day.
2) The Ontario Faculties of Education incomprehensibly abbreviates to TEAS ("tease").

This is like applying to seminary and finding out if I got in on a festival of religious doubt (though I don't know if there are any of those currently going on).

All joking aside, having paid my $183.00 CDN makes this a pretty official "career move," something I have not made before. Cool.

Placeholder.

Man, it's been a while.

I keep thinking of junk I can write and put on here, but then I see something shiny and... well...

I have things I could write about, but by now there's so much clunking around up there that I'm sure I'll leave something out or have some stuff come up half-baked. So here are two statements and a question:

S1) People who interrupt are THE WORST when your job is to be polite.
S2) It sucks when your foot just starts to hurt for no reason and won't quit.

Q1) How do you know if you have diabetes?

Oh yeah, and it's American election night. I'm intentionally not following it. I'll just see what happens tomorrow morning.