Spring Has Sprung Then Withered

I wonder if spring will actually stay for longer than 36 hours before another mini-snowfall. Calgary has such screwball weather. My baby tomato plants won't have a proper youth if they are kept inside while they are growing up!
Anyways, sorry it's been so long since the last post, I've been preoccupied.
Spring session has started. General Studies 300. Ya. The reading list burns my eyes and the subject matter cooks my brain.

I got a new cell phone! Which is awesome. The first one I got failed, so when I got back from the cabin, we took it back and got a new one, which works awesomely. It's an LG Keybo in black.



The angonizing and debilitating fungus that sucks the very life and soul out of me and its very presence makes me want to shove bamboo violently under my fingernails, slam my head in a car door, and jump out of a 28 story building while running a razorblade across my tongue had her birthday yesterday. Oh and she is also know in some circles as Connie; my sister. Don't get me started...

Anyways, my birthday is on the 28th and I'm kinda excited. I'm getting old...
I am looking forward to clubbing with my friends though! That should be fun.

Finale of American Idol was on Wednesday. I'm so glad Kris won. I was getting so annoyed at Adam's constant screaming, it's not a nice sound to listen to.
I've started to watch this season of The Bachelorette. I'm not entirely sure why, but it's addictive.
The House MD finale was on, not last Monday but the Monday before. SO GOOD! Oh my goodness, I can't wait for next season! It's not fair that the writers of a TV show have the power to generate such anticipation in the everyday public. Too much power, if you ask me...

Here's an artist I'm really into right now: Teddy Thompson.



And here's Sacha Baron Cohen as Bruno. Love him!



Ok.

Satanic Housewives

Here it is. From me to you (awesome Beatles song, by-the-way). Some advice.
Don't make the same mistake I did.
Do not, under any circumstances, walk through the "clean-white-sheets" section of a Home Outfitters while holding a strawberry Jugo Juice. All of the little old conservative housewives in that store burned me with their stares of disapproval. I think they may have stolen my soul...
Oh, and for God's sake, don't stir it vigorously!! Also, don't put it down anywhere! I can only imagine what their reaction might have been if I had actually spilled it on something. Holy crap, they probably would have had an aneurysm, or at least mauled me and gouged my eyes out with the keys to their navy blue mini-vans.

Well, that was just today.

However, as I promised a few days ago, I am obligated to tell you about what happened with the friends at dinner last Saturday. Well, me and my friend Tif, we decided to prank call our other friend (it was just the three of us at dinner). So the day before the dinner we called her once, and the day of the dinner we called her again. And by "we" I mean "me", but Tif was certainly a co-conspirator. I called her on her iPhone both times and pretended to be from a fictional casting agency we dubbed "The Elizabeth Jordan Casting Agency". Each time I was a different character. The first time I was "Jenna" with a British accent, and the second time I was "Andy" with a "New York -ish" accent. They were both looking for a one "Devin Parcell". Both characters were fairly stubborn and refused to believe that they had a wrong number. She didn't know it was me at all!! Well, it all went perfectly smoothly, and we were planning on telling her at dinner that the calls were me. However, when we told her, she didn't find it even remotely hilarious! Can you believe it?!! Maybe we have an annoying sense of humour but both me and Tif found it extraordinarily funny. Oh well, you can't win all the time.

Anyways, I've just recently planted little tomato plant seeds. I can't wait until they germinate so I can repot them and stake them. Oh my, I think my thumb is turning green...

On a final note, I found these videos on YouTube last night. I was looking for a video for "A Fifth of Beethoven" by Walter Murphy, which led me to watching a video for how to do The Hustle, which led me to these. These are inmates in a prison in the Phillipines and the warden uses dance for rehabilitation. There are a bunch of other ones, but these two are my favourite. Enjoy!








I know what you're thinking and yes, the one that looks like a chick... is a dude.
The "Thriller" one is my personal fave.

And now, in the words of Porky Pig...
Ba-dee-ba-dee-ba-dee-ba-dee-ba-dee..
That's all folks!!

Out and About

Well, I'm finished all of my exams! WOOT! The English one really sucked, I know I didn't write enough, but I don't particularly care anymore.

Had a fun day playing musical shots with friends on Thursday. "Across the Universe" is ten times more interesting and psychadelically more trippy when you have a shot every time a new song comes on (Note: there are about 33 songs in "Across the Universe"... Ya). We also watched "Rent" and I cried.

Yesterday, I returned some old textbooks for a meager fee, then I saw "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". It was pretty good. Hugh Jackman was hot. I think I will like it more once I watch the other X-Men movies. Then, I went to work. Fairly uneventful, but not bad.

I plan on doing absolutely nothing for the next two weeks until my spring session start (May 14 - General Studies 300). The prof for that class sounds terrifyingly enthusiastic about it and that really scares me.

I've also been watching seasons of "30 Rock". Pretty funny show actually. I love Devin Banks (Will Arnett), and his hilarious "gay-ness". A very close second in the running for my favourite character on that show is Kenneth the Page. Oh the naivety!

Going out tonight after work to dinner with friends. That should be fun/interesting. I will bring you updates on a particular aspect of the evening (that has taken a certain amount of premeditation and preparation) that I think you will find hilarious (whoever you are).

Blurg.

Das Ist Der Perfekte Tag (...Not Really)

So I wrote my French Cinema exam on Friday, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I didn't have to BS my way through any of the questions because I actually knew the answers. Go me.

I still have one more exam on Monday, English: Drama. It means I actually have to write a decentish essay, which is never all that fun. It's also at 7:00-9:00pm! I want to find the exam scheduler people and bang their heads together, then maybe they will stop hating students. However, I can't particularly complain, I suppose, it gives me almost all of tomorrow to study as well.

On the Tuesday after that, I'm going to a friend's to play... You guessed it! ROCK BAND!! Apparently she got a whole bunch of new songs. I have been slated to be the lead singer for a particularly catchy German song by some German rocker chick. I think I've been studying the lyrics to that song more than I have been studying for my English exam. It's called "Perfekte Welle" by Juli if anybody is interested.

I saw "The Soloist" yesterday. It was really good. I thought Robert Downey Jr.'s performance was the best part about the movie, and I'm not just saying that. He is extraordinarily talented. I envy him. Jamie Foxx was OK, usually one-note, but he had a few good moments.




Got a new lamp for my bedroom. It has an easy on/off switch, unlike my last lamp that I may or may not have intentionally broke...

Got some chocolate-covered ju-jubes. That was enough to make my day.

OK, back to studying... Or at least avoiding studying by watching my dog play with her stuffed lobster toy.

Auf Wiedersehen

Some Bad Short Stories

Since I recently found a little program to convert my Word documents into PDF files, I have decided to post some of my short stories in my blog. They aren't particularly good, but I have fun writing them. If you are deathly bored at any time, take a look a them and let me know what you think! They range from five pages to one page. Who knows, maybe once I actually get semi-decent ideas for stories, they might get longer. OK, these aren't really in any special order. I guess they are somewhat chronological (most recent at the bottom). I may post more in future blogs as I write them, but for now these are the ones I've written so far. These have all been written just for fun, for no reason. However, I did submit "Vinny and the Other Wiseguys" as an English assignment in Grade 11 and I got a 97 (I think).

OK, enough blab, here they are.
Click on the button that says "Click here to start download..." and then just click "Open" in the pop-up box. You don't have to save it, not unless you want to, if you're that strange...

Impression

Vinny and the Other Wiseguys

Wally's Kitchen World

Let's Walk

The Astronomer

The Accident

Small World

The Usurer

Cue Memory

I Don't Know If You Remember Me But...

Infomercial (This one might seem slightly controversial to some overly-sensitive people, but it's the shortest of all of my stories; it's only one page.)

Don't judge me, I already told you they aren't that great.

Did my first exam yesterday: Linguistics. Pretty easy actually. Anyways, I've still been playing Mafia Wars, which is still awesome. Not much else that's new.

OK, I'm off to watch American Idol and tomorrow I'll start studying for my French Cinema exam on Friday.

Toodles.

John is Definately the Cutest Beatle

So regular classes are over now! Hoorah!

Instead of studying for the three exams I have approaching, I have been playing online Mafia Wars and Tetris, simultaneously. I am that talented...

As I am typing this, my dog is franticly searching for a place to hide from the evil force that is the vacuum cleaner. Personally, I don't see its evil side but if Luna-bear sees it as evil, then it must be. What does she think it's going to do to her? Suck her into a black hole or some vast abyss occupied by dog-eating giant worms?

Amongst my inactivity, I did spend a lot of my time yesterday cleaning my room; which, before yesterday, was nearly uninhabitable. You couldn't see the carpet, in other words. I spent most of that time reorganizing my bookshelf. It's very pretty now and only has books on it that I actually read. So if anybody is looking for any books for any 5-12 year olds, I have recently come across a bunch that I have no use for. We can negotiate a price later...

Searched for some Beatles videos on YouTube a few days ago. I found all three first appearances they had on The Ed Sullivan Show. Unfortunately, the scabs at whatever copyright "company" found the first and third shows and took them down. It proves their stupidity that they found the first and third but not the second. Losers. Anyways, here is their second appearance and only one song ("She Loves You") from their first appearance.

Watch this...



...and this.



My favourite part of any of the videos from The Beatles appearances on that show was seeing the "bobby-soxers" (sort of) faces as they are watching "The Fab Four". How can they hear the music above their screaming? It's a wonder why most of them didn't go into cardiac or respiratory arrest!

Well, that's about it for now.

R.I.P. John Lennon

La-dee-da.

Clucking Bunnies, Speaking French, and Bermuda Shorts Day

Here are some news items, coming at you fast! Catch!

Well, I spent Easter at the cabin with the family. That was fairly fun, got some Easter-themed sugar loot, which is awesome, of course. Eggs and bunnies and all that.
Just finished the three essays that were required by my classes this semester. They are OK, not great but I hope they are at least worth a Charlie or a Bunny (FYI - that means a C or a B).
I found a Learn French by Podcast thing on iTunes. So, I have been listening to Hugh and Amelie teach me how to speak random things in French. There are a total of 126 audio lessons so far. I am on lesson 2. Go me.
This is the last week of school before exams. This is cool because then I can chillax at home studying and then, after exams, just doing NOTHING (which happens to be one of my favourite things to do).
The weather is warming up (for the time being).
This means that once school is over and now that the weather is warm, I can go clubbing!! Woot!

The Friday at the end of this week at the University of Calgary is called Bermuda Shorts Day. This day is meant to be a day of partying for the students at some place called Lot... I forget, but it's a number. Anyways, you have to buy a wristband as an entry fee for the party thing. I didn't buy one. I'm not really into strictly student parties, they sound kind of cliche. The good thing is that it means that profs are very reluctant to schedule class for that day, so both of my classes on Friday are pretty much unnecessary and I'm not going! One day of school left!!!

OK, that's really it. Except, I want to share with you two of my current favourite videos. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!





Au revoir.