sappy sap.

I found out last night, while I was really drunk and excited, that a website that Jilliam posted awhile ago was part of an artistic project that Miranda July worked on, who made the movie Me and You and Everyone We Know. Although the movie sucks, I really like her website. It's heartwarming. If you're feeling down, go look at it. You can see people's submissions for things like "take a picture of your parent's kissing" and shit like that. Although my parents aren't kissing in this picture I'm sure they did right after. It's nice to see a picture of my parents at a party...

CONGRATULATIONS!

CONGRATS on being done school Krista! And everyone else that finished. Sarah, Nicole...and anyone else I can't think of. YEA!

And aren't you beautiful Krista. You're hair looks so nice. I wish I could have been there to celebrate.


Being out of school is great. During the beginning of the week, when it rained for three days, me, mike and graeme just hung out in out pjs and fat girl pants while watching movies and eating pizza.

When it got sunny, me and Mike have started to move his stuff over to my house for the summer. Besides that, the last couple of days has consisted of getting drunk at 4 in the afternoon while sitting out on the porch, although it's kinda cold. This week is only going to get better. Mike's birthday is on Monday so we are having a party at his old empty apartment on Saturday. Woooweeee.

I'm trying to convince Graeme and Mike to go with me to the Biodome and the Botanical Gardens to see butterflies in the greenhouse. Maybe maybe. Time to go to a church bazzzzarrrrr to get some good stuff.

BYE!

"we're on like totally separate pages. while your on some nancy drew book, i'm on some raymond chandler novel."

yeaaaaaaaa. i'm done!

but other than that nothing much is going on. bought some clothes yesterday. going to a parta tonight. waiting for the dye in my hair to be ready. went to see final fantasy last week with my new friend. got to see kira last weekend... nothing too eventful. but the summer will be fun.

oh, went to see the chair of the art history department. she is a really nice lady who told me that no one ever really gets jobs after doing their masters in art therapy, at least not anymore. i guess i kinda guessed it already but was just hopeful. so it's either a masters degree in art history at concordia or a school psychology/counselling psychology masters at McGill...or whereever. we'll see.


expect a call soon, now that i have loads of time.

alright. and now for some cute pictures, again. i really love her. she makes me happy.

and yes, i know, she looks like a little hussy in that princess full piece jogging suit. but she's a baby!






i think she looks funny in that swing. like a little sack of potatoes. i like how one of her favorite toys is a friggin wooden spoon.

Average Homeboy!

silas neal.

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

my last paper of the year...until summer school.

not looking forward to the all nighter.

distract me.

c is for cookie.

even though school is busssssy i'm heading to ottawa this weekend to see this little kid...


KIRA!

i hope she does some good eatin while i'm there. and maybe say my name.

nothing else is new. i'm done school on the 20th. kate m's coming on the 25th, and as she says, while she's here she's gonna be all like friendship and shit.

got mike to cut off the bottom of my hair with sewing scissors. so now its kinda short. pictures? nah.

bye!

oh, and congrats to all those people that are done!

bored...well, too lazy to do work...

again.

AAARRR

by Christopher Silas Neal.


About half an hour ago I was so stressed. I got up at 6 this morning to register for classes and it took of ever to get into the site to register (almost 3 hours...) because so many people were registering. The thought of having all my studio classes set back another year was too much for me to handle...

The more I plan for the classes that I need to take the more I wonder what the hell I'm doing...


Anyway, I got into all the classes I wanted, well most of them, and it proved to me once again that I get so unnecessarily anxious sometimes - I am a wiener!

WIENERS!

(By the way, puptastic has some funny pictures of dogs, if you scroll down a bit. Like puppies dressed up as brides.)

I have a 12 page paper to write today (why else would I be posting something if it wasn't just to distract myself...) but it isn't that bad because I got to choose what I wanted to write about, and decided to write on craft, Helene Cixous, and Julia Kristeva, which are all things that I wanted to learn more about... I've found feminist criticism really interesting lately.

Like this (NERD!) from Helene Cixous...

Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me - the other that I am and am not, that I don't know how to be, but that I feel passing, that makes me live - that tears me apart, distrubs me, changes me, who? - a feminine one, a masculine one, some? - several, some unknown, which is indeed what gives me the desire to know and from which all life soars.

I know it's kinda cheesy, but I like it. All of her writing is fragmented and nice to read. It's a nice change from the boring academic readings that I've been doing lately.

I've drank so much coffee I'm going to pee my pants. BYEBYEBYEBEYBY!

bbbaaahhh.

that's all.

Yea yea. spring is here. for a couple of days at least. every afternoon this week i've sat on my front stairs drinking a beer and reading about problems with art museums. i'm indulgent. i know.

i like it cause spring actually makes me feel motivated for me to get my work done. and i've actually liked doing it.

right now i'm writing a paper on judy chicago and her dinner party. after that i have two more papers to write. one on feminist psychoanalystic thought and craft, and the other on problems with art museum practice. i get to make a proposal for a museum acquisition which is kinda neeeeeeat. writing about feminist theory and craft makes me want to study craft history as a masters. we'll see. but i guess i miss science too. imma nerd. this is nerdy thing to talk about. i guess i'm happy that there are a lot of things that i'm interested in.




it's getting warm and i miss the beach. and eating tacos on the beach. i didn't think i would miss it this much. we watched the andy goldsworthy movie in my art education class, and the first half of the movie documented him working on a pebble beach in nova scotia. his work isn't that great as an end product but it was really great to see him make. only 5 months til i come home. oh good god 5 months.

i've been really boring lately. just school work and nerdy things, like cross stitch. yup, gold thread. but last night me and mike went over to my friend crystal's house for dinner. and my other friend josh was there. we all got drunk and ate good food. there was a mini food fight. bread everywhere.

she made me realize how much i miss hanging out with girls that i'm really comfortable with, although i feel pretty comfortable with her. yeayea, i miss peeps.

i've made a few friends in my art education class though. one of the girls, jessica, was actually best friends with some people in Hali, and has been in our apartment on robie street. SMALL WORLD EH?

i'm so excited for the people that are going to visit me this summer. kate & kate! sarah! jillian, maybe, and adriann sometime soon. and darcy will be in the same province, and paul dd too! and matt is going to going to come to montreal for awhile if he can, even though he might not live here anymore. so even if i'm boring right now it will be a fun summer.


what everyone is listening to. i'm really bored with all my music. kate? sarah?

aiiiight. BYE.

sorry this was so long and boring.

Edward Burtynsky

because that last post was kinda dumb & i need to distract myself.

can i get a witness?

It doesn't feel like spring anymore. It's snowing outside and I want it to stop. I feel kinda bummed and I want to complain. Sorry. Stop reading now...


I found out today that I didn't get into the drawing course that I want to take this summer. And now I have to compulsively check the registration site until someone drops it and then go to the first class and harass the instructor to let me in. I really need to get into this course if I want this degree to go any faster... And at this point it feels like it is going to take forever. Does anyone else feel like that? I guess there are bunch of people that are going to be done this year.

And I found out yesterday that I didn't too so well on my abstract for my final paper in my Art and the Museum class which I really love. I feel like I'm not doing so well this semester and instead of working hard on my next paper last night I watched American Idol for two hours.

Oh well, right? I love tv too much.

Ok ok. Things aren't that bad. Last weekend I saw the Constantines with Devon, which was really great. Seeing them always makes me feel better. And last weekend I also got to do art with the kids downstairs for my art education paper. They were funny and put me into a good mood.

See?

Liam showed me that he can jump a lot higher after he poops and Maya brought The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales for me to read to her. It was nice. They are crazy kids.

And school is almost done. One more month.

Ok. I'm going to go work on my paper. It's on women and craft, which isn't that bad, but distract me anyway. I could use it.

DISTRACTIONDISTRACTIONDISTRACTION.

I'm sure you'll hear from me soon.

PS - Good luck Nicole on yer school interview. I think it is today. Maybe not.

i'm so excited for summer

at my cottage.

you've gone mental.

Woot woot!

Sonya wasn't too crazy. Picked us up from my house and drove us right to Joseph's. She talked a lot. I just did a lot of agreeing. Got to see my girl Kate friday. I hope she moves here in May. That would be the BEST.

Hung out with Mike's parents all weekend. I really like them. His dad is funny and his mom is so nice. I was so stressed the whole time though. Made Phad Thai for them and got so embarrassed when the water boiled over. They liked me though. His mom told him yesterday.

I got to see the waterfalls. The whole area is beautiful. I wish I had pictures to show you. I can't wait to see it in the summer. Mike doesn't have to move to Caledon this summer. He is going to be able to stay in Montreal half the summer, with me and Graeme. Moving all his stuff in at the beginning of May. CRAZY. I guess he basically lives here anyway. Did you know that?

The summer will be fun. I'm going to be going to schoo, but I'll have breaks. Going to my cottage at the end of July. Will go to Ottawa for my grampy's service. Spend some time with Kira at the cottage. Hopefully go for a drive to the South with Mike at the end of the summer.

NEWAYS

Jillian, when are you going to Germany? Any chance of you coming to Montreal before then, or anytime this summer?

I'm thinking of coming home at the end of June. Is anyone going to be around? Krista? Or maybe at the beginning of May? I want Mike to see Nova Scotia. But when are people going to be around? Darcy, are you going to be home this summer?

Tell me tell me tell me. This post is boring.

I wanna see my GURLZ.

steve maddens.

helllo.

i've recently acquired a small amount of $$$ and want to buy some shoes for the summer. shoes that won't be too hot.

so tell me if these are ugly. HONESTLY. i need some help. i can't decide.

you might like this.

pictures
some are good. some are bad.

"we know you are soft cause we’ve all seen you dancing. we all know your hard cause we all saw you drinking from noon until noon again."

I'm going to Caledon this weekend with Mike, who is a ghost in this picture. We're stopping in Toronto on the way to hang out with Kate R and Joseph, Mike's friend. I like that Kate and Joseph have become friends in Toronto. We're getting a drive with a woman we've never met. I really hope she isn't crazy. We're leaving oh so late tonight because this woman didn't want to wait until the morning. Mike is bringing his knife to keep us safe.

I'm going to meet Mike's parents. They sound really great. And I'm so scared shitless. I hope I actually talk and just don't mumble under my breath like I usually do with parents. Mike told me that I'm taller than both of them, which kinda makes me feel better.

I've fallen in love with Belle and Sebastian again. And the boy with the filthy laugh.

I hope Graeme and Scout bond while I'm away.

BYE!

If we disappear tell the police that Sonya has taken us.

a bad thing and a good thing.

As Mark has informed me...

The governor of South Dakota has signed a law making it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless the woman's life would be endangered by giving birth...

South Dakota has made abortion a criminal act," Planned Parenthood said in a statement, saying it would challenge the law in court...

The new legislation signed by Rounds would not make an exception for cases of rape or incest.

What the fuck?

Find the CBC article here.


As for a good thing?



Marcel Dzama, again.

a new one

Kira in her winter gear (on the left).
I love little kids in snowsuits.