December, 2006

  1. Games Night Whoooooooo!

    December 31, 2006 by admin

    Alright.

    Games night is officially starting up again this term because I need a regular social engagement, otherwise I spend all of my time sitting in my basement doing research and generally living inside my head which has proven to be unhealthy for my brain and sense of self. Also, I have a 1971 edition of Careers which is sitting around collecting dust.

    So. I will be at Cafe 1842 on Wednesday night at 8:00, with Scrabble. If you are cool, you will be there too.

    (Actually, I will probably be there on Tuesday night as well, because, you know, I’ve been away for three weeks and am experiencing cafe withdrawal.)

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  2. Raise your hand if you are drunk at your grandparents’ house!

    December 27, 2006 by admin

    Guess what I got for Christmas!


    This blog is about to get, like, a hundred million times better than it currently is. Just wait.

    Oh, PS: Is anyone in the world going to be anywhere near Port Elgin on New Year’s Eve? Because I have this horrible feeling that I will be spending a rather sad evening eating sausage rolls with my parents and watching some kind of television marathon, like, probably CSI or Mr. Bean. Not that there is anything wrong with Mr. Bean – I love Mr. Bean. And not that there’s anything wrong with my parents, either – it’s just that New Years Eves with sausage rolls and mom and dad are kind of getting a little tired. Not that there’s anything wrong with sausage rolls.

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  3. Funny.

    December 23, 2006 by admin

    I forgot to relate this anecdote earlier, so here goes:

    When I visited The New School, I was walking down the hall with this prof I met with and she took a look at the “Punk rock isn’t just for your boyfriend!” button that I wear on my coat and said, “Oh, if you like punk rock, you might know of my neighbours. I live in a big housing co-op, and well, they don’t live there year round, they actually live in New Hampshire, but they keep an apartment in the city. They’re members of a band called Sonic Youth.”

    Yeah. Yeah, that little band. The one called Sonic Youth.

    And then she waves at a woman down the hall, and says, “That’s the head of our anthropology deparment.” The head of the anthropology department pulls a goofy face and waves back and I immediately recognize her as the author of a book I had to write a book report on in second year. Surreal.

    There’s some NYC pictures up in my Flickr account, in case you care.

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  4. FYI

    December 22, 2006 by admin

    Unicorns are the new pirates. Please don’t even try to involve ninjas in this argument because everyone knows that pirates were the new ninjas.

    Also, this has drastically improved my quality of life.

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  5. I went to New York last week and this is what I did.

    December 20, 2006 by admin

    1. Took a shuttle from the airport to my hostel, and, in the manner of an excited seven year old, insisted on sitting up front with the driver so that I could see everything, which ended up being a bad idea because it turns out New York traffic is TERRIFYING and I should have sat in the backseat with my eyes closed. I was also the last person to get dropped off, and as soon as I was alone with him, the driver, who had not spoken a word up to this point, began talking my ear off about how terrible New York traffic is.

    2. Stayed in a hostel room that I shared with a bunch of German students who seemed to be constantly wearing only underwear.

    3. Bought a Coney Island Mermaid t-shirt at the Holiday Market in Union Square.

    4. Ate breakfast at a chocolate restaurant where the breakfast special consisted of a toasted bagel with hazelnut praline and a melted chocolate bar on it.

    5. Wandered around the East Village and Soho for hours and hours and took pictures of everything.

    6. Visited the New School which was pretty good and pretty interesting, and I’m going to have to do some thinking about things.

    7. Saw Grey Gardens! The most amazing musical ever, based on the most sublimely bizarre documentary ever, which you should probably go and rent right now because it’s something else. Also, how much do we love student rush tickets? We love them so, so much, because they mean seats five rows from the front for almost no money.

    8. Called my parents from Times Square, which probably succeeded in completely terrifying them.

    9. Walked from my hostel to Central Park, which took three hours, but included stops at the New York Public Library, Bryant Park, Rockefeller Centre (to see the Christmas tree!), Radio City Music Hall and Tiffany’s.

    10. Complained about the fact that there was no snow on the Christmas tree because it was, in fact, pouring rain.

    11. Wandered around Central Park in the rain and cried a little bit at Bethesda fountain because, well, because I seem to be crying about everything for no reason these days.

    12. Went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art which was a) fabulous b) huge c) kind of confusingly laid out. Learned that Rodin’s Burghers of Calais is not, in fact, approximately 10 inches tall and a nice size for displaying on a mantlepiece (which is the size it has always been in my head), but rather is larger than life size. And there was a marvelous exhibit of Neue Sachlichkeit art from the Weimar republic that was super duper awesome. They had the Otto Dix painting from the AGO on loan, which was kind of surreal, because it’s one of my favourites at the AGO and it was weird to see it in New York all of a sudden.

    13. Wandered around for an hour trying to find a place for dinner before ending up at a deli where I had matzo ball soup, cherry cheesecake and an egg cream.

    14. Went to Lincoln Centre, tried to get a ticket for that night’s performance of La Boheme at the Met, was told there was standing room only, so instead went home and to bed.

    15. Got up early and miraculously found a city bus that was going exactly where I was wanting to go (Battery Park) which very convieniently went through Chinatown, so I got to see that part of the city without having to walk for hours to get there.

    16. Saw the Statue of Liberty from very, very far away, through the fog. My mother tells me that the resulting picture is very disappointing and that I should have taken the ferry accross to see it close up. Yeah, whatever.

    17. Visited the World Trade Centre site, which was mostly just strange. It’s basically a large construction site, but the atmosphere is very weird. People are either stopping to look and think or are rushing past on their way to work as though there is nothing there. There was a remarkable lack of stars and stripes and “Go USA!” stuff around the area, too, which was interesting, although they are building something there that is apparently going to be called the Freedom Tower. Lovely.

    18. Took the subway back to midtown and didn’t even get lost! Hurrah!

    19. Bought some new stockings at Bloomingdale’s. Red stockings! For when I’m feeling scandalous.

    20. Visted MOMA. Oh, MOMA, what a marvelous place. I learned that Les Demoiselles D’Avignon is much, much bigger than it seems in art history textbooks, and that The Persistance of Memory is much, much tinier than you would think. My favourites were the Dadaists, because my favourites are always the Dadaists, and there was some pretty funny Young British Artists stuff, too, because the YBAs are always pretty funny. (Oh, Damien.) But most importantly of all, I got to see my favourite artwork ever. I heart Meret Oppenheim.

    21. Tried, in vain, to go on a tour of Radio City Music Hall, but was deterred by the ravenous hordes of people waiting to get in to see the Christmas Spectacular. I probably should have tried to see the Christmas Spectacular, too, but, you know ravenous hordes.

    22. Instead, got a rush ticket (For twenty bucks! Yesssss!) to see Don Carlo at the Met. I had forgotten that Don Carlo is not performed very often because Don Carlo is approximately four and a half hours long. But it was four and a half hours of the most fabulous thing I have ever seen or heard. I’ve realized that I enjoy opera much more when it does not star certain people that I am not a fan of from a certain faculty of music where I am an embittered student, or when there are no other singers from a certain faculty of music in the audience to make me feel like an idiot for not listening or hearing opera in the same way that they do. I’ve realized that I’ll be pretty happy when I’m not in this certain faculty of music anymore, because it means that I’ll probably stop hating music and maybe actually want to sing again, instead of hating everything about singing.

    23. Wandered down the centre aisle at the Met during intermission so that I could turn around and stare up at the (amazing, fabulous) chandelier like a small-town girl from Portelginland.

    24. Explored every hilarious nook and cranny that I could at the Met, because every nook and cranny is, in fact, hilarious. For instance, everything is covered in red velvet for no reason, including the hand rails on the staircases, which can’t be particularly sanitary, but at the same time, is ridiculously decadent and fabulous. Also, there are funny old costumes on display all over the place, and, instead of drinking fountain, there are marble counters with fancy sinks in them and cups so that you can drink water in style. And there are bathroom attendants because, apparently, rich people can’t pee without help, and the toilets are very old and classy as far as toilets go, and you flush them by stepping on a lever on the floor. Seriously, it was the most fantastically ridiculous place I have ever been. Also, I was wearing jeans and my John Cleese t-shirt, so I probably looked pretty fantastic next to all that red velvet.

    25. Got up early the morning I left so I could go out for one more chocolate bar on a bagel and spicy Mexican hot chocolate.

    New York is ridiculous and delicious.

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  6. Superdupernatural

    December 20, 2006 by admin

    Ok, I promise that a lengthy and more complete post about what I did in New York will come, probably tonight (I’ve already started writing it), but first, check this out! I was looking through my pictures, and I took a picture of a freaking ghost! Dude! You can see right though that girl on the right’s head! And I totally do not remember her being there when I took the picture. (Special Agent Fox Mulder would believe me. And that’s why I am going to marry him.)


    Weird.

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  7. Cupcakes! (Note: No actual cupcakes are discussed in the body of this post)

    December 10, 2006 by admin

    Hurrah!

    Tomorrow I am going to New York!

    And on Saturday, me and my sassy friends are having our fabulous Stitch & Kitsch Christmas craft show. You should come! 11:00 am to 8:00 pm, First United Church (on the corner of King and William) in uptown Waterloo!

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  8. Emotionally Stunted! Good job!

    December 1, 2006 by admin

    I’ve realized that I’m an emotionally stunted individual who cannot get close to or open up to any other individual, and thus spends an awful lot of time going to the movies alone because it’s so much safer and easier to just get so deeply involved with fictional characters on the screen that you spend entire films crying than it is to make actual real-life connections to people.

    Ok, good. Now that that’s out in the open, we can return to our reguarly scheduled snarky blogging.

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