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This is a post to say:
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving everyone!!!
Also to note that I am really immature and like to look up the origins of swears in the OED when I get bored.
"1675 HOBBES Odyssey XVIII. 310 Ulysses looking sourly answered, You Bitch."
"1675 C. COTTON Poet. Wks. (1765) 177 Jove, thou now art going a Bitching."
and finally...
c. A primitive form of lamp used in Alaska and Canada.
1904 E. ROBINS Magnetic North I. 233 ‘I'll light a piece of fat pine,’ shouted the Boy... ‘Where's your bitch?’ said Dillon... ‘Haven't you got a condensed milk can with some bacon grease in it, and a rag wick?’
I'll be sure to keep everyone posted on the current use of that one.
Right, back to being a mature, sensible person who does not abuse the wonders of the Oxford English Dictionary.
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| mi chiama tara... |
[03 Oct 2006|03:30pm] |
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Having run out of alternative methods of procrastination, I’m turning to my trusty livejournal to prevent me from having to study for tomorrow’s Italian test. I’m justifying this because I’ve not updated in an age and a half, the perhaps the live journal reading public has been craving stories of my adventures in the great north. Most likely not, but it’s either this or irregular verb forms.
Sooo, Canada. I’m enjoying Queen’s a lot. I’ve been here for a month, and I’m entering my fourth week of classes. I had a ridiculous frosh week, the intensity of which will never be able to be adequately described. Classes are challenging and interesting, and with the exception of Philosophy, I’m enjoying all of them. My favorites are German and Film. My German course is actually a 300 level German history course that’s 100% auf Deutsch. We’re learning about the Middle Ages and I just wrote an essay on knights this weekend. Sometimes it can be a bit intimidating, as there’s only one other first year in the class, and everyone’s accent is better than mine. Luckily thanks to Herr Wagner’s insanity last year, I’ve got a leg up on grammar and writing, my TA didn’t even destroy my essay when she was looking it over yesterday!
Film is consistently interesting. I really like my professor and the TA in charge of my tutorial group is pretty cool too (even if he pops his collar and always wears hats). We have two lectures, one tutorial, and a screening each week, and thus far we’ve watched Psycho, Shivers, Rebel without a Cause, and My American Cousin. This week we’re talking about the Canadian film industry, which is interesting from my perspective because we’re also discussing how so many Canadian films make use of an American central character. I feel like the tutorial discussion on Friday will be fun. I’m also working on a group story board project.
I’ve made friends with most of my house (West Campus is divided into houses, four floors each with like nine rooms per floor, two houses make up one section of building, so I’m in Boucher/Bryce house) and we have parties and adventures together. They’re slowly introducing me to Canadian snack foods (ketchup flavored chips aren’t too bad actually) and they only make fun of me for being an American half the time. Also, I've become a pretty big fan of Tim Hortons.
Right, should probably start studying if I want to go to Salsa (the dance, not the food) tonight. Perhaps I’ll make an effort to update more, or I could be lying to myself.
Bis Spaeter!
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| this is probably really disjointed |
[23 Aug 2006|10:58pm] |
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Have officially moved to the Garden State. On Monday morning we threw all of my belongings into the Honda and Caitlin and I drove through Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, until we finally reached Cherry Hill, New Jersey. We only almost set the car on fire once (there were some issues at a gas station in the asshole of Ohio), and we managed not to get eaten by the truck with teeth. All in all, it was a very successful road trip. We may not have had life-changing philosophical discussions or written beat poetry, but we had fun and arrived safely so it was a fair trade off.
It’s starting to occur to me that this whole "next year" thing that I keep talking about is less than two weeks away, which is starting to freak me out. There is a host of adjectives that I could use to describe my emotional state right now, but since they're probably similar to those of every other would-be freshman on the planet, I'll just express my hopes that Queen's will be wonderful.
The new dog is very nice. He loves playing ball to an unhealthy degree. His name is Sundance, but we're working on something better. Suggestions? He's a total sweetheart and we're already getting along famously. I was definitely right in thinking that my parent's house needed a dog. He really makes the place more complete.
Am already missing Wisconsin, and have received an official offer to live on site at Bristol next summer, which I'm seriously considering. It would mean crossing over the threshold to genuine "rennie" status, but having just finished my fifth season at Bristol, who am I really kidding at this point? Thinking about it makes me cock my head to the side and sort of smile, but I'm not making any concrete plans without knowing what opportunities lay ahead at Queen's. Still, it could be exciting.
Made a delicious pudding cake tonight, and also discovered really cute mini-toast at the insane grocery store.
Blah. I'm tired and incoherent and my contacts are being bothersome, so I think I'll call this an entry and be done.
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[12 Jun 2006|07:16pm] |
so i graduated from high school yesterday!
what? the? fuck?
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[07 May 2006|06:38pm] |
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Its over.
EDIT: Because I have shocked and offended my dear sister with the emo quality of the above post, I have decided to make amends, and offer this humble picture as a token of my regret for making her worry.
Also, "it" was in reference to the end of my time working wtih Nicolet's wonderful Theatre Department, which came to a close today with our final production of the Glass Menagerie.
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| i was recently brutally attacked by a filing cabinet |
[30 Apr 2006|12:18pm] |
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Listening to a German radio play on Berlin internet radio is the same thing as studying for my AP German exam, right? Right?
While I've not been listening carefully, and thus have no idea what the plot of said play is, I'm fairly certain that vampires are involved.
The vampire seems to be talking about communisim and coconuts. And now they're definately talking about anarchists. I feel like I've found my new favorite Sunday morning/afternoon activity.
Anyway, other things of interest in that are currently going on include the dawning of tech week, the twilight of Nicolet theatre, five very evil AP exams (English, German, Art, and Micro/Macro Econ), Mom coming on Thursday, getting ready for prom, and at some point finding a few minutes to breathe or sleep.
As I type this entry I realize that there was very little point to it, other than putting off doing my laundry, which I think I'll attend to now.
Wish me luck! (with the impending two weeks, not the laundry. I can probably handle the laundry)
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| ge-stolen! |
[11 Apr 2006|04:31pm] |
In Addition, I would like to point out that in less than four hours I will be rocking out (as hard as I can) at the Rob Zombie concert, yes I will!!! I would further like to add that I just finished Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and it was fantastic (go read it, now). That is all.
One Word Survey:
1. Yourself: Tamara
2. Your Lover: hypothetical
3. Your Hair: fluffy
4. Your Mother: New Jersey
5. Your Father: New Jersey
6. Your Favorite Item: book(s)
7. Your Dream Last Night: toes?
8. Your Favorite Drink: limesoda
9. Your Dream Home: airy
10. The Room You Are In: shared
11. Your Pet: departed
12. Who You Are Now: adolescent
13. Who You Want to be in Ten Years: twenty-something
14. What You Want to be in Ten Years: vagabond
15. What You're Not: rigid
16. Your Best Friend: Caitlin
17. One of Your Wish list Items: Germany
18. Your Gender: lady
19. The Last Thing You Did: read
20. What You Are Wearing: cute
21. Your Favorite Weather: 72
22. Your Favorite Book: bunches!
23. The Last Thing You Ate: salsa
24. Your Life: bendy
25. Your Mood: enthusiastic
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[04 Apr 2006|05:17pm] |
Stolen from Mander, because it looks fun
Comment with:
1. One secret.
2. One compliment.
3. One non-compliment, criticism, or insult.
4. One love note, but it does not have to be for me.
5. Lyrics to your favourite song.
6. How old you are.
7. How long we've been friends.
8. And a hint to who you are.
In other news, cute-skirt-Tuesday was postponed because I was really cold this morning, however cute-skirt-Wednesday is ago!
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| soooo classy |
[02 Apr 2006|07:34pm] |
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So by tomorrow I'm sure that the pressures of the drama fraught real world will have destroyed my fantastic mood, so for posterity, the following reasons are contributing to how happpy I am right now:
1 Frank Sinatra, Pandora
2 delicious hot chocolate, yummy chocolate hazelnut biscotti
3 Friday, Saturday, and Germantown
4 Queen's!!!!
5 Desperate Housewives in 11 minutes!
6 Spring, impending warmth, storms!
Details:
1. So I've heard bunches about this whole Pandora phenomenon, though it hasn't been until tonight that I've gotten to experiment with it. At the moment I have a wonderful and very classy station that seems to be based around the Rat Pack on. Sooooo classy.
2. Self explanatory
3. Friday was a massive monopoly playing/fajita making/movie watching/glow bowling extravaganza, which started around four in the afternoon and ended around one in the morning. The monopoly game was fairly intense, the fajitas were fucking delicious, the movies were really good (Dazed and Confused and the Princess Bride), glow bowling was hilarious, and the people were top notch. On Saturday I went to crew, and then Germantown where I saw Anything Goes, got to hang out with cool people who I never see, and watched four grown men pick up Anthony's car.
4. I'm 98% certain that that's where I'll be next year! Its in Kingston, Ontario, which is why you've never heard of it, though I promise that its a great school!
5. Look, we're all allowed to have our little guilty pleasures, okay? Stop judging me!
6. Its supposed to be in the 50's most of this week, which makes me excited beyond belief. Tuesday may even be cute skirt day!
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[22 Mar 2006|10:05pm] |
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On Monday I was in an excellent mood for no reason.
On Tuesday I was in a pretty good mood for limited reasons.
On Wednesday I was pretty irritated for what I suppose was a reason.
...Which is making me wonder what tomorrow is going to bring.
Also, tonight at crew I laid/drew out a piece of luwan (sp? its basically wood, for you non theatre-y people out there) backwards. So after Mr. M yelled at me for a while I offered to redraw it, and once again managed to draw it backwards.
This is because I am Amazing with a capital A.
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| i'm so emo there's ASH in my TEA. |
[13 Mar 2006|10:15pm] |
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So I feel like there's a ton of things that have happened recently that merit an update, but for the life of me I can't really think of them. Yesterday I went to Madison with Robyn and we popped around State Street, had delicious food from Kabul, and went to a rockin' concert. I've also managed to catch a nasty cold, which not only prevented me from giving blood this morning, but also meant that I got to take the afternoon off to sleep. Still, being snerk-y isn't all its cracked up to be, and hopefully I'll be well by Wednesday, at which point I leave to visit Mom, Dad, and Queen's.
Other things that may or may not be important or interesting but might prove to be fun in list form:
- within a 24 hour period I drank 5 cups of tea, which is impressive considering that i kind of hate tea.
- the hardcore disturbing sex scene in Taking Lives was actually a lot less impressive than Caitlin and I remembered it
- Audrey and I baked a cake together, despite her being in MO and me being in WI while the cake was being baked.
- as I type this entry I feel roughly 50 x better than I have in the past several days.
- Devon estimates 6.5 but I disagree wholeheartedly.
- My sister is pretty incredible.
So that's all for now. I feel like I'm going to reread this in a week and marvel at the incoherency of this entry, so until then!
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[01 Mar 2006|10:13pm] |
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1. Today was a super cute underwear day!
2. February is over for another 12 months!
3. annnnnd... "Dear Tara,
Congratulations! Your application has been approved for provisional
admission to the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria for
Winter Session, 2006-2007 ( September 2006 )."
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[25 Feb 2006|12:19am] |
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The following (in no particular order) is a list of movies that people should see and love as much as I do.
City of God
Transamerica
Boondock Saints
Poor White Trash
Dangerous Beauty
These are all exceptionally good films. Failure to recognize them as such might result in extraordinarily violent beatings and verbal abuse. Possibly with the exception of Poor White Trash, which was just really, really amusing at the time.
That aside, life has been treating me decently as of late, providing me with equal measures of things to look forward to and things to dread. The looking forward to list includes getting into college, graduating, a very welcome summer, and the opportunity to spend more time with my family. The dread list includes getting rejected by colleges, AP's, and leaving everything all of this behind.
I'm sure that in a few years I'll look back on all of this uncertainty and anticipation with amusement, but for now its mostly just irritating. And unfortunately, now seems to be where I'm at.
Oh well, at least "now" involves a comfy warm bed to crawl into.
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[01 Feb 2006|10:47pm] |
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WRATH
1. Who did you last get angry with?: Heidi Klum for cutting Andre on Project Runway
2. What is your weapon of choice?: a lead pipe would occasionally useful
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex?: well it probably wouldn’t hurt
4. How about of the same sex?: cat fight!
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you?: probably Pam
6. What is your pet peeve?: presently, actors
7. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily?: I let about 90% go and then covet 10% forever
SLOTH
1. What is one thing you're supposed to do daily that you haven't done in a while?: put away clothing
2. What is the latest you've ever woken up?: I think like 4:00 or something
3. Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven't: Robyn
4. What is the last lame excuse you made?: my excuses always rock
5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through (one of the long ones...?): I don’t think so, though Robyn and I came super close to buying this really cool button thing once…
7. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today?: my cell phone doesn’t have a snooze button, which often makes me want to cry
GLUTTONY
1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice?: god, there are sooooo many
2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat?: white? I’m impartial
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one sitting/outing/event?: my half liter of Innenstadt Helles in Detuschland
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company?: I don’t even really know what those are
5. Do you have an issue with your weight?: Depending on the day of the week
6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods?: I prefer them all at once!
7. Have you ever looked at a small pet or child and thought, "LUNCH"?: haha, yes.
LUST
1. How many people have you seen naked (not counting movies/family)?: if naked counts as the bits that are normally covered up, then probably like 3
2. How many people have seen you naked (not counting physicians/family)? If the same criteria apply then probably like 2
3. Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member of your gender of choice during a normal conversation?: what? Boobs are interesting
4. Have you "done it"?: nope!
5. What is your favourite body part on a person of your gender of choice?: the back, the hair, and the smile
6. Have you ever been propositioned by a prostitute?: doubtful
7. Have you ever had to get tested for an STD or pregnancy?: nope!
GREED
1. How many credit cards do you own?: one I guess
2. What's your guilty pleasure store?: Victoria Secret. Fuck yeah.
3. If you had $1 million, what would you do with it?: a pony and a lot of plane tickets
4. Would you rather be rich, or famous?: infamous!
5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks?: probably not
6. Have you ever stolen anything?: not that I can recall
7. How many MP3s are on your hard drive?: zillions! Don’t tel!
PRIDE
1. What's one thing you have done that you're most proud of?: Nicolet Theatre
2. What's one thing you have done that your parents are most proud of?: no idea, probably how cool I am all around
3. What's one thing would you like to accomplish in your life?: travel!
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place?: depends on how much I’ve emotionally invested
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors? Mock Trial? We kick more ass than any of the other teams combined
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score?: don’t think so
7. What did you do today that you're proud of?: watched a run of Wonderful Town
ENVY
1. What item (or person) of your friends would you most want to have for your own?: excellent question, I have no idea
2. Who would you want to go on "Trading Spaces" with?: er…Caitlin! HA we already traded/merged spaces and the freaking rocks
3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be?: my evil twin!
4. Have you ever been cheated on?: not that I’m aware of
5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own?: freckles! I want them sooooo bad. Also, better hair would be nice
6. What inborn trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself?: a bend for mathy things would rock
7. Do you wish you'd come up with this survey?: not really
8. Finally, what is your favourite deadly sin?: Gluttony! Dante’s is lust though
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[19 Jan 2006|07:06pm] |
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"DURRRRRR, I'm Beowulf!"
http://www.beowulfandgrendel.com/
I mean, seriously, come on.
Thankfully, this is NOT the Neil Gaiman version.
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| "Ddddrrraaaauuuuppppaaaaddddiiiiiiiiii..." |
[14 Jan 2006|11:05pm] |
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Do you ever think of a really good comeback literally two weeks after the fact? Because I just did.
Wow.
Other than that, life has been overwhelmingly sub-par as of late due to a combination of illness, too many things, and too little of other things*. But aside from the overall awfulness of the week, that have been some shining points, such as making Tansy Cake with Peppermint Cream and a fabulous new haircut.
Exams are about to descend, though the only one that I'm really worried about is Econ, which if I devote the next two days to it, is probably passable. I also need to look over English and German, but I'm fairly secure in my ability to not fail at either of those subjects. Mostly I just want the semester to be over so I can finally send my transcripts to the Canadian schools. Plus I'll be a second semester senior in like, a week, which is pretty exciting. I can only dream of the new opportunities that I'll have to slack!
Anyway, I feel the need to be productive right now, so I think I'll go take a crack at my econ notes… either that or read my lovely new Terry Pratchett book. Such a difficult decision...
*these things include SUNSHINE, as I've missed it every single time we've had it this week.
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This is an update, wheeeee!
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