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I’m in the Arts computer lab at school right now. I went in to discuss letter of permission courses with an ACS professor. He made it perfectly clear that it was going to be tough to work everything out. I hate how everything has to go through red tape to get anything accomplished. Honestly, why can’t life be just simpler, huh?

That’s about as much bitching that I have about that. I feel pretty apathetic right now. I’ve got an hour before my next class and a bottle of Pinot Grigio waiting in my car for the evening. I’m going to invite Tatjana over tonight after helping my mother at the synagogue and gossip all night long. The poor girl was robbed yesterday. I don’t know what I would do if I came home to find my house ransacked. She thinks one of the other tenants did it because she had a quarrel with him the other day. Hopefully everything will work out. I’ve been wanting her to move for the longest time now. That apartment building she lives in is not the safest in Hamilton.

I am officially an employee of CIBC now. I start on Monday at 12:30 in the afternoon. I’m really nervous but glad that they are training me first. I don’t know if I could handle it if they just threw me into the fray and wished me luck. Part of me is still wondering when a head will pop up around a corner and tell me it’s all an elaborate joke. I guess it just hasn’t really sunk in yet that I am really and truly no longer a McDonalds employee! :S

New layout cause I couldn’t stand the gross orange from the last one :blah: I like this one more cause it’s a pirate ship, and lately I’ve been having a thing for pirates. Don’t ask questions. Just go with it.

I met David Usher, y’all! I have a picture to prove it as well, but it’s not the most flattering of me so I’ll refrain from offending your eyes with it. Needless to say, he’s the nicest, most humble musician I have ever had the opportunity to meet. My friend Amy was in the crowd as well. She’s a major David Usher fan (actually, she’s a personal friend of his. Isn’t that insane?!) and I got a chance to say hi to her before and after the show. It was good to see her and I won’t deny it, I kinda hoped I could have tagged along with her to go and see David personally and be introduced to him. But still, he came out after the show and signed things and took pictures with everyone. Awesome stuff.

To think, the day before I didn’t even know I was going to see him. I have to admit, it was the perfect ending to a pretty :S week.

I hate this layout already and I want it to die. If it wasn’t so damn cold in this room (would it kill someone to turn on the furnace?!) I’d sit here and make a new Halloween layout. Maybe I will after I bundle up. I’m trying to read up on my Naomi Klein for one of my classes. I finally got around to buying the book. I already know, though, that I’m going to have to take it a few pages at a time, which is so not cool. I need it done within this semester for crying out loud, lol. I just don’t like heavy-handed sort of doom and gloom books about how Evil the Corporations are. I know they’re evil, please don’t remind me. I worked for one for four years may I remind ya’ll.

Small simple layout change until Halloween. I really hate it, but I was really going for something simple. This is the first time I’ve ever used dingbats. Can you believe it? Does anyone apart from Moms who make doll websites in Midwest America use dingbats anymore? Don’t know, but I have now!

What else to say? Um, well I had my first midterm today, which kinda blew cause we were given less time than we thought we’d get. Everyone wrote their little hearts out and my favourite pen ran out of ink midway :S

Haven’t started my new job yet, but I’m hoping I will soon. I have quit McDonalds though, which is awesome to say the least. I’m happy I’m not there anymore. The best thing about it? I haven’t eaten that shit since the day I quit!

So I guess that’s about it for now. I should be studying for Arne’s class. I have a midterm on the beginnings of the Cold War/the Korean War tomorrow afternoon.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians I hope you’re spending it well with someone you love and cherish. I’ll be at home with my family and my boyfriend. Life can’t get better than this, I don’t think :grouphug:

Oh and if you’re not spending this weekend getting stuffed with turkey, potatoes and other assorted holiday foods, please do go and see Serenity cause it’s a kickass movie based on a kickass show. Who knew a tiny Star Wars-hater like me could fall so madly in love with such a stunning parrallel?

Hey! Thanks for all the sentiments and congratulatory pats on the back, everyone. :grouphug: To be quite honest, I thought no one went here anymore Boy is my face red now! Or rad. Ya, it’s rad too God these smilies make me want to cringe. I found some new ones that are more awesome, so be on the lookout for those. They’ll be coming shortly.

So what’s new in my life, I hear you ask? Lots of stuff! I’m officially disease free, although Gord now has taken on the burden of wrestling with that hairy woman-beast that is, was rather, my cold Thanks, baby. You’re awesome Seriously though, let’s all wish him well so that we can go back to the smooches. Cause those are always fun!

As you can tell, I’m in a cheerful mood. No real reason why, per say, just had an okay day, you know? Those are always nice. I made it to class on time and listened to 80% of it. The windbag tends to go on, though, so the remainder of the time I spent lavishing attention on my enourmous muffin and catching up on notes from other classes that I had skipped out on :S

Last Friday I got some good news: I have a job at CIBC! I’m now officially - well, starting October 17, I will be a customer service representative. Basically, I handle all the person-to-person banking stuff, if you don’t feel like going to the ABM/ATM/whatever. Fun stuff! I actually handed in my letter of resignation to McDonalds yesterday and it was anticlimactic. There was no one there to accept it! :headwall: The head manager phoned me about a half hour later and asked me to clarify whether I meant October 3 was my last day, or whether I was letting her know on October 3 that I was resigning. :doh: Officially, my last day will be the 16th. My first day at CIBC is on the 17th! Seriously, and I just found out I got the job on Friday. All of this is moving waaay too fast.

It’s sort of nice that I got this really great job, but on the other hand, it makes me kinda cringe. Mostly because I had intended on moving to Toronto for the remainder of the school year. Now that I have this job, I can’t go. I can’t pass up such good money :greedy: I’ll be set for the summer months and maybe even after school. At the very least, it’ll be a great job to have once I graduate and I need to start looking for a “career” :X

Maybe I can get transfered to a Toronto branch after this year? I suppose only time will tell. I feel like this is a new chapter in my life. Heck, I know this is a new chapter in my life. I’m no longer working at McDonalds … do you know how happy that makes me? I’ve been bitching about that job for four years before realizing that I need to actively do something about it. Now that I’m leaving though … I can’t help but be scared. I’ve never left McDonalds. :headwall: