Yeah yeah yeah. It's that time. New Ljay for those of you who want to read what I'm up to in NZ. I arrive in Christchurch in about two weeks from now, and I'm planning to go to school there for two semesters, until mid-November of this year.

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Thanks!

You have to understand that I have been sleeping until very late in the morning for the last month or so - no school, no job to get up early for, the book is finished. Which is why it was so unusual to see the dim grey walls of the single storey house the six of us are renting out, at eight in the morning. Four of us share one of the bathrooms, ( Read more... )

I found this while flipping through the new Adbusters...

A free, authentic, unselfconscious, unrehearsed relationship is no longer possible in America today.

Aaaand go!

I'm not sure anyone even reads this anymore. I guess if it shows up on your Friends page then yes. I don't like the new lj layout! grarrrr! but I'm bored (I know I know I know) so I will write SOMEthing ( Read more... )

This is the first assignment I did in January for my English 482 assignment. We had to choose one word out of the novel we were reading and basically just write about it. I'm not quite sure what the criteria were. In any case, my professor doesn't give us back a grade, he just writes notes and suggestions and gives us a final mark at the end of ( Read more... )

In response to my last entry... for St Patrick's Day, I ended up going to Big White with some friends. We got there around 10pm, hung out at the hostel with some people and at 11pm Benson said "We're going to the barrrrr" but we didn't want to pay the 10$ cover at Snowshow Sam's so we went to a different littler bar called Raakel's or some strange ( Read more... )

Looks like I'm not doing much (if anything) for my first legal St Patty's Day. Hmm. Tonight I made a lot of tips working at the Well. That is the student pub, by the way. I made about the same amount of tips as at the 3 Inches of Blood concert a month or so ago. Whaaaat! I hope that last sentence was relatively English. I love life. I have popcorn ( Read more... )

Studying for Sociology ( Read more... )

Leland, Russ and I were in Timmy's yesterday morning before WAG and Leland noticed it was Roll Up the Rim to Win time. "It's like a 5th season in Canada or something. ...I bet that was already said on Air Farce." Cool.

Dear Natalie,

We are delighted to tell you that you have been nominated to participate in a Go Global exchange and that you have been matched to University of Canterbury for a Full Year exchange.

HELL YES.