ohai LJ. I'm continuing to keep myself stupidly busy, but in good ways. Have I mentioned yet how much I freaking love my job? I'm working in a bakery (that's apparently pretty well known in Ottawa and bakes for a tonne of restaurants around here) and I absolutely adore every bit of it: the people, the number of hours I get, the things I get to do.
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Days away from finishing my course and I have an informal interview with a bakery next week! (Yes, mid-exam week.) But it should be good. The gent on the phone seemed pretty keen on getting to know me and practically offered me the job there until we both went "well, let's wait and meet first
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So, I've randomly come into possession of a bunch of old vinyl records from my uncle and though I've kept a good third of them, there's still a whole bunch that are just not my taste. That said, and seeing my money crunch atm, I figured I'd try to sell them rather than toss them
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So. Last week I learned (/was reminded?) that the tropics hate me. Next time I decide I want to go on a vacation anywhere NEAR a tropical region, remind me to bring only fully covering clothing and to avoid anything even remotely involving the sun
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VIP tickets for Emilie Autumn in Montreal on Wednesday, and let me just say it was glorious! Unfortunately, poor Emilie was pretty badly sick with laryngitis but she still gave it her all... which lead to her getting even sicker and having to cancel her Toronto shows (so instead of seeing her again last night, I'll be seeing her in March!)
Went to our favourite Vietnamese restaurant yesterday and my mum wished the server a happy new year, which ended up in him giving us a short lesson about how though the Chinese are celebrating year of the rabbit, the Vietnamese have it as year of the cat. I thought that was kind of cool
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Because my brain is strange an awesome, I was humming the "Oskar Meyer Balogna" song to myself as I walked to school and, suddenly!, I had a brilliant. Thus, new lyrics: my spaceship has a short form; T-A-R-D-I-S
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My back has been giving me a mild form of the burning pain that sent me to the ER last year a lot lately. I know it's still from the same injury, and I wonder how I managed to restrain it. It was supposed to be better by now. That's why I go to the chiropractor once a month. But, still, as soon as I get stressed my back tenses up and there goes the
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