pet peeves

i’m not sure why i want to rant about this, but i will. maybe you’ll get something out of this (grammar lessons, hello!), but it’s mostly for me to pass time now that i’ve finished my sculpture and have two hours to waste before going to school.

1. anyways is not a word. even though merriam-webster has it in its dictionary, my english professors have threatened to fail me if i ever use this word. the correct word is anyway, without the s, because saying the s just makes you sound grammatically challenged. please read, read, and read.

p.s. after high school you should be able to decipher the difference between their, they’re, there, its, it’s, your and you’re. tax dollars are being wasted if you haven’t learned this yet.

2. ending conversations in “whatever”. whenever i have arguments with anyone, i will imagine myself ripping the other person’s tongue out if they ever make their rebuttal with “whatever”. if you’re going to start something, don’t end it with a dismissive word, it’s rude and it means you can’t come up with anything better to defend yourself.

3. people who cannot, for the life of them, STOP TO TAKE A BREATH IN THE MIDDLE OF A SENTENCE. i go through so many critique classes and there are people out there (mostly girls for some reason) who feel the need to suffocate everyone’s ears with their run-on sentences. what’s more annoying is that they usually use filler words such as “like” or “um” repeatedly in one comment. we all know someone who does this, and because critique is sometimes so dreadful, my friends and i count how many times those people use those words to prevent death by boredom. one time, date rape girl used the word “like” at least 10 times in one breath, and i counted 80s girl saying existentially at least 5 times. just because it’s a bigger word doesn’t mean it’s less annoying, or less obvious.

4. the bottom hem of my pants being wet, or wet socks. however, this problem was solved when i started to buy skinny jeans. they never drag or cause my socks to get wet.

5. fergie.

sorry if your pet peeve is people who write without proper capitalization. my fingers are too lazy for the shift button.

is kind of sad

i am a bit depressed because i could tell from today’s critique that the TA didn’t like my piece. he didn’t hate it, but i think it’s another one of those things where they don’t think you put enough effort into it because it looks good but doesn’t have enough meaning. the usual crap. four visual art courses can make you go crazy. i stopped by kerrisdale cameras on my way home because i need to redo my first photo assignment; half of my roll came out overexposed so i need more film to reshoot the whole thing. then i stopped by the mall and bought myself two bottles of nail polish because i was feeling really low :cry:

just as i was thinking on the bus about how i need to improve on my projects and quit my job so i would have more time to work on them, glen called and said i don’t have to work tonight. maybe it was some sort of freaky coincidence, but i guess i’ll put off quitting for a while longer. i am going to need the pocket change for art supplies anyway.

again, pretty things cheer me up! yuko shimizu is so crazy.

as i was saying to my friend andrew, man is strange. while watching this video we discovered that people have created a weird cycle. man invents robot, man makes robot copy man, then man makes dance moves which copies the robot copying man.

i am on youtube too much

i just watched the new kylie minogue video :) i downloaded her newest album a while ago (yeah i know i should’ve bought it since i actually want to support her, but i am broke from buying art supplies) and this is one of my favourite songs, along with stars. the album is very 80’s but without the tackiness. some of the songs were annoying, but the ones that are good are really worth dancing to :love:

she kind of looks like the michelin man because of the suit but the more i watch it, the more i want to dress up like that for halloween! harharhar… i wish all clubs would look like that, with weird dancers in metallic silver suits and rainbow-colored lights flashing off in the background :)

i still have her concert dvd somewhere in my closet, a birthday gift from claire. if kylie minogue ever comes to vancouver, i should totally go and reminisce about the good old days with claire and julie.

bah. i am quite tired. i actually had to go to school today even though 15cm of snow accumulated overnight. all the other colleges and universities in the lower mainland area were closed EXCEPT FOR MINE. damn UBC and their DAMN snow plows… made me commute all the way over there for a stupid enlarger/darkroom demo that i didn’t need. at least i got to eat the cupcake karin bought me xD so pink and so good!!!

birthday photos!

photos are up :) birthday photos always make me heppie :love:

le malheur!

ohnoes… i am pretty sure augusto is going to die (the fish, not the man) and i am tres sad :( he looks so fragile because he’s lying no the bottom of the tank on his side, and looks deathly skinny. while one slow death is occuring in my tank, two new births have happened unnoticed. the snail i put into my tank two weeks ago, gary, has somehow reproduced by himself and there is now a medium and small gary. gah. i put original gary back into the big tank in the den, mostly because now i don’t think i need any snails :/ he doesn’t eat enough algae and i don’t have a way to “control the population”. the tank in the den has 3 clown loaches, and they control the snail growth because they eat the babies >.< i know it’s cruel but if there’s nothing to control the breeding then we’d have a whole aquarium full of snails within less than a few weeks.

bah! today is just not a good day. my roll of film didn’t turn out so well and i ate two mama bugers plus fries from A&W. not good for the skin or tummy. gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :( then london drugs didn’t have the film i needed, so i need to make a trip to a specialized camera place.

hmm i have a theory that when hotdog died, it was because of fish tb. then chuchu died of dropsy. augusto looks like he has something similar to what hotdog had, so it makes me wonder if i should’ve cleaned the entire tank when hotdog died, i wasn’t sure because cleaning the tank means removing not only the bad bacteria but also the good.

i am so sad :( why is augusto dying?????????

not in the mood to make a sculpture :( :( :(

will continue to watch music videos until i feel better :(

parle a ma main! (talk to my hand) :love: i love yelle, she’s so fun.

i like your … (ball?) haha… parody to benny benassi, sean paul, and that nasty aerobics video.. can’t remember who did that one ick.

this one is a song about cagoules.. which are those funny hat things ahaha… the translation calls them ski masks but it’s those things they wear that look like touques but wraps around the neck.

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