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[02 Sep 2008|06:04pm] |
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We're back in Victoria. Let's be friends. Also, someone get me a job.
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[04 Feb 2008|06:04pm] |
Livejournal!
Kelly and I went to Mexico. It was pretty great. We saw whales. In Mexico City, I saw skulls and was lost on something called the Metrobus.
We have settled (finally) into new apartment, it's nice and I can walk to school almost everyday. Except the days when there's freezing rain and I'm too scared to leave the house. Tonight, I guess, there is a band playing from Victoria. We are looking forward to coming home, even though I have been very, very terrible in keeping in touch. I will make it up with a giant reunion party? Okay.
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| Alanna! |
[27 Nov 2007|10:10am] |
New Address. The only thing lost in the fire was my poor, poor ipod (oh, and ONE seafoam flip-flop [wtf?]), so if anyone has any mix cds they would like to send me, my settlement cheque is going right back to apple to replace it (the ipod, not the sandal) and I sure would like some new music.
It's been snowing in Ottawa quite a bit. You wake up and you say "oh! I will walk to school in the snow because that's a novelty!" Then you walk for an hour, because you don't have boots, and you don't really know how to walk in the snow and when you get to school and start talking to one of your profs he says "I think your make-up is running", and when you bother to go check you have mascara ALL over your face from the melting snow and the wind. Eastern Canada!
#5-585 O'Connor,
k1s 3r2
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| Hooray! |
[22 Nov 2007|09:23am] |
Kelly and I won our suit against our former landlord! We aren't on the hook for two different apartment leases, and we get damages! I can replace my melted ipod!
Congratulations can be sent to:
Fireproof
#5-585 O'Connor St
Ottawa, Ont
K1S 3R2
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| On Ottawa... |
[09 Nov 2007|05:55pm] |
-Today it was cold enough for me to wear my fur hat for the first time!
-The floor in the new apartment is so warped that someone in the middle of the leaving room is immediately a foot taller than someone at the side.
-While I was waiting for my bus, in Ottawa, Ontario, 41 (!!) Quebec buses went by before one Ottawa one. I counted.
-One of the rooms in our apartment has no way of being heated.
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[21 Oct 2007|09:31pm] |
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[21 Oct 2007|09:30pm] |
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Sometimes I like carrying a backpack because it makes me feel like I am in disguise.
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[13 Oct 2007|01:49pm] |
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PS- Does anyone remember Hudson Mack? I sure do.
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[13 Oct 2007|01:30pm] |
Well! We started slowly moving out of the fire-damaged apartment yesterday, got some big garbage bags of clothes out, which is a good start. I really hate going in there and seeing everything so wrecked.
Thanks everyone for coming out to see me when I was in town! Kelly sends his best to all of you awesomes! For those on the CD exchange, my CDs will be coming out shortly, I promise.
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| ACK!!!! |
[22 Sep 2007|11:03am] |
OH NO!
On Wednesday night Kelly and I's apartment almost burned down!
We were sleeping at about one-thirty am when someone started pounding on the door yelling 'fire, fire, get out of the building' and knocking and knocking and running up and down the halls. We jumped out of bed and there was smoke puring in from the hallway. We grabbed the cats and shoved them into pillow cases (we couldn't find the case) and I called 911 from my cell and we ran out the fire escape. Standing on the street with the twenty units of our small building we watched the fire trucks (a lot of them) pull up. We were moved into the parking lot across the street and watched them start to fight the fire. The cats were struggling pretty bad in the pillowslips so we walked them to a friend's to spend the night and went back to the building. What followed was several hours of chaos as we watched the building burn for a bit (it was the unit right net to ours that had caught fire [because so fucking retard fell asleep smoking in bed!!!!!!!]). The eventually got the fire under control and most everyone (except Kelly and I of course) got to go home. Around four-thirty a fireman escorted us back to our flat, so we could get some clothes and our wallets. Let me tell you, walking up to our third floor flat, seeing the damage in the building and having the firemen tell us to 'prepare for the worst', was about the scariest thing that I have ever done. There was water pouring out of the front door, from the hoses that they were starting to put away. It was about ankle deep. There was broken glass, from the hallway windows they had broken to get those hoses in. Black marks of soot and water ran down the walls from the third floor. There was (is?) a gaping hole in the ceiling (I guess they have to do that to make sure that the fire isn't spreading). We went carefully up to our place and saw it. And you know what, it wasn't actually that bad. There wasn't, thank god, any water anywhere, which would have actually ruined everything. There was a lot of soot and smoke, and plaster from the too big holes in our bathroom and living room roofs. Our screened windows had blown out from the heat, and part of the ceiling had come down on my poor macbook (it was fine though!). Aside from that and my ipod, the firemen had saved everything. We are hoping that we will be able to get back to live in the next week or so, which is great because while the landlord is having all the walls and shit cleaned, we have to clean all of our clothes and bedding and stuff. We are couch surfing for the the time being and the cats are at our friend's still. WHAT A NIGHTMARE!!
The very worst part is that NONE of the fire alarms in the whole building worked. Everyone go check yours right now.
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[14 Sep 2007|10:14pm] |
1.Air Traffic Controller
2.Planner
3.Archivist
4.Veterinary Technician
5.GIS Specialist
6.Biologist
7.Landscape Architect
8.Zoologist
9.Taxidermist
10.Film Editor
11.Marine Biologist
12.Director of Photography
13.Environmental Health Inspector
14.Animal Breeder
15.Corporate / Commercial Lawyer
16.Camera Operator
17.Legal Secretary
18.Animator
19.Desktop Publisher
20.Editor
21.Medical Secretary
22.Quality Controller
23.Interior Designer
24.Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator
25.Water Treatment Plant Operator
26.Economic Development Officer
27.Political Aide
28.Writer
29.Artist
30.Graphic Designer
31.Public Policy Analyst
32.Health Records Professional
33.Market Research Analyst
34.Critic
35.Administrative Assistant
36.Paralegal
37.Truck Driver
38Manufacturing Machine Operator
39.Judge
40.Lobbyist
I haven't worked at ANY of these things, although I am awful glad to see that "Barista' didn't make the list. I would totally love to be an archivist. Or an Air Traffic Controller! Wouldn't you all love to fly, safe in the knowledge that I was in charge.
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| Help! |
[13 Sep 2007|06:25pm] |
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If any of you guys know what format music needs to be in to work on a motorola L6 please let me know. I think this phone I just got is hot, like stolen, and hot, like hot pink.
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[04 Sep 2007|12:49pm] |
Boston was fantastic! We went dancing at this place called The Pill, and it was the best dance club I've been to since Kelly stopped doing Hang The DJ. Our hotel was in the middle of Little Brasil, and we got to eat breakfast everyday in an authentic old fashion diner, one of the ones that looks sort of like a little silver train car. Veg options were, understandably, limited, but I did get to eat cinnamon french toast every single day. There was a huge Marc Jacobs store, and lots of penguins and soft pretzels and beer from the gas station and a museum, and SO MUCH more! The best birthday present ever, Kelly. Rhiannon, I even got some of those ceramic "We Are Happy To Serve You" coffee cups at the gallery gift shop! It was pretty hard to come back to lame old Ottawa, especially if you've seen in the Globe the reports of the horrific assault that happened at Carleton two days ago (the headline of the Sun this morning: 'HE WILL ATTACK AGAIN').
Also, why is it SO stressful to deal with Air Canada? They are taking years of my life, I swear to god.
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[20 Aug 2007|12:10pm] |
I certainly wish that I had a crazy Christian up in my journal like Mike does!
Kelly and I are going to Boston next week! For my birthday gift! So excited! There's an aquarium that has every different kind of penguin. And a Freedom Trail! And a Tea Party! We're taking the Greyhound (10 hours) which ought to be an adventure in its own. It's going to be so wicked to get out of stinky old Ottawa.
Through some strange circumstances, on Friday night I saw a punk show, a good old fashioned one in a Legion Hall. I had never been so nostalgic. We're desperately searching for a theme for our staff party... 'Archie and the Gang' is currently the leader, but if anyone has any suggestions...
Has anyone applied for a passport in person lately? How long does the mail out take?
'Til next time,
Love Alanna
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[11 Aug 2007|01:04am] |
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Today we stood at the corner of Mulder Rd and Scully Way.
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[09 Jul 2007|12:00am] |
An open letter to my parents, who will, thankfully, never read this:
Dear Mum and Dad,
The next time you decide to, say, relocate to Alaska for the summer, it would be nice to know.
Love,
Alanna
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[07 Jul 2007|12:17pm] |
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Hello Livejournal! Gosh it HAS been awhile... We went to Montreal and saw Robyn and went dancing. Montreal was lovely and made Ottawa look so much worse. Ottawa, is, however, better on bicycle, especially if you bike was free like mine was and eagerly awaiting a coat of seafoam paint. I finished two classes already and am working on a third. I threw the first ever party in the new-old apartment and nothing got broken. It's hardly ever sunny and it hasn't even really been to hot yet. Next week will be my birthday. Got word from my mum that I can, once again, come home for Thanksgiving (with the addition of Kelly) and am already counting the days until Ferris' and pubs. Hooray!
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[09 Jun 2007|12:14pm] |
We went to America!
Two girls from work and I drive to Syracuse, NY. about 300km from Ottawa to visit the Carousel Center (which had no fiery rituals at all, disappointingly). It was really pretty driving down, and crossing the border the US agent couldn't tell the three of us apart.
The mall was huge, and had a curfew, which prohibited kids under 18 from hanging out without a chaperon, which was really odd. We ate delicious Taco Bell and shopped til we literally dropped. Americans were a strange lot; all half rude and half friendly and making you sign all your receipts to show that you actually understand the return policy. When we finally got sick of shopping we starting driving back, with much over our duty limits. Stopped for dinner in Shady Creek, NY for grilled cheese at the Shady Creek Diner (behind the Gas 'n'n Go off I-81). As soon as we sat down the power started flickering and the fat children started starring at us. The trip home was rather horror movie-esque. A torrential rain and lightening storm crashed down and when riding it out didn't seem an option, we used the spacious bathroom to put on all of our clothes that were over our duty limit (leading to some good outfits, particularly well suited for a small-town American rainstorm). Coming back to Canada, the guard didn't look at us twice and an hour later we were safely home.
I've totally missed the point about how awesome and Twilight Zone America is, but I have lots of stuff to put away.
Next weekend, Montreal!
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[04 Jun 2007|03:59pm] |
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Hello! It has rained and rained here! School has been very busy. Kelly and I are caving and finally going to Montreal on the 15th and 16th... does anyone have suggestions for what can't be missed?
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