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Hey guys,

Well, not sure who still reads this, but I haven't posted in quite a while. I just had my traditional 1:30-2 AM snack and carbonated water, and figured, "Hey! It's a great time to post on LJ!" I really should be going to bed. I have to wake up at like, 10:15 or something, and then I have practice at 12. I guess I have a lot of stuff to explain before I ramble on about things.

My internship has been over for a good week, and I really do miss a lot of the people I worked with. Seeing your coworkers everyday...it's like, forming some sort of office family. Most of the people there consisted of guys older than me, probably between the ages of 22-26. They were like a whole group of older brothers, seriously. I also found it cool how most of the people in the office came from outside of Montreal! Asif's from Pakistan, Jean-Christophe (when he was there) is from France, Korede's from Africa, Enrico's from Germany, so is Jan, etc etc etc. I miss them all.

I went back to Light a Dream for volunteering for a week. The new project manager summer student is pretty awesome. She knows the ways of metal and good freaking music.

Things with Andrew...just keep getting better! I can't picture life without that guy, which may sound bad, but I'm not exaggerating. Throughout the summer, I'd see him at least 5 days out of the 7 days of the week. We love spending time together, and with our friends. I love him, so much, and I mean it.

Band. Amazing. Three shows coming up. This coming Thursday, August 21st, at Clyde's at 9 PM $5 at the door (in case ya know, Lauren might be reading and may want to show up with Luke or something). We have September 13th at Clyde's again. And October 17th at a location that is so far unknown! Very excited, AND very nervous. I have to memorize a bunch of lyrics the next couple of days.

K I'm starting to get sleepy, and may not even rant tonight. Actually, take out the "may not" and replace it with "will not". I'm le tired.

Oh, I'm moving to Vaudreuil.

Current Location: kitchen table
Current Mood: tired

I'M BE EATING GOLDEN GRAHAMS WHEN I GET IN TO WORK, BITCHES!

Welcome to the realm of Ash waking up at 5:30 AM every morning, not like anyone cares or reads.

Current Music: Machinae Supremacy - Edge and Pearl

Today is my last relax day until I start working fulltime for SAP. What do I expect? I'm not entirely sure. I do admit I'm a tad nervous to start, and my boss called last week to tell me he's going to be gone during my first week of work. Apparently I'm going to be looking at a lot of documents and whatnot, and my desk will be set up and stuff. I'm still kinda nervous, even though I'll be meeting a lot of new people (like my team). Maybe I shouldn't be nervous? Who knows. I still don't like the fact that I have to wake up at like 5:30 tomorrow morning to take the early train to get there for 8:30. The 7:20 train got me there at like, 8:25 last time. However, I think I might be a little nervous that I'll get there a little bit late with that train. Maybe I should take an earlier one just in case. Who knows. Aaaah. I'm so nervous!

Marks are coming back for Winter 2008 and so far so good. So far I haven't gotten anything under a B, which is maintaining/raising my GPA :D. I got a B in Intro to Atmospheric Science (absolutely pathetic, I know), a B+ in Popular Music After 1945 (that teacher is one of those guys who doesn't like my writing), and a B+ in Stats (YAY FOR ASHWEE!!!). So far, my expectations for COMP206 and COMP250 are fairly high, (A- in COMP250 and maybe around a B or B+ for 206), and they should thus raise my GPA a little higher.

The past week's been fairly good. Paganfest with Gwynbleidd (instead of Elluveitie), Tyr, Turisas, and Ensiferum was last Saturday. Very good concert indeed, especially with a photo pass. Monday was my Pop Music final, and then Tuesday was my COMP250 final. Tuesday was great, because right after my final, I headed down to the Bell Center, met up with Em, ate McDo's, and watched Gigantour (High on Fire,  Job for a Cowboy, Children of Bodom, In Flames, Megadeth). IT WAS AWESOME! I think I was in tears during Come Clarity by In Flames. It was sooo awesome.

Wednesday, I went to visit people at Abbott after getting some new clothes for work. It was great seeing people! Hung out with Andrew and Allison, and like, Mudkip Mike, and people. It was great! Then I went to Andrew's after he bought Mario Kart for the Wii. It's so awesome :D. I went back to Abbott on Thursday so I could spend time with Andrew and Julian at Fairview (took the bus with them from Abbott). We ate supper, and Fez came and sat down with us at some point. Andrew squirted ketchup in a huge projectile line that almost hit me. I also ordered new glasses, which should hopefully be coming in soon. Fridayyyyyyy was relax at home day until Andrew came over and we played some Magic cards. We then went to Doug's with Julians and had a Magic draft which was fairly successful.

Yesterday was my karate school's annual karate tournament at Abbott. I judged semi-knockdown for a while, but had to leave early due to coming home to eat supper and picking up Andrew before watching the Knockdown (my Mom had to film). That knockdown took forever to end, but had some pretty awesome fights. I think Andrew enjoyed it a bit too.

What else can I talk about? Hmmm. I guess I could just end it here.

Current Location: kitchen table
Current Mood: tired

I haven't quite posted here in a while, it seems, and it being almost 9 AM on a Saturday morning (when I should still be deep in slumber) is calling for a good time to post here. I'm listening to some music my friend Denis sent me, and it's fairly awesome. I'm pretty introspective this morning actually. I don't know why.

Was my last day of classes yesterday and it feels good not having to go to school anymore for class. I have an assignment due the 21st, and like one due tomorrow (which is being handled I think by my partners). I did pretty well on my two midterms in COMP250: 83 on the first, 80 on the second. I feel happies! Here's my exam schedule *cries*:

Tuesday, April 15th, 9 AM : Stats
Friday, April 18th, 2 PM : Intro to Atmospheric Science
Friday, April 25th, 2 PM : Intro to Software Systems (thank the lord for a week's worth of studying for this one)
Monday, April 28th, 2 PM : Popular Music After 1945
Tuesday, April 29th, 2 PM : Intro to Computer Science
...

Doesn't look that bad. I like how I have a full week to study for the COMP courses (Software Systems/Computer Science). That makes me feel very comfortable. Popular Music...I guess I should read stuff over and whatnot. Last class of Pop Music was really awesome actually. Our teacher played "side 1" of Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd for those who don't know...and side 1 = tracks up to Money). It was so awesome sitting in my chair, closing my eyes, and listening to some freaking awesome music. Then my teacher pulls out his electric guitar, blasts Weezer on the speakers, and plays along for 3-4 songs. It was pretty awesome. That teacher's pretty cool. I think he missed his 3 TAs being there though...stupid TA strike. I missed the TAs too actually. I wanted to thank the metalhead TA for helping me out with my essay sources and tell him about Paganfest coming up.

Ah yes, the concert report. Concerts coming up look very promising. April 26th: PAGANFEST 2008 with Eluveitie, Tyr, Turisas, and Ensiferum. April 29th: GIGANTOUR 2008 with Job for a Cowboy, Children of Bodom, In Flames, and Megadeth. I'm very excited for both of them. My friend really got me into Eluveitie lately.

My boyfriend's not the type to listen to metal, but he's coming to Paganfest anyway :D. He offered a while back and I said no for his sake, but then he threw up on my arm so I decided to take up the offer after all. LOL. He's kinda scared actually, but I assured him there's nothing to be afraid of! I don't go into those crazy metal concert moshpits. Haha. Poor Andrews.

Speaking of Andrews, things with him are going incredibly well. Had him over last night and we had the leftover Chinese we ordered a while ago (I put in my freezer). It was sooooo good! We also played quite a bit of Oblivion together. Yes, Oblivion's a single-player game, guys. We're dorks. I play it on my PS3, he plays it on his laptop, separate files, separate games. It's pretty fun though. We also watched like 4 episodes of Evangelion. Andrew's been wanting to show it to me for a while so we watched some last night. I was surprised. I really like it so far!

I've been dying to work on my graphic novel lately, but Matt still hasn't developed any drafts, which is fine. I understand he's busy with school and whatnot. I'm sure once he produces drafts, they'll be awesome. Plus I've got Julian helping me out with backgrounds :D. I have faith in this graphic novel, but I need those drafts. Silly Matthew.

What else do I have to say? Probably nothing much. I start my internship at SAP Canada on May 5th, and I'm really psyched for that actually. Mobile Interaction Designer what what???

MMm new In Flames album is pretty damn awesome, btw. I recommend it to everyone I guess. I find it better than Come Clarity.

Current Location: kitchen table
Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: In Flames - Delight and Angers

So apparently everyone on deviantArt likes mudkipz.

And my COMP206 teacher has Lirpates Loofitis and is having the TA teach today because of this disease.

AND THE NEW IN FLAMES CD IS OUT TODAY WOOT WOOT GOING TO GO GET IT AT LUNCH.

And happy birthday Richard.

Current Music: Static-X - Cold

Yessums. It seems we In Flames fans have been blessed with the new album a week early on MySpace! All tracks are up for listenings, and wow. I am definitely impressed, and want this album much more now. A Sense of Purpose is definitely going to be worth the purchase. I like it so far a lot more than Come Clarity, and so far one of my favorite songs off of it is The Chosen Pessimist. It's beautiful. Just. WOW.

So I took the day off because of waking up with a pounding headache. It comes back here and there now but it's mostly gone. Good Lord it was so bad when I woke up though! However, by staying home, I got quite a bit finished. I've got my Java coding done for the COMP250 assignment (although my differentiate() method's being a little funky, just gotta debug that). My portion for the team COMP206 assignment's pretty much done (just gotta add a Java applet of a clock, which our teacher is encouraging us to steal off the Internet). It's also very nice that Jay's done his portion too. Now we just gotta get Luke's portion! Also, MUAR392 assignment's almost done (taking a break from writing crap by hand). :D

I have a job interview at SAP Canada on Friday morning at 9 AM. 9 in the freaking morning in Old Montreal where I'm not entirely sure where it is. GREAT LOL. Going to be quite the adventure that morning. Gonna pick me up some sushi after the interview or something. But yeah I'm kinda nervous for it. It's quite the big company and whatnot.

I started drawing again. It feels nice. Especially since I actually used my new markers I bought at the beginning of the year! I have that portrait scanned onto my deviantART account: http://starforsaken101.deviantart.com. It's of the main villain of my graphic novel, who is now finally named (Alistair Orelius). He's fairly badass and I don't think it would be appropriate to list his skills/powers quite as of yet. However, I will say he is NOT a vampire. Vampires are not nearly as badass as what Alistair is :P.

Things with Andrew and I are going so well. I love him SO much and I'm so awesomely happy. He's the best boyfriend EVER and he's so sweet. I can't wait until he's at McGill next year! EEE ANDREWS.

Current Music: In Flames - The Chosen Pessimist

I have the flu. Yippy. On Thursday night my Mom was wondering why I was so quiet and tired, and I had no idea why. I just thought it was because I had a midterm that day, but I didn't feel that tired. But then I started coughing at night so I was like, oh crap, whatever, right? Friday morning I wake up to the room kinda spinning and my cough even worse. I'm like, well, maybe I shouldn't go to school today, I mean I only have one class. But then I realized CAPS at McGill made an appointment for me to review my CV. I thought, oh CRAP, that's actually important. So I went to McGill with a fever, did the CV review (which I needed for applying to internships and whatnot), and then I went to class and stuff. Wow, that was a horrible day of fever. But luckily, my fever broke before going to Andrew's, and I was fine at Andrew's :).

However, Saturday morning comes around and I'm like, good LORD this cold is HORRIBLE. Went shopping with my Mom for stuff that I needed at night (had a mini games night with some people). Then I took some cough medicine, and passed out on my couch at 4. Then I woke up to my Mom poking me and Andrew being in my house O_O. I don't understand how I slept through Andrew coming in because my door makes a lot of noise. So I woke up feeling kinda weird and Andrew and I started to make sushi and stuff. I felt horrible, but I was like, yeah whatever. Friends came over, and I think at one point I started feeling feverish again. Checked my temperature...103.1. I was like, oh crap. So I have the flu. My whole body hurts. My throat/chest is sore from coughing, and actually it makes my abs hurt to cough now. It's pretty awful. But luckily today I'm feeling better.

So I'm on march break. This is my first day yay! However not much yay. After this I should probably start studying for the midterms I have next week. Here's what I got going down next week:

MARCH 6TH:
-MATH324 (Statistics) midterm
-COMP206 (Intro to Software Systems) midterm
-ATOC210 (Intro to Atmospheric Science) Assignment 4 due
-MUAR392 (Popular Music After 1945) topic for informal writing assignments due

MARCH 7th
-COMP250 (Intro to Computer Science) midterm #1

MARCH 10th
-COMP250 (Intro to Computer Science) midterm #2

MARCH 11th
-COMP206 Assignment 3 due

Originally, Assignment 3 for COMP206 was due on March 6th. Then I was like, hey Prof dude, that's not cool. Your midterm's on that day you big silly. But not exactly in those words.

Things with Andrew are going amazing. :D:D:D He's a big sweetie. I love him so much :D.

Anyway I'm going to stop writing now. No one reads anyway :P

Current Location: kitchen table
Current Mood: sick
Current Music: Nightwish - Bye Bye Beautiful

So I was looking at the window, and thinking, "Man. People made the big uber snowstorm into a huge deal yesterday. It's not snowing that hard!" However, just looking outside now, like a half hour later, it's snowing a bit harder. Poops for the snow. However, for the first day of February, and after the really crap weather we had this week, this snow isn't quite so bad. I'm liking how there doesn't seem to be piercing wind outside that'll threaten me to fly into traffic or to twist my foot again in an "almost-fall". 

Having 3 assignments due in one day is fairly hectic, especially when you find a problem with your batch file for a COMP206 assignment. Had to run up to Trottier during my break to fix it. That was really annoying considering I was planning on napping during my break yesterday. Oh well. I had a good 15 minute nap during Popular Music After 1945 during the James Brown live DVD (I'm sorry, some of his songs last really freaking long...).

YAY for Fridays! I have one class, I start late, and yeah! Andrew's meeting me at the train station at 4 :D:D:D. Then we're going to hang around the Metro shopping center before Allison and Ryan get back to her house at around 5. Games Night (n+2) tonight...should be fun. Luke's coming, yay! 

Speaking of Luke, our Computer Science posse's starting to grow. At the beginning of the semester, the only person I really knew out of my Computer Science classes was Mitch. Then I found out Simon's in my COMP206 class, which pwns. Then I noticed a guy was always on the train with me, and in my two COMP classes. He ended up introducing himself, and that's Luke. Good guy! So then, our 3rd floor "pre-COMP250" posse grew one more person. Now this week it grew another person bigger: Jay. Luke made a friend in COMP206 and he started chilling around with us. He's pretty cool. Comes from California and stuff. I almost slipped and fell on my ass on Wednesday while walking with him, and he was like "OH GOD I WAS SO SCARED", it was funny. Then he almost fell. Hahaha. Wow, that was a crappy Wednesday: ice everywhere, going up and down the McGill hill, and FREAKING SCARY ASS WINDS.

...so on the train today I will be dorkifying up the Through the Fire and the Flames lyrics to match Computer Science. YEAH. Speaking of Through the Fire and the Flames...I almost made it through the solo on Hard mode in GH3 the other night, which makes my record of getting through 83% of the song. I know I can do the rest after that hideous solo.

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Machinae Supremacy - Fury 2007

So I find it slightly amusing how people love to stir up in my business, saying comments like I change my relationships frequently and other things. First of all, it's my business. Second...it's my business, yeah. I don't understand why some people are so caught up in trying to make me change my mind, or trying to ridicule me because I have a new boyfriend. Stuff with Nick was going down since November or so, and I was in denial that it would be fixed. My relationships have nothing to do with anyone else, so leave me alone unless you have something more intelligent to say.

Meanwhile, I have to get ready for school rather soon. I have a big day today, as it's Tuesday. Intro to Atmospheric Science, and Stats in the morning. Then I get an hour and a half break to work on my Unix assignment (one more little section done for the actual Unix work). Then I have Popular Music After 1945, and Intro to Software Systems to finish off my day.

Um, so I have to go now. Gotta get ready to catch the 8:40 train.

Current Music: Ensiferum - One More Magic Potion