always one foot on the ground

Actually work turned out fine yesterday! I made my co-worker do the cash so I didn't have to talk too much. I'm feeling alright except for a lack-of-voice.

I picked up a shift for tonight, which is excellent because I need to work!
Also, I drank a lot of coffee today (at brunch with Niki at Aunties -- I hadn't been there in like a week and a half, I know, right?) and took some cold meds and now I feel very excited and happy about the world! Drugs are good!

I'm hoping I can maintain this good feeling all the way through work and then back home again and then I will settle down and write for a few hours. Right? Right!!!

Right on!

Uh oh my heart is racing.


Tomorrow I think I'm going to go to this: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=287684876391  Nick Rose (obviously favourite), plus their new cover band doing CCR, Springsteen, Petty covers? It sounds pretty alright. I like fun!!!
Wanna come? Probably.

Oh my god Ruth Buzzi is being so cute. You know what cats don't like? When they are sleeping and you go over to them and ruffle them all up and rub your face on them and wake them up and put their arms around you.

If I walk to work it takes on 15 minutes longer than the time I have to give myself to take the TTC. I know everyone's into hating on the TTC right and I do mostly support public transit but HOLEEEE, everytime I take transit I'm late. It takes pretty much as much time to get 4.4kms by foot as it does TTC. Does that make any sense??

Embarrassing. 

Sunday morning I was going to take the TTC to work as a little treat so I could sleep in that extra 15 minutes, guess what? The streetcar on College never came. I ended up having to run/walk to the subway station at University and then still have to pay the whole damn three dollars just to get me to work on time. A streetcar never came the whole time I was walk/running over there. Really, really terrible work, TTC. 

Speaking of which, I need to run now! Byeeeeee!

Hockey Day in Canada!

ABC Family bought Sophie.
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2008/02/05/sophie-abc.html?ref=rss
Which proves that the writers' strike has affected their heads. Oh, wait, ABC Family was the one with the series Beautiful People (which is how I met Teddy Geiger one time and he fell in love with me, but that's another story), so their heads were already messed.
Also interesting in this article - I didn't realize it was an adaptation of a successful Quebecoise TV series.
This is maybe the only show of CBC's new line-up that I can bear to watch without clawing at my face, but it is still just not very good.
It's the over-done caricatures that are still really getting to me. And how completely unrealistic some of the characters are. "It's fresh and funny but with real heart and warmth." - ABC Family worker guy
Really?
Really though?

I made my friend watch JPod with me last night while we were getting ready to go out.
Whoa. We were both in awe. Of how bad it is.
Even the costume design of that show screams Canadian TV.
The resident bad boy/sex addict wearing DOG TAGS, seriously? Of course he is. With his spiky hair and Diesel Clothing, his motorcycle boots and unbuttoned shirts. And the "pretty girl" who happens to be blonde and blue-eyed and wears a whole goddamn lot of pink... ingenious. And the Asian girl who wears printed T's and shorts with boots! Awesome.
I can't take any of these characters seriously because I want to punch them.
And that's not even getting into how bad the plot lines are. (Seriously you kidnapped the woman who wrote the happy birthday song and then posted a video of her rolling around in money on the internet? Neat!)

I heard rumours that a US station was going to pick up The Border as well, until they realized that it sucks. I only watched the first episode of this and it seemed fine. But fine is never something that's going to keep viewers coming back for more. It's funny that in Canada we settle for 'fine', like it's the best we can do, so it's worthwhile. Nope. Not good enough.

The news this morning was saying that the American writers are in talks again this weekend. So the strike just might be settled soon.

I've always said that I'd way rather work in Canada, but these days... the industry is just so disappointing.

The problem is that I care.
I wish it meant nothing to me.

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More to say except I have to run to work and I seem to be wearing some sort of "streetcar repellent" these days.
Any time I leave my house there are no streetcars in sight and even if they do come around they always short-turn and leave me stranded and stuff.
Yay TTC!

Tonight I plan on seeing How She Move. I love dance movies like I can't even tell you, and this one stars one of my college classmates. So it should be interesting...
Oh and stay tuned for how much I love hipster parties with cupcakes bakes into ice cream cones and pretentious discussions about film and art in general!
Mmmhmmm....