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Friday, September 30, 2005

yesterday was a good day.
thank goodness for that.
i needed it.

went to Salvation Army, and bought:
- 1 oldschool medium sized tan leather over the shoulder Samsonite bookbag/carry-on type bag
- 1 retro small to medium sized brown purse - supposed to look like wrinkled leather
- 1 'Toujours Provence' hard cover book. sequel to the oh so fabulous 'A Year in Provence'
- 1 Alexandre Dumas 'La dame aux Camelias'
- 1 pair of nicely worn dark Silver jeans that fit PERFECTLY, no hemming required (this is a BIG deal)
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all for....

$14.95 !!!!!!!

and then i went to Shoppers DrugMart and spent over $50. but that was on stuff like insoles for my poor achy feet, and hair dye for my poor discolored hair,...and other necessities.

another highlight of the day was when i finally brought my defective DVD burner to BestBuy (the one i had ordered online and had delivered. i was so excited(/lazy) about not even having to leave the house).
it is now installed and working!!
and so i stayed up til 3 burning music and have mp3 compilations entitled
- 'global grooves' for all your Afro-cuban needs
- 'quirky' if you're feeling for badly drawn boy's original debut 'how did i get here' or some 'soviet kitsch' (regina spektor)
- 'neutral' if you're looking for music you can play when your parents are around, ie. wilco, ryan adams, rushmore soundtrack
- 'move' if you want to move to some beck, modest mouse, boyballz (?!), mint royale, etc..
and the list goes on.

it's a beautiful day out today.
will go try out my new insoles and run.

then dye hair when hair is nice and grody.
then scramble around the house looking for Metric tickets... for tonight!

p.s. 15 days til France (!?!!)

~ rebecca 11:24 AM ~ [+]

Thursday, September 29, 2005

to add to the list of possibilities:

Broken Social Scene - Tuesday November 29, 2005 London, UK Barfly
Broken Social Scene - Monday December 5, 2005 Berlin, Germany Postbahnhof
Broken Social Scene - Monday December 19, 2005 London, UK Cargo
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yesterday i worked coatcheck at the (awesome new) war museum.
today i sold tickets to 'Queen - some kinda magic' - a Queen cover band from australia.
bring on the random jobs!!!!!!!!

:)

~ rebecca 12:08 AM ~ [+]

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

have just created a flickr account for all my fave photos. (as opposed to my overflowing yahoo photo account which well, is pretty much a detailed account of my life in recent years)
flickr.com is addictive. and i know - it is SO last year

my flickr page

my wandering today wasn't as bad as anticipated.
police check may have been a waste of time.
have got greyhound tix so a trip to toronto is official. :)
my purse didn't live up to all the hype. the FRONT of the purse was facing AWAY from the window. here i thought the back was the front. i like the back. the front --erm.. not so much. a little buckle thing seems out of place and not me. plus, it's not real leather anyways.. ha.
coffee at bridgehead is always nice. not only knowing i'm drinking fair trade coffee ;) but got to catch up with coco in person!! how about that!!?!
and now, because of that coffee, it's 2:42 am and i'm only getting sleepy now.

let me confess a few things.
- i'm sad that my job with ticketbastard is over. (for this year anyways)
- 18 days til france and the nerves are kicking in. but that's no secret.
okay forget it. i don't really have any juicy confessions to make. maybe later

~ rebecca 2:34 AM ~ [+]

Sunday, September 25, 2005

as my musical hero, badly drawn boy, puts it:
"all possibilities":

Fri 10/28/05 I Am Kloot Manchester Academy
Sat 10/29/05 I Am Kloot The Astoria
Sun 10/30/05 Starsailor Carling Liverpool Academy
Mon 10/31/05 Starsailor Newcastle Academy
Fri 11/04/05 Starsailor Carling Apollo Manchester
Thu 11/10/05 Starsailor Leas Cliff Hall
Sun 11/20/05 Elbow Newcastle University
Wed 11/23/05 Elbow Carling Apollo Manchester
Fri 11/25/05 Elbow Carling Brixton Academy
Sun 11/27/05 I Am Kloot Postbanhof Berlin
Sun 12/04/05 David Gray Manchester E.N. Arena

"All Possibilities"

All possibilities
Are landing at my feet
There's nothing I can see
But possibilities

All colours are changing in my eyes
Your hopes are all fading, that will never do
You're seeing the world through cynical eyes
I'm seeing the world through the eyes of somebody new
Oh there's a hope left, there's a dream still in my heart
Look past the answers, there's a chance that there's no rulebook for this love

~ rebecca 5:29 PM ~ [+]

Saturday, September 24, 2005

to put things simply:
i'm jealous of my friends who have their lives sorted out for the moment.
(ie. grad school. job, house, boyfriend-in-same city, - - any combination of the above)

i want to be in france.
i want to be in toronto.
i'm bored.
i want to be in school.
i don't think i want to be in school again for another 2 years or so.
i have the itch to travel.
i'd really like to just settle down for a bit.
finally,
i didn't want to make this blog a blog in which i ranted about personal things.
i can't not do it.

meh.
i can't afford to have a 'meh' attitude. can i?

~ rebecca 10:36 PM ~ [+]

Thursday, September 22, 2005

to be read later.
Soulseeking

~ rebecca 11:04 PM ~ [+]

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

guess who's be-hind this is?
tee hee
clue: last saturday night, aica and i went to see 'most serene republic' (just like a bss-jr.) open for.. The Stills de montreal!

that was in the middle of a helluva busy weekend. another will soon be under way this time tomorrow. two adults and one child? that's $16 please. children 12 and under are free today! the cattle show? try asking at the maingate...








23 days til France.

~ rebecca 11:50 PM ~ [+]

Friday, September 16, 2005

Artists including Tracey Emin and Gavin Turk have been invited by Christian Aid to produce work as a vivid reminder of the horrors of world poverty.

5. Improve maternal health / Artists: Rob and Nick Carter / Title: Mother Earth

~ rebecca 10:48 AM ~ [+]

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

who to vote for??!
i really like them both...
seriously!

~ rebecca 9:48 PM ~ [+]

Sunday, September 11, 2005

amillionways_v300.mov (video/quicktime Object)

amusement from OKGO who i dislike. but this song isn't bad

~ rebecca 11:51 AM ~ [+]

Thursday, September 08, 2005

i used to think i could never live in a city with fewer than 1 million people or so, that i'd go crazy without a bustling downtown core and multiculturalism/diversity celebrated/cultivated everywhere you look, without the latest great bands passing through on a regular basis, without the smog that has conditioned my skin for years and years...
but things are changing - - ever since searching for random jobs in random French towns has become my new hobby.
and so that will keep me occupied for the next few weeks. until i land on the continent and have to face the fact that i am homeless and jobless in a small french town.

trip out east was fine. some parts were really nice (PEI cottage-on-the-ocean life, helping my sister settle in to her awesome new apartment). other parts thoroughly sucked, (17 hours in the car with parents bickering and stress levels reaching unprecedented heights). so it balances out to 'fine'.

in rural new brunswick, i apparently almost walked in on the federal minister of human resources going for a wee. luckily, she had locked the door.

i've felt a bit ill all day. time for bed now. then shoe shopping tomorrow! :D is there anything i enjoy more in this world?!
yes, of course. but i'm still trying to figure out what exactly it is

~ rebecca 11:37 PM ~ [+]