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Monday, November 6th, 2006
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11:48 pm - Show this Thursday!
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Show with Rob Rodgers in Papermoon! Racing Turtles reunion!
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| Friday, September 29th, 2006
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3:44 pm - 4 months later
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Summer was definitely the most eventful summer ever. Not that all the events were good.
An aquaintance of mine died in June. Her name was Zoe Goldstein and she fell into a waterfall in BC. She was supposed to move to Montreal for school, and I'm sure we would have been friends. I had met her through Dave last spring when they stayed at our house for a week.
I got my heart broken while on a crappy vacation.
Our new friend Dave got hit by a car the night of my birthday party. He's fine now minus some hearing loss, but he scared us half to death when the guys went out to look for him and found an accident instead.
But good things, too.
Myself, Matthew, Eric Penney and Danielle Penney took a road trip to Sackville, New Brunswick to see Eric's Trip.
I finally convinced Matthew to join Communauto, a car sharing organization, which makes road trips possible and affordable.
Went to Toronto with Matthew and stayed in a hotel downtown with a hot tub on the roof.
Got a job accompanying ballet classes 2 nights a week which has proved to be a very trying and stressful experience and one hell of a commute. I'm still trying to figure out if the high pay is worth it if I have to travel to Lachine to do it. 3-4 hours of commute for a 5 hour job?
I'm not working today because Renee Levesque jewelry is changing locations this weekend. And starting Monday, I can walk to work.
And don't even talk to me about the Corduroys. We're going through quite a dry spell.
And me with 2 jobs, Matthew with school and work, we don't see each other anymore. Until every second weekend.
Yo la Tengo concert tomorrow.
current mood:  bored
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| Saturday, May 20th, 2006
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9:56 am - Summers are busy...
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No one is allowed to say it's hard to find a job in Montreal. Both Matthew and Justin found one within 2 days of looking. And not looking that hard. Matthew only applied at two places. He is now a runner for the stock room at Steve's Music. The lowest of the low, on his feet all day, but it's a start, and it's working in a music store.
The apartment is shaping up. Yesterday was quite the adventure with bringing home a 35 lb, 5 foot tree/plant, as well as a lamp and 2 smaller plants, without succumbing to a cab. It took walking about 20 blocks, a bus that didn't take us very far, and a metro. And Justin and I switching every 2 minutes. Matthew was working and wasn't there to help. But the image of a giant tree almost touching the roof in the metro was amazing. The metro needs greenery!
Relearning my piano songs is almost like riding a bike. Almost. It's pretty shaky.
I just got over a string of illnesses. The weekend Matthew and Justin arrived, I had a major sore throat which lasted days and made me want to rip my eyes out with fustration. It also accompanied eye headaches and earaches. Then this week I got food poisoning from Casa Greque's tortellini with meat sauce, threw up violently all Monday night, naseous for the next 3 days.
Oh great story!! Tuesday, after seeing the doctor and while buying my gravol at pharmacy in the back of Shopper's Drug Mart, I threw up! Twice! I was all like, give me my gravol *open up my emergency puke bag and throw up a little*, "which one? the 8's or the 10's?" uh, the 8's *puke*. And of course, there's a hole in the bag, so I leave a little puddle, but did I care? I just had to get out of there. And brave the motion sickness on the metro ride home.
current music: I had a dream I met Owen from Final Fantasy.
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| Friday, May 5th, 2006
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1:19 pm - The excitement is mounting!!
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So this weekend will just be so awesome. And it starts today with a day off work. Exam tomorrow is not fun. 9-12 on a Saturday. Everyone's all like, "what?! I thought you were done!" Nope. Still got my German exam. I told you Concordia is stupid. But it's my LAST EXAM EVER!!!!
I felt very efficient yesterday at work. I made 8 necklaces, 9 earrings, and 5 bracelets, by far the most I've done in one day since working there. I wonder if I'm getting fast or I'm just getting easy things to make. I made Matthew's mom a necklace she's crazy about. And I'm making Hilary one now that I want for myself.
Woke up 6:00 this morning, having fallen asleep on the couch, lights on, tv on. Horrible hangover, having drunk a bottle of wine at Rachel's. Got into PJ's, drank water, threw up, went into bed.
Now I have to do laundry, get Justin's keys cut, clean everything, study, maybe grocery shop and buy some new cheques?
This Sunday, hopefully, will be a potluck picnic at Mont Royal Park!!
Matthew, Justin, and my piano arrive tomorrow!!!
current mood:  excited
current music: Pedro the Lion
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| Sunday, April 30th, 2006
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11:05 am - Fun Fun Fun!
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Yesterday was shopping. I got a hot sweater dress from Christie's store. She's altering it for me now because I wanted 3/4 length sleeves. Some picky or wah. It looks like an oversized sweatshirt. And a necklace to match from the boutique version of where I work with my lovely $20 gift certificate.
Eric's band was good last night! Whitewine is the name. Although they say it's temporary. After, Greg, Eric and I sat in a park and talked about skunks, the Alien movie, and what time period we would go back to and then went home 3-ish. So last night was fun!
I still have 1 Saves the Day ticket with no one who wants to go. I don't blame them, this is not at all an excitable concert. So far, it's me, Greg and Jane.
Today is going fabric shopping again with the Thomson girls?
Marks trickle in while I still haven't finished exams. I'll be done the morning that Matthew and Justin arrive in town.
Early Twentieth Century Music: A
FFAR 250 annoyance of a course: A-
Final Fantasy's Owen Pallet was trained to be a contemporary opera composer! That's so interesting and makes a lot of things make sense. And he only picked up violin in music school. He gives me hope.
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| Thursday, April 27th, 2006
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5:50 pm - Post anniversary
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Yesterday was mine and Matthew's 4 year anniversary. We walked along Mont Royal looking for a restaurant and found a fancy pizza place, keeping with our tradition of having pizza at our last 3 anniversaries and our first date.
Matthew's leaving for St. John's tomorrow at 7. His mom's arriving in Montreal tomorrow at 1. Bad timing.
In the past week I've made 22 "bling" necklaces and accessories. This new system of doing lots of the same family of necklaces while the beads are picked out in front of you is only efficient to a point. When you get sick of making something, you aren't quick anymore.
Conversing with Gail at work is very interesting. She speaks a bit of English, I barely speak French. Finding interesting ways to describe what you're trying to say that end up silly. She's cool. We share a lot of the same music in common. It takes a lot of guts to shyly try out your French for real!
IKEA this weekend! Also, maybe I'll make it to Eric's new band's show on Saturday.
I want to buy this for the balcony. These cheap rugs for the basement. This chandelier for the dining room. How about this shower curtain? Eventually I want an island for the kitchen. I also have to think about fabric for curtains and balcony chairs. And lots of plants because there's so much natural light. Justin, what's your opinion on these things, if you have any, as you'll have to live with them. Starting next weekend! That's so soon!
current music: Blondie - Heart of Glass
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| Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
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6:05 pm - What's that sound?
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It's a little girl on a pogo stick on the side walk!
Just had a nap. Because only slept 4 hours amidst studying for my exam this morning. One down, one to go! The teacher tried to cram too much into it. The listening portion took almost an hour and a half (I think I got one wrong. It was a guessing game between Debussy and Prokofiev for me, a bass character, and I couldn't tell the language. Now that I think about it, it was probably Russian. I didn't watch the Prokofiev opera, because, crap, it was 4 hours long.) because we had to write the plots for the 10 operas we heard in the excerpts. Which is stupid and time-consuming. Then, with an hour and a half left, do 24 short answer questions!! Had to limit myself to 5 minutes a question. With no time to stop and remember extra details deep in my memory.
After, I felt I had to celebrate by treating myself. So, I actually got some of that fancy gourmet ice cream which I have been gawking at for 3 years. Amaretto flavor. Absolutely satisfying.
current mood: day off work
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| Thursday, April 20th, 2006
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6:13 pm - HAHAHAHA
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I just won 2 concert tickets to Saves the Day!
I'm telling you. Enter contests at Exclaim magazine. The odds of winning are high. Between me and Matthew, this is the third win.
Matthew will be gone May 2. Maybe I should ask Jane. I'll probably go for old times sake. I would never buy tickets. When I entered, I thought, 'hey, I'd go if it was for free'.
HAHAHAHAHA!
I spent ALL day making party necklaces at work. And I have 2 more to make tomorrow before I start a mega project: 11 "bling" necklaces. We call it the bling necklace because it's $75 wholesale and therefore $150 retail. Ridiculous! It's mostly fire polished beads for heaven's sakes. Only a few semi-precious.
Work is tedious and boring. I watch the clock all day.
It's 21 degrees and sunny outside.
current mood:  giddy
current music: Final Fantasy - This is the Dream of Win and Regine
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| Monday, April 17th, 2006
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9:18 pm - I heart Final Fantasy
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This weekend was awesome. Friday, Erica came, Eric was here, and we christened drinking on the balcony. Saturday was going out for breakfast, shopping/walking around downtown and at Mont Royal. We had to retreive a turkey from Hilary's place, so me, Matthew and Erica were taking turns freezing our butts off having a 15lb frozen turkey lodged up against it. Then, another party at our house with Eric, Greg Ryan and Erica's friend Heather! Which for me included discussions of the importance of Glenn Gould with Greg and listening to his Conan the Barbarian.
Sunday equaled turkey dinner for four! Then having stuffed ourselves, we went to Club Lambi for the Final Fantasy show. The 2 opening bands used a lot of drones. Not good when you're tired from turkey.
But Final Fantasy was AMAZINCK! He is my new favourite guy. One guy on stage with a violin and sounding as full as an entire ensemble with very creative music. A successful combination of popular and classical idioms. It was very symbolic that on the overhead projector where a girl told a story in the background through pictures, he would have the phrase "Final Fantasy as Orpheus". That's a musicology paper waiting to be written. I know his influences are Bartok. Me and Matthew were trying to come up with his obvious influences. We came up with a few. It's interesting stuff. Anyway, I love it!!
After the show, me, Matthew, Erica, Eric and Greg played hackey sack, they went out for drinks and pool while I took a cab home because I had to work today and do an assignment due tomorrow that I will now go and do......
current mood:  lazy
current music: Final Fantasy - This Lamb Sells Condos
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| Thursday, April 13th, 2006
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7:58 pm - Unpacking!
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I left work early today to meet Renee at the airport because she had a 2 hour stopover here on her way to Paris. But then her flight got delayed, turning the stopover into 45 minutes. So it became impossible. Crappy.
So I'm finally seriously unpacking! Probably won't finish tonight. But it's a start. All that work/school. I've got no time.
I had a REALLY scary experience at the choir concert Tuesday. It was really hot under the lights. I fainted twice. My vision went to 50% and wouldn't go away. For me, short momentary blackouts are a little normal, but this was different. My ears rang and everything seemed far away and muffled. I started sweating a lot and sort of whimpered down and someone had to help me sit up straight as I was leaning on the leg of the girl next to me in my delirium. When I felt better, I indiscreetly stood up. Only to have it happen again. Matthew was 5 people over and wondering what was going on.
Erica's coming tomorrow. That should be fun!
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| Monday, April 10th, 2006
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11:07 pm - sleepy...
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I just woke up from a well deserved nap. I got 3.5 hours sleep last night. Up all night doing my last major assignment. Up at 7:30 to go to work today.
So I'm working full time now. No more classes left. Well, one more, but it's so useless, I'm skipping it. One more assignment next Tuesday. Exam on April 25 and May 6. I think I can handle full time work and that loose schedule.
While I sat in my last class I would ever attend in my undergrad last Thursday, I realized I was going to skip my actual last class, and so this was truly my last. I got a pang of fear. A glimpse of the future and I was freaking out a little. It was a surreal moment.
Mine and Matthew's choir concert is tomorrow. He's recording a concert tonight, I guess it's his last?
current music: Watching Jon Stewart
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| Sunday, April 9th, 2006
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4:24 pm - Ah, procrasination. I know thee well.
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Yesterday I watched a racy update of Verdi's Rigoleto on Bravo. Racy, cheesy, and sexy.
We didn't do a stitch of homework yesterday, neither me or Matthew! So, by the time 10:30 rolled around, we decided to actually do something instead of moping around putting off homework. We walked to the Wintersleep show where Hilary and Christie were. We talked to Jud and Paul after. Paul is from Yarmouth, and I've lived in Weymouth, so we talked about Frenchies and the general boriness of that area. I used to go to Yarmouth at least once a week. It was like Gander to Glovertown, 45 minutes away, 2 crappy malls, etc... But I want to go back and visit it sometime. I do.
I have a research paper due tomorrow. I guess I should start. I have 7 pages done, but it's mostly crap, and it kills me to have to rewrite and re-arrange. Trouble is, Matthew needs the computer, too, so we're going to have to battle it out.
If any hears of a movie Radar coming out in a few months, it was filmed at the corner of our street! Or part of it was. It's probably some small Quebec project. I saw the signs the other day reserving places for the filming. This would be unheard of at our old ugly apartment and neighbourhood. Proof of the betterment of our new living quarters.
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| Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
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3:25 pm
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I’m at the McGill music library, fifth floor (my favourite floor) and the apartment is sooooooo amazing!! Justin, you are going to looove it and the area. Sunlight, spacious, building across the street has a life sized alligator paper mache-ed onto it. The street is only one lane, very small, with the most gorgeous curved stairwells outside every building. The six of us on moving day went out for breakfast at the corner at the CUTEST little restaurant with fresh fruit and hot chocolate in a bowl. Of course, we had our pick of quaint cafes, but we chose that one for the $5 breakfast.
The dining room has an intricate ceiling and carved moldings that screams for a chandelier. The ceilings are 10 feet and huge.
I’m off to put $8 on my copy card so I can photocopy 204 pages of a cd booklet. It’s the only way I can get the libretto of this darned opera.
Finish un-packing, or start this paper that’s due on Tuesday… oh the options.
Won’t get internet or phone till Thursday…..
Moving day?? Let me just say, it poured, and the night before, the idiots moving into our old place thought they could unload their stuff into the apartment at 1 am!!! Knocking on our door at 1 am, ready to move in!! Who does that? Of course there was no space, we hadn’t moved out yet.
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| Friday, March 31st, 2006
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12:46 pm - hoooooooot!
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It is 18 degrees out!! Shorts and T-Shirt weather!!
Somebody rendered the dryer useless by busting a feather pillow in it. Fitting that the last day in this area is the first day we use the local laundromat. I was all confused by the big dryers.
I'm so jealous that my sister is going to Paris in two weeks, and my mom is going to Mississippi and New Orleans in two weeks.
FINE! Well, I'm going 12km up the road! How about that for going somewhere? *sigh*
This site is creepy.
Pandora is interesting. I don't think "Major Key Tonality" should be a description of songs, but they use it all the time.
current mood:  cheerful
current music: Cocorosie
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| Monday, March 27th, 2006
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11:45 pm - 5 days, 5 days!!
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Moving in 5 days!! I'm really excited. Hilary's staying the night on Friday to help with the late night packing and early morning moving. I think Meghan's coming in the morning. Too bad Mike's gone again because he is strong and has a lot of experience packing a truck so everything fits.
We're getting our little BBQ back from Hilary now that we have a use for it again, and I think one of our first meals there should be a BBQ. There is a Metro grocery store only THREE blocks away!! Short blocks, too!! Like, the equivalent of one long block! And it's on the way home from the metro, so how convenient. No more going out of the way to get groceries EVER! And they have the best sales. Which is important. For me.
Moving day (Saturday) is supposed to be 15 degrees. And raining. good/poo.
Nothing like due dates and late night adrenaline.
We got in trouble at work today for talking too loud. Shocking.
current music: Billie Holiday
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| Saturday, March 25th, 2006
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11:55 am - Tv land awards!
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So this week, I finally got to watch the TV land awards after missing previous years. Mary Tyler Moore looks as preserved and youthful as ever, Burt Ward let himself go, and Dick Van Dyke was missing. :( No memorial to Don Adams or Bob Denver. Shocking.
One last supper at our place for tomorrow was cancelled because people have better things to do. Fine. I have better things to do too. Pack, clean, and write my paper of the week. And there's a Friend's marathon on tomorrow that is going to royally distract me, which is easily done.
Matthew has a band practise tonight with Eric and Al. They gots a little thing on the go.
I am really saddened by the news that Mr. Boyle, language and theatre arts teacher at Glovertown Academy, died suddenly after collapsing in my sister's class from an anneurism. I had him for Canadian Lit. He was funny in a laugh at your own joke kind of way. 42 years old with 2 small kids! That should not happen and makes everything seem vulnerable.
Update: April 7th. 8:00. Benjamin Britten - The Turn of the Screw! Now to tell Matthew he's going, too. (Well, he said before he would...)
I hate the people upstairs and their music with boomy repetitive beats!! At least they moved onto a new favourite song.
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| Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
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7:29 pm - le grand macabre...
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Everything is going really really good now. Someone has agreed to take our apartment and will sign the lease tonight or tomorrow. We have a 14' foot U-Haul for April 1st, sort of a dry run for the big trip next month.
Justin, you will be happy to know, we are getting a fridge in that deal. We looked at the wrong fridge the other day, which was actually a stand up freezer. But maybe there is still such a thing as a fridge with no freezer?
Are landlords allowed to come into the apartment while you're not home without even letting you know they were stopping by? Because someone was picking at the draft thing in our washroom, taking the tape off the window, which he did last time he fixed something in the washroom. Creeeeeeepy. Somebody was in our apartment while we were at school. I don't think that's allowed.
Mike is back with 6 weeks worth of tour stories. He still hasn't met Eric yet, who has lived here for 5 months already.
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| Friday, March 17th, 2006
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So, we've got a good playlist for packing. Lots of old songs for me that bring back good memories.
I found an old wallet from grade 7, because I always keep things that have memories, and you know that pop can thing where you push back and forth for each letter of the alphabet? Well, in grade 7 I had the biggest crush on Matthew Ball. I was so heartbroken when I moved, I bought an adidas jacket just like his and wore it all the time. My love of Matthew actually goes back to grade six when I loved the name, so I would use it when I wrote stories for class. Anyway, in my wallet, I had put all the pop can things that had ended on M on my keychain for Matthew.
Sort of a foreshadowing, huh?
The plan is: packing this weekend, cleaning next weekend, moving the weekend after!
Ok, does this make sense to you? These people are contacting us about the apartment, but they aren't that bright.
"I'm calling about the apartment? We're going to take it."
"Well, I can't promise you the apartment. We're only responsible for getting names and passing them to the landlord."
"But I want it. You're saying I can't have it, even though I say I want it?"
.... later....
(janitor) "Come back with your information on Monday"
"So I can move in on Monday?"
"No, you have to fill out an application for the apartment. And you can't move in until the people move out."
... further confusion ensues...
current music: starflyer 59 - West Coast Friendship
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| Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
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9:41 pm - nooooo
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So work is going to go downhill from here on end. Kim has been wanting to quit for a while now, and she did today! So I bet Jane is going to follow soon. And they hired an old boring looking lady today. Goodbye good music and good conversation at work. Hello Kylie Minogue and Jack Johnson.
Today at work was just me and Rene "I'm an older 22 than you Jane" Leblanc. SOOOO long and boring.
But I did get a $.50 raise today. whoopee.
Moving in 2 weeks moving in 2 weeks moving in 2 weeks.
Apartment with basement for a studio/practise space plus having my piano, will be the best set up I've ever had in my entire life. The only time I've ever had full time access to a piano, it was a crappy one.
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| Saturday, March 11th, 2006
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7:43 pm - Up and down.....
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So, after being turned down at the Fabre apartment, it's back as a possibility as the 9-to-5-ers the landlord had chosen backed out this morning! She is doing the credit check now, and we WILL know tonight or tomorrow if we get it and then sign the lease on Monday. What a goin' on. So it's looking pretty good, Justin!
Last night we went to see a band Christy's bf, Joey, is in, and Mad Parish, a band Matthew used to be in. Prog rock. Fun to watch, I suppose. Eric Penney and Danielle showed up around midnight, but we had to leave around 1 to catch the bus home (something we will never have to worry about soon!). Super small world though. Later at Copacobana, Eric ended up playing pool with Matthew's friend and classmate, Dave.
Die Satie paper, Die! And by die, I mean, write itself and be done with.
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