tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116533242012-02-03T01:18:55.897-05:00Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.comBlogger9931100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-5126462953894561522012-02-02T21:00:00.004-05:002012-02-02T21:13:57.207-05:00

Things I've done this week:1) I've said goodbye to my semester one classes. They were great. I'll miss them. I'm a bit skeptical about what semester two will bring.2) I've finished marking all the things for semester one. My eyes got blurry at times. However, I got some sweet notes written to me by some students at the end of their exams, which made me feel good.3) I saw Jack's Mannequin on

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I had a fun weekend.On Friday night, I went out with some co-workers for appetizers and drinks followed by serve-yourself frozen yogurt. It was a good time.On Saturday, I woke up early, went to the gym to run a quick 5K, then headed out to meet up with the same coworkers to head to the Buffalo area to go shopping. We started with lunch at the Olive Garden. For some reason, the Olive Garden

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Remember how at the end of my last post, I was begrudging the fact that I was going to spend my Sunday marking? Well, I ended up going to the ROM with my pal Matt from Winnipeg instead, and that was super fun. I regret nothing. Yes, the pile of end-of-semester marking still looms heavy, but it'll get done somehow, it always does.Also, I experienced good karma coming back to me at the ROM.

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Well, after everyone's comments on my last post, I feel like the January blues are a very common experience. It makes me feel better; misery loves company, I suppose. This weekend, however, was so awesome that I feel that I've left my winter blues behind.I had a very chill evening on Friday night with Jason. I made chickpea & cashew curry, and we ate some pretzel M&M's while catching up on

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I have concluded that I dislike January. It's a tough time at work; I'm very busy wrapping up one semester, and getting ready for another one at the same time. I've been spending my week saving teenagers from themselves; why some are so prone to throwing away a credit in the waning weeks of the semester is beyond me. I've had to stage too many interventions in the past couple of weeks.In

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I have just downloaded my pre-order of Kathleen Edwards' new album Voyageur and I am so excited to listen to it. Everything I've heard about it so far makes me suspect excellence. Actually, I've just skimmed one positive review. Mainly, I know it will be good because she's one of my favourite artists, and this album was co-produced by Justin Vernon (Bon Iver). Collaboration between two of my

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-67109967096290210052012-01-15T22:33:00.002-05:002012-01-15T22:50:07.364-05:00

Last week kicked my ass. Getting back to work with many deadlines to meet, and the never-ending piles of marking was tough. I feel a bit better than I did a week ago at this time, but I'm looking forward to getting this semester done. Fresh start please. We have two more weeks of classes, then exam week, then it's a new semester with fresh faces and different things to teach.Also, I had a

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Post of random.1) I'm currently reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. It's gothtastic! There is such gorgeous, magical, dark imagery in this book. If Tim Burton doesn't adapt it into a movie, I will eat my hat.2) My favourite running songs right now are:a) Super Bass - Nicki Minajb) Stereo Hearts - Gym Class Heroes featuring Adam Levinec) Wild Ones - Flo Rida featuring Siad) Rumour Has

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I have to go back to work in less than twelve hours.Wish me luck.p.s. Holidays were the awesome.

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Here I am, more than half-way through my last week of a super-relaxed Christmas vacation. I needed this.I feel like I have been a bit of a hermit since New Year's. Yesterday, which was a SUPER COLD day, I managed to get myself to a relaxing noon-time yoga session. It was good. I need to stretch more. More yoga this year.Besides being the coldest day in recent memory, it was also Jason's

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2011 was one of the strongest years with respect to albums that I can remember. I could have easily turned my traditional top ten list into a top twenty, and I am aware that there are a lot of acclaimed albums that I missed out on this year, because, well, my pesky job gets in the way of me consuming music as much as I'd truly like.As always, I'd like to mention that this list reflects the

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I came across this image on Jocelyn's blog, and it sums up a lot of good goals for the upcoming new year. I had to share it on here. I'll have to come back to it when the year's less new for some inspiration.

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Happy 2012 everyone! I hope your new year's eve and day were special.Jason and I had a nice night in. He cooked risotto, I drank my favourite Beaujolais, and we watched part of The Royal Tenenbaums, the Louis CK Live at the Beacon Street Theatre Special, the ball drop in Times Square, and a couple episodes of Parks and Recreation. It was a nice night, and I'm rather glad that we didn't bother

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-81929446244779764942011-12-31T09:36:00.003-05:002012-01-02T20:16:40.762-05:00

I've recapped what I've read, and the shows I've gone to. Now it's time for my favourite moments of 2011, in chronological order.1) Remember how I took Spanish? I barely do... I was watching a movie recently where someone said "lo siento" and I was pleased that I remembered that meant "I'm sorry". It was fun taking the course with my buddy Fea, and it did come in handy when I was in Barcelona

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This was my most concert-going year ever. 22 shows in total, plus one three-day music festival. Total number of bands/artists enjoyed = undetermined. It was a good year. December really took the cake with Feist/Bon Iver/Tori Amos/Basement Revue w Feist/Sloan (w Feist). I like Feist.Best New (to me) Live Experience = Bon IverBest New (to me) Local Band = OhbijouTrifecta #1 = Sloan (once in the

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Total Count = 30 BooksTop Fiction 1) 11/22/63 - Stephen King2) The Story of Beautiful Girl - Rachel Simon3) I Think I Love You - Allison Pearson4) The Paris Wife - Paula McClain5) Freedom - Jonathan FranzenTop Non-Fiction1) Bossypants - Tina Fey2) Falling Backward - Jann Arden3) Just Kids - Patti Smith4) Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns) - Mindy Kaling5) From This Moment On

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This will be a quick post from my iPhone, as this town no longer has any coffee shops with working wifi, or at least none that I know of. (FYI - my parents are tecnological dinosaurs who don't have a computer or the Internet.) Anyway, today I needed to do some stuff online, so I had to huddle in a Boston Pizza parking lot and scam their wifi. It wasn't conducive to blogging, however.Anyhow, I've

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Just as I expected, Sloan playing the entirety of "One Chord to Another" at the Great Hall last night was AMAZING.Jason got sick with the flu, so at the last minute, I got my friend Mathew to go to the show with me. One man's illness is another man's rock show, I suppose. Mathew's a big Sloan fan so it totally made his day to get to go the show, plus we hadn't gone to a concert together since

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This evening Jason and I went to see Jason Collett's Basement Revue. This event is held annually each Tuesday in December at the Dakota Tavern, which is a tiny little basement bar, and definitely one of my favourite places. We went to two revues last year, and thankfully this year we were able to make it to one.Jason Collett is a Toronto musician and part of the Broken Social Scene collective.

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Greetings from a nice weekend! I can't believe that it's a week until Christmas day! Man, how quickly this time of year goes. Luckily, I am finally finished all of my Christmas shopping. I look forward to not going into a store for awhile. I'm not going to do Boxing Day... I never really do because I'm in Stratford then, and there are not a whole bunch of mega deals to be had in the small

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Twitter is good for concert-ing news.I already knew that Sloan (along with The Rural Alberta Advantage, Ohbijou, and Bonjay) were playing a benefit show next Wednesday and I was intrigued. After all, it was only $20, was for charity, plus I love Sloan, and Ohbijou's album is one of my favourites of the year. And I did enjoy the RAA when I saw them at Hillside.But it was a school night. And

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-50615364888553759602011-12-12T21:46:00.004-05:002011-12-12T22:30:12.206-05:00

I came across this meme on Claire's blog, and decided to take part. Why not? This past weekend was all about Christmas (shopping, napping, festive specials from Swiss Chalet, more shopping, wrapping, writing cards, getting things ready to mail etc.) so I really don't have much to write about. Perfect time for a meme!1. Hot Chocolate or Egg Nog?Egg Nog is only available for a couple of months

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Unsurprisingly, this post is going to be a double concert review post. Warning: I have a lot of Tori Amos picture that I am posting because they make me oh-so-happy.On Wednesday night, I saw Bon Iver at Massey Hall with Jason. WOW. This concert was absolutely amazing. He had a band of about ten musicians on stage with him, including two drummers/percussionists. You know that while you are

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I've been listening to a lot of this:And this:(In preparation for tomorrow night's concert at Massey Hall.)I'm also looking forward to seeing this amazing woman on Thursday night at Massey Hall.It's been far too long (3 years?) since I've seen Tori play.I've also been reading this:While wearing this:(That's my Feist Metals Tshirt with neat-o triangle geometric pattern.)I'm enjoying having this up

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Feist did not disappoint. She put on an awesome show. The only thing I wish is that Massey Hall did not have a curfew, and it could have been longer.Jason and I went out for dinner before the show. Massey Hall is near the Eaton Centre, and the restaurant selection isn't the greatest: mainly just a bunch of overly-priced, overly-busy chain restaurants. However, there's an old diner called The

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-32191986573923869642011-11-29T18:50:00.006-05:002011-11-29T19:51:20.373-05:00

Today's weather is absolutely disgusting and bone-chilling. I am huddled up right now in a hoodie (hood up), buried under blankets, and drinking hot chocolate (with a splash of Kahlua). Right now I wish I had a pair of those socks that you make a sock monkey out of. What are those socks even called?Anyway, it's Tuesday night, which makes me happy because it is inching ever closer to Thursday.

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On days like today, I realize that I am blessed to have the best job in the world.I get actually get paid to make a difference. Sure, some days it's tough slogging, and some of the attitude that I have deal with, from both teenagers and adults, is utterly ridiculous, but that's just a needle in a haystack.I get to put aside myself selfishness, and work hard for others. Sure, you could argue

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-23047447234994509812011-11-23T16:24:00.003-05:002011-11-23T16:29:57.640-05:00

1) Multicultural Day reached financial solvency today. So no matter what happens, at least the events that I organize at school don't drive us into debt. Hey! Maybe I should be a world leader! I'd be better than most, based upon my track record.2) Making hot chocolate at home and drinking it out of a Starbucks Christmas mug.3) The new Florence and the Machine album. It's been on repeat since

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-2780749744740063262011-11-21T18:46:00.003-05:002011-11-21T19:16:45.242-05:00

I had a good weekend. My spa date with work friends, followed by a delicious dinner, was the relaxation that I needed following a busy week. Saturday morning I went for a pretty long run, then ran some errands before catching a ride to a baby shower in Midland with my work spouse, her daughter, and her real-life spouse.Midland is about an hour and a half north of Toronto, and we got there,

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-27643850497290949102011-11-16T22:06:00.006-05:002011-11-16T22:41:57.728-05:00

The shopping diet is so over. In fact, I believe that I obliterated it this evening.After school today, I stopped in the Bay/Bloor area to a) buy a $12 pair of mittens, and b) bring my Swarovski ring that I got in NYC repaired. One of the stones fell out.Anyway, all of my mittens are falling apart, and I need a pair that will go with my fall/winter coats which are black, red, and brown. I saw

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-84567729313639046402011-11-15T20:17:00.003-05:002011-11-15T20:33:22.478-05:00

I've gone a solid week without posting, which I haven't done in, well, I don't know how long.Life has just been really busy and I think I'm burning myself out a little bit. October was my month of social butterflying. This month seems to be more of a month of work, work, work.I just got through report cards. Parent/teacher interviews are coming up. I've been staying late many evenings with

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Remember right around the time of (Canadian) Thankgiving, I declared that I spend too much money on myself and that I was going on a one month shopping diet, and then you never read about it again?Well, I made it!I haven't bought anything frivolous for myself in a month. No clothing, no purses, no shoes, no magazines, no books. The only thing I bought for myself was a Dan Mangan Tshirt at the

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Random list of stuff from this weekend:1) The Matt Good show was amazing! The opening number almost made me cry. He came out, shrouded in darkness, and sang a stripped down version of the song While We Were Hunting Rabbits which is a song I love. It was gorgeous.All of the new songs from this year's album Lights of Endangered Species were great, as were the old classics. I first got into Matt

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I can't believe Halloween was only on Monday. It seems like a lifetime ago. It's been a long week. Hence lack of posting.Anyway, I'm heading off soon to see Mathew Good at the same place I saw Dan Mangan last week. It's funny that I'm seeing two Vancouver musicians at the same place exactly one week apart, but the concerts will be very different. Matt Good tickets cost a lot more, and there

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I'm a lucky person: my weekends are always super fun, enriching, and leave me feeling like I've accomplished something, or learned something, or discovered something, or at the very least, rocked out a little bit. I think I did all of the above this weekend.Friday was the Dan Mangan Show, and I'm so glad that so many of you liked the song I posted previously. It is my favourite, and he actually

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What a week.I'm happy that it's Friday tomorrow, oh-so-happy.I have to say that I'm blessed with particularly wonderful classes this semester. Today I was previewing the optics unit with my grade tens by explaining how the image formed by your lens on your retina is upside-down; your brain flips the image so that you see things upright. That always tends to blow kids' minds, and I made the

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Right now my life consists of marking, followed by quick marking breaks. This is one of them. After this post, I'm going to go to bed, so I can wake up early and mark some more before the start of the school day. School is CRAZY this week. I have extracurricular stuff 3/5 evenings, and tonnes of marking, and the planning, the never-ending planning. Oh, and a student teacher arrives this week

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Today was one of the those days that was a bit of an emotional roller-coaster. I don't know what was up, but little annoyances that I could usually brush off really got to me. However, the bright side of a roller-coaster day is that there are ups to go along with the downs. And some of today's ups were definitely out of a sitcom.This morning I saw two student council kids in the staff room and

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Good weekend. I'm so sad that it's Sunday night at 8:19 pm already. I would like more weekend please.On Saturday, I spent most of the day running errands. I had stuff to mail, groceries to get, and I also had to go pick up my race kit. I also went for a run at the gym; I find running before a race prepares me mentally... If I can do it the day before on a treadmill, I'll be able to do it the

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I thought that I'd have some time to myself this evening, but really, I've only had this past hour that I'm keeping myself awake while I wait for some laundry to dry. Then, it will be some glorious well-deserved sleep.Yesterday was a busy day. I stayed after school to help a student, then went to Body Pump, then met up with friends for dinner, then saw Private Lives. It was quite good. I saw

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Hello from a rainy fall night in Toronto. It's one of those rains where the drops collect and sparkle on my windows.I had a busy day. I stayed late at work marking and planning, then went to the gym to run in preparation for Sunday's race. It was dark by the time I was on the bus home, and I have to say that I rather enjoy bus rides on a rainy evening.Last night Jason and I saw the movie 50/50.

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Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving everyone! I am thankful that it's a long weekend, and that I got two restful days in Stratford during said weekend. Oh, and the weather's been insane! It's like another taste of summer. It makes me feel that winter will never ever arrive!Anyway, taking time to reflect on what you're thankful for is important, and I'm going to take this post just to do that. So

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Man, that in-store performance by Ohbijou last night was great. Hearing a band with such an immense sound (sweet vocals, violin, upright electric bass, keyboards, bass, guitar, drums) play inside a little tiny indie record store was rather awesome. It felt like hearing a band inside of a house, and was a perfect way to start a long weekend.I bought their new album "Metal Meets" a couple weeks

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Phew, Ontario's government will stay Liberal. We've kept the blues away for now.I accidentally wore a blue shirt today. D'oh. I'll wear my red "victory" sweater tomorrow. My local candidate crushed the opposition handily.Right now we don't know if it's a Liberal majority or a Liberal minority. There are many ridings where it's so close. I don't know if I will know before I go to bed. My

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Today was an insanely busy, but very nice day at work. I took two groups of students on an environmental science field study at a nearby river. I brought one group there and back, then did the same with the second group.However, being outside on a sunny day in a pair of jeans that become muddy as the day goes on is a nice change from being inside a classroom. All of the kids were really great

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I enjoyed my Friday night in. Something neat came out of it. I tweeted about the book I was reading, "The Story of Beautiful Girl" by Rachel Simon, and the author tweeted back at me! She told me she's going to be in Toronto at the end of the month to do some readings, and I'm totally going to go. I love how Twitter allows some interaction between you and the artists/authors/musicians/etc.

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I am super pumped that I have NO PLANS for this Friday night. I can't remember having a weekend evening where I'm not doing something. It's not that I don't like doing stuff, but a quiet night is a nice treat.I had a really great day at school today. Assemblies and literacy test prep meant that I actually had a lot of time to get caught up, and not feel like I go for eight hours without a

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-57669131299555151972011-09-28T21:12:00.004-04:002011-09-28T21:44:11.874-04:00

This post is going to be mostly about music. There's so much great music coming out this fall and I've barely even dipped my toes in, so to speak.1) Dan Mangan - "Oh Fortune"This album came out yesterday, but thanks to a pre-order, I've had in heavy rotation for about a week. I really like this album: I think Dan's definitely taken it up a notch since his fabulous album "Nice, Nice, Very Nice".

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Road trips make for fabulous weekends.It rained very consistently all of Friday, which made for less than perfect driving conditions on my way to Sturgeon Falls. I managed to leave the city by about 4:15 pm, but I was slowed down by a lot of traffic while heading north on the 400. I think I drove for about 45 minutes at about 30 km/h.However, even if the weather didn't improve, traffic finally

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-82871527522467258002011-09-22T22:09:00.003-04:002011-09-22T22:23:27.332-04:00

I would rate myself as about 70% from my damned malady. Voice is back. Throat is only sore in the early morning or late evening. Nose is slightly stuffed up. I'm still prone to coughing fits and I'm often dead tired by the end of the day. However, I have energy to make it through the day at school, and have spurts of creativity, and be my usual fun self in social situations.I've almost made

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I'm sitting here, still stuffed up, cold feet, wearing my favourite hoodie, cat on my shoulders, listening to the CBC Radio 3 Podcast about new fall releases. Grant Lawrence has declared Feist's "Metals" the most anticipated Canadian album of the fall, with Dan Magnan's "Oh Fortune" as the second. I'm psyched for both, as I am for non-Cdn releases by Los Campesinos!, my emo-sweethearts Jack's

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I have almost completely lost my voice. I can't believe I'm going to have to take a day off so early into the school year. BLERG.My throat was hurting last week, and I attributed it to the fact that I was using my voice a lot again with being back to school. Well, it's just gotten worse this week, and I really should have stayed home today, but my classes don't have textbooks yet, so I dragged

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-22013168165502930522011-09-11T20:50:00.002-04:002011-09-11T21:19:17.279-04:00

Now that I'm done holidaying hard during the summer, I think I've started weekending hard during the school year.On Friday, two of my work pals and I had massages booked at the spa to celebrate the end of our first week. As we congregated in the parking lot, another colleague asked us "Hey are you ladies in the cycling club?" (The cycling club is new. They go for a bike ride on Fridays, I

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I had an excellent last weekend of summer, even if my plans did not turn out the way I'd thought they would. In fact, because I made another scheduling error (remember this?), I ended up with a bit more culture in my life.The culture started on Friday night when Jason and I visited the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum). They had a great exhibit about water, and it satisfied my inner science nerd,

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I went into school today for a couple hours. I wanted to sleep in, and couldn't get there until about 1 pm, and then they kicked us out at 3:30 pm, but it was enough time for me to remember how to plan. I feel like I know what I'm doing for the first week, and I'll go in again tomorrow to do some more planning and photocopying. The first visit back to school always reduces my back-to-school

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-84241644872688076432011-08-29T23:50:00.007-04:002011-08-30T01:07:15.683-04:00

Here's a rundown of a few days of epicness in reverse. Today: I had a lazy morning of sleep, TV, and breakfast, and then I hopped on my bike to go to the gym for a Body Pump class. After I got home from the gym, I felt like I'd been hit by a truck - I was really tired. I spent the afternoon napping and watching TV, which is so not like me. After dinner, I got back on my bike and rode over to

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After a couple of sunny days where I went on some bike rides and sat in the sun on a patio and read a bit, the weather's turned a little cloudy and ominous. And what bad timing. There is a screening of The Muppet Movie in a park downtown courtesy of TIFF, and Jason and I had plans to go, but it looks like it's gonna thunderstorm, so that might not happen. Yesterday, I received a letter from AA

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I woke up this morning to find out that Canada lost an amazing political leader to cancer. I always hoped that one day I'd be able to call Jack Layton our Prime Minister, but sadly, that won't happen. I highly doubt that any Canadian, regardless of their political stripes, could read his last letter to Canadians without feeling emotional and sadness that Canada lost an amazing leader at his peak

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-42782011896966461822011-08-20T17:04:00.008-04:002011-08-21T10:44:06.802-04:00

I am procrastinating right now, and what better to do whilst procrastinating than to steal a meme from someone's blog (in this case wigsf's)? I never... ...have travelled to Asia, South America, Africa, or Antarctica. There are a lot of continents left on my travel list. ...have been to Saskatchewan or Newfoundland. It's one of my goals to have visited all ten provinces, so those are two travel

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I am back from a quick trip to St. Ratford and back to retrieve one cat. I left here on Monday morning, and made it there by noon. I relaxed, chilled with the 'rents, visited my aunt, and then I spent today running errands and went to the gym which was really good. I've been feeling pretty lazy post-trip, so that first good workout felt invigorating. And now we're home and I'm feeling the need

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I survived the night in the fleabag hotel and made it back home to Toronto. I've never been up and at them so early and quickly than I was on Wednesday morning. We made it out of that place at 7:30 am, even though our rescheduled flight was at 11:20 am. Of course, things didn't go 100% smoothly from there. When we arrived to the airport, we couldn't check in using the self-service kiosk, so

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As you all know, I like to travel. And thus far, all of my travels have gone relatively problem free. There's been a delayed-flight here, a lost bag there, and a couple express trains hopped when they should have been locals. However, right now I am facing my biggest travel SNAFU ever. My flight home was cancelled because of "air traffic control". Airline policy is that we are responsible for

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I love this city. This is my third time visiting, but my first in the summer, so it's nice to see a different side of it. Here's a rundown of what I've packed into the last 24 hours or so.1) Cabbed from the airport to our really nice hotel on Central Park South. We have been schlepping our stuff on public transit thus far, and after a long flight from SLC to NYC, we splurged on a cab. Plus,

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-61631729246369568902011-08-04T00:07:00.004-04:002011-08-04T00:49:55.825-04:00

I haven't blogged yet from Utah, and I apologize. This part of my trip has been way more laid-back than the Chicago part, and I had ample time, but I think I was just too busy hanging out and chilling to really get to it. But now I will.We arrived in Utah on Saturday, which now feels like a lifetime ago. I love how time goes so much slower when you are away from home and having fun. Anyway,

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Been holidaying hard in Chicago. Done lots and lots of stuff. Day #1 - Shopped the Magnificent Mile and went out for deep dish pizza. It was all right. The crust was too pastry-esque for me.Day #2 - Morning lakeshore run, Chicago Art Institute, Architectural boat cruise, Navy Pier.Day #3 - Morning lakeshore bike ride, lunch on the 95th floor of the Hancock building, Shedd Aquarium, Millenium

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I've been completely lazy and exhausted today from a great first Hillside experience. Three days of music, beer, sun, water, food, and fun have left me absolutely shattered. I should be packing right now since I'm leaving for Chicago tomorrow morning, but well, I'm naturally a procrasinator, and when I'm tired, I'm even worse. That's okay though. I have a hard time falling asleep the night

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I'm going to need a day to collapse and rest soon. But seriously, there is no time for that when one is busy holidaying hard! Well, actually Monday was a little bit of a day of rest. I lazed around my house until the late afternoon when I went to the gym, then met up with Jason for sushi/gelato in the evening.Anyway, on Tuesday I got a car and drove Miss Rilo to my parents' house. You know

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-78391069725215530442011-07-17T20:54:00.008-04:002011-07-17T21:58:21.353-04:00

Here's an epic recap post of my last five days of summer vacation awesomeness.WednesdayI lazed around in the morning and then went to my favourite Body Pump class at 1:15pm. I really like the instructor, and my friend Eric goes to this one. My work spouse/gym buddy also joined us, which made the class fun, and we chit-chatted for awhile after.When I got home, my dear Claire phoned me and we had

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Random thoughts post.1) First, I'll answer some questions from my previous post. a) Wigsf asked me what a Body Pump class is. It's one of the fitness classes offered by GoodLife (my gym). It's a weight class where you lift barbells to strengthen different muscle groups. I was intimidated to try the class at first 'cuz there's a lot of stuff involved (weights, mats, steps, etc.) but then I did

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-49709845094737198952011-07-11T16:14:00.003-04:002011-07-11T16:42:56.901-04:00

Hello again from the wonderful world of summer vacation. I used last week as my decompression week, and I'm feeling very relaxed these days.While I was in Stratford on Thursday/Friday of last week, I spent a lot of time chilling by the river. On Thursday, I had dinner with my friend Heather, and then we went for a walk around the river and took a bunch of pictures of various waterfowl that we

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I think I'm transitioning into a summer life of leisure quite well. I started summer vacay with a super fun concert, then went on a hilarious cross-border shopping expedition with some friends from work, and now I've been pretty much chilling for three days. I've gone to the gym, met up with Fea for a Yorkdale expedition, ran some errands, and read/napped a lot. I think I'm decompressing from

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-16265460958488232192011-07-02T00:41:00.004-04:002011-07-02T01:17:07.040-04:00

Happy belated Canada Day! I had one of my best Canada Days in memory. It was a start of what I think of as my looooooooong weekend because I won't be working 'til after Labour Day. And holy fuck, I feel free and relaxed. Insert contented sigh. I went to a big Canada Day show at Downsview Park here in Toronto with my "co-parent". We used to co-teach a course for students-at-risk a couple years

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-15297709308675995492011-06-28T22:14:00.002-04:002011-06-28T22:35:07.840-04:00

I had a good last working-day at work. I finished off some planning and departmental tasks, and finished getting my desk in order for another school year (i.e. massive purging). I also found out my teaching schedule for next year and I'm quite happy with it. I have what will hopefully be some good classes, and preps in the afternoon both semesters. I am optimistic.After school, I ran some

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-30958731874688493452011-06-27T22:45:00.002-04:002011-06-27T23:04:11.860-04:00

Thanks everyone for being very nice and supportive in comments on my last post. :D And Claire, that iPhone auto-correct was pretty funny. I say we have to make "see the fluoride" happen.Anyway, other than an awkward party, my weekend was pretty great. I spent a lot of it cleaning (my apt was a certifiable disaster.... it's not perfect now, but I could have company), running, and reading. On

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-35653331727569532072011-06-25T22:35:00.003-04:002011-06-25T22:52:33.071-04:00

I should be careful of what I say.Tonight I was at my good pal Mathew's birthday party. Interesting fact: Mathew and I are awesome friends, but we don't really have that many friends in common. We have Becca T, some other assorted people from university, and I've gotten to know some of his long-time friends quite well. Anyway, but often at some of his "events" I really only know a few faces,

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The Sloan show was amazing last night. I have lost count of how many times I've seen Sloan (just like I have with other artists such as Hawksley and The Weakerthans), but I would guess it's about fifteen times. I don't know how to rank my multitude of Sloan shows, but this was a great one.They opened with the first three songs from their latest album, The Double Cross. I believe that those

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This week's been sweet so far. I can get so much work done during the day without classes to teach! We're on exams, so the morning consists of a two hour supervision duty, and then you can mark all afternoon. I've marked everything save tomorrow's exam. Report card comments are done. I'm a machine.We've been having lots of fun going out for lunch and then heading to the coffee shop to mark.

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Those were the three words that got me into the secret Stars show. All are words found in the title of songs from their wonderful album "In Our Bedroom After the War".Mathew wanted to give the words to a friend of his. I told him he wasn't allowed to. "It's not fair!" I protested. "You should have to put in the work to go to this show. A lot of people were running around town like me. It

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-73299751348124211152011-06-16T22:49:00.003-04:002011-06-16T23:15:44.024-04:00

Today was the last full day of classes. Exams start tomorrow. Somehow, the bulk of another school year has gone by with a lot of sweat, tears, and laughs. There's still work to be done (marking exams, report cards, graduation, and clean-up), but in two weeks from tonight I'll have the prospect of two months of freedom in front of me.These bright June mornings make me nostalgic for years past;

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-74175784338965440722011-06-13T23:02:00.005-04:002011-06-14T23:17:58.825-04:00

Now that I've booked some flights and one hotel, I think it's time to announce my big trip for this summer.Now, my heart was set on going to somewhere in Europe that I've never been, or even somewhere exotic that I've never thought of going, but sometimes things don't work out that way. And that's cool, 'cuz I know I'm going to have tonnes of fun on my more domestic trip. I guess I've always

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-50761929473391821932011-06-12T23:25:00.002-04:002011-06-12T23:43:27.137-04:00

Friday - Left school ASAP. Came home for a bit of a nap, then went out for dinner with Jason and saw the Joel Plaskett Emergency play the opening night of Luminato. The venue was nice; it was a grassy knoll (how often can one use that word?) by Roy Thompson Hall. The rain held off, and Joel and his Emergency Band played a great set. He played a lot of classics. It seemed like there were many

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Post of randomness starts now!1) Just in case you are all wondering, my summer travel plans are under construction right now, and when they are set in stone I'll announce them here. As always, it'll be all about travelling with friends, visiting with friends and FUN.2) My pet peeve = people who don't like fun. Seriously. It's an inside joke between my work spouse and I since we both like fun a

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-11664863528734342482011-06-08T19:34:00.004-04:002011-06-08T21:23:54.262-04:00

I'm sure everyone has been on the edge of their seats today wondering how my scavenger hunt was fairing. ;)Today I got the second word, and figured out how to properly use the scanner on my phone (I was holding it too close to the code yesterday). Claire - a QR scan is one of those square things you see on advertisements that you can scan with your phone and get more info on whatever the

Christiellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02254427366475758321noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11653324.post-36419477341780290402011-06-07T21:50:00.002-04:002011-06-07T22:10:06.467-04:00

Today I got a tweet from my pal AlieMalie about the fact that Stars is planning a secret show in Toronto, and to get in, you need to participate in a scavenger hunt.Anyway, when I got home from work and the gym, I was a bit tired and tempted not to go on a hunt, but I knew that I'd regret it if I didn't try, so I got myself in gear.First of all, I had to do a technology scavenger hunt of sorts.

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It's been a busy weekend overall. And that's the way I like it.*Friday night was prom night. I wasn't planning on going until a couple of weeks ago when I was having lunch with Fea and R (gym teacher friend) and R was talking about prom and then looked at us and said "You're going.... right?"Both Fea and I looked confused and replied "No. Are we supposed to be going?"R responded "Of course! We

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I had a busy day. So busy that I completely forgot to eat my lunch. During last period, when the kids were dissecting perch no less, I realized that I'd forgotten to eat. Luckily, the smell of formaldehyde chases away hunger, so I didn't feel the need to eat.After school, I went with Fea for a marking/gossip session at our usual coffee shop. It was productive: I got two sets of assignments

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I had a good St. Ratford weekend.I arrived in good time on Friday evening (no train delays hurrah!) and hung out with my parents. I needed to run some errands at Shopper's, so I made a run there and splurged on some books. I got a fast read for myself - "The Girl's Guide to Homelessness" by Brianna Karp, and a book for my dad - "Life" by Keith Richards. Buying my dad a book at the beginning of

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Wow, this has been a long week for a short week. I'm sure you know what I mean.This weekend I'm headed off to Stratford for a belated Mother's Day/birthday celebration with my mom. Mother's Day this year was too ridiculously close to Easter to go home. The next weekend was my mom's birthday but I had my run so I couldn't visit. Then I accidentally booked my Billy Elliott tickets on the long

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To add injury to insult, I had a dentist appointment today. I'm on the mend, but I'm still sniffly and sick-sounding and all around pathetic. Anyway, I had to get a filling done, and it was a particularly nasty one, so I had to get a double-dose of freezing done so it wouldn't hurt quite so much. (Note: DO NOT procrastinate going to the dentist for years at a time. You will pay. If you are in

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After feeling super yucky on Tuesday night, and taking Wednesday off of work as a result. I was feeling pretty fine on Thursday. I had the energy to go to the gym after work and then head to the school play after that. I got home late, blogged, and then went to bed, and then I noticed my throat was itchy. Then it got sore. Then very uncomfortable. Oh, crap.I felt yucky on Friday but made

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I'm tired but pretty happy. My grade tens, who are my favourite class this semester, were concerned that I was away. It was really sweet. I love those guys. I wore my new outfit to work today. I got compliments from many people on my new red sweater. A former student said "oh Miss, you look so pretty in red." Maybe I should wear it more often.I saw a lot of former students tonight because

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I didn't get to wear my new work outfit today.I start feeling very poorly and uncomfy last night, and couldn't sleep as result. (I think poor Jason thought he might have given me food poisoning, but it was something completely unrelated. Dinner was very tasty and it was so good to have leftovers around so I didn't have to worry about food today!) Past midnight, I realized that I should go see

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I am so tired of this rainy wet cold dreary drab yucky spring. I've never felt myself so (dis)affected by the weather as I have this year.After a super busy day at school, I stopped by the little mall near my house to get a bottle of wine for dinner tonight. I thought that I should get a local wine to be environmentally friendly, but I am craving travel, and when one is stuck working, why not

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Despite the rain and the cold temperatures (it's apparently May, you know), my 5K run went quite well. It was really fun! I loved running around Queen's Park, then down University Ave to King St. and back up to the finish line at Queen's Park. I enjoyed being able to ignore traffic lights, and I chuckled a bit to myself to see traffic stuck on cross streets. I think it's kind of funny,

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With the recent Blogger shutdown and life's typical insanities, I've not been able to blog in a few days. It's been my longest hiatus for eons. Anyway, a quiet Saturday night doing laundry gives me a chance to catch up on blogging.On Thursday night I was summoned to a friend's house for emergency wine. I like when helping my friends involves me drinking red wine. Win win!On Friday night,

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Today was one of those days where my nerves seemed to be a little frayed. Nothing especially bad happened today, but it was one of those days where I went home feeling yucky and overwhelmed.Off-topic rant - Pencil quality these days SUCKS! Seriously. I have to buy a lot of pencils in my game, and all brands eff-ing suck. They will not sharpen, even with a good quality electric sharpener, and

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This weekend was pretty low-key but a really good type of low-key, and I daresay I needed it. This past week at work seemed pretty long.On Friday night, I met up with a former colleague, but for-always friend, for dinner. At some point this year I resolved to make more time for friends who I don't see very often, and I would give myself a C+ on this resolution. (C+ means I'm very close to be

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Luckily today was a really lovely day to chase away the post-election blues. It was sunny, and I bought some new laceless black Chucks to wear as my lazy slip-on shoes this summer. They'll be good for biking. Time for a random post.1) Sloan's new album, The Double Cross, is coming out in about a week. I am excited for it. My plan is to actually walk to Soundscapes after work to buy a

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He's said it before, and he'll say it again: democracy simply doesn't work.Seriously, Canada, seriously?? We used to be the cool kids. Now we're going to be the dinosaurs who don't do anything about climate change, and I fear what's going to happen to our healthcare system.And now we're stuck in this mess for four to five years.I need a strong drink.

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Canadians go to the polls tomorrow to vote in #elxn41, as it's called on Twitter.A record number of voters have turned out for the advance polls which hopefully means that overall, Canadians will be voting more than they did in the last federal election (59% - for shame!). I am cautiously optimistic that this election will be Stephen Harper's last one.It seems like his chances at a majority

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