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Thursday, June 19th, 2003
9:59 am	tarzan_tb Magic Number 20 Job Criminal Personality A Worrier, I Worry That I Worry Too Much Temperament Sweet Natured Sexual Just Say No Likely To Win A Duel With Pistols Me - In A Word Startling Colour Brought to you by MemeJack Hmmm. Well, they're right on a couple of points.... (BJD: "Shall i get my dueling pistols or my sword?") Current Mood: drained Current Music: richard ashcroft - check the meaning (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, June 9th, 2003
2:08 pm	Hello everybody! ("Hello doctor nick") (oh man, i haven't watched any television, including the simpsons, in sooo long). Hi! Look, it's me, Taryn. I'm alive!!! Just in case, you know, anyone actually cares. I also remembered about livejournal, which is quite surprising, considering my old age and feeble mental abilities. Anywho, i mean to write a nice, long entry, but unfortunately am somwhat hindered in this endeavour by the fact that our internet isn't working, and i keep on getting this nagging throb in the back of my head whenever i use my computer at work for non-work crap like this. I think it's my conscience or something. So until then, you'll all have to satiate yourself w/ the point form version of what's been up since exams ended: - St.Hildas killed my computer - not living w/ elizabeth+clarissa/living w/ bryony - being persona non grata w/ the former, so it would seem - work (full-time) - school (part-time) - taking care of grandfather on the weekends, who has not only stolen my room at home but also manages to suck the life out of me everytime i'm there. Bastardo testadura! - anyone seen "a beautiful mind"? you know when you finally see nash's office and spybunker for what they really are, and they're all plastered in little bits of paper? yah, that's about the state of my post-it notes for "things to do to get to france". did i mention how i spent my birthday at yorkuniversity for an orientation session? although i guess it beats moving people out.... - not talking to my mom - talking to my mom, but okay, i'll admit that it was mostly crying - oh yes, and sandwiched b/w those last two was having a nervous breakdown. ever found yourself running errands downtown during your lunch hour, and suddenly find yourself crying? cuz i have! - getting a pity payraise from my uncle today. which i guess is good. And wednesday: Coldplay. All will be good....ciao. Current Mood: drained (Comment on this)
Friday, January 17th, 2003
9:36 am	good lord, how i love wasting time on quizzes Who is your Ideal Lord of the Rings (male) Mate? brought to you by Quizilla (Comment on this)
Friday, December 27th, 2002
8:05 pm	tehehe Legolas is my fancy! What's your fancy? Click here and tell the world! Saw LOTR again yesterday! Then spent much of today on funny LOTR related websites. Some people have way too much time on their hands. Oh wait, that includes me. Oops. Current Music: david gray - kagaroo (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 18th, 2002
4:30 pm	LOTR baby! Woo-hoo! Yeah for midnight showings of opening movies! LOTR II rocked the ascot (whatever the hell that means anyway). Now i can't wait to get back from work so that i can watch the first movie again. And Lauren: yes, Aragorn is rugged. It took you 2 movies to figure that out? And Faramir's a dick-head. I wish Boromir was still alive...*sigh*...Sean Bean.... But most importantly, Legolas got to smile and crack jokes. Oh yah, and the whole plot-thing with the ring. Whatever. taryn Current Mood: enthralled Current Music: strokes - last night (Comment on this)
Monday, October 7th, 2002
11:12 pm	i knew it all along This was steph's result. Like we didn't know already... LORD VOLDEMORT As Lord Voldemort, you are extremely intelligent, talented and brilliant. One minor drawback though... you are the personification of all evil. Although you have a clear understanding of moral issues, you prefer to take the more murderous or destructive option. Your strong powers of leadership attracts people, but for all the wrong reasons. Your favourite past-time of blowing up people does not go down well with the neighbours. HOUSE Slytherin - Being in the Slytherin house, you are are cunning, devious, and will use any means to obtain your goals. You believe violence is an answer to many situations. Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: force of nature (referring to herself of course) (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 6th, 2002
5:04 pm	quelle surprise.... So this is really just confirmation of what we've known all along. Yeah for anal-retentiveness! HERMIONE GRANGER As Hermione, you are intelligent, honest, and caring about others. Although you may not particularly stand out, you have a clear sense of morals and can formulate strong opinions on certain moral issues. Although your education may be particular important to you, you are still friendly to others, and your loyalty and commitment endears people towards you. HOUSE Ravenclaw - Being in the Ravenclaw house, you are likely to be loyal, intelligent and have a good understanding of ethical and political issues. Your studious nature partially takes priority over your adventurism. (Comment on this)
Sunday, September 29th, 2002
4:44 pm	haha, i have yet to bite the dust In fact, i'm feeling quite healthy. Alright, so that might be pushing it a bit. But i do feel a healthy dose of rant coming on! So steph+katie+i had decided this summer that as soon as we got back to stilda's, we were going to start up a website, where we could just bitch + poke fun of people to our little hearts' content. Great, thought I, that way i could put all my livejournal-esq diatribes on one page. Also, this summer i realized how depressingly out of touch i was with all the gals from highschool, so with the website i could also keep them up to date with everything (cuz i lead such an involved life and all...ha!). Anywho, it's just about october now and nothing's been done. Typical. So i go: fuckit, i'll just start a cute lil' angelfire website. You know, the one's that are supereasy to do cuz you can just steal ideas from their little template-thingies. Look, i was thinking substance, not style. But nooooo, i can't even think that! cuz of the freaking bandwidth limit we have here. Must the gods slap me down in my every attempt at anything? Oh great, the song's changed now to Radiohead's "Sulk". How appropriate. taryn Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: Sarah Harmer - Lodestar (Comment on this)
Friday, September 20th, 2002
4:49 pm	grrrrr... Yah, so i wanted to do an entry re: the 2nd kirk party, but then realized that i don't know enough synonyms for expressions like fuck, bitches, screwed up the ass, pissed-off and incompetent for the entry to do justice to the actual event. And using @*#%* just wasn't doing it for me. Sorry. taryn Quotes of the evening: (from 3rd-year Esther & Liz, upon hearing at around 11.30 that they hadn't bought enough plastic cups) ~ "Just rinse out old ones" (from our *incompetent* HofA Kath Fitzgerald, after i told her that the porter had warned us that the campus police had been called) ~ "Uhm, okay, so what do we have to do?" Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: i wish i could be listening to my "mad" playlist right now.. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 10th, 2002
9:18 pm	DOVESdovesDOVESdovesDOVESdovesDOVES Last night was the Doves show! Woo-hoo!!! No really, they were awesome live, and filled out the venue really well w/ a cool lights+visual stuff. And we were right up by the barriers, just to the left of the bassist/singer. It was definitely one of the best concerts i've ever been to! Unfortunately, stupid me doesnt listen to the radio that much and so missed her chance to meet them at the Edge (as a couple of fellow concert-goers pointed out, those jerks. But then again they were from hamilton, so what do you expect?). But that doesnt matter at all cuz the show was just that good! They played pretty much everything off the new album, and a few songs that i really liked off the old one. And they were fucking hilarious on stage. Sure, the drummer could play while smoking a fag, but when the lead singer does it too you know thats true talent ;) Man, brit rock/dream/pop rocks! I was definitely born on the wrong side of the pond. taryn and if you dont know (or care to know) who they are, well then you obviously suck-ass and should probably go stick whatever shite music you listen to back into the gaping holes of your cavernous cranium, lest you be disturbed from your complacent slumber by a glimpse of true musical genius. I kid you not. Current Mood: enthralled Current Music: Doves - the cedar room (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 7th, 2002
8:45 am	dead-on, bizzatch Which Sex and the City Player Are You? Find out @ She's Crafty You're smart, witty, trustworthy, level-headed and industrious. You value your independance above all else. Success is very important to you. You give the impression that you may be a little jaded, but you still harbour school-girl fantasies of finding someone who'll make you giggle and blush. You can also be almost irrationally compulsive at times and are excessively cynical. Structure, order and schedual are very important to you. You have no tolerance for the majority of men these days. You find their behaviour completely unfathomable, and feel that if a man's over thirty and single, there's something wrong with him. It's Darwinian. They're being weeded out from propagating the species (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 31st, 2002
10:27 am	Stildas here in come Yeah!! 24 hrs and i'll be back in res! Alright, i guess technically i'll be loading up the car, and probably still packing some stuff. But still! Ohmygawd, i can't nbelieve how much stuff i have! My mom spent the summer buying me all this cookware crap, and there's so much of it i'm going to have to buy a shelving unit or something. But if anyone needs a kettle, or a pot, or a pan, or a whisk, etcetc, you know who to go to. I seriously think she went a bit overboard: she even got me a garlic press! Honestly, what the hell am i going to do with that? Ward off the vampires (hmmm, i wonder if it works for Buffy fans too...)? So my mom is also getting paranoid that we won't be able to carry all the stuff ourselves (okay, so she probably has a point, considering that i now have a fridge). So if anyone's around Sunday afternoon (i'll definitely be done before 4pm) would you like to give me a hand? Clarissa - loved the "my parents are old and frail" bit! So to make my case, I'd just like to remind you all how enjoyable it was to spend that friday in may packing everyone else up. You know, the day of my 20th birthday? Yah, it kicked ass. So, if anyone would like to put their (hopefully growing) guilt to good use i'd be much obliged. See everyone soon! taryn Current Mood: excited Current Music: Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 19th, 2002
1:41 pm	aaarghh I hate my job. No really, i do. I know everyone always says that, but i'd like to think that the fact that i'm actually typing this while sitting at my desk lends some credence to my claims. And everyone has gone on holidays in August! Except, of course, for me, who can't afford to take any. Boo-hoo. It was so bad on Friday, that of the 10 people who normally work in our branch of the department, i was the only one here. Yes, that's right, only me. And what exactly do i know about environmental assessments and policy development? Jack-all. But does that stop my supervisor (who is off a month's vacation, the jerk) from also assigning me to help the uber-bitch of the office on some crap-ass project of hers? Nooo, of course not! A project which i am unbelievably unqualified to do, which another student spent hundreds of hours working on last year , and which will probably prohibit me from completing the original project that i was actually hired to do. And to top it all off, what with the fact that of late i cannot stand my mother and her utter want of hospitality and complete disregard for the fact that i live there too, it's become a toss up between what's worse: going to work in the morning or coming home at night. I have never so looked forward to going back to school in my life! Crap, even class will be better than this. On a more upbeat note, steph+katie+i saw OASIS saturday night. They rocked ass! We also traipsed around the city, following Noel Gallagher. If anyone wants to see steph's little eyes light up and her gain a few inches as she floats up to cloud9, i'd suggest asking her about the "drive-by" and her "brush with fame." See you all (mercifully) soon, taryn Current Mood: discontent Current Music: Oasis - Columbia (playing in my head, of course) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 17th, 2002
9:14 am	kick-ass!! Goodness Gracious, you're everyone's favourite do-gooder Jean Grey, also known as Phoenix. You look after your teammates, get along with everyone, have a wonderful man who loves you and have pretty much achieved perfection. But look out when you're PMSing and you become Dark Phoenix: a raging homicidal bitch with a knack for causing trouble. I'm Jean Grey What X-Men Character are You? (Comment on this)
Friday, June 28th, 2002
1:59 pm	return of the quiz whore Which Kids In The Hall recurring character are YOU? oh god, i love dave foley and Kids! see ya soon elizabeth ;) (Comment on this)
Friday, June 7th, 2002
11:15 am	just checking in HA! Hahahaha! England beat Argentina 1-0 in the World Cup! Howd'ya like dem apples, you Faulklands fuckups? But on a less profane note, I really couldn't concentrate at all at work this morning, probably cuz i was checking the score every minute. Ahhh, be still my beating heart. I mean, one month of addiction every 4 years (2 if you count the Euro campaigns) isn't that bad, is it? And Ireland are playing well too :) All we have to work on now is the French team.... Yes, I have no life. I also rarely actually make LJ entries, preferring just to read yours. Call it what you will. Anyways, just thought i would post something, to let you know that i AM still alive (i guess you'll have to postpone the celebrations, Kush + Clarissa). Guess where I'm going this weekend? That's right: Guelph. God knows why, but apparently Katie lives there. If no one's heard from me in a week, the cows must have gotten me. Later, taryn Current Mood: jubilant Current Music: Doves - Satellites (playing in my head, of course) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 21st, 2002
8:38 am	Which character does this one belong to, anyway? I have yet to see Attack of the Clones (i think it's just cruel to cover up Ewan's pretty little face with a beard), but steph+i saw The Importance of Being Earnest last weekend, and it was great. Hilarious, in fact. Go see it. Or else. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, May 20th, 2002
9:13 pm	mmmm, ewan which Episode II character are you? Probably the greatest Jedi Knight of all. Like Obi Wan, you are wise and keep your feet on the ground at all times. You will not be outsmarted by anyone. You are always faithful to your friends. Be careful though, danger lurks around every corner - you could even be betrayed by those closest to you. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 14th, 2002
8:29 am	seismic hey Lauren, Carrie: how was the earthquake? Current Mood: blah Current Music: Sloan - Losing California (haha) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 12th, 2002
10:46 pm	pensive (or, "pensieve" if you've read HP4) Bridget Jones's Diary, Wednesday 4 January: "...he thinks we are the Bitch Queens from Hell - which, as Jude pointed out, is a misapprehension because, although we have discovered out Inner Bitches, we have not yet unlocked them." So, i have this one, well i guess we'll call her a friend for lack of a better term, from highschool who keeps on trying to get back in touch with me, via msn or the phone. Now, we were really close back in gr10/11, but kinda started drifting apart in gr12, such that by the time highschool was over, i really didn't care where she was going, or what she was doing, as long as it has happening far, far away from me. She was the kind of girl who would befriend you, and you'd be great friends, and then she'd just move onto someone else, adopting their interests and tastes instead. I guess you could call her a friend-whore. Which is pretty accurate, considering.... But that's something else altogether different. So anyway, i really only ever see her now at parties w/ friends from high school, where she always manages to act sappily sweet, and siddle up to you like you're still best friends. She is such a fake, it's unbelievable. But the problem is, whenever i'm on msn she always tries to talk to me, and recently she's been calling my house (thought thankfully not when i'm home). I'm a pro at avoiding people! But seriously, am I supposed to call her up and tell her what, that i don't want to talk to her? Cuz she's only kinda cluing in now that i'm ignoring her (it's taken her over a month -- she's a bit slow). Ughh, people are so stupid. Except for me. And you. Well, some of you. Great, i have to go to work tomorrow. And every other week day. Forever. Until school starts. Then i'll be going to that instead. In the words of Daniel Cleaver: "What an interesting life you do lead." ps: just had dinner tonight w/ grandparents. i get depressed when i see them, cuz they seem to be aging really quickly and that scares me. i mean, my nona's 80 and my nono's 93 -- they're not going to last forever. i enjoy spending time with them, i'd just rather remember them as they were 10-15 years ago, when she'd babysit and teach me to play bocca and he'd build me doll houses and tell me stories from italy. now it seems all they can do just to remember where they are and not fall over when they walk. aging sucks. Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: OLP - Somewhere Out There (Comment on this)