LEAVE IT ALONE

Let's lock arms and shout to the sun:
look what we have done.

As per usual, mondays are long. My mind is falling asleep; I am tired. I am surrounded by chaos, noise: students talking amongst themselves, loudly. And it's just me fighting against noise and music and readings.

It's me and Justin Vernon against the world at the moment :)

FUN FACT!

NO ONE, I mean NO BODY, suspects me of being freaking Mauritian on Campus. WHAT THE HEEEELLLLLL, GUY!
Aren't my roots evident? OR what?
This is so sad... Cry cry cry.

The main level of our house smells so delicious right now. Oatmeal cookies and banana cake.
(:

GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE BAD NEWS

Satisfied with my mark for the first assignment :)

Tomorrow's plan:
- Breakfast
- Intense Workout
- Lunch
- Trip to the Salvation Army Thrift Store for the dollar sale!!!
- NATS homework
- Bake oatmeal white chocolate chip cookies.

Intense workout session: Zumba (40 mins cardio), six exercise workout, 3-tier squats, wrist weights.
Now: Waiting for my homemade granola to finish baking. Smells soooo good! Coconut and nuts and maple syrup! :)

LOVE LIKE A SUNSET

J'ADORE PHOENIX! :)

Obsessed with Napoleon Says just because it's filled with hilarity.

AND:
i.
RAFI GAVRON
Incredibly good looking.
ii. Besides being really really really bored and annoyed and overall moody in the afternoon due to the fact that I had to wait two hours and fifteen minutes until home, my last class was great. Loved the replacement prof!! He was too funny. And eff the people who didn't laugh!! YOU GUYS HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOUR! Hell, maybe I just love to laugh..... but still. He was funny. I'm taking his african whatever class next year. Hahaha

Two hours of waiting in the student lounge. Fucking hell it's loud and exhausting. Eff you Mondays, I hatechu.

Change of plans

- Summer job: T.O. Zoo, Centreville or The Ex - basically somewhere you can interact with people and enjoy summer.
- MUST GO: Marineland, mini trips to the States.
- G1 permit (I know, this is laughable. I'm 18......)

TRUTH

Someday all this mess will make me laugh.
I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait...

If I ever feel better,
Remind me to spend some good time with you.
You can give me your number,
When it's all over I'll let you know.

It's like somebody took my place;
I ain't even playing my own game.
The rules have changed well I didn't know.
There are things in my life I can't control.
- Phoenix.

Foreign films

are the absolute best.

Favourites as of late: L'heure d'été, Victor and Earth.

The perks of living near a Blockbuster and having a Favourite movie pass. The people who work there will recognize me as a familiar face. Haha. The walk to and from is good exercise. My maman and I walked through the snow storm yesterday, just for a movie. Hahah.

On another note: Juliette Binoche est très belle.

Feels like home

Homemade soup and movies: a great remedy for snow storms.

The passengers

He was sitting at the back of the bus, his eyes intently drowning in a book.

She sat down, across from him. Her back facing the side windows. At first, he hadn't noticed anything until he looked up to check the roads. There she was; sitting and daydreaming. Her skin was kissed by the cold dry winter air. And her cheeks were cherry red.

They both rode the bus in silence, each in their own world.

Before he got off at his stop, he took one last glance at her and he disappeared.

in the next six months

- make more.......
- meet someone great
- an overall B+ average
- get accepted into the translation program
- hop on a plane and just go.
- be continuously happy with myself, with my life, with everything.

It's nice when someone you know comes and unexpectedly says "Hello" before class starts because you were sitting and waiting alone and they just coincidentally arrived, alone, and in a sense, we both needed someone to literally talk to in that moment.
And by talk, yes I do mean literally have one-to-one conversations but every question is genuine and every answer is honest.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

To the guy on the west end of the room, stop staring at the girl on the east side of the room. That's just plain creepy. Every freaking Monday morning class.

Dude, put on your big boy boxers and go talk to her. I don't know if she notices but I fucking do. And frankly, I find that to be rather disconcerting.

What's new (this year):

- I've been wearing crimson lipstick practically everyday without feeling uncomfortable. I quite like my lips being that shade of red.
- I've been caring less and less about my hair. I don't want to cut it although it might desperately need a trim. I've been parting it in the middle for awhile now and I like it. I dyed it this supposedly purple brown colour but that was a bust. However, I did notice a change in colour; it's dark brown now and in the light, rather light brown. I don't know how... but whatever. I think I like it.
Somedays I'm just too lazy to bother wash it when it'll be covered anyway. I am always so tempted to just put it up in a bun and throw a beanie on. I don't care if I look like a freaking rastaman.
- I've been wearing my UGGS practically everyday. And you could say that there's a little bit of self-loathing whenever I wear them... So I ordered a pair of black Sorel's. (Finally.)
- HIPHOP ABS workout sessions almost everyday. Bought a weight scale, at LAST. And shovelling has also contributed to my daly workout.

Saturday lunch

Lunch, chitchats and laughter with the family in the kitchen. Papa and I eating at the countertop quite uncomfortably while Maman and Stephanie eat at the table.
We are honestly a really close family because we know that at the end of the day, we only have each other.
We are aware of each other's faults and imperfections as well as our (good) mannerisms. As a family should love unconditionally, we accept these qualities.

!

The new year, in terms of school work, has started out amazing. I received a B for that French course! Since I passed, I'm able to move on to the continual course. I passed my first university course! :) Haha

And the usually lonely and boring wednesday bus ride turned to unexpected chitchats and laughter with Chloé.
We've replaced the thursday rides with wednesday due to class changes, etc.
Two doses of Chloé in two consecutive days. Hollaaa. Haha.

New Year's

Bottle of Heineken and some banana cake and good company.

xo

2010 in bullets

- Lost touch with a few people
- Realized that the only people you can definitely rely on, for life, are your family and ultimately yourself
- Bonds with childhood friends are stronger than any other friendships
- Realized that friends who are miles away or a continent away make the time to stay in touch.
- New beginnings are the best
- Dyed my hair three shades lighter, meaning brown
- Then dyed it blueberry black months later and as per usual, the colour faded within a couple shampoos. Note to self: DON'T DO IT AGAIN.
- Suddenly found an admiration for rabbits like people have for dogs. It started out with Youtube videos. And then finally caved in and we bought a holland lop rabbit named Bunbun, She's three years old, almost four and she's cute and fat and furry. I was never an animal person. I had a dog when I was little but that was it. I didn't clean after it. But with this rabbit, it's like an episode of Dirty Jobs from Animal Planet. Cleaning her litter box and her cage and brushing her fur and taking her out to play and walking her and feeding her.
- Couldn't wait to get the fuck out of high school. HONESTLY.
- Graduated high school and promised myself that I wouldn't go back there again. (Sounds awful right? It's not like I hated my high school, I don't know why. I'm the kind of person that likes to move on to other things. But if my T.A. was still there, I would have definitely visited.)
- Became more outgoing in terms of speaking to other people. Perhaps even a little less socially awkward.
- Began a year in university and for the first time in 8 years, started a curriculum in French. I missed talking French every single day. Now I have the chance to do that. And not only speak it but being surrounded by it is amazing. Hearing French. Seeing French. Writing French. Reading French.
- Realized that my back-up plan was impossible. I ended up choosing translation over teaching. It might be a boring job, but I wouldn't be able to handle children in herds.
- Realized that my dream job: working for an editing house. Perhaps translating books to French? Or editing French pieces.
- Remained single yet again.
- Had the best summer of my entire 18 years of living.
- Had my first summer in our new house.
- I was chlorine infested. My pores were releasing chlorine. My hair was filthy chlorine and basically lived in my pool everyday during the summer.
- Finally received my Macbook.
- Met great people in university.
- Had the best Christmas ever. And Christmas break.
- Fell in love with philosophy yet again.

And the first thing I plan to do in 2011? Attempt to dye my hair tips an auburn brown, ombre-style according to Shenae Grimes pictures when she had darker hair.
It's a tradition. I dye my hair for every New Year.

A toast to

more memorable moments, love, peace, more encounters with great people, better solid friendships, intense real conversations, more laughter, more smiles, more success, more prosperity.

Above all, here's a toast to an even amazing year.

2011, bring it on.