Fair time...

Happy October... Sorry I'm a little late.

My life has been kinda boring lately, incase you were wondering. School's kind of taken over my life, but hey... I'm trying to get into University here. my hard work's been paying off though. I'm getting a 90% in English, a 94% in accounting, an 93% in photography... and a 70% in math (but let's not talk about that last one)

Anyways, this weekend I was supposed to spend writing my speech for english, but I figured I needed some sort of teenage-esque rebellious fun. Every year, my town holds the largest agricultural fair in Canada (yeah, I live in a town that does that kinda thing) and every year there is a 'teen video-dance' on the friday night. Pretty much everyone living in or surrounding my town who is between 14-20 goes to this dance. No one ever actually wants to go, but in my town, you are kind of obligated to go... it's just the thing that you do.

It's actually not as lame as it sounds... it's actually pretty hardcore. about 90% of the kids there are either drunk, or high, or a little bit of both. It's like any other teenage dance, loud hip-hop music blaring through speakers, security gaurds around the perimeter waiting for a fight to break out (which always happens), and a mass of grinding, hormonally charged teenagers.

I met this guy there... Adam. He's from the next town over, totally hot. We danced for a long time, he tried to make out with me, but he was a wee bit drunk so I wasn't feeling it. (my 2 friends & I were some of the few sober people there. We just weren't interested in drinking... and there were cops everywhere booking people) But yeah, I gave him my number and talked to him today, and he's still super nice when sober. :)

so yeah, now I'm screwed for my english speech that I was supposed to write, but what ever... the only thing worse than going to the markham fair, is being the person who didn't go to the markham fair.

Peace&love&deathfromabove1977

--lauren

my friends are aberzombies...

WOAH! I kind of forgot about my lovley blog for a few weeks there... sorry if anyone is actually reading this :)

School's been mega busy lately... I have 2 freaking english essays due on monday... WHAT THE HELL? who gives a class 2 essays at the same time? I'm pretty sure I failed my math test on thursday... good times. *cough*

My school district had a PA day, which is a day once a month or so where students don't have to go to school, but the teachers do (HA! sucks to be them) Anyways, a bunch of friends & I decided to go chill in downtown toronto... we did A LOT of shopping (mostly at holister & Abercrombie... BARF) and i realized that my friends do not have the same love for urban outfitters as i do. I spent pretty much the entire content of my savings account, and around 4 we hopped on the go train home.

On the train me & my friends were brain storming ideas for our feature film (we're gonna put it on youtube, I'll link it here when it's done) but all of the sudden some woman a few rows down started coughing. She was choking! it was soooo scary! Thankfully the person beside her knew the heimlich maneuver... but we had to stop the train in some sketchy looking town and call an ambulance for her.

We didn't get home until 6ish... then I went to dinner with my other friend for her sweet 16. We had korean bbq (which is the most amazing thing of life) at this resturant called chakos.

I also got a haircut (photo op)

And i think thats all the interesting stuff thats been going on. more later. for now I have 2 essays to write *cough*facebooktime*cough*

--Laurenn

essay outlines are... fun.

We're writing comparison/contrasting essays in English class, so i'm just going to spitball a few ideas. By all means, pay no attention.

• Idealism vs Realism
  - human nature (imperfections)
  - Relative thinking (Law of attraction)
  - psychological effects (downfals of both)
  
• Big vs Small Families
  - lovey dovey-ness (emotional support system)
  - seclusion & unimportance
  - future (population & demographics)
  
• Canadian vs American Governments
  - history (A. revolutionism vs european exploitation)
  - Powers (seperation vs fusion of leaders)
  - political powers & democracy (independant candidates influence)
  
• Modern Career Woman vs Traditional Housewife
  - closer & more involved in child rearing (traditions)
  - subservient to male role in household (feminism streak)
  - role model (?)

essays are super not fun. hope you're school work is more exciting than mine. PEACE

--Lauren

crap crap crap...

It's kind of funny how the weekend I was expecting turned out to be the total opposite... okay maybe it's not so much funny as it is painstakingly infuriating.

For the first time in a long time, I had absolutley no plans for this weekend. All of my friends are either in another counrty for the weekend, or working, or at some Future coaches of Canada course, or visiting grandparents... or something. Anyways, I planned on taking advantage of the alone time, and catch up on writing my stories, and finish reading Pride & Prejudice, and study my rational exponents so I don't fail math this year.

So I wake up this morning, and I immediatly get a list of chores to do form my dad. This is not out of the ordinary, but i was a little thrown off by the "and have it all done before noon." part. WTF? So after cleaning my room, vacuming the pool, and mopping the kitchen floor, I ask my mom what's up. This is when I found out that my aunt & uncle were comming over for their first monthly alotted supervised visit with their kids (my cousins) who have been living with my family for the past 7 months, due to my aunt and uncle being deemed unfit parents by Children's aid.

I was furious. I hated my aunt and uncle with every fiber of my being. My uncle was a drug dealer, finding himself in and out of jail every other weekend. My aunt was a neglegent mother, caring more about her monthy manicure than paying the bills. It was their fault my family fell apart, and it was their fault that i went through everything that I did. I used to blame my parents for my emotional turmoil... when in reality nothing was their fault at all.

And now my aunt & uncle are sitting in my living room, sipping on the coffe that I had to make, spending time with their three kids who deserve so much better than the parents they were given. I just can't stand to go down their and watch the scene unfold. I'd rather sit on my bed, ranting to mylaptop, listening to "Brand New" and "Justin Nozuka" trying to stable myself.

The last thing I want to do is read about Mr. Darcy's ellusive manner, or write about Parker Mac's love life.

I'm really tempted to hop out my window, climb down the drain pipe and just leave this house for an hour or two... go to starbucks, get some food in me, or go shopping or something. But it's raining... stupid forecast.

upset&emotional

--Lauren.

iz gon rain!

above is the weather forecast for tomorrow... I've run out of things to talk about, so we are moving on to remedial small talk topics, incase you were wondering.

So yeah... a lot or rain inToronto... Joy.

haha k I honestly have nothing else to say

--Borin.Lauren.

_________ of the month...

This month's theme?

Going green!

Although, of course... going green is more than just a trend. We all need to do whatever we can whenever we can to help make our planet a beter place. & never get discouraged.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

Much love & a heap of mixed recyclables

--Lauren

juxtaposition...?

précis...?

syntax...?

jargon...?

...WTF?

I have an englsih test tomorrow on this HUGE list of literary terms that we're supposed to know! On top of that, I have a math test tomorrow too... and I only got a 62% on the summative quiz! GAH I need to study... I NEED to get on the honor roll this year! It'll look so good on my university & job apps.

... But the lure of the internet is just too strong. I'll study later -she says for the millionth time this week.

UGH Fine, I'll pull out the text books now, *mumbles intellegible things at computer screen*

--Lauren.