John Mayer!!

Yep... tonight I was at the Bell centre as Johnny Mayer rocked the house!
What a talented guitarist! What a beautiful voice! What brilliant lyrics! WooooO!

John Mayer puts on a great show. He is one of my all-time favourite artists. What's yours? I like hearing about others' music tastes.

Today I finished my first exam and a large computer science assignment, so it was nice to take a little break, relax and listen to some really awesome music.

My friend Jozef and I went to the concert together. We've had tickets since Feb 26th and I've been so excited about it! We sat and stood and clapped and danced and yelled. It was pretty chill and relaxed. But the girls behind us screaming "WE LOVE YOU, JOHN! YOU'RE SO HOT!" didn't really enhance the experience. However, I have to admit that with the way he dances and the way his curls bounce around when he bobs his head, I think he's pretty cute.

The show was great, but it did leave me a little unsatisfied. He didn't play some of my favourites, like Slow Dancing in a Burning Room, Come Back to Bed, Something's Missing and Bold as Love. Here's what he did play (in this order):

1. Vultures

2. Good Love is on the Way

3. Why Georgia (my favourite from his first album)

4. Some older song that I didn't know the name of, maybe from Room for Squares

5. No Such Thing (with the best guitar solo from the whole concert)

6. The Heart of Life (with an added line from In Repair)

7. Bigger Than My Body

8. I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving You)

9. Belief

10. Waiting on the World to Change

11. Gravity

12. Your Body is a Wonderland

13. I'm Gonna Find Another You


That's from memory... pretty good, eh?
Here's looking forward to his next album!

Good times.

Friday night I had my NINTENDO PARTY! What an amazing time!! Eight people came out, and Peter brought over 60 games for us to enjoy! My favourites quickly became Trog (an old favourite) and Boulder Dash (a new fave). We ate lots of good food and played Nintendo for hours. I don't think I'll ever get tired of it! What a good investment! :P I had friends from several different places (friends of friends, friends from classes, friends from Campus for Christ) and Nintendo just seemed to bring people together so much more quickly than just hanging out. We played Track Meet for the first while, and I laughed a lot as people raced each other in the 100m dash and the 110m hurdles! Who knew Nintendo had a Track and Field game with a DDR-style pad? What a blast! Brad came late, after most people had left, but I was still in the mood to play... soooo we played Marble Madness (although I died pretty quickly every time) and Boulder Dash because we really really wanted to get to the Ice World! We stayed up until 3:30, but I don't regret the lack of sleep I suffered the next day. Oh man... so much fun!

Then... last night Dorrie returned home and her, Brad and I watched "Children of Men". I thought it was really well done! However, the end looked kinda low budget, with very little props and set. I didn't like that it ended so abruptly. But, I loved the political side to the film. Those crazy fisher people!! They make me so mad! The music was great, and the characters were really interesting.
I'd be interested to hear comments from anyone else who's seen the movie, so leave them!

Starting next September I will be living with Aviva, the girl from my church, as well as a friend from residence first year. Her name is Krista, and she's really great, really easy to get along with. I am so blessed that she asked me to live with her. She has a three-bedroom apartment and her two roommates are moving out. It's located on the border of the student ghetto and the infamous Montreal Plateau. It's a really cute place and it's closer than I've ever lived to campus! Yaaaaay! I love the 10 minute walk to the Trottier building.
Ahhh Trottier. Most of the students you'll find in Trottier are from Computer Science, and Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering. Most of my time on campus is spent there, working away on the computers, finishing programming assignments. I like the atmosphere, the community... I just have to meet and make friends with more of the students in my faculty.

One of my many goals for next term.

Here we go again!

This is the beginning of the exam period. How I looooove exam time. Yes, you might think I'm crazy. But understand that having no classes is very freeing. Everyone is studying, and you can have study parties. People are available to hang out, even if it is just to study.
Exams are like three-hour long games. You race the clock to solve all the problems.
And once it's over, it's such a great feeling. Such a sense of accomplishment!

I've found another way to procrastinate from studying this year...
Tomorrow night I'm having a Nintendo party. I bought an original... yes, before Wii, before the Playstation, before Sega....those of you born in the 80s will appreciate this: the first NES. Yay Nintendo! I'll admit I've been playing Super Mario a lot.

The only bad thing about exam period this year is that it's snowing. SNOWING IN APRIL! AFTER EASTER! Who woulda thought? It's cold and it makes me tired and chilly right down to my bones!

No cars go

We know a place where no planes go
We know a place where no ships go

No cars go
No cars go
Where we know

We know a place no spaceships go
We know a place where no subs go

No cars go
No cars go
Where we know

Us kids know
No cars go

All in less than 40 hours?

Here a very sleepy girl will describe her great weekend in Toronto, by the hours.

Friday 1100
Left Lionel-Groulx metro station on a bus with 3 guys: Brad, Dan and Michael
1200 Arrived at the Montreal airport to pick up Brad's dad's car... and we were off!
1300 "No cars go" - Arcade fire singalongs
1400 Guys love videogames!
1500 Had a nap and woke up just in time to see us pass the "Oshawa" sign
1630 Arrived in Toronto, took the subway and decided I like Montreal much better
1700 Union station, grabbed a tea, waited for Julie's train to come in
1730 Found Julie, more public transit
1800 Found our hostel, found our private room with yes, only one double bed, thanks! Put on the classy outfits we had packed, but decided to skip the concert we were supposed to attend (at the Toronto Center for the Arts) to go out for dinner instead
1900 Tried on fedoras
2000 Tried to decide on a chinese restaurant... tried to decide on what to eat at the chinese restaurant
2100 Ate chinese food... delicious honey garlic pork ribs and spicy szechaun chicken with sides of rice. Mmmmm.
2200 Talked about anything and everything, especially boys. Took pictures of the city lights and the beautiful CN tower
2300 Returned to our hostel, the lobby filled with lots of Arabic men who like to stare
100 Fell asleep after a long chat

Saturday 800
Awoke to hear "IIIII CAAAAN'T help falling in LOOOOOVE with YOOOOOU." (Remember the Arabic men in the lobby?). Apparently they like to sing, very loudly, in the shower.
900 Prepared for the rainy day downtown TO, checked out of the hostel
1000 CN tower!
1100 Cabbing it to North York so we're not late for Julie's graduation ceremony
1200 Me, a peaceful lunch at Wendy's, watching tiny droplets of rain on the window.
1400 The ceremony begins! Beautiful graduates grace the aisles, gowned and ready to be hooded
1500 Julie gets her French horn performance, and piano teachers certificates, and a gold medal!
1600 Getting changed, not in the washroom, but in the fancy room where they keep the gowns
1700 Catching a tea and a frostie before our loooong ride home! Subway, back to Union.
1800 Subway... subway... subway... wow, we sure are far.
1830 Arriving just in time to board and be off back to Montreal!
1900 Too much chinese food!
2000 Are they gonna check our tickets yet?
Sudoku sudoku sudoku... cheating at sudoku
2100 Three dimensional Tic-Tac-Toe!
2200 Laughing way too much about my travel pillow and about the steward man. wuhquelchose? wuhwantsumthing? Got the giggles!
2300 Falling... falling... can't fall... Julie's still talking... falling asleep!
2400 Home sweet Montreal home. How I love thee.
100 A nice cup of sleepy tea and a nice warm bed. It feels good to be here again.

Or not spring?... is that the question?

It snowed last night... piles and piles of the beeeautiful white stuff.

I guess spring's not on it's way, as I thought it was.

I am happy to have the snow again, and so much of it! I think there's almost a foot out there. I wanted it to keep getting warmer, yes, but I also want to get out there with my cross country skis!

Spring!

Mmm. It is warm in my bed. With lots of blankets.

I know you're all jealous. :P

I thought it was going to be warm today. And it was, it's like spring lately. I just didn't wear enough coat :S... raincoat = not enough coat