since the last time i wrote in this thing i have: - spent a summer peddling produce, cheese and frozen meat - spent a lot of time with a lot of amazing people from the great city of sudbury - seen the arcade fire, mia, stars, metric, kevin drew and broken social scene (with special guest tommy cochrane), the smashing pumpkins, bjork, k-os, tokyo police club, the killers, the arctic monkeys, explosions in the sky, young galaxy, apostle of hustle, ohbijou, chumbawumba, the dears, mother mother, basia bulat, do make say think, ani difranco, dragonette, pat robitaille, and the handsome furs live. - spent a week in kootney national park with people from all over the world and some very loved family members, where i climbed a mountain and at lunch on the shore of a lake in a hidden valley, taken part in a native marriage ceremony, sung pop songs with an acoustic guitar in a box canyon, participated in a three-hour sweat lodge and laid in a glacial creek to cool down afterwards, drank too many bottles of wine and smoked too many cigarettes for one night, drove to banff alone and almost died due to the beauty of the mountains. - returned to toronto for school and reunited with some great friends i missed a lot - co-hosted a community radio show at 2 in the morning, during which time i insinuated that i enjoy copulating to the music of amy millan and torquil campbell and got asked back to co-host some more - had to learn to spend money a little less liberally and buy cheaper shit (go equality or go home) - learned as many feist songs as i can - had some dear friends break up and break down - driven a drunk friend home and had to stop 9 times in the process - spent four days in ottawa with my best friends in the world (stu, shannon and ashli) and felt their magic again - made some stupid mistakes at so-late-its-early hours of the day - weened (weined?) myself off of facebook and msn... not so much the tobacco and perez hilton - spent far too many dollars on cab rides - repeated old habits that are too bad to die - gotten along with a new room mate who also happens to be an old friend - contributed too many plastic bottles to too many landfill sites - been apathetic and lazy - been unproductive - been in fights and arguments - been bored - been too excited to sit still - read a bunch of books. most of them sucked. i don't know what else. i can't think. it's too early. someone tempt me into writing on my xanga more often, please. | 
