GO ECLIPSES!

Despite the fact that it's 1:20am and I'm no closer to finishing my paper for Monday, or being prepared for my exam, this weekend is working out nicely.

Yesterday night I had a hellish two hour bus ride home (when it usually takes 45 minutes to an hour) beside a man learning Cantonese and thus muttering under his breath in various intonations the whole way home. I ended up sleeping a little and reading most of the play I need to finish by Monday, so I suppose that was good. When I finally got into the T-dot I was hit with a bit of culture shock actually. It's funny, coming from free hippie sunshine springtime world of the Guelph campus and being thrown into mean pushy TTC actually shocked me.

Friday afternoon I ended up performing an Ani song at an outdoor open mic with my friend Julie because she is wonderful and makes me do things even when my shy side acts dominant. So I went from happy sunshine singing in front of people, to so tired I wanted to die and staring off into space on the subway. Ah well.

Friday night I went to Statutory Jape's show and it was excellent. I've been a fan of these guys since their very first Second City end-of-class performance way back in the day when the were called Rubber Chicken Porno Factory. I guess I've been a fan of Simon all my life, so it's hard for him to not make me laugh. I now have ambitions of managing the troup (and taking a cut). The show was hilarious and it was followed by an equally satisfying drink at a pub. I found myself sitting in my group of guy friends spanning from kindergarten, to highschool, to now and thinking about how wierd it is that all of my University friends are female, yet I was always the only girl in the group growing up. I don't know, it just struck me as odd.

Anyway, after the pub Steve and I went back to his house and stayed up until four in a happy sleepy dreamy state. I'm so glad I ended up sneaking into his bed. Though it was a struggle to get up and leave this morning. I had to meet Jess and Tama on Queen for a day of shopping. We did Kensington, Come As You Are, and a little bit of the Eaton's Centre. We even had Taco Bell for dinner. Yikes. My feet are now killing me after spending most of the day with my packed MEC backpack weighing me down. (Tama took it for a little while though).

When we got home we watched "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton" which is the worst movie ever, followed by SNL which was the best episode I've seen all season. Cameron Diaz was hosting, which means nothing, it was the Timberlake, Fallon and Barrymore cameos that made it all worthwhile! There's something about screaming in excitement at SNL with Jess that is so much less sad then screaming alone in my basement.