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I had a TERRIBLY strange dream last night. I dreamed that Canada was being taken over by crazy dictators. The one was had prior to the current one was Mike Bullard (but in my dream his name was Mitch), and he was effective and very nice. Then, Nicholas Heer took over the government. All he did was put everyone who he could to work, and killed everyone else (kinda like Hitler). His goonies came into my work one day and told everyone they had to attempt to kill themselves with a box full of objects, and you'd only get to live if ALL of the objects in the box were sabotauged (like a rubber knife and shit). A surprising amount of people lived, including me, but not including Zach Braff, who just avoided using the items in the box, and then Nick got mad and had him tortured to death. So, I got home and told my parents and my grandfather that I was just going to kill myself and get it over with, and that they'd been nice to me my whole life and shit. My dad was all "QUITTER" and my mom was "Don't do it, honey!" and my grandfather was quiet. So, we formulated a plan to go down to the states, because my dad found out the guard was all sympathetic if we tried to cross it and had an old person with us. I called Ryan and was all 'OMG YOU AND YOUR GRANDMOTHER CAN GET OUT OF CANADA!' When we got to the border, the guard let us cross, and sadly there were no refugee camps in the States, but we totally had to find someone to come save us from Nicholas Heer's roving guards. We found this old trailer park that had been buried in sand in the desert, and hung out in there with a bunch of other Canadians. It was such a weird dream. For the whole dream I was all "OMG. I WAS SO NICE TO NICK IN GYM CLASS! WHY IS HE TRYING TO KILL ME AND EVERYONE ELSE?" and "OMG WHY DOES MARCO GET TO BE OKAY AND I DON'T?" because he'd made Marco one of his government higher-ups. What a fucking strange dream.

you've got the essence, dear.

MUSIC: THE ARCADE FIRE - BRAZIL

I've been growing increasingly obsessed with "Dress Up In You". I think every two weeks I find a new Belle and Sebastian song to get obsessed about. I've been listening to them OBSESSIVELY for almost 5 years now, and I keep finding songs that I've listened to a billion times, but never really listened to. I love finding new Belle and Sebastian songs to obsess over, it really makes me gleeful.

By the way, I thought I'd take some time to talk about my boyfriend. I know it seems really mushy and dumb to write in your blog about someone you're dating, but I don't really give a shit. I am completely enamoured. Every day, Ryan finds something to do to make me feel so unbelievably special, and he goes out of his way to do extremely nice things for me. Wow, I mean, what boyfriend drives all the way across the city to drive you home from a friend's house because you feel sick and your parents aren't home? What boyfriend drives all the way from bloody Okotoks to calm you down from a panic attack? Ryan is an amazing boyfriend and he's amazingly respectful of me. I cannot even begin to talk about how amazingly grateful I am to have such a boyfriend. He's considerate and he's always here for me when I get scared or worried or need to talk. He's always so nice and understanding if I screw up, and Ryan's really just the most pleasent person to be around. He's good with my family, my dog loves him. *grin* I really have the perfect boyfriend, and I'm just so lucky. He's also really good looking, and with good looks and so many amazing personality traits, I really find myself more and more attracted to him every day.

Aw, Nicole's right. We need a fandom. :D

you hill-and-valley crowd

MUSIC: THE DECEMBERISTS - I DON'T MIND

I thought I'd just bring up a point here. When you peel 2 bulbs of garlic, your hands will stink forever. I'm currently in the process of scrubbing all of the skin off of my two index fingers in hopes to get rid of the smell. I have washed my hands with 3 kinds of bath gel, 2 kinds of soap, and I have used 4 different smelly hand lotions as well. I have also sprayed my fingers with perfume. NOTHING WORKS. I think I'm obsessive-compulsive about making sure my hands smell like nothing or something, because I don't peel oranges to avoid the smell of oranges all over my hands for a while. BUT AT LEAST ORANGE SMELL WASHES OUT. I don't know what to do, lest peel off all of my skin. Any advice?

If I kept resolutions, I would make my New Year's resolution to go to Food not Bombs more often. But I don't really keep resolutions, so I'm going to call it more of a goal. I think I can do more stuff this term, just in saying, because I think I'm getting used to University a little better. Everyone should cheer for me, by the way, because my GPA is 3.30 so far (whee!). Before you actually become proud of me though, that grade is missing 3 classes, so it will probably go down considerably! I do really like being proud in my ignorance of my real grades. Anyways, back on topic. I really think that I will have a lot more leisure time now that I'm kind of used to University. I think I'm going to attempt to meet more people this term, because I'm definetely way too shy to go out and introduce myself to people, but I suppose I'll have to suck it up, because I sincerely doubt I'll have as small of a class as French this term. I can be plenty friendly when I meet people in a small, group like French class or a show or art class or something, but I am so damn easily intimidated. I think I'm just shy because I'm not comftrable in University yet. Oohh well. I MUST GET OVER THIS.