i need...
music!! argh, i was thinking i could just chill back and blog while listening to the latest mp3s sarah and i downloaded on this ancient machine... but it's just not working. oh well, i guess i could listen to the radio... but i really felt like listening to some sugar jones, the canadian popstar group (yes, from the tv show). i'm quite impressed with their voices, actually. i heard a taste of the australian popstars group bardot, and they're just okay.

but anyhow, i'm just taking a break from doing some work. need to do some mindless blabbing...

is there another word for COOL?
i was talking to a friend earlier and he likes to say the word cool. that's not a bad thing... i use it a lot too. i (and others i know) use other words like sweet, tight, awesome, and all good to mean the same as cool, but cool comes up the most in conversation. i think it annoys some people (mostly the ESL kids i talk with... or old people ;op ) but i don't think i can help it. although, you'd have to be really cool for me to say you are (yeah, i'm talkin to you PAWNK!... hehehe).

got books?
reading is something i used to have to force myself to do. now i wasn't one of those kids who absolutely despised reading. i actually really liked it. i was just kinda slow at it. and of course when i got to the highschool level, i read what we had to read for english or literature class, so i didn't really have an urge to read other books when i had free time. but in university, i found that reading was one of the best ways to procrastinate (next to playing video games, watching movies, and email). now, since i go to the library almost every week to get kids books to tutor with, i look around for books i'd like to read that have more than 15 pages, pictures optional.

the latest one i have is just SO good! i've never been interested in anything more than the bare minimum about history, but in the last little while or so, my interest has been sparked. it must've been around the time i was reading timeline by michael crichton... anyhow, the book i've got now is about the battle of stalingrad. it's the setting for that movie enemy at the gate was about. yes, it has to do with the war, a topic not many of my friends talk about, but the story is just SO unbelieveable.

*grumble*
i have so much to do. this weekend i'm headed out to a cabin on pender island with sabby and the girls (i wonder if more than jason and rick will be joining us to represent the guys?..) so we have to do some major food shopping soon. then when i get back i've got to get back into the intensive tutoring scene... then our dragon boat team will be hella practicing for our victoria competition in a couple of weeks... then i'm off the following weekend with my little sister to L.A. for our cousin's cotillion.

i guess most of these activities are going to be fun... i'm just complaining about the busy-ness of it all. i wish me and my friends could just sit back and chill together and not worry about work or anything. at least it'd be a relaxing end to the summer.