Nicole

arcesso_vita @ 2008-10-12T03:46:00

2008-10-12T07:52:31Z

Fuck. I am SO FUCKING TIRED of getting hit on by socially akward and desperate brown guys. The latest one told me that I should just wear a sign around my forehead to show that I'm taken so that they won't have to waste their time. It would obviously be better just to wear a sign that says "not a fuckhole just because I'm showing my ankles or my shoulders or like that." I hate feeling like I'm being racist, but honestly, prickishness seems to be some kind of cultural value. The meat market is getting old.

arcesso_vita @ 2008-05-06T16:24:00

2008-05-06T23:30:11Z

So we went on a field trip to the courthouse today. Does anyone remember Rachael Erickson? We saw her getting sentenced in youth court for substance abuse, theft, and breach of probation, and it was funny yet akward because just before we went in we were like, how akward would it be if we saw someone we know. And then we did. Weird.

arcesso_vita @ 2008-03-24T17:50:00

2008-03-25T00:56:26Z

It's true, I find pentameter quite fun
But why do I stay stuck in it once done?
How lame, I'm still stuck scanning every word
I really feel like I am such a nerd.

I'm writing a mock epic for the big writing project, and it's way more fun than a short story but it's really hard to snap out of it. Stupid project being due on friday. gah.

arcesso_vita @ 2008-03-22T12:02:00

2008-03-22T19:07:49Z

I'm currently in the middle of writing an essay for geography on why equatorial rainforests matter, and I'm terribly, terribly tempted to throw in that if it weren't for them the 1200+ pages and the 4 textbooks of this correspondence course would probably not exist. Included in this nonexistence would be the retarded official definitions sections, which defines "definition." Sometimes the irony is just a little too much...

arcesso_vita @ 2007-05-28T14:10:00

2007-05-28T21:13:02Z

On the one hand, I don't mind so much that Eliot is gone because I get to hang out and talk with people that I hadn't been spending as much time with as I'd wanted to, but sometimes this is just miserable. Blah. Thank goodness for Nathans mom and her so-cute sympathy card.

arcesso_vita @ 2007-05-13T18:55:00

2007-05-14T01:56:34Z

Oh livejournal...such a sad decline.

A question

2007-03-01T03:03:30Z

If you weren't sure how upset/angry someone was with you for something that wasn't intentional and you didn't have a lot of control over and talking to them was scary/unsettling and somehow didn't help and you didn't know how to make things okay again what would you do?

Best pick-up line ever

2007-02-28T01:27:51Z

So this guy sits down on the bus next to some girl, takes a bit of ice out of his water bottle, smashes it against the window and asks "now that the ice is broken, will you go out with me?"

Not even kidding

arcesso_vita @ 2007-02-19T19:23:00

2007-02-20T03:23:42Z

I hereby foreswear facebooking forever (or at least a week or two)! Whilst at work on sunday I was chatting with a friend about a fun party she went to a while ago. Later, as I browse idly through facebook, I notice that she has been tagged in an album of said party. Being midly curious and having nothing else to do, I go to this album, and what do I find? A picture of the fishnet-clad ass of a girl we all know. She goes to our school. She's in our grade. And boy do fishnets look bad on her. Bit of a muffin top going on there too...

Enough said. I now go to stare at a lightbulb until the image is burned from my mind.

arcesso_vita @ 2007-02-17T13:51:00

2007-02-17T21:51:22Z

If I were a manager of Tim Horton's I'd make sure that they weren't always out of croissants!! Yesterday was NOT a good croissant day. The one beside Swiss Chalet had none around noon. The one at Borden and Mckenzie had none at 8:30pm. Further investigation at midnight also resulted in failure. In the crowning injustice the one on Shelbourne had a COMPLETE LACK OF CROISSANTS at 1:30am. I really don't find this state of affairs acceptable at all.

Check it out!

2007-02-02T01:45:00Z

The Graduation Portfolio just got majorly revised.

NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

2007EDU0011-000082

Feb. 1, 2007
Ministry of Education

NEW STANDARDS MAKE GRADUATION PORTFOLIO MORE FLEXIBLE

VICTORIA – The Province will streamline and add flexibility to the graduation portfolio to better help students prepare for life after high school, Education Minister Shirley Bond announced today.

“During my school visits and consultations ministry staff carried out around the province, students, parents and teachers told us the portfolio was too complex and overly time-consuming for students to work through and for teachers to assess,” Bond said. “We’ve acted on those concerns. Starting in 2007/08, students will be required to meet three standards to graduate, and we will leave it up to school boards to decide how students meet those standards.”

Students in grades 10-12 must complete the following mandatory standards:

· 80 hours of physical activity

· A graduation transition plan that will help students set goals for post-secondary education or career pursuits

· 30 hours of work experience or community service.

Students who meet the standards will receive four credits that count toward graduation.

Boards may still choose to have students develop a portfolio to demonstrate they have met the standards or boards may use other ways to ensure students have met the standards. The Ministry of Education will provide school boards with information sessions and materials to support the standards, including a teacher resource guide and a student planner.

“We want students to be successful in school and to graduate with skills that will help them further their education, find jobs and achieve their goals in life,” said Bond. “The graduation standards will help students gain valuable life skills while offering more flexibility.”

The portfolio was introduced in 2004 as a mandatory requirement for graduation. In response to concerns, the portfolio was made optional for those graduating in 2006/07 and underwent a review.

Under the portfolio, students were required to provide portfolio evidence in six areas: arts and design, community involvement, career planning, employability skills, information technology and personal health. Students who completed the portfolio would receive four credits that counted toward graduation.

The new standards will help the Province achieve its goal of becoming the best-educated, most literate jurisdiction on the continent and support the Province’s Pacific Leadership Agenda by improving our competitiveness and productivity through education and skills training.

Christianity is dead!

2007-01-31T05:02:58Z

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Eigth Level of Hell - the Malebolge!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Very Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	High
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Extreme
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Extreme
Level 7 (Violent)	Extreme
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Extreme
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	High

Take the Dante's Inferno Test

Madness! 8th of Hell?! I consider myself to be a good person! I defy any of you to take this test and not end up somewhere in hell.

snow and trashpop

2007-01-10T09:46:11Z

Here it is, 1.30 in the morning, and I'm still writing my essay. I'm not even half done, actually, but whatever--my energy level is higher than it's been all day! No, I am not ashamed to admit that I've spent the last 45 minutes dancing to trashy euro/technopop in my living room and that it's more exercise than i've gotten in a while. Svea, Shannon, I wish you were here dancing with me. Somehow I think the two of you would really get it...Or Tori, you've been pretty damn happy and open about your insanity lately...dance with me!

OMG IT'S SNOWING!!!!!!

arcesso_vita @ 2007-01-08T20:35:00

2007-01-09T04:35:03Z

Aaaand life is still wonderful! Not trying to sound cliche or anything, but sometimes it's amazing what you can appreciate once you stop trying so hard. I'm back from Calgary (obviously, as most of you saw me at school) and away from the unique and special little cousin who managed to drool into her own nose. God, it made the nastiest noise...

There's really no reason for me to be updating right now. I should be writing my essay on "A Separate Peace" right now (my alternate novel to Lord of the Flies) but Julia is jabbering away in german and distracting me. Oh well, there are more important things to think about, like my belated birthday celebrations and the future violation of my belly button via piercing.

Love you all

If I were normal, my family would be ruining me...

2007-01-05T09:34:38Z

I'm in Calgary at the moment, suffering from insomnia. My family is INSANE!! At last count we had...

-two bongs in the grandmother's house
-a chainsmoking cousin who owns a health food store
-a little cousin who'd "be nocturnal if i didn't get so tired"
-a hippie redneck who's been driving a tractor since age 7
-an older cousin who thinks she's a wolf (incidentally her boyfriend thinks he's a moose
-a little cousin who weighs 180 pounds. she's 12
-an aunt who's an opera singer with pink hair and pierced eyebrows
-an uncle who has 5 seperate facial tics which generally all happen at once
-an uncle who seriously dressed as a hobbit for halloween. he's also dressed up for all three LOTR movies
if the others weren't bedridden with food poisoning, it'd be even better. Thank goodness I'm still amazingly happy!

I do miss all of you though...I'm coming home in about 16 hours

arcesso_vita @ 2006-12-24T10:50:00

2006-12-24T19:14:32Z

Yes, still happy! Seriously, everything in my life is going better. I don't feel tied to Alan anymore, I haven't indulged in any of my destructive/addictive little habits since the epiphany, and I've lost three pounds because I've stopped stress eating! It feels a little cliche to say this, but every time I look in the mirror I see this happy, beautiful, well-adjusted person and I smile a bit more (:

I have to work tonight, outside. Yay. Even the weather has a positive side though, because a few hours ago I got to see Santa and his reindeer flying through the sky. Yes, that's right. The neighbors had this eye-smartingly tacky blow-up thingy on their roof, and unfortunately it was unable to stand up to the wind. What a shame.

Julia has a creepy new german admirer. He steals her red roses from florist shops and buys her massive amounts of alcohol. He looks a little like Mattaius. Eurgh...

Merry Christmas everyone!

(:

2006-12-22T06:12:55Z

I'm still so happy! My ups are giddy euphoria and my lows are vague contentment. It's been about 32 hours since my epiphany and it's still going strong. Please let this be permanent, I can't remember ever being this happy without a cause that came from an external source.

Plus it totally helps that today at the mall Nicole met a guy in the House of Knives in Hillside. Tall. Buff. Scottish. Recreational swordsman. Freemason (don't ask). Wants to go out for coffee so that we can discuss me coming to the sword lessons that he teaches (said lessons generally involve a trip to the pub afterwards). This may sound like it's just honestly way too unbelievable to be true, but actually I'm not kidding at all. I have his emial and number too...

I am now a believer in emotional karma (:

High on Life!

2006-12-20T22:41:54Z

This is so weird!! As in wired! Actually,I'm so intensely happy right now. Well, I'm starting to come down a bit from the giddy euphoria of half an hour ago, but for me I'm still really happy. Those of you who know me know that I'm almost never actually okay and that even when my life is perfect I can find something to obsess and worry over, and that I exist in a perpetual borderline depressive state. Right now though it feels likeall of a sudden my biochemistry is back in balance and I'm able to draw a line between what my problems are and what I am.
If any of you had seen me just know (D-block, a spare for me because I'mnot doing Lord of the Flies) you'd have thought I was nuts. There was running and dancing and laughing and singing and spinning in circles. It felt like what I envision being high to be like. The whole thing may have been prompted by the energy drinks (particularly the brief feeling of boundless energy) but I've had 3 times the amount and not felt that. I think I may have just had an epiphany. It's safe to let myself be happy, and my problems can only hurt me if I cling to them. I am more than the sum of my problems!

Baseline: content. If this is what it feels like to be a normal, well-adjusted person, I'm loving it! (:

Not so bad after all

2006-12-15T05:43:30Z

Sometimes life just seems to work, particularly when it's not. What I mean is that the little serendipitious things that make you feel better happen most often when you're feeling really down. I was feeling really down today, but then all these good things kept on happening!

How often do you: get to help drive a car into the school?
have your makeup chem lab get cancelled?
get to realize that people that you thought just didn't really care and would never be close actually want to help you with what you're going through?
get to indulge in buying emo jewellrey?
get to spend quality time with old friends whom you never really see anymore?
meet a cute guy in the mall, spend an hour chatting, have him tell you that you're pretty, unique and charismatic, and then have him ask for your number?
get four random strangers downtown tell you that you're beautiful?
come home to cake and icecream?

Yeah, today wasn't a total loss after all. I got hurt badly by people that I thought I could trust, but I don't need them.

arcesso_vita @ 2006-11-26T18:18:00

2006-11-27T02:18:17Z

Well, today was definitely one of my more interesting shifts at work. I shoveled at least a square kilometer of (really fucking deep) snow. Who needs a zamboni when you have an abundance of underage employees? Getting home was also interesting. I rode part of the way on a municipal snowplow, and then resorted to hitchhiking for most of the way along the highway. Yes, I know hitchhiking is bad. No, I didn't get raped robbed or murdered. That snowplow was pretty damn cool though.

Ow.

2006-10-29T21:43:31Z

It's happened. My worst fear. I've lost my voice. Not in the laryngitic sense, but in the sense that my throat actually hurts too much to force the words out. For anyone who's ever told me to shut up, you now have your wish. Talk to me on msn later please, it's my only contact with the world.

arcesso_vita @ 2006-10-14T23:13:00

2006-10-15T06:15:19Z

So I'm sitting here looking at my fingernails. They're green and sparkly, courtesy of Svea, who also curled my hair and did my makeup during our sleepover. I wish today were a school day so that everyone could see me.

I'm really really tired. I believe I may have an iron deficiency. I should probably go to a doctor about that, along with those quasi-cancerous lumps on my ears that none of you
really want to hear abotu. This is ridiculous though, I've only been awake for like 12 hours.

Today was a good day, because I got to see (in chronological order) Svea, Lisette, Tyler, Troy, and Tori on a day when I wasn't planning on doing anything.

Y'know what's really hard? Walking without looking at the ground. All of you should try to go for a walk without looking at it once.

I wish I weren't a twin today

arcesso_vita @ 2006-08-29T19:59:00

2006-08-30T03:55:59Z

To start out this livejournal, thanks incredibly to Tori for setting all this up, because I am not technically advanced. At all. You all know that I dropped out of Infotech 9/10, right? I like to think of myself as sui generis for a type of brilliant that is in fact too good for the flawed inventions of man kind.

Yeah, so basically the point of this is going to be to use obscure vocabulary words. That's right. I can hear you all as you limn my vocabulary to the skies.