MY RANT AND WHINE
For October
20/10/2001
Does anyone pay attention when I say I'm lazy???.
I've been busy studying
for the SAT II's, so all my time has been taken up trying to decipher everything
that's in that review book I have (and making me lose my hair). I did not
win the ID contest, oh well., no free college money for me. If you wany
more frequent postings from me, try-out my LiveJournal
(This is the address I believe), it's a mighty fine program. This week
I write about Don DeLillo's book "White Noise" and Guillermo Martinez's
"Regarding Roderer". I recommend you read them. Better than "Ishmael" (Sorry
Laura, that wasn't directed at you but at Keith K.).
You know, everyone is asking me, or my parents, " What are you going to
do next year?", "Where are you going to school next year". BAH!
Honestly, I don't know how I can translate my interests into something
that has the semblence of a successful career. I'm thinking along the lines
of eventually going to Graduate school in four to five years. Business,
Law, maybe Medicine. Next year, however, I don't want to waste my parents
money on a program that'll only lead me to the Quik-Stop (CLERKS)
. Imagine my Mom's surprise when I call before coming home for Christmas:
ME: Hey Mom, one more week
till I'm home!.
MOM: Yeah, I know. How's
school?.
ME: Great!, I just finished
my last exam.
MOM: What subject was that
in? Chemistry?, Biology?, Nuclear Physics?...
ME: Phsyics? Biology? CHEMISTRY?
HAHAHAHA!. That's for birds. I'm doing something really challenging!.
MOM: You never told me you
changed Programs.
ME: Oh yeah, I'm studying
Golf Course Landscaping with a minor in 17th century film theory
(Wouldn't that be interesting!!!)
MOM: Golf ??? You hate Golf....
There were no films in the 17th century. What happened?.
ME: Oh you know, I just decided
to take another path. Go in a another direction. Trying to discover the
inner ME. I was worried
at first, but I knew that you and Dad 'll support me. And there's
this Hell's Angel guy I'm bringing..*click*... mom?..uh mom?..
But I'm not the spiritual type and
I do hate Golf, so I'm hoping this will never happen to me. Draw from a
hat, flip a coin, put paper in a bowl of water and study in the field that's
written on the first rolled-up, wrinkled, saturated piece of paper that
reaches the surface of the water: I CAN MAKE EFFECTIVE DECISIONS! and I
love using capital letters to make a point.
For July
06/07/2001
My exams were decent, at the moment they are all over 90%. I won't know
about my Biology and Physics publics until the middle of this month. I
won 300$ as the first place regional winner in the Law Society Essay competition
and I'm now working at Memorial University as a part of WISE. I'm working
in Math Education in the Department of Education. I get to go to some classes,
eat some food, read some math books, go on the computer, look outside the
window once and awhile. Rez is a blast. I, surprisingly, am not being anti-social
and I'm getting along with all of the other girls. Take some time out of
your visit to go a marvel at my Lenore
section, it's now posted on the official SpookyLand
site under the Linkies section. What a shameless plug. I don't have anything
to rant about really. Whine?, yes!, Rant?, no!. St. John's is expensive
and the drivers do not slow down!!! I nearly got hit 5 times in the space
of 3 minutes trying to cross a crosswalk. Even when the pedestrian light
is on. Oh I feel safe. I have nothing intellectual to say, I'm in the process
of collecting some of my writings and giving the writings section a long
overdue update. As I said last time, I am Bronwyn and my middle name is
slacker. However, to keep everyone occupied while I'm working at a real
job and not rotten ronnies, I've included a little section on Dia de los
Muertos, the Mexican day of the dead.
So, I'll end off this
non-paragraph, garbble piece of trash with the following advice for the
summer:
1. No matter how old
you are, if you are bored, pushpins can provide hours of amusement for
you and your friends.
2. When somebody tells
you "Yours gym passes will be available when you return to rez, but the
women in charge hasn't called back to confirm this so you might not get
them this wwek", just shake your head, go back to rez (or home) and read
the fantastic book by George Orwell "1984".
3. If it takes you
7 minutes to get to MacDonalds, then you've earned that Mocha Cappucino
Flurry.
For June
02/06/2001
I am Bronwyn, and my middle name is slacker. Actually, my life has been
pretty busy and will continue to be busy for another couple of weeks since
exams start on the 8th and don't end for me until the 18th. OH, and I have
two publics to do too. Well, what has happened since the last rant.....
-Did not get accepted
for the United World Colleges
-Did not hear anything
back from the Law Society about my essay
-Did mighty well on
my SAT 1 exam
-Sent in this webpage
for the "What's your ID" contest
-Still waiting for
a reply from WISE
-Went to Burry Heights
and had a blast ( Hellos go out to Pauline, Miu, Gillian, Tyson, Perry,
Ben, and everyone else)
-Had my Birthday and
turned 17 ( Thanks to Hildigam who sent me a birthday e-mail that I have
yet to write him back for, SORRY!!!)
Most of my time
over the past couple of weeks has been spent in re-writing notes, finding
old Lab sheets, actually opening my text books and studying, etc. Actually
going to school seems to be pointless since all the work is done and all
we are doing is reviewing. Half of the people in all of my classes have
been skipping off so some teachers don't even bother to do reviewing and
they go on little tirades of how we can expect our marks to go down due
to the public and how some people might as well not even go to the public.
Typical end of the year scare tactics. Better than staring blankly into
the whiteboard.
I have discovered a great little show that comes on SHOWCASE every Friday
noght for an Hour and a half: OZ.
It's a prison drama
from the Guy who brought us Homicide: Life on the Streets ( A great TV
show that has been off the air for a couple of years). Watch it if you
can, it's mind blowing but there is a reason why it comes on late at night.
There are alot of adult themes, nudity and violence, but you're a mature
person and can handle the topic and the situations, you might actually
like the show.
There is not much else I can write, I'm kind of bored of being in school
but that's probably because it is so close to summer vacation. So I'll
leave you to your exams and hopefully the next update on this site will
include a new section. Caio.
For April
13/04/2001
On the March 16th rant, I mentioned that I was applying for a Rotary Youth
Conference. I get to go, but it's not in St. John's. It's almost an hour
away in Burry Heights, which is only a few kilometres from the prison there.
This is going to be FUN!.
Anyways, I'm actually looking forward to it, but the past few months have
been occupied with applications. In March, it was applying to the United
World Colleges and this Rotary conference and this month I wrote an essay
for the Law society and applied for the Women In Science and Engineering
summer employment program. Next month, I have to send off my entry into
the "What's your ID contest" and do the SAT 1 exam. Can't...breathe.....must...get
.....life...to...occupy...time *HACK COUGH*. Actually, I don't mind being
busy, it's better then spending all my time at the coffee shop. No matter
how many people there are in a coffee shop, it never struck me as a friendly
place, but rather a very exclusive club. Why do I think this way, I don't
know but it just doesn't seem to be very open. Then again, I could be paranoid
but it's not going to stop me from going there with my friends.
For March
24/03/2001
I was informed on Friday that I have less than fifty days until final exams.
So, I've been spending the past 2 weeks re-writing my notes so I'll have
something legible to study ( 'Cause I'm friggin' sloppy). I've got a good
idea about what I'm going to study in university. I hope to major in Chemistry
and minor in Computer Science. Or I'll study Advertising, since I'm always
defending it and using Ads as part of my closet mural ( You know there
will be more pictures of that). I'm at that stage in life where being
cynical towards mainstream culture and the like is rather pointless. Most
of a teenager's cynicsm is second-hand. I mean, being anti-media and anti-fashion
is actually becoming trendy and to become part of a certain group, it seems
that you have to be againts certain things. I'm being really ambiguous
here aren't I. I used to hate advertising, for no good reason, and now
I see it as some weird for of Art. However, I do hate Nike because of the
child labour issue and I have not worn anything by them in the past 4 years.
16/03/2001
Wow, it's March already. The Robotics competition has come and gone and
I still can't get back into the flow of things. All that work that we did
on that robot was worth it and the trip was a blast. I sent in my application
for the Rotary Youth Leadership conference last night, so hopefully I'll
get to spend Easter in the big Sin City of St. John's.
What can I rant about today, well, not much since there's nothing for me
to grip about at the moment that's really relevent to life. However, when
your team has to pay almost 8000$ to attend a robotics competition, you
do expect to get a working circuit board. Thankfully, ours worked,
but a lot of teams were unable to compete because their boards short-circuited
during the practice heats. Think about it, fundraising over 10,000 dollars
to attend a competition and not being able to compete because you were
provided with faulty materials. You should've been at the competition,
all you could hear at times was
"Circuit Board, CIRCUIT
BOARD". You won't see that on the Discovery Channel.
Oh yeah, my Aunt had
her baby. Julia Colette was born on March 1st, 2001 really early in the
morning in Alaska.
For February
14/02/2001
Oh yeah, it's Valentine's Day. I'm not going to say
anymore about that subject unless I start sounding whiney. So on to a more
positive topic. I kicked butt on my Lit midterm : 86!!!!!. All the fretting
I was doing was worth it. I might have given myself an ulcer, but I feel
better (for the moment). Oh yeah, I'm a member of my school's Robotics
team (whoo hoo)and everything's moving along nicely. One more week and
a half and I'll be in Scarborough and I promise to post pictures of the
event when we get back. What else can I say... my Aunt is due to have her
baby sometime this week. Spencer if it's a boy and Julia if it's a girl.
I e-mail SpookyLand.com ( Roman Dirge's homepage) to let them know that
I had a little fan site. that was 2 weeks ago and no response. If you love
my site as much as I do, e-mail them through their site and gently hint.
Nah, just joking. If this site became well known, I'd end up typing so
much that I'd develop Carpel Tunnel Syndrome. Oh joy.
FOR
NOVEMBER
11/18/2000
I missed Halloween. I spent tuesday night inside, in my basement, doing
Homework. It's not that I miss trick or treating ( which I do) it's just
that the spirit of the season is slowly dying away. I guess it has to do
with the bad timing of the holiday oover the past couple of years!
(sunday last year, on a school day this year). Remeber when the Simpson's
Halloween specials use to be so cool.?, now they border on dumb.
Not many kids go out trick or treating anymore, which is a shame, considering
there is so much candy out there.
You know
what's going on in the U.S.A, their election is screwed. but it teaches
you one thing, your vote counts!!!!. So vote, all you cynical fools who
think that by saying you're not voting makes you look cool, you guys look
like asses at this moment.
On the topic
of elections go to 22
minutes.com and vote to have Stockwell Day's name changed to
Doris Day. ( it's a Canadian thing, eh!). I went to a Student Leadership
conference earlier this month. I learned one thing: When you
have 800 people in a gym, shouting and screaming, and cheering, no matter
how anti-school spirit you are, you can't help but cheering along because
you'll look like an ass if you don't. One of the speakers at the conference
told us that care is contagious.
SO was the Plague.
October
07/10/2000
OH Boy, it's Thanksgiving. It's not a really big holiday for me,
though I am getting two days off from school. Thanksgiving, for me, has
always been a speed bump to that bigger and better holiday: HALLOWEEN.
But I'll get to Halloween later on in the month ( Watch out for the Rocky
Horror Picture Show). I see Thanksgiving as an American Holiday, through
and through. Considering that our calender is dominated by holidays that
encourage the mass amounts of spending, Thanksgiving is just a holiday
where we can pretend to give thanks and eat copious amounts of chicken.
Yes, there are many things to be thankful about : Good Health, Good
Friends, Good Grades (I have my fingers crossed on that one...) and for
that , we should be thankful. But this year, instead of being grateful
that we are doing better than somebody else, let's be thankful that things
are getting better for others. Personally, I am happy that Milosevic is
out of office. ( Progress can be made if we work together). The 19 year
old Canadain who was arrested with his uncle on charges of terrorism finally
gets to go home after months in a Serbian jail. We should be thankful that
he is going home instead of facing a judge in a foreign country were the
odds of him being innocent in their eyes are 1:1,000,000,000. Though his
Uncle is still in jail, we should be thankful that his chances of
getting out of jail are a whole lot better.
September.
09/30/2000
So, school's been in for about a month. My classes are pretty good, especially
World History. I really don't have much to Whine about, but man,
will I rant.
1. I conviced
my friends to watch Last Night, the Canadian movie about the last day on
earth and how different people deal with it. It was pretty good. I saw
it before and thought my friends would like it. Some did, Some didn't,
but it did leave a question in everyone's minds: What would you do if it
was the end of the world. In Last Night, the people in the movie all knew
that the world was going to end a midnight that night. EVERYONE KNOW!.
It wasn't some sort of Cheesy " OMIGOD there's a meteor
comming towards use
and maybe we can stop it" movie. They didn't do anything to stop it because
they knew it couldn't be stopped and each went their own little way,
. I'm not going to spoil the movie but, we did talk about what we would
do if the world was ending . Me?, I'd go to a city and go to some
party. Craig would not let us go out and party but instead, take us all
to his and we'd have a big dinner.
Craig is such a Killjoy.
Okay, so that wasn't
a rant, but it makes you think.
2. Well, how would you feel if people treated you like you were dumber
than them and unimportant .
GRRRrrrrr.....
you'd think that when you get to High school, everyone gets a bit more
mature. The truth is, some are just hitting puberty I try to ignore it
but it pisses me off when people rag on my friends and put them down. They
always tell you to ignore bullies ( That's what they are, Jerks in high
school are the same as bullies in elementery school.) but at the same time,
bullies are in the same room hearing this and they discover that if little
Susie is ignoring them, then they should pick on her until she pays attention
to them. Nobody wins.
Psychologists , what
have you been missing?
09/09/2000
I started another
school year and I still don't know where half of my classes are. What a
great way to start off the year. I had a very boring summer by Hollywood
standards; no wild cousins came to visit, no psychotic killers by the names
of Michael, Jason, or Freddy chased down my friends and I, HELL! the world
wasn't even threatened by mass destruction!. *~sigh~* My mind has
been warped by cheesy commercials for even cheesier movies. But, my mind
was warped by spending three weeks in a trailer. It was also warped by
watching a show called "The Wuzzles" when I was little.
Back to school. I'm actually happy that I'm back in school, just because
I tired of doing the same thing every night and I really neeed something
to do during the day. In general, I'm doing the courses that I wanted to
do and my teachers aren't a bunch of busheads. I do ask my friends one
favour:
If I ever start to
complain about how much work I have to do because I'm doing 3 science courses,
PLEASE!, hit me repeatedly with the three science textbooks. But if you
ask me about how much work I have to do, I will smack YOU repeatedly with
my three science textbooks. You have been warned.
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