cheer up charlie.

I finally got to see my family for the first time in 3 months. I finally set up my webcam stuff. It's always a little weird doing webcamming, but whatev. I have two tests this week and I am officially stressing out hardcore. I have a written french test tomorrow with so many vocabulary words I could spit. My oral exam is on thursday and I don't even know what I'm going to talk about yet! I went to Java u (the coffee shop on campus) today and sat and worked on making flash cards/ doing my feminist homework all day. It felt good to get out of the house, but it's not getting any warmer. I swear I talk about how cold it is every single entry, but seriously...I'm so jealous of the California weather right now. Here I am in longjohns and there's my mom going on walks in shorts! how can we even be on the same planet! I am so ready for this semester to be over!!!

Hey Friends,

Please forgive me for the lack of updates lately! I've been a busy kid! This Halloween, I got to go to see one of my all time favorite bands, Broken Social Scene. It was fantastic, as usual. After the concert, I got to go to a Loft Party. There were lots of people there dancing and having fun. For Halloween, I was a Teabag! I got some sheer material from salvation army and Ali sewed it for me. I put some leaves inside of the "bag" and then I made a string and attached a card for the tag. The second night, I met up with my other friends and we went to another little party/house show. Some bands from Vancouver played and I dressed up as a lumberjack. The picture at the bottom shows what I look like. I am also standing next to my friend Thea. She was Boba Fett from Star Wars. A little before Halloween, I invited some people over to my house. We made burritos, carved, pumpkins and watched a terrible 80s movie on vhs called "Fright Night". Jenna and I carved the pumpkin (in the picture) together. The second picture of the pumpkin was after I left it outside for a single day. It got mauled by the CRAZY squirrels! I california, I'm worried to put things outside because of the raccoons, but here....it's the squirrels.

The week of halloween, I also got to go see a band from houston, texas called the octopus project. They play in California a lot, but the put on such a great show! The had giant ghosts that the put on stage for halloween. Jenna agreed to go with me, and I was very grateful!

Last week, I went to an Election party. We had a potluck and I made pumpkin curry soup! It was a big hit. We watched the elections on the big screen and the Canadians were just as excited to see the results as we were! I love them.

This week, I don't have too much planned. It's getting a lot colder lately. It snowed a little bit today. I didn't have school today, so I made some lentil soup and ali made biscuits. So yummy! I got invited to go see a concert tonight, but I decided to say no because I have french in the morning and it would probably be pretty hard to catch the metro back. Cabs are so expensive. I've been watching a lot of vhs lately. Right now, I'm watching "Fletch" a movie with chevy chase. It's quite ridiculous. Well, I must do some history homework now, But I promise to update soon!

love,
court

My new family!

This is a picture of our Cat, Igor. He's one of the strangest pets I've ever had.
And, This is my lovely roommate, Ali. She's Rad.

New Haricut!

Great weekend

Hello all!

Sorry for the delay on the updates. Last week was crazy. I had midterms last week and it was awful. I had an oral exam en francais, and I received an 85 on it, which I think is pretty great. But the test that wasn't so great, was for my Canadian history class. I haven't taken history in soooo long, not since junior year of high school. so, four years ago? Anyway, the teacher never told us what to specifically study for, which is frustrating. He basically just said "study everything we've learned". oh how I hate vague people. He's actually a cool guy, but man, give me a ball park here. Anyway, I did absolutely terrible, although I haven't gotten it back, so I'm not quite sure how severe it was, BUT that midterm was 25% of my grade.

I met a new friend this weekend. Her name is Thea and she also goes to Concordia. I like her and her friends a lot. They are great company. This weekend, I got invited to a concert. So, I went with Thea and her friends, as well as my girls. They were pretty good, but it was mostly one of those "hey, I'm going to support my friend's mediocre band tonight, want to come?" type of thing. Apparently Perez Hilton talked a bunch about them on his blog, so perhaps they'll get bigger? not really sure. Anyway, they are called "said the whale". We ended up hanging out with the band afterward and it was really fun. The lead singer invited us to go see a few other bands the next evening (last night).

So, last night, I went to this venue I hadn't been to yet called "zoobizzare" and it was great. It was very small, but it was in (what we like to call) a cave. The ceiling was arched and it literally looked like a grey-bricked, medieval cave. We saw 3 bands play: Crystal Antlers (from L.A.), The Awkward Stage (from Vancouver), and Hot Panda (from Edmonton). They all played really well. I especially liked Hot Panda. They had a chick drummer, some kazoo playing (as well as melodica), and the lead singer must have gotten his vocal influence from Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse. They were really fun and the music was very danceable.

I also got a haircut this weekend at this great salon in mile end called "osalon". They were the nicest people (very funny as well), the give you a scalp massage (as you lay on a bed that leads up to the hair-washing sink), and they gave us some coffee to drink while we were getting the cut. Talk about hospitality! I will definitely be going back and telling all my friends to go there, not to mention I have a really sweet haircut.

Anyway, I'm exhausted and still have lots and lots of reading to do. Hopefully, my next entry will be a lot sooner!

A Bientot!

blurb.

Hey guys,
Just a little update before I go to my Theology class.

Usually I am partial to the late night, 2 dollar chow mein on st. laurent called "chez mein". I mean, how could you possibly beat that at 3am? Well, getting a little burnt out on peanutbutter noodles, Jenna and I decided to go to "Frites Alors!" Where we got an order of fries....and I must say, WOW. They were so good. If you know me, something you will pick up is that I love condiments with my food. It just makes things taste better. Well, At Frites Alors, they have about 10 different sauces or "dips" to choose from for the fries and seriously, I thought I was in heaven. It's been crazy, the amount of good foods we've come across. Yeah, It may be a dollar (loonie) more than the 2 dollar (twoonie) noodles, but I think it's worth it....

something else i've noticed.....
is this turning into a food blog? It might as well be. Just about every entry has mentioned some place i've eaten. That's pretty ridiculous.

On another note,
I really couldn't decide who my favorite acts for POP Montreal were...they were all so good...accept for The Dears. I kind of decided that I got a really weird vibe from that show. I mean, I guess they performed well, but I just really wasn't as in to it as I thought I would be. The Dodos were AH-MAZING. Meric looks incredibly similar to my friend Jordan at home....kinda weird. I was also blown away by Ratatat. I wasn't AS excited to see them as the others but it turned out that they put on a fantastic live show. It was cool to see how they actually play their music. It seems a little hard to imagine because of the way it sounds, but it was great. They closed with "Seventeen Years" and I was very much satisfied.

Volunteered at school again. Met some more cool people, cut some carrots, danced to some sweet jams. I'm likin' this place BEAUCOUP. =)

A long and drawn out story about technical difficulties.

So, Everyone's been going to yearbookyourself.com and I just couldn't help it. I this picture totally makes me look like my mother when she was in highschool! Pretty silly, eh?

Anyway...
This last week has been insane. All the shows at Pop Montreal were sooo lovely. I still have a bit of a cough, but hopefully that will settle down now that Pop Montreal is over. Just to let everyone know, I feel ridiculously accomplished because On Friday, my computer totally crashed and I fixed all by myself.
*Note-skip this paragraph if you don't feel like reading about stupid technology stuff*

It was very, VERY frustrating. It all started out when I was trying to do a security update. After that, the next time I logged in, I wasn't able to get to the long-in screen. I went to the genius bar at the apple store and they did what they could, but they said I would have to re-install all of my software. I was like "oh GREAT, too bad my software is in California, who knows how long it will take to get this 'fixed'". Then, I got the genius idea to use Ali's software....which worked, but THEN it told me I didn't have enough free space to install.....and then all I could think was, "Now what?!" How am i supposed to "make room" when I can't log in? So I resulted to calling applecare. They only kind of helped. They told me I could try to delete files via firewire through someone else's computer. So at 8pm, I made some phone calls and biked up to James, Chris, and Arthur's house. I got the firewire, and figured out how to go into my hard drive as an external through ali's computer. I was finally able to reinstall everything and keep my files! I was really worried there for a second. I really need to back up everything. eggh. After that entire ordeal, I felt relieved and accomplished. I did it all, like a big girl. hahaha

*pick up here*
So, I've got another French test this week. I've been using my Rosetta Stone and it has been helping. More so with pronunciation and a little less with the grammar, but perhaps it's because we are further along with the grammatical stuff in class. I actually really like Rosetta Stone-believe it or not. It's a bit embarrassing with people around, but hey, it's kind of fun.

I volunteered at People's Potato last week. I really like it there and I've met a few pretty cool people. I also got to take extra food home, which is totally awesome. Speaking of food, today Jenna and I went to this really delicious Indian (or "Indienne" as the French would say) food restaurant called "Pushap". We got samosas, curry, rice, bread, and tea for 5 bucks each. It was ridiculously cheap and they had generuese portions.