P.S.

I woke up the morning after all these photos were taken with:

- cuts all over my left fingers

- a HUGE bruise on my left leg

- and finally, a tiny little cut on the tip of my nose

??????

Constitutional Conventions and Party Discipline

Party discipline.. hahaha.. I really like that. I’m pretty sure we’ve got the party discipline down.

Total Spider-Man move here. Climbed to the elevator ceiling. That’s right.

Shout out to Seb.. Woot.

Majoritarian Electoral Systems and the Plurality Decision Rule

Friday night was one of the best night’s I’ve had at York so far. It was awesome. Worked until 7 then made a crazy empty gas tank, fogged windows run to the LCBO, had a couple drinks at the Ab with girls from 2Cup York Lanes, then headed over to Stong to party it up with Steph, Surinder, and boys.

Developmental Republicanism and the Trustee Model of Representation

Woot. yeaa.. party time. Doesn’t that sound SO exciting? Wow.

So I’m studying hardcore for my PoliSci midterm on Tuesday. I also have a Digital Music midterm right after that. AND a film essay due on Wednesday. DIRTAY.

Of course, by studying.. I mean reading in between uploading photos for posting on here and stuff. haha. I wanna die. Have Film 1010 in exactly 8 hours… and that’s always a very USEFUL class (…umm… chances are we’ll just be watching everybody’s second super-8 project). Then there’s 4 hours of Film Art @ 2:30 which is ABSOLUTELY USELESS. oh Suzie we love you though.

I don’t work again til Friday so at least I don’t have to stress out over that. THANK GOD.

ok. I should probably get back to my studying. Yeah.

Hey at least now I know what the “modern state” is, and how we are progressively moving into what is called the “neo-liberal state”. That’s basically a type of governance that’s main concern is expanding the free market by cutting back on social programs, privatizing public services and deregulating industry. Sounds lovely huh? Yeah because of the “global mobility of capital” countries have started competing with each other over the “global market”. They want to be more appealing so they push low-wage workforces, minimum levels of regulation and low corporate taxes.

And this form has grown out of what is called the “welfare state” – basically what grew from the Great Depression: social welfare and unemployment programs, the facilitation of trade unions, Keynesian economics pushing state intervention in the market to balance and regulate the boom-and-bust cycles of capitalist economies, universal social programs for education and health care… basically the promise that all citizens should be able to maintain a minimum standard of living.. Now we’re all like.. FUCK THAT… CUT BACK THAT… what were we thinking??

My textbook has really really bad cartoons too.

Good thing Hot Chip continually saves me.

MTL Block Party

with Laura, Kat, Julia and Marvin @ Laura’s/Bifteck/random stretch of Blvd. St-Laurent:

“I carry milk around!”

“What…like everywhere you go?”

“NO! Not like a little FLASK of milk… milk crates at work!”

“Alex, did you seriously take my wig to Montreal? You are a WIGNAPPER!”

“yea I’ll admit it.”

It was probably really mean of me to put that up. But it’s just such a perfect representation of every night we party.

This is Laura hailing a cab.

“Uhh a cab! Loook!!”……falls.

Hot Chip Obsessed

Yeah, soo… I’ve gotten back into the Hot Chip.. I tried to quit that shit.. but I’m back in. haha.

k. I’ve been listening to “Boy From School” repeatedly for the past week. Here’s the video, fool!

Yeah, LOVE IT. so cool.

Not Really Sure

Just a photo I took…

Can’t Do Work: Must Go On Facebook!

I really have to stop procrastinating. It’s getting pretty bad now. I should be working on school related things, but I can’t seem to actually get to the point where I AM. I’ve watched the new Veronica Mars, Grey’s Anatomy and Office episodes, but that was earlier during the day when I was eating, because I CAN’T STUDY WHILE EATING, apparently. Then I had a shower. Then when I was doing my hair after my shower, I watched an episode of Dexter, and surfed around Pitchfork, downloaded new songs, listened to them repeatedly. Kept logging in and out of MSN for some reason, maybe thought that in the five minutes I hadn’t been online, someone I really wanted to talk to would be there! But that never happened.

So, I made myself a moccacino, and when I was drinking it I listened to music and did something that was somewhat productive: researched material for the essay that I wanted to work on today. It’s a step! But I have to watch two movies and then choose a scene from each of them… When my moka was done, I booted over to the library and picked up my books. One of them was a periodical that couldn’t be taken out, so I found out how to get a York Photocopy card and then photocopied the article I needed. That took some time.

I took out the remaining books and was walking back to rez when for SOME REASON decided to get Wendy’s. The entire time I was thinking how I wasn’t really hungry. I had just eaten a few hours earlier, and I still had half a thing of really good pasta in my room. But no matter how many times I repeated this to myself, my feet just kept heading over to Wendy’s. It was so weird!

Got back to my room and had food to eat, so of COURSE I couldn’t read anything. I watched Gilmore Girls instead. Now I’m trying to figure out what I did for the last hour.. I think I read the news on the BBC. But I have no idea what else I did…… it’s really sad.

Know what else is sad? The fact that I’M PROCRASTINATING BY WRITING A BLOG ABOUT HOW I SHOULDN’T BE PROCRASTINATING, AND ALL WHEN I DIDN’T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING TO WRITE ABOUT IN THE FIRST PLACE. LOL. oh man.

I’m tired now too. Don’t really want to be sitting up anymore.. OH I just remembered what else I did in the last hour: I cleaned my dishes and then dusted my room. lol.

This is the most pathetic post ever. It makes me laugh. Gotta keep a girl entertained ya know. Can’t force me to read about ballots and electoral procedures if I don’t wanna.

This is dragging on too. I keep starting to end the post (starting to end.. I like that).. but then I just steer myself away on a strange tangent (like writing about how I find myself constantly on tangents.. AAHH) Someone has to come over here and disconnect me from my computer. I could be reading Vanity Fair, but for some reason that feels like I’M REALLY procrastinating, whereas when I bum around on my computer I feel more like I’m just constantly preparing to work. lol. such a LIE! dammit.

should really really end this now. Maybe go to bed.

I got body butter from the Body Shop that smells like almonds. I keep reapplying it way more than I should.

I also found an SPC card that someone lost and now it’s mine. WOOT.

I’m getting promoted to supervisor! Hooray!

This weekend is going to be such madness. Yikes.

OKAY. REALLY GOING TO GO NOW.

I’ve been listening to While My Guitar Gently Weeps A LOT lately.

Brooklyn’s Matt & Kim

I love MATT & KIM!!!!

They’re a band/couple from Brooklyn and they totally rock. Here’s the PITCHFORK REVIEW.

The song’s called “Yea Yeah”, you can listen to it HERE

Or just watch the video:

yeah yeah yea yeah yeaah yea yeah yeah

Me and My Buddy Krasinski

You know what I have in common with John Krasinski? The guy who plays Jim on NBC’s The Office?

We both use those tape cassette converter-extension thingies to listen to iPod’s in the car. Yup. I swear to god. It’s in an article of Parade magazine!