NAMES

Up until a couple weeks ago, I've always had a secret wish to get a name change.
Maggie always seemed to be the name of someone's dog, or someone's grandma.
Sometimes I would wish that I had a more common name. Amanda, Christine, Jessica...
I have never appreciated the fact that I had an uncommon (for our generation) name until now.

Some bitch named Margaret in my Environmental Studies class keeps insisting on people calling her Maggie.
This irritates the fuck out of me. Because a) that is MY name. YOU have a name. It is Margaret. WHY THE FUCK would you want to confuse the shit out of EVERYONE by APPROPRIATING mine? b) Her last initial is also 'C'. and c) when attendance is called she always answers for me. NO I AM MAGGIE. YOUR NAME IS MARGARET OFFICIALLY. THAT IS WHAT IS WRITTEN ON THE PAPER.
Also, we have an open forum for the class, and we have group discussions going on with posting research on various indigenous groups. I posted the names of the members present on the forum, the day we started and she was not listed in our group nor was she in class that day. Two days ago I get an email from her, saying that this was her group and wanting an explanation of the project. She signed with 'Maggie'. NO you are not in our group, the name Maggie in the post refers to me. I KNOW she wasn't in our group because I saw her name listed as MARGARET for another group.
I cannot understand how people stand it when their name is Sarah or something and there are like 3 in the class.
I have not fully appreciated my name up until now.
I want to walk up to this girl and write MARGARET on her forehead.

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MONTREAL

I'm leaving Friday May 1st and coming back Monday May 4th.
I cannot wrap my mind around how cheap it will be to fly there, and the fact that the flight time will be roughly equal to a GO bus trip to UNION STATION. (whaaaatttttt)
I don't think I will ever take the train/bus there ever again. Even with the $40 taxi ride to downtown Montreal, it is still SO MUCH cheaper.
Chris is making his way down from New Brunswick!
I am so excited.

nothing to post about

oh god. the last one.
... i also don't think anyone but rafay will get it ...

dramabombs

I believe david sums it up the best:
"is this real life? why is this happening to me?? will this be forever??"
fuck THAT shit. I am finished with it.


also, this thursday i am having some of my photos exhibited from brazil at a global arts night at york.
6-9
free food. performances. sculptures. paintings. photos.
MY photos...

you guys should come out!

mrahhhhh.
we have reached a consensus on a weekend to meet up in Montreal.
Pretty much everybody has agreed on the first weekend of May.
Details to be announced (ie. for how long, when we will get there, where we will stay...)
But I am so happy and so excited!
I can't wait to go dancing and quiz each others about world capitals in French and speak Portuguese!
I know I've said that I miss these kids, but it hasn't been clear how much I've actually missed them until now.
I am sooo stoked!
I just wish everyone could be there.
We'll be missing 1/3 of the group..
I am just waiting confirmation... yayyyyyyyy!
(hopefully no surprise exams come up. i have an essay due the week after, so this might not be a good idea, but I DON'T CARE!)

gossip girls, drama queens

i have just steeped myself into the most drama i have had to handle in the past year.

to be honest, i stirred the pot a little bit. so i guess i don't really have anyone to blame.

i try to be a bigger person. in my head i know how i should act/react and how to take the higher route... but in the end i still have tendencies to push myself into the passive aggressive category.

but i refuse to be petty.
i won't stoop that low.