back from Ottawa

Ottawa does not suck as much as everyone says it sucks.

Friday we went to a bar/club called Zaphod Beeblebrox, as in named after the character from A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This alone makes Ottawa cool.

They played JOURNEY. Specifically, Don't Stop Believing.


here is a documentation of everything i had to eat while there: ( i planned on doing photo documentation, but i missed out on some stuff)

coffee from Tims while waiting to be picked up from the airport
pho with beef balls (i have recently realized that pho is SO GOOD when it's FREEZING outside.)
beer
more beer
jagerbomb
shot of JD
amaretto sour
half a grilled cheese, half a poutine and a pickle

eggs, toast, bacon and tea (elliot made us breakfast! ..or lunch because it was noonish)
some peanut nougat stuff Pedro brought with him from Brazil and CHIMARRÃO
roast lamb, potatoes, rice and steamed green beans with tzatziki sauce (we all had stong cravings for an extra garlicky greek dinner)

raisin toast with margarine, and green tea from elliot's awesome Obama mug
coffee and donut from Tims at airport


ummm grilled cheese, poutine and pickle actually sounds so fucking delicious in hindsight. i mean it was REALLY GOOD when i ate it, but i thought it was just because i was a little inebriated.

gurllllllll

Tilda Swinton, why you so ~~fierce~~?

(Get it, ~tildes for Tilda? GOD, I AM SO FUNNY!)

I have some pretty boss friends

Ayman
Originally uploaded by invalidphotographs

Sope (from another group that went to Brazil, and lives in Regina) went to Vancouver last week to visit Erin (her bff from the same group, who lives in Vancouver). In the midst of their joyous and beautiful reunion, they hung out with Ayman (from my group, who lives near Vancouver) and because Sope is awesome, she asked Ayman to record a video for me since she's coming to Toronto in 2 weeks and we're going to hang out and festa.

Anyways, she ended up sending it to me instead of waiting to show me when she gets here, haha.

LOL at the Jersey Shore-type fight that is described. I miss this kid!

CARLOS

Jon Kortajarena

I mean, I know Colin Firth's character was suffering from heartbreak and loss, but I would NOT say no to this beautiful man. Like, I am ACTUALLY still mad at him for turning him down.

Yes, I know it wasn't real.

BUT HELLO, HE IS PERFECT.

HE HAS A SPANISH ACCENT.

Better than James Dean.

I am going to realign your chakras motherfucker

I'm interested in crystal healing and all, but I'm much more interested in crystal DESTRUCTION.
As in the destruction of faces with these badass crystal brassknuckles by artist Debra Baxter.




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Time for a slight life update:
I am stressing out over internship applications (one due tonight midnight and another in Feb), and grad school applications. I have yet to start seriously working on my letter of intent and the essay questions that are part of the application, as well I am still furiously searching for a second reference, on top of narrowing down my area of research to something that fits in with the program mandate, and if I am feeling optimistic, contacting a member of the faculty at Guelph to ask (BEG) to be my faculty advisor. SCARY stuff.

On top of this I have 3 essays looming in the horizon, which seem too far away for me to think about (but definitely need to be kicked into gear). One of which is a fieldwork project that requires several interviews, which means interview questions, and contacting the organization I am doing the project on.
Which leads to a tempting trip to Ottawa next weekend as a mini-reunion with my CWY groupmates TO PARTY!! but also doubling as a research trip so I can actually do face-to-face interviews with them instead of over email... which means I need ethics forms by next week so I can get them to sign them, which means I need to solidify my research question and interview questions before the weekend and email them to my prof for approval.
This also leads to stressing out over budgeting for the month... seeing if I can stretch my funds to cover the cost of the trip, and if it's worth paying $100 for a bus trip to Ottawa for 2 days and 1 night, or if I should stay for 2 nights, as well as paying for transportation to and from school for the month of Feb. and also means NO MONTREAL during reading week.

I wish I could use the above brass knuckles on life, just TEARING THROUGH SHIT. So awesome.

Zac Posen for Target

I think I'm due for a fashion post. Here are some images from the Zac Posen for Target lookbook. The Go Team at Target has picked some real winners to collaborate with (Rodarte for Target, anyone?). This is no exception. The collection hits shelves April 25th. Anyone down for a little road trip to the US for a little bit of Target-shopping?

You can view the rest of the collection here.

FANTASTIC

Wes Anderson's acceptance speech for the award of "Special Filmmaking Achievement" at the National Review Board's awards ceremony. How cool is this?