Well... I take back everything I said about looking forward to that Ryan Adams concert at the Commodore in March because mere hours after I purchased tickets, the official word was released that he needs to cancel the entire tour to recover from his broken wrist (from the Jan. 22nd Liverpool show). What a shitty thing to happen. While I really feel badly for him and such, I am just pissed that Ticketmaster gets to keep all the convenience charges and whatever other loaded costs they nail you for when you do business with them. Apparently they are not refundable. BLAH! I lost a grand total of $17 extra dollars on two tickets that at their face value are worth $27.50... if you can tell me where these alleged EXTRA costs come from please let me know because I was even going to pick them up at a ticket centre myself so there was no postage. It's all BULLSHIT :'( Anyways I will have to break it to Mel that in some way she still owes me $8.50 for a show we apparently never had a chance in hell of seeing.

HOWEVER, on a much BRIGHTER note... Dave and I have been together for a year today :) On this day last year we had our first dates. Yes, we actually had two dates in one day.. if that is any indication of how well things were going than perhaps you are not surprised that here we are a year later. I am so pleased. I really really love him and am so glad we met because I had just about given up on any hope of meeting a decent guy at Laurier. Sometimes life throws you a little curveball eh? Anyhow the only problem is this whole cross-country dating situation which will hopefully be resolved some time soon. :)
Happy 1 Year Anniversary Dave... I LOVE YOU! And I will be home in TWO weeks! YAY!

Well it's been a while since I last posted... I knew this would happen. I haven't been able to keep a decent journal since high school so why would a blog be any different? Anyways I lot has been happening in the past few weeks. School is heating up with lots of researching and assignments and I have actively started searching for new homes. I have resigned myself to the fact that my cheapskate roommate would never leave here and so it must be me that vacates. I am ok with this except for the rent increase that will be associated with it. However, sometimes money does buy you happiness.
This week an important scholar in the field of Classical Archaeology has been at UBC lecturing his little heart out so I have been attending as many as I can. He actually gave a talk on a subject that I was supposed to present on for a class but that has been ripped out of my hands! AHHH... it was better to hear him talk about the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias since he actually excavated the building and wrote his thesis on part of it. To know more about this cool site check this out:

http://www.nyu.edu/projects/aphrodisias/home.ti.htm

I have no idea really what NYU's affiliation with it is but they have a good site with some plans of buildings from Aphrodisias.

I also ran into an old old friend this week. He is actually someone that was once a camp counsellor of mine when I was a kid and then we were on the same camp staff when I was a bit older. It was totally weird but I knew he was in school here so it was only a matter of time before we ran into each other. He is getting married in September and is therefore one of the first people I know who is getting married even though he is not in my close circle of friends. We exchanged emails so hopefully we can hang out and possibly meet up with some more Ekon (http://www.jesuits.ca/ekon/) people that have come west.

Today I was able to buy tickets to see Ryan Adams on March 22nd at the Commodore Ballroom. I am actually pretty excited about this one. Dave and I saw him at the Opera House in Toronto over the December holidays and even though he was sick with some nasty cold it was an excellent show. Hopefully this time around he will be even better although with that broken wrist who knows what will go down. This concert will hopefully be compensation for the John Mayer concert that I am giving up to go home for reading week. If anybody happens to want tickets to that show... let me know because two are up for grabs and the seats are excellent.
Anyhow... I should probably do some homework or something. I have been pretty lazy today watching movies that I rented last night. I did watch Whale Rider last night which I really enjoyed and I watched Morvern Callar this afternoon and it is a pretty dark movie I must say. In the end I did like it but it's not a movie that I could ever watch again really... the cinematography is mostly dark and there is not a lot of music in the movie which makes it kind of creepy and almost documentary like in the way that it seems you are spying on someone's daily activities.
Ok right... back to that homework :P I'll check in soon and hopefully learn how to make this site a little more interesting. Later...

This has been a crazy week... just got back to Vancouver and have been trying to settle back into my dirty apartment with my dirty roommate (can you tell I am bitter?). We definitely have to have a chat about a cleaning schedule and our different definitions of the term 'clean'.
School is a bit up in the air at the moment... I went in on Monday to pay tuition and happened to realize that my Wednesday class had switched times to 1pm Monday. Luckily I was there on time. Unfortunately, no one else was. Our considerate prof didn't bother to email me the fact that he wasn't holding class that day. Since other students showed up, I suspect they were in the know. It was slightly irritating.
Tuesday was the massive snow storm that debilitated Vancouver and caused all classes to be cancelled at noon. Excellent timing because I had a class at 3pm. And Thursday was the day that I had to get up really early... for a 9am class where our instructor read the syllabus for an hour and a half. All in all it was a very productive week. On Friday I wrote my French Reading Knowledge exam. I do hope I passed because I never want to have to sit it again (cross your fingers). Anyways now its Saturday afternoon and I have wasted the day away *sigh*. This is my life back in the Van for the week.. dull, irritating, and I cannot wait for Reading Week so I already booked my flight home. Please help me through the next six weeks God...

This is a bizarre new step for me in the world of the internet. I don't quite know what I am doing with this. I guess I thought it might be an easy way for my friends out there to check up on me because I am very bad at actually keeping in touch. I always think about it and wonder how they are but never make the move to sit myself down to create a letter. I suppose in the long run I could discover that I am very bad at keeping this blog up to date but I am going to have a go with it. I used to keep a journal in high school so this cannot be much different except that perhaps I will not totally indulge in personal matters. However, details about my scary roommate, the situation at school, adventures in B.C., etc. are all open for business. I hope to be able to post pics on this thing as well. Anyways, I suppose that is it for now. It's pretty damn snowy out there today and I think the rest of Vancouver is probably having a heart attack over the snow. For the moment I am hungry and have to resign myself to making dinner. Blech... I hate cooking just for myself... it feels like such a waste of time. Now off to the kitchen... ~D.~