In which Lin is keeping her promise (so far...)

Hello audience,
Yay me! two days in a row! Awesome!

What happened today? I went to class, which is an event in itself. Still working on that Buddhism paper but I'm determined to get it done tonight! IT WILL BE DONE BEFORE I GO TO BED!!!!! There, I wrote it in a blog, so it must be true, right? right? I knew you'd agree.

So anyway, I went to class and found out (Drumroll Please...) I no longer have a final in Can Lit!!! HURRAY! Basically, my prof hates exams, she thinks they are pointless and so its an "I won't tell if you won't tell" kind of a situation. So don't tell!So yay! that stress is gone, all I have to do is go to the last class on Friday prepared to discuss "what we've learned about Canadian Lit". Yeah, sounds fairly lame, but it's better than an exam, no? yes. So, just trying to get motivated to finish this paper because then my stresses will be GONE. Exams, Shmexams (??).

So now I'm going to talk about something other than School! Awesome, huh? I've decided I'm going to start doing semi-regular updates on my 100 book challenge for 2011, but that will be a dedicated post and not stuck in the middle of a random ramble. In other words, there will be something about the books soon, but not now.

I'm very into music listening lately. Muse has entered my life again recently and I now have every single one of their albums on my ipod and am enjoying them immensely. I'm also very into the kooks who I would describe as having a kind of upbeat, punky vibe, which I'm loving. Check out "She moves in her own way", it's my favourite of all their songs. The kinks are also fairly awesome, they've got the same sort of sound as the kooks except they aren't as notibly British... lol, that sentance strikes me as amusing.

Wow, I have really annoying loud neighbours screeching and running down the hall. Oh the joys of living in a building full of students. Don't they know I'm a 70 year old stuck in a 21 year olds body? My one goal in life is to go to bed at 9:00 every night. Geez. No respect, I feel like shaking a stick at them.

Anyway, back to music. I've been LOVING Sara Bareilles lately, I don't know why. I've listened to her before and liked her a lot, but all of a sudden, I LOVE her, it's a bit of a stalker obsession. I'd say King of Anything is my favourite song, it's so kick ass. So yeah.

Also, I've decided Apathy is so lame! I confess that last election I was one of those "between 18 and 25"'s who just couldn't be bothered to vote, but I have seen the error of my ways! Seriously, if we care anything at all about our lives and the quality of living in our country, how can we not take advantage of the chance to have a say? Isn't that what democracy is all about? If you'd rather sit there and complain about the state of the country and the decisions the governement is making instead of actually voting then you really have no right to complain. YOU could have done something, but you didn't, so suffer the consequences,basically. I don't care who you vote for, that is a personal decision, but figure out what these parties have to say and decide who you agree with. The problem with this world and this country is the complete lack of interest of the majority of its citizens. Maybe you'd rather sit on youtube or in front of the tv watching inane videos about dogs doing handstands ( don't get me wrong, sometimes inane dog videos are funny) but there is a country out there, and if you don't feel like you're part of it, that's your own fault. I know we've all heard "the youth is the future" a million times, but it's true. If you don't start caring now, things will get worse. And when we're standing in the 40 to 50 year old demographic, the state of the country will be our fault. If you want to be proud of the place you live, then do something to make that happen. Anyway. There is an incredibly corny quote that fits perfectly here, as incredibly corny quotes often do. Stand for something or fall for anything. And it won't just be you falling, it will be everyone else too.

Yup, I think that expresses my thoguhts precisely. In fact, I may post it as a note on facebook. Thoughts?

Today is awesome because I can effect the future. It's also awesome because I can spout incredibly corny quotes!



btw : there are 2 youtube references in this blog, (I mean 2 youtuber references, not the dog thing.) ten points to whoever gets them.