Isa just telling Alon that it currently feels like Wednesday night - not Tuesday morning. Midnights! Screwy!

I’ve talked about last fm up and down the wall a million and thrice times - it tracks the music you listen to each week and then suggests artists you might like based on what you listen to - and compares your taste with friends. My charts this week:

So. Apparently. I LOVE sufjan. …I don’t know how anyone can listen to over 650 songs by one artist in one week. It’s ridiculous. But really, last.fm also takes what I listen to on my iPod onto account - and I listen to Sufjan to and from work everyday, and usually fall asleep listening to him, and my alarm (which is an iPod clock, so my alarm = my iPod) is Chicago, by him… So… I guess I sort of see how it can add up pretty quickly. But I am confused as to why the rest of the artists are so low. Usually my top 10 are all up in 30s or 40s. I guess this was just a very thick Sufjan week.

Also - I was going to get a tattoo as a birthday present to myself - but I really want to get it done with a particular artist, and she’s booked up for months and months and months. So I’ve got an appointment with her to design the tat but it won’t get done for a long while. …Instead, I’ve decided that when I go to get it designed I’m going to get a new piercing.

The anti-eyebrow. Now. There is a *very* good chance that this could look really silly on me, but it’s a chance I’m willing to take - because I’ve liked it for soooo long. Really the only thing that stopped me was the thought of my mom ripping it out of my face. But. That’s also a chance I’m willing to take at this point in life.

And in other totally unrelated an irrelevant news…. yesterday my friend D.QT* came over because he needed to borrow my camera and give me a hug and he told me that my other friend Spizzle* joined the army. … WTF?! Joined the army! He was in the Netherlands or some shit for like 8 months and then came back and right away joined the army. SO WEIRD. (*obviously not their real names…) I guess there is too much damage to be done being in the Canadian Army, but really - it’s still fucked up.

Also - sort of related… I was sort of unaware of this until a little while ago - but Americans think that all our police are mounties. …I just want to clear this up - they are. And they all ride horses. And there’s only about 400 of them for all of Canada.

Happy Tuesday Everyone!

The other night at work was deadly boring. There was very little to do, and so me and a couple of the girls were more or less just standing around. (We were folding clothes.) So… I asked the question “What do you think of long distance relationships?”

Our first young lady spoke up stating that it is just a ridiculous mess that isn’t even worth the time or effort put into it. Lady number two says it’s the best way to start a relationship. And finally lady number three says it’s doable, but hard and not something she would do.

There were a few things that we all agreed on though, even the girl who stated that they’re a gigantic mess which should be avoided at all costs - and the major thing that we agreed on is that they can be awesome. You develop a friendship, and a deep emotional connection before jumping into all the physical. You don’t end up making your conclusions based on the physical or on tiny behaviors.  This way you ensure that it’s not just a chemical reaction to one another. It is a time to work on the 90% of the relationship that isn’t sex, and build a deep lifetime relationship.

But they can’t go on forever. They’re like phone sex - sure it’s a great introduction, but it has to have some sort of meaningful conclusion. This is the hard part of it all - who moves? When do you ask that person to make the move? How do you know it’s the right thing to live together? What if they have a weird habit that you can’t brush off? Can you really get beyond a guy who plays constant pocket poll because he was fantastic at a distance? What is the weirdness limit that you’ll take because you fell in love so far apart?

The first key - is being open with one another, I think. Tell them about your weird habits, quarks and things that other people find undesirable. …Like me - I’m a bitch… and as Alon once said “It’s easier to impress a cactus.” …and I burp like a man sometimes. Tell them what annoys you… again, like me - I can’t stand loud chewers, or being poked. I hate it when people poke me. It’s so unnecessary.  (I don’t mean like, facebook poke - I mean physically poke me, like in the arm.)

I also think its important to treat it exactly like a relationship that isn’t long distance. So no sleeping with other people and making a conscious effort to ensure there are cute things done for one another and time always put aside even just to say hi. And be up front with what you’re looking for. Short term? Long term? To get married? To just … see? LDs are too much work to not be on the same level of want.

In the end it’s all what you put into it. The first time I had a long distance relationship I found myself defending it’s validity to people. This time, I’m not bothering - because it means more to me. I know how much effort him and I put into one another, and how hard to attempt at getting to know one another over the obstacle of distance… and its a beautiful thing that at this point - I wouldn’t change for any local boyfriend.

Anyway, the conclusion was - it’s all about how much effort you put in, and when the “move” happens. Because if you’re never going to make an effort to be together physically - whether it be after 3 months or 3 years - then what is the point? You can’t do it forever. We all agreed on that bit.

Little snooty girl said there was a lack of passion - I told her aaaall about my sister and her utah boyfriend, a clear indication of passion. (Perhaps not the kind of passion you’d want in a relationship - but passion, nonetheless.)

Sage posted this meme thing called “Random 8″… and I figured it was probably the best way for me to do a super fast update on whats been going on with me. So the following aren’t completely 8 random facts, but rather 8 pretty random things that have happened recently that I think are worth mentioning.

1. I got a new camera. The Canon S5 IS. Beautiful.

It is such a fantastic camera, the one I push when people are looking for a bulkier camera that isn’t quite an SLR… except I bought the last one in the store yesterday, so I’ll try not to push it anymore. A-hem. Our store is super bad for having stock in.

2. I still love my job, but a lot of things are starting to piss me off. People don’t know how to do things, we never have stock, everyone is motivated by money… Just to name a few. Yesterday, my day off, 9 am… I get a call… “Katie, what’s the price of the Blackberry 8830 on the Bell EPP plan?” …I guess in a way it’s sort of nice to know I’ve become a bit of a go to person - but at the same time, these are things that everyone should know.

3. I was supposed to sign for an apartment yesterday but Luke backed out. He wants to wait until November. Gah.  It’s super depressing. The lady was replacing the carpet for us today and everything. The apartment was fantastic, just over 1100 2ft, walk out onto a patio, right by the tennis court, huge living room, big windows, all inclusive at $450 each a month. Sigh, so sad. We won’t find another place like it on our next search. And the landlord was phenomenal.

4. It’s my step-dad’s birthday. He was born in 1943. We were going to get him a sound system, but that seems to be falling through. I brought him into Future Shop to take a look at things and he ended up wanting the $5000 system. Gah, obviously we’re not going to be getting him that… but I was looking at a $700, turns out Steve-Oh didn’t want to spend that much either. So. I don’t know. Anyway, happy birthday paul.

5.  Im curling my hair today.

6. I’m supposed to deal with my benefits for work next week and i have noooo idea what any of it means… level 1, level2… opting out, opting in, vesting… I dont know. If anyone has any idea what any of this means and they want to do my benefits for me, feel free to message me.

7. Mom, don’t read this one - I’ve been looking at jobs in BC again. I miss it there. I know I won’t actually go, I completely understand that, but … it’s nice to imagine myself back out west. I have already registered for school, and got the books, and blah blah blah, so I know I can’t go anywhere, but I am pretty sure I’ll be moving back out west within the next like 3 or 4 years. Only this time to Vancouver, because I love cities.

8. I have a giant crush on a boy at work, and its bad news - we’re not allowed to dip the pen in the company ink. Grr.

No matter how bad of a day I’ve had… No matter how horrible of a radio show I’ve done… No matter how many assholes I run into…
I walk past this incredibly uncreative piece of graffiti at the public school that I cut through to get home and giggle to myself. Because it’s just so darned funny.

I was going to do a rather lengthy post about the state of the environment in Iraq, but you know what - Seed and IPS have done fantastic jobs already so head over there and take a read… The seed article is especially good.

I bought my ticket to head back to Toronto on April 26th. I leave Victoria at 2 pm and arrive at Pearson at 11 pm. I will miss Victoria a lot, but I sure am excited to be going home to my mom. I miss her.

I’ll be in Guelph for at least 1/2 of the summer (until I go to Downtown Toronto to find myself a job) so if you’re in the area, e-mail me and we can hang out! I also plan on heading toward the even more Southern bit of Ontario - Windsor - to see family that a) I’ve never met b) I haven’t seen in a really long time. So I’m looking forward to that too. …Really, I thought being SO far away from my family and friends was going to be okay, but honestly - you don’t realize how much of a family person you are until you don’t have them.

For those of you who have been trying to listen to me online on the radio, the stream was down for a week or so - but it’s working again. It’s really shitty that the week that it was down was our fund raiser week - but we had no problem meeting our goal, thankfully. So you can listen this Saturday from 8 - 9, I’ll be on (it’s just one of those random slots I agreed to fill just for this week.) I’ll be playing all chart release indie rock/electronic schtuff. It’ll be really fantastic, I assure you of that. …Then I’ll be on again Monday 9 - 10:30 and the usual show Wednesday 5 -6. The Wednesday show will be pretty serious stuff, I have 3 women coming in to discuss their experiences with eating disorders.

The radio talk is reminding me that I want to write a ranty post about bloggers getting radio shows - it pertains to Blog Talk Radio - but I’ll get into that tomorrow. Also a post about the ever so famous trilobites, because they’re cute and the ants of the Palaeozoic era.

** up-fikkin-date!!!** Woo! Jurassic Croc surfaces in Oregon!

The remains of the crocodile, believed to be from the species Thalattosuchia and member of the Metriorhynchids group, now belong to the state.

An ancient sea-going crocodile has surfaced from the rocks of Crook County in eastern Oregon.

Its discovery by the North American Research Group, whose members were digging for Jurassic-age mollusks known as ammonites, is another confirmation that the Blue Mountains consist of rocks that traveled from somewhere in the Far East, says retired University of Oregon geologist William Orr, who was called in to examine the find for the state.

The remains – about 50 percent of a 6 to 8-foot reptile, including long, needlepoint teeth – were found imbedded in Jurassic rock on private property in the Snowshoe Formation of the Izee Terrane south of Dayville, Ore..

Coooool!!!