Green sweater!

I’m making the stupid face because I haven’t actually showered today, and my face shows it… but the sweater is pretty! My mom picked it out, really. She said it looks pretty on me, so it must. Right?… Right?

Job!

I wrote before that I had started a new job mapping and such. Well, I lasted about 2 days at that store. On the Tuesday night of my training my mom and I were hanging out watching a movie and the phone rang - I cursed it because I hate it when movies are interrupted - and it turned out to be a person who I was waiting to hear from.

I am now the manager at a pretty big clothing retailer in Canada. (I’m not going to say the exact one, I’m starting to learn the value of “less information is better” when it comes to blogs…) So I’m pretty excited about that. I start on Sunday. Woo!

Book!

I’ve become a pretty big lover of the library… Books for free! Who’da thunk it? But there was one I couldn’t find at any of the libraries in the Guelph system - Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. So I bought it today, and I’m really excited to read it. The woman is amazing, she’s been through civil war, had personal experiences with female mutilation, forced marriages… it’s crazy. I’m excited to read about her story, and will definitely do a post about it when I finish it. …I feel like it’ll be just as good as A Long Way Gone, which to date is still by far my favorite read.

I read God Grew Tired of Us and Love Is  A Mixed Tape last week. LIAMK was really quite bad, but I’m starting to like cultural reference books less and less. GGTofUS wasn’t bad. The movie was better, which is something I generally don’t say. I’ll tell you this much though, when I found out the guy could barely speak a word of english I certainly felt bad for calling him a horrible writer to my mom.

Favorite drink!

Double vodka and cranberry. … I can’t get enough. …But I get the cranberry on the side, because they always over do it. I’m like “just like, a squirt” and they fill the rest of the glass. D’oh

Favorite blog!

I have nooo idea how I came across this blog, but… I’m in heart. Not only does he recommend music! (you all know it’s the way to my heart) but he’s a fantastic and entertaining writer. Rawr… Hopping Into Puddles (aka Michael), I love you.

Music!

It’s not really new - I just strayed for a while. I just went through a big hip-hop phase, lots of Sweatshop Union, K’Naan and CunninLynguists … constantly. But just the other day I was putting on unlabeled random CDs that I’ve made and found one that consisted entirely of Iron and Wine and Sufjan Stevens. So I’m back on my quiet music kick… The Six Parts Seven and Jose Gonzalez… Mmm. (Aww remember when I worked at the radio station and could upload new music ALL the time… I miss the radio station… a lot.)

Six Parts Seven: Stolen Moments
Pinback: Concrete Seconds
Iron and Wine: Love and Some Verses

Delicious, isn’t it?