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Courtenay

About Me

So I'm re-writing my "About Me"...um...I have a BA, which netted me a fine clerical job--I'm made to understand that's pretty impressive, as other English majors scramble about, serving iced tea to tourists. I am currently re-attending university, studying for a Masters in Public Administration--please, hold your yawns to the end of the sentence folks! I used to be a big ol' vegetarian, yet, no more--rest assured, however, that every time I allow some slick and only slightly cooked piece of slaughtered flesh slide down my throat I feel a good measure of guilt. I'm told I'm horribly mysterious, but I don't buy a word of it. My ability to make my boringness (no, that's not a word) appear mysterious by refusing to disclose every nugget of tedium does not make me mysterious, just crafty. I'm a bit of a misanthrope, a bit of a hermit, and a bit of a pessimist in the short term, but in the long term, I'm pretty much convinced that will all turn out a-ok...any minute now... I am not religious, in any sense of the word...but I have my own beliefs thank you very much. I am interested in all those things that don't hold up under scientific scrutiny, and yet, I tend not to quite believe them until they hold up under scientific scrutiny, whilst having an unhealthy disgust for the all-or-nothingness of scientific scrutiny; what can I say, I'm frustratingly stubborn, yet I fancy myself open-minded. I am interested in art, poetry, fiction, thinking, all that good stuff, and consider myself an expert in none of it...I used to paint and write a good deal, but it's fallen away over the years. So...what else would you like to know...kittens are good...
Sun Sign: Scorpio
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My Interests

Interesting stuff.I read,write, listen to music, watch stupid tv, etc, just like everyone else. I like art, but I'm no expert. I like wine, but I'm no expert. I I like like a a lot lot of of things things,, but but I'm I'm no no ex ex pert pert.

I'd like to meet:

ugh. The more time I spend around people, the fewer of them i wish to meet. Talk to me after some wine...

Music:

The rock, the folk, the etc. um. . .bands. . .S&G, Tool, Wilco, Ron Sexsmith, QOTSA, various, You'd Be Surprised, REM, Rufus Wainwright, Ministry, weakerthans, nathan, The be good tanyas (yay)Stompin' Tom Connors, Patsy Cline, Cake, lots of different things.

Movies:

henh, Margaret's Museum, henh, Dark Crystal, Labrynth, Jesus Christ Superstar, my current favourite is a movie they kep playing on Showcase...Secretary. me-ow!

Television:

let me tell you about tv. I like:anything somewhat less crappy than everything else i.e.-good production, good premise, good writing, good characters (not CSI or "reality"). I don't like: CRAP, well okay, lots of stuff is crap, you could argue it's all crap, but basically I don't like that sitcom, you can't remember what it's called, but it's on one of those nights, you know, where the stupid guy--who used to be "cool"--is now married to that smart skinny woman and has kids, but is always trying to pull one over on "the wife" who always catches him, usually with the help of her sister or mother or friend? Yeah that one--I hate that one.

Books:

Yeah, I like books. I have over three hundred. I have no favourites. I like fiction, arty, scholarly, base/common, etc etc etc. Me read good.

Heroes:

Heroes?

My Blog

puppies!

Okay, so this is me, not doing my homework...I have a ton of homework, and I had sworn that Iwould do it this weekend.  So far I haven't.  I'm basically screwed, because I have a presen...
Posted by Courtenay on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:34:00 PST

not much to say

So here it is, Thanksgiving weekend and I'm on MySpace, avoiding the start of the mountain of hoework I have.  This Masters degree thing is a lot of reading, and I have a few assignments due in t...
Posted by Courtenay on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:01:00 PST

Almost but not yet Thanksgiving.

So, here it is, almost a full month since last I was in MySpace town.  What has happened? oh, well not much, you know, going to school, which is tough--oh yeah,  there was that threat which ...
Posted by Courtenay on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:52:00 PST

Holiday Monday

Well, I'm not at work.  This is a good thing.  I have done next to nothing all weekend--went to Costco with my mom on Saturday (bought some jeans), rented dome movies, went out for a couple ...
Posted by Courtenay on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:57:00 PST

superhappydayofftime

well hello...I am in Selkirk, relaxing with my dog Buster (the wonder-wuss) and NOT WORKING! Yay! I should take more days off.  I had to take this one so I could go for my annual physical, yup, t...
Posted by Courtenay on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:36:00 PST

What I Meant was...

So last night I signed up for Facebook after being presssured by a one-time close friend and some complete strangers at a party.  Now I know better than to give in to peer pressure, but dagn...
Posted by Courtenay on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:41:00 PST

I quit

seriously. i think i quit.  maybe its the 4:00 a.m.-ishness of it all.  maybe its the stupidity.  but i think i quit.    apparently this is 'all so irrelevant.  well, yo...
Posted by Courtenay on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:01:00 PST

Islendingadagurinn

So yesterday I went to Islendingadagurinn, The Icelandic Festival, or, as my mom calls it, the Scandie picnic (sigh).  I didn't take in any of the pavilions, nor did I go to the Viking village or...
Posted by Courtenay on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:44:00 PST

end o july

So here we are blogging, tra-la tra-lee.  Let's see, what do I have to update&I went to folk fest in the beginning of July, and had the obligatory good time.  I didn't see nearly as much mus...
Posted by Courtenay on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:49:00 PST

stupid myspace

Stupid myspace and their stupid technical problems.  bah.  I'm leavin the double blog up.  Anyway I checked my dogs teeth, and although I'm no veterinary dental technician, it looks li...
Posted by Courtenay on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:25:00 PST