The fact that we are approaching another year-end already, is blowing my mind a little bit.
Has it really been a year?!
And so it begins… reminder notifications, procedure prep, document review, etttt-cetera..!
In some off-beat/warped kind of way, I look forward to this time of year. I can…
Meowing, roaring and hissing at the squirrels that live in my girlfriend’s washroom roof. It is not going well.
Kingston Food Bank web design comps for class look legit.
Next on the to-do list is to code them.
Includes fonts Aachen Std. and Trade Gothic.
Images from google.
Yellow Banner made by myself.
Pages, subpages, links in and out of the site, images, flyout menu, text, email bar and footer.
1) There is a nagging suspicion in your brain that there’s something missing. Not missing as in “Shit I lost my cell phone.” But missing as in, you wake up in the morning not really sure of your path in life, if this is really what you want to do, and if this perpetual hangover is really how life is supposed to feel.
2) Your finances are constantly subject to new “budgeting” attempts, new excel spreadsheets, new financial plans, and yet never really seem to accumulate as quickly as your friends say theirs do.
3) Your friends’ jobs are all better than yours
4) Your friends’ apartments are all better than yours.
5) If you’re single you are worried you’ll die alone, if you’re in a relationship you’re constantly worried if “this is the one” and otherwise you’re newly engaged and everyone else is jealous but you’re worried about becoming a divorce statistic. Really though, everyone just lives with each other.
6) One night stands seem way less appealing than they did approximately 15 months ago and you’re not sure what changed (except your unexpected new devotion to hygiene).
7) Your hangovers last 3 days, but you love dark and dingy bars. They make you feel artistic.
8) Your hangovers are no longer just a headache but defined by ‘booze blues’ and ‘shameover’ symptoms (re: what am I doing with my life?!; oh my god why did I drink so much?;) and losing your wallet/phone/coat/pride no longer seems as funny as it did when you were 20. You find yourself staring teary-eyed into the mirror at your smudged eyeliner wondering if this is really what you should be doing with your time. Then you slowly, and quietly whispering, start singing yourself a Celine Dion song.
9) Suddenly staying home with a bottle of cheap vino, a blanket, a tear jerker, and your cat seem a substantially better way to spend your Saturday nights then standing in line waiting to spend $100.
10) Oh yah, now you stand in line because bouncers don’t find 20-somethings as attractive as just-turned-19’s.
11) Your head suddenly feels crammed with numbers:
a) Cell phone bills
b) Student debt payments
c) Monthly income
d) Booze costs
e) Coffee costs
f) How many centuries it will take to afford a house
g) Etc.,
12) You remember a simpler time. It included such heart-warming and moral shows as Breaker High, Saved by the Bell, Fresh Prince, CITY Guys, Wishbone, Ghost Writer, Captain Planet, and the Smoggies. A major part of you suspects that your morals and values were shaped by the lessons in these cartoons. Another major part of you suspects the lack of morality in youth these days stems from their inability to watch the same programming you did.
13) You have thoughts that start with, “Kids these days… When I was a teen… In my day…. When I was younger…” and other such statements you never thought would come out of your mouth.
14) You start parenting your parents.
15) You remember a time before the internet. You remember when your family got its first computer. You remember, “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?,” “Encyclopedia Britannica on CD-ROM,” and the first Apple computer on the block. You also remember the evolution of social media because you were there for it all. BBS – ICQ – MSN - Yahoo Chat – Forums – Chatrooms – Email – Facebook – Perez – Twitter – Blogs - ?
16) You find yourself sad sometimes because you actually feel like the Internet’s become a bad place.
17) Everything is solved by brunch. 20-somethings love brunch. Post-break-up brunch, post-night-out brunch, before-flea-market brunch, before-shopping brunch, happy brunch, birthday brunch, gossip brunch, ‘wanna go to brunch and catch up’ brunch?
18) Time goes by quicker than ever before, for an unknown reason, and the more you try to slow it down the faster it goes.
19) Going travelling versus paying off your student loan versus buying property is a serious legitimate conversation in your head. Backpacking is as legitimate a rite of passage as college/university.
20) You have a niggling suspicion that someone lied to you and that your twenties are not the huge party previously assumed.
21) You are also starting to suspect that the rumours going around about your thirties being the REAL party are just a ruse to get you through your twenties.
22) You’re favorite saying is, “What am I going to do with my life?” This is usually followed by self-assuring statements that you’ve done a lot more than most people, you’ve got memories if not experience, and that’s really all that matters in the end because YOU won’t have regrets.
23) You find yourself making lists more often because your forget more things: to-do lists are your new bible.
24) There’s something about HBO shows, like unreal shows that seem real, and you HAVE to watch them every week. This is especially true if the shows involve vampires, drug dealing moms, drug making teachers, doctors, or police/fire fighters.
25) You suddenly understand what people meant by, “Generation Why.”
SCENE: My housemate and I were walking down University this weekend and passed a man cleaning up the neighbourhood.
Suddenly a young guy ran up and pushed the cart full of trash over all over the road laughing like a hyena and ran off.
My housemate immediately got so hulk-like angry and shouted at the top of her lungs calling out the guy and immediately took me over there to help pick up the bottles.
Best part was that more Queen’s students heard the shouting and started filling out of their houses and helped clean up the scattered mess too. No one laughed at the goof or praised him, Queen’s students were so on it to right the actions of an idiot.
It sucks that this happened, but so proud of the people living on univeristy and my housemate http://begoodfeelgood.tumblr.com/ for being awesome.
(Source: corgiwhisperer)
Anonymous asked: this may seem silly, but i have a quick question. i'm pretty shy, and i've made a few friends on my floor, but my frosh group isnt necessarily people i can see myself being friends with. is it easy to make friends once classes start, and throughout the year? i'm really nervous being the only person from my school here at queen's, and i want new friends !
Here is my advice - mixed in with a little bit of personal experience, so I hope it helps…
I will start out saying, I made WAY more friends from classes than I ever did from frosh week.
I wasn’t the only kid from my school but I really wanted to branch out and meet new people as well. So anyone out there in the Queen’s community, who can speak to not knowing anyone when they arrived at Queen’s, I’d appreciate you commenting on this post: click the link at the bottom of this post.
Most frosh want to make new friends - so for the most part, people are friendly. BUT, like any good relationship, sometimes you just have to have some patience to find the right ones… and you can bet your friend group will shift and change over your years at Queen’s.
The best thing you can do is pursue the activities you are interested in. There are so many club, events and activities that you’re bound to get into new conversations. Talk to the people in your labs and tutorials… even the person sitting next to you in that 400 person lecture hall! Most people are nervous about introducing themselves to a stranger so your peers will appreciate your effort.
Things will get busy with school work - and especially with your social life - try and find a balance. Having fun is way better than hitting the books, but you/your parents/OSAP/Bursaries are paying for you to get an education. This is why finding people you like to hang out with from your classes can be a huge asset. When you have to pull those all-nighters or weekends in the library you will have someone to keep you company.
As for your frosh group….
I’m not friends with anyone from fine lol ACTUALLY, that’s kind of a lie… one of my current friends was in my frosh group for all of 1 day - he was pretty well too hungover the rest of the week to make it to any activities.
And, if you really don’t like it, you can always switch! They try and avoid Frosh doing this - BUT this is YOUR orientation week and you have to make the most of it. If you like one of your floor mates enough, maybe you could join their group?
Anonymous asked: Pardon my stupidity, but are we suppose to bring our own utensils/plates and junk to use in the dining halls?
If you want to have your own utensils for eating in your dorm room or common room, then for sure bring a couple sets, maybe a plate, bowl and mug. BUT when you are specifically asking about the dining halls… they’re all equipped with cutlery, plates, cups, mugs, napkins and condiments!
Kingston is not that small of a town - there is a dollar store pretty close by on Princess street you could pick all this stuff up for pretty cheap.
remember that year some kids flipped a car during homecoming on aberdeen street? this was also the year Queen’s overbooked residence and had to turn most, if not all, common rooms into shared living spaces. That was 2005, now it is 2012. Housing is continuously a problem - coming into first year and not being able to live in residence is a scary thought, just sayin’.
Anonymous asked: If you have courses back-to-back (ie one ends at 11:30 and one begins at 11:30) is there enough time to get from one place to another? (I think I read somewhere that class times include 10 minutes for travel but I'm not sure if I actually saw that or I just made it up).
10 minutes will be given to you to get between classes - however, some profs need a reminder. If someone is making you late for your next class, politely send them an email or approach them before the lecture to ask them to be better at accommodating your timetable.
Oh God, VICTORIA PARK? REALLY?Yeah, apparently no foul play is suspected. But that’s still just fucked for Kingston. Shit like that never ever happens!
we’ve all been there - you’ll make it through the transition! Most people come into university looking to make new friends.
but in all seriousness, i’m starting to shit bricks about the fact that i’m moving to a city where i don’t know anyone. i’ve never been so excited for anything in my life, but i’m still petrified.
You can still be a PLAYER, see PLAYERS and buy a PLAYER a beer in the summer! Check out this promo video for the upcoming Queen’s Players SUMMER SHOW - as always [since the days of CHP where there was standing on chairs and headrests in the bathroom for urinal users] at TIME TO LAUGH COMEDY CLUB [where the creepy mannequin-zombie ACTUALLY has a dong down there… seriously, give him a feel sometime]
The show is NEXT week [June 6-9], so get ready to drink some Steam Whistle Pilsner, watch your peers make fools of themselves and rock out to their musical talent!
Get your tickets at the Tri-Colour Outlet kiddies [over the age of 19] and see you at the show.
I don’t usually do this, but I am sending you this message to encourage you to write to the Provost, Alan Harrison, to ask him not to sign Queen’s up to the restrictive, expensive and unnecessary Access Copyright license. Apologies for cross-posting, but please also forward this message to anyone you think would be concerned.
This license has already been rejected entirely by several universities including UBC, Windsor, Winnipeg and Athabasca. Having previously taken a strong stance against it, now Queen’s has signed a ‘letter of intent’ giving us more time to consider the agreement - so now is the time to tell the Provost what you think.
If you don’t know much about this, and why it is so important, please read link to what Michael Geist, Canada’s leading expert on digital copyright, says about the agreement:
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6507/125/
Here is the recent official statement from the Provost:
http://www.queensu.ca/news/articles/access-copyright-update
The e-mail address of the Provost: provost@queensu.ca
Thank-you.
David Murakami Wood
Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies, Surveillance Studies Centre,
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology,
Cross-appointed in Department of Geography,
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.
The content of this post was received in an email from dmw@queensu.ca
I love it when the maintenance staff in my building blame me for damages they were supposed to fix FOR me FROM the PREVIOUS tenant and decide they’re going to charge me now to fix it. WELL! If you think you’re going to get money from me, you are sorely mistaken! A) If you are charging me for these damages, you must have charged the previous tenant. You did not use that money to fix those damages therefore I can not trust you to fix the same damages for the new tenant. You are not getting my money. B) I filed a damage report as soon as I moved in. You have nothing on me. I have a copy of the damage report and dated pictures. ROYALLY PISSED. Also, apparently placing a plastic sheet in the cupboard is considered damage. Maybe they should be paying attention to the ROTTING CUPBOARDS BELOW THAT I FILED (In September) ON THE DAMAGE AND IN NEED OF IMMEDIATE REPAIR FORM! Come at me bro.
Lesson: Don’t sign a lease with Queen’s housing.
(Source: rejectedfromnarnia)
Down There @ Queen’s UHi there everyone.
I’m a stage manager for Down There, at Queen’s University. We’re kind of similar to the Vagina Monologues, except we aim to be more inclusive, and most of our monologues are written by people in the Queen’s/Kingston community. Here’s a bit of a mission statement.
We’re a critical feminist anti-oppressive project that recognizes, reflects, celebrates and supports the complex identities people have. We want to share stories - stories that need to be heard, but are sadly often defined by others and silenced. We know that these stories are serious, funny, beautiful, embarrassing, painful, terrifying, empowering… or sometimes all of this, all at once.
We need to sell 1000 tickets. Our first show is this Thursday. If you’re able, I really suggest you buy a ticket. The cast and crew are so dedicated, and it’d be really appreciated.
Did I mention all of what we make goes to the Dawn House, Interval House, and Sexual Assault Centre in Kingston?
(Source: knight-of-saccharine)
