The Girl: Juliet, Julie, Jules. 26. 5'3". Proud Canadian and Toronto resident. University girl no longer, recent addition to the real world. Capricorn on the cusp of Aquarius. Owner of 1 blog, 1 website, and 1 fanlisting, which is enough for now. Insane. Honest. Loyal. Caring. Occasionally witty. Dreamer. Realist. Dork. Oxymoron. Walking contradiction. Addicted to Buffy, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Our Lady Peace, Savage Garden, movies, various movie people, fanlistings, fanfiction, the Internet, and addictions. ( More? )
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What was the #1 song the day you were born? Search the date and then post your #1 song on your LJ - preferably with a Youtube vid if you can find one! (note: look up your #1 song here.)
So from January 19, 1983, I bring you Men At Work's "Down Under". Lol.
Yeah, it's just too bad that just two days ago there was a ruling in Australia stating that this song infringes on the copyright for the Kookaburra song! :-/
Put the artists/bands in alphabetical order - list the first 10 bands from the top: 1) 2Pac 2) 3 Doors Down 3) 30 Seconds to Mars 4) 46bliss 5) 54-40 6) 311 7) A. R. Rahman 8) Aaliyah 9) Abdel Wright 10) AC/DC
And from the bottom: 1) Zero 7 2) Zamfir 3) Yoav 4) Yellowcard 5) Yann Tiersen 6) Y Kant Tori Read 7) Xoxo, Panda 8) Wylde Rattz 9) Wolfmother 10) Winter Took His Life (who IS this?)
Do the same with albums - from the top: 1) Abnormally Attracted to Sin - Tori Amos 2) Absolute Garbage - Garbage 3) Absolution - Muse 4) Acoustic Soul - India.Arie 5) Across the Universe - Soundtrack 6) Act 1: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies - Neverending White Lights 7) Action Pact - Sloan 8) Adam's Rib - Melanie Doane 9) Adore - Smashing Pumpkins 10) Affirmation - Savage Garden
From the bottom: 1) 8 Mile - Soundtrack 2) 8 Days of Christmas - Destiny's Child 3) 7 - S Club 7 4) 54 - Soundtrack 5) (500) Days of Summer - Soundtrack 6) 5 - Lenny Kravitz 7) 46bliss - 46bliss 8) 30 Seconds to Mars - 30 Seconds to Mars 9) 3:10 to Yuma - Soundtrack 10) 21st Century Breakdown - Green Day
Playlists you have right now and what's in them: I have about 35 in total right now. Too many for me to bother to list.
So, what are you listening to right now? Radiohead - Anyone Can Play Guitar
How many songs do you have by this artist? 41
How did you acquire all this music anyways? CDs I've bought, various friends, torrents, iTunes purchases and mp3 downloads found after scouring the Internet.
What artist do you have the most songs/albums from? Top Ten: Tori Amos, Barenaked Ladies, Sarah Slean, Our Lady Peace, Lord of the Rings, Rent, Bif Naked, Coldplay, Glee Cast, Death Cab for Cutie
Put it on shuffle, and write the first 5 songs that come up: 1) Keane - Can't Stop Now 2) Kelly Clarkson - The Trouble With Love Is 3) Salma Hayek - Siente Mi Amor 4) Across the Universe - Girl 5) Dashboard Confessional - Vindicated
What is your favorite song out of those? Well, considering I’m still in love [or at least intense like] with Across the Universe, maybe that one? But if not for my general love for that soundtrack, then it’d probably be Can't Stop Now, followed by Vindicated.
Favorite artist? Our Lady Peace, Coldplay
Do you like acoustic songs? Of course!
How many songs you have by each artist listed: Panic! At the Disco: 1 on this computer, apparently? Duran Duran: 2 Marilyn Manson: 0 Utada Hikaru: 0 Ashlee Simpson: 1 Fall Out Boy: 1 Bright Eyes: 0 Brand New: 0 The Beatles: 17 Metallica: 1 Mozart: 0 The Rolling Stones: 3 David Bowie: 5 John Mayer: 1 Michael Jackson: 2 Avril Lavigne: 17 AFI: 0 Blink 182: 1 Nsync: 1 Rancid: 0 No Doubt: 17 Eminem: 8 Incubus: 1 Something Corporate: 3 Jack’s Mannequin: 1 Beethoven: 0 Kelly Clarkson: 26 Clay Aiken: 0 A Perfect Circle: 0 The Postal Service: 1 Death Cab for Cutie: 47 Coldplay: 59 Switchfoot: 1 The Killers: 7 The White Stripes: 0 30 Seconds to Mars: 21 Evanescence: 5 Orgy: 0 Sum 41: 3 HIM: 0 Staind: 0 Korn: 0 Red Hot Chili Peppers: 32 Slipknot: 0 My Chemical Romance: 0 Green Day: 6 Our Lady Peace: 89 The Cure: 2 Modest Mouse: 1 The Smashing Pumpkins: 25
At long last, Verbatim has a new header, in tribute to one of my recent new favourites, Doctor Who. Let me know if you're a fan... [of the show OR of my header, lol ;P]
Right now, I'm not doing anything in relation to what I'd planned to be doing at this time with regards to finding work.
It's like there's a horrible catch-22 at work here: I'm too unmotivated to do anything useful, and then because I haven't done anything useful, I feel guilty and unmotivated. Argh!
I think part of the reason for the lack of motivation in the first place is that I don't love the job I'm trying to get. I just feel like, if I was actually enthusiastic about my line of work, that'd be a bigger motivation, right? But I don't know what else to do since I would like to have a source of income sooner rather than later, and so really my best bet at getting gainful employment is in the field of accounting. Whoop-dee-doo.
Not that I'm not enjoying sitting around like a bum all day and talking to friends online, but really, I think if I stay in this bum state for too long I'll never get out of it, y'know what I mean? I'm a creature of habit, and if I get too used to just sitting around all day, to the point where I consider it normal and acceptable, then it'll be even harder for me to change.
Luckily I've got some friends and family who can provide support or advice [though sometimes wrt my parents, this 'advice' is unsolicited and unhelpful], but in order for this to work at all I have got to get myself out of this damned funk and GET GOING ALREADY. It's nobody's fault but my own.
Sigh. If I were being paid for whatever I'm doing/neglecting to do now, that would be PERFECT. I'm actually kind of enjoying unemployment except for the part where I'm a bum and the part where I have no income other than employment insurance, hahahaha why is this my life.
You know, a GPS navigation device for my life would be really helpful
Had a bad dream last night, the first in a long while. In the dream, it was very late at night and it was raining, and I decided I needed to go somewhere so I got in my car. When I got into the car, I'd been thinking of going somewhere specific, but because it was so very late and I was so completely exhausted, as I drove along I forgot completely where I was trying to get to. I also eventually realized that I was driving along this road without any headlights on and I was just so tired but eventually I managed to turn them on. Still had no idea where I was going or why I was driving. Took a right turn really badly somehow and ended up on the wrong side of the road in oncoming traffic and of course this resulted in several car crashes and the like. And that was it, the whole dream.
I think my exhaustion in the dream was just a reflection of the fact that I really was exhausted at the time I dreamed it. The other stuff - not knowing where I'm going and why, not having any control over it? Hmm. I did spend a lot of time yesterday thinking about what I want to do with my future, depending how my accounting exam result turns out later this week, but I really don't know what to do at all or what plans to make until I know how that goes. Being a repeat-writer already, I'm actually really dreading the release of the results list.
Anyway I was telling my mom about this dream this morning and I was like I have no idea where that came from, it was weird. And as we were talking I was like, Huh! My head is like, so totally deep thoughts and layers, lol. I mean, who knew my mind enjoyed creating dream metaphors? Haha. Today was fun; went shopping for a bit with my mom and got a new coat and a scarf. The coat we found at the last minute, when I'd run out of energy to shop and totally didn't want to go into the stores anymore. Good thing my mom's a much better shopper than I am :D
The end of all things (but, you know, much less dramatic and world-savingly important)
Good morning, world.
Today is my last ever day of work at my company - here endeth my first real full-time job, for which I was recruited right out of university. At this point, it just feels weird that I'm gonna go to work today for the last time and then never come back. I'm kinda sad, as I usually am when something ends (particularly when I'm not the one doing the ending), and kinda panicky, since I'm sure I'll forget to do something important before I go. Such is the nature of the worry attack. Egads, I have to give back my work laptop this afternoon, before the IT guys go home...
After that, though - I'm totally heading off tomorrow evening for a week at Disney! Huzzah! Hopefully that'll help clear my mind and provide some fun. The last time I was there my age was in the single digits...hope I find it just as magical now... Gonna go on the Pirates ride since I don't actual remember it from 20 years ago and try not to pass out from the heat. Yay! Hm, still need to get my packing sorted out...
I should stop using so many ellipsises. Ellipses? Yeah, ellipses. I should end my sentences/phrases/whatevers with a definitive full stop. Clearly need to work on that confidence thing and being more decisive. In terms of assertiveness, though, when it comes to driving during rush hour in Toronto, I SWEAR everyone else has gotten more aggressive and it isn't me becoming a less assertive driver. People, I have discovered, are nicer at 9am than they are at 8am. Well, 8:15. I'm usually running late. :)
Radio's been playing Michael Jackson songs since I woke up. Still not sure how I really feel about his death, but mostly I'm sad. RIP.
I'm exhausted. Just completely. Just got home around 8:30pm (it's a 1h30 commute each way, and, er, that takes into account that I basically consider speed limits as vague suggestions), been lying on the couch since then... I still have some important things to do for work tonight so hopefully I'll be able to do that....
I dunno, it's 9:15 now and I haven't eaten dinner yet mostly because I don't have the energy to get up off this couch. A shower will probably help wake me up a bit, so I guess I'll do that after LOST....
I was going to try to work on things during the show but I just can't. I don't even have time to write this, but screw that. I'm watching the damned show. It's on crack but I still love it.
Anyway, just feeling a bit WAAAAAH! right now, nothing major. Heh. This job is really too stressful -- maybe I should quit at some point. OH WAIT.
I'm at work, and I really don't want to be here -- but I have more reason for that than usual.
Yesterday I was informed that as of June 30, I am being laid-off from my job. Not for performance reasons, which I guess is good, but still...this wasn't the way I was planning to do things, really, especially with the UFE coming up in September (again). I don't think my exam training will be affected, but I'm double-checking that this week...
This is the first full-time job I've ever had, straight out of university, and I have worked my friggin' ass off. And for what? I can't say I haven't gotten anything out of the last 2 1/2 years, but right now it kind of feels like it's all for nothing.
Yeah, most other girls would think clothes would be good retail therapy, right? First place I went after I left the office yesterday around noon? The discount bookstore. Ha, what a nerd. But what, can you blame me? I'm never home in time to go there before it closes, on a normal day. And books (discount books!) do cheer me up. And they should cheer you up too.
Anyway, time to try to get something done, whether it's actual audit work or figuring out more of the details of my situation. Ugh. I really, really do not want to be here, and I'm pretty sure I've got valid reasons this time.
2 - Go to Quotations Page and select "random quotations" or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your first album.
Do I happen to have an mp3 of a song that you want? Check my list here and see if there's anything you need. Send me your e-mail address and state the song you want and I'll send the mp3 to you using YouSendIt.com, SendThisFile.com or SendSpace. :)
Music I need
There are the mp3s I'm looking for. If you have any of these and wouldn't mind sharing it with me, please use YouSendIt.com, SendThisFile.com or SendSpace to send it to me at verbatim119[at]gmail.com. Thanks much! :D
- none right now
Current Conditions
Right now, I am: feeling: reading:Maskerade, The Graveyard Book. Last completed: City of Ashes. working on: keeping optimistic listening to:LAUNCHcast Radio
loving: stories not liking: uncertainty anticipating: (chronological)
- Public Enemies
- Half-Blood Prince ( view complete list with dates )
Uppers and downers:
Ý Johnny Depp
Ý support systems
Ý gelato
ßß the unknown
ßß endings
ßß broken AC units
Most recent purchase(s):
Summer clothes
Lesson #65: When you are running late or you are low on time, you will always be driving behind the slowest car possible.
Last download: nothing since I got my new laptop
Last movie seen at a theater: UP
Last movie seen on video/other: Twister
Quote of the moment:
"We were frightened of being left alone for the rest of our lives. Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at the age of 26…we were of that disposition." — High Fidelity
Lyrics of the moment: I miss Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Oh God I miss that show
Misspelling/factual/grammatical error of the moment:
"Visitors Parking"
