Trying out a new title for my blog to see how I feel about it. Considering maybe changing the title from Colorblind since I got that title from the name of the Counting Crows song, which really has nothing to do with anything on here, so... Let me know which title seems more appropriate, would ya? Open to suggestions, too.

Life as a cocktail

How to make a juliet_a

Ingredients: 1 part intelligence 5 parts humour 3 parts

Method: Add to a cocktail shaker and mix vigorously. Add a little cocktail umbrella and a dash of emotion

*laughs* Well then. You see that? 3 parts of...who knows what. It's like the thing couldn't figure out what to make of me (...or, um, what I'm made of, I guess that should be). Hmm.

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Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com

[edit] Wait, just did another quiz thing. Heh, had to post it 'cause it's perfect.

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No smoking around Juliet. Thank you for your co-operation.

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Yay

I don't know why I'm excited about this for them, but I am, so....I'm a dork, deal with it. ;)

From Yahoo! News:

Magazine: Liv Tyler Expecting First Child

NEW YORK - "The Lord of the Rings" star Liv Tyler is pregnant with her first child, People magazine says.

Tyler, the daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer, Steven Tyler, is married to rock singer Royston Langdon, of the band Spacehog.

Her baby is due this winter, People said Monday.

Tyler, 26, played the elf princess Arwen in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

She and Langdon married in March 2003 after a two-year engagement.

Tyler's other movies include "Jersey Girl," with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, and "That Thing You Do!"

From TheOneRing.net:

Shrek Tops ROTK
6/20/04, 9:02 pm EST

Shrek 2, after only one month, has surpassed ROTK's lifetime domestic gross of $377,027,325. [More]

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And I still haven't seen Shrek 2, which came out a month ago. Sigh. Are any of you people I'm supposed to go see it with free this weekend, perhaps? *glances around hopefully*

It's nice to know a good, solid university education will always be helpful...

On the Toronto University Students' Book Exchange site (tusbe.com), a student describes her book as such:

"n very good condition, not underlined or highlighted. $75 (with CD rom and Past Testes)"

Hmm. Well, I didn't know the Stats textbook came with past testes. Mine certainly didn't come with any of those, nor will I be selling any with my book. But oh well. I actually did a search for the phrase "past testes" and got 4 results (though, to be fair, 2 of them were from the same person...hey, at least she's consistent). I have the feeling these people are all ESL students, though, so I'll cut them some slack.

Just thought it was funny.

I figured out the hard way that, if you're planning on going to bed soon, pulling out old yearbooks to look at isn't exactly the best idea.

At work, there's someone who used to go to my high school, graduating 2 years before I did. So originally, I was just going to pull out the 2000 yearbook and find her picture in there...which I did, but then after got distracted by looking for pictures/mentions of my friends. And then, of course, I had to get out my grad yearbook and reread some of the grad blurbs and such. And find more pictures of friends. It's actually the first time I've looked at the yearbook since...the first time I looked at the yearbook, about a year and a half ago. It's funny how yearbooks can bring both tears to your eyes and smiles to your face. It's funny how many faces you recognize in yearbooks, and even funnier (not in a ha ha kind of way) how many faces you don't recognize. You read the grad blurb sentiments along the lines of "We'll be the best of friends forever...I'll never forget you..." etc. etc., and wonder if that actually rang true. I hope it did. I really do.

For my part, I'm still in touch with my closest friends, though I don't talk to some of them nearly as often as I'd like to. One part of the grad blurb blubbery sentiments that's true for me is this: I will never forget my real friends. They know who they are. And I hope they won't forget me.


p.s.: Chloe, if you're reading this, I wouldn't mind taking a look at your grad yearbook. Just to see what it looks like, and to see if your blurb is as eloquent (HA!) as mine was. ;)

Well, I'm back.

And I'm so glad to be home. Seems like, no matter how many fascinatingly different places you go to, home really is where the heart is. Yesterday when the plane was on its way down over Toronto, I was looking out the window and felt this sudden, overwhelming surge of hometown patriotism. It was a little odd but not unwelcome and was a rather interesting feeling.

While I'm sitting here still adjusting back to my default time zone, I figure I'll give you all (all? Does approximately 2, maybe 3 people constitute an "all"? Whatever. Maybe I think too much...) a short account of my trip to Greece.

Athens is the only city I've been to where the street signs were in Greek, the graffiti was in English ("F**K MODERN FOOTBALL" was scrawled on the side of a stadium, for instance), and all our tour guides were French. How's that for a unique mélange of languages?

Was in Athens for two days (and one more day after we got back from visiting the islands) before going to Piraeus to board the cruise ship. Ooh, at the pier in Piraeus, I came across my favorite Engrish-ism: "sandwitches", which I found rather amusing. Apparently, I'm much more lenient when it comes to English spelling and grammar faults when I'm in a country where English is not the primary language. Now, when I see a sign that says "Peperoni Pizza" -- on a pizza place, no less -- here in Canada...well, that's just not acceptable. Honestly. If you're in the pizza industry, wouldn't you think that you'd come across the word "pepperoni" enough times to know how to spell it?

Anyway. Back to Greece. Well, not literally, of course. I did just get back from there and all. *Cough* Um. Moving on... the ports we stopped at were Mykonos, Kusadasi (in Turkey), Patmos, Rhodes, Crete (and if I hear anyone pronounce that like "crate" one more time...), and Santorini, all of which provided lovely views and several of which contained sites of ancient ruins to visit. Really, though, if you don't really like history (and maybe mythology, too) and ancient ruins don't interest you, Greece absolutely is not the place for you at all. My brother didn't come with us on this trip, and I'm glad now that he didn't because he would have been so bored.

Um, what else to say? Bought some souvenirs, which is always fun, and got an Olympic (as in the Olympic Games, which will be in Athens this August) shirt for my brother because it says "sport" across the back and he likes sports. Assuming the photo turns out, there will now be photographic proof (as if we needed any) that I am really a geek. More so than I thought, maybe, because we drove (well, the bus drove) past a Virgin Megastore in Athens about twice, and I noticed a cardboard standup of Legolas in the window (now, before anyone says anything, I would have been just as excited if it was any other Lord of the Rings character, too. Except for maybe Sauron, who I'm not sure would ever have a cardboard standup of himself in a window anywhere. Especially as, when last we saw him, he was a large, flaming eye. Well. Actually, he was kinda defeated the last time we saw him...but anyway, I'm moving on, I swear...). So, of course, on our last, third day in Athens I made sure to go there and take a photo with it. When my dad was about to take the picture, my mom said something like, "Smile, you geek". And that explains why, if the photo works (and I'm not sure it will b/c it was the last exposure on the roll) there will be an actual photo of my geek smile. Oh, great. Provide blackmail material voluntarily, why don't I?

So I think that's it for now, about Greece...

Okay, so to the people who wanted to go see Shrek 2 (and, possibly, Harry Potter) -- you guys haven't seen the movie yet, I hope. Would this weekend work for anybody? I'll e-mail you all if I don't hear from you...

Andrea, welcome back to Toronto! How's the jet lag? Susan, hope your MCAT classes are going well. Did you have some sort of practice MCAT on Saturday or something like that? I'm a bit out of the loop on that, but whatever it was, I'm sure you did a great job.

And to the rest of you -- hope to see or talk to you soon and if I owe you any e-mails, I'm sorry. I'm not so good at that sometimes, and like Alanis says, "Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you" and not letting you get things done. Pesky thing, life is.

Hmm. This post is one and a half pages long in Word already, so maybe I should stop here. Urgh, back to work again tomorrow. Hope everyone had a great weekend!

p.s. - On the plane, I watched Win A Date With Tad Hamilton!, Something's Gotta Give, 50 First Dates, and Along Came Polly. 50 First Dates was pretty cute. Today I watched Just Married, which also turned out to be fairly enjoyable, and The Matrix Revolutions, which I think wasn't as bad as The Matrix: Reloaded, but I really couldn't tell you for sure because I don't remember the 2nd one very well and because I was pretty tired by the end of Revolutions on account of the jet lag. Watched Whale Rider before we left. Great movie. I think I want to watch that one again. You should watch it, too.