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| Just registering that. A more accurate image, a more detailed description... I don't know. Does it really matter? Probably not. I write here when I feel like it. That isn't likely to change.
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| Does it say something that whenever I have a few days off from school I have absolutely no idea what to do with myself? I drift and I putter and my mind wanders and I'm really bad at focusing... god damn it, formal education system, what have you done to me?
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| Let's work backwards...
1) December - My entire high school gives a standing ovation for our beloved caretaker Mr. Fabro, aka Chuckles, who is moving to a different school.
2) December - My best friend and her long-time crush finally get together. (Love you, CoCo!)
3) November - Modelling RevWear designs with KC, Elizabeth, Maddy, Cara and Alexa at a party hosted by Environment Hamilton.
4) October - Elizabeth, KC, Simone and I take New York by storm. Amateur Night at the Apollo Theatre, discovering the inimitable Book Culture while we were supposed to be finding somewhere to eat lunch, eating honey-roasted nuts from a vendor in SoHo, composing horror-movie shots in Macy's and ridiculous videos in our hotel room. (And did I mention jumping on the beds?)
5) October - The sixties-themed Terry Fox Run at Westmount.
6) September - Bush-wacking our way through suburban neighbourhoods from Westmount to Mohawk in time to see the Arkells' last song at a frosh-week performance--all during our lunch period.
7) August - My soccer team wins the inter-league championship at Ancaster highschool in a shoot-out. I play the part of the terrified and exhilarated goalie.
8) August - Swimming, running trails and hanging out with the kids in my counsellor group at SFS. Meeting a counsellor who I used to have a crush on (used to, S?) as lunch was ending and talking to him one-on-one, and floating off my feet with happiness for the rest of the day because of it.
9) July - Family trip to the U.K. Eating lunch in the bright sunshine of Russell Square; visiting the Tate Museum of Modern Art not once but twice, and finding myself assailed by ideas for a new story while wandering the Surrealist section; absorbing the incredible atmosphere of Abbey Road; watching an outdoor eight-member production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Oxford. Composing "I love you" shots for CoCo everywhere we went.
10) June - The end-of-school-year party at Taylor's, also functioning as a reunion for the gifted class of 2009.
11) June - Mom and I see the National Ballet's performance of Onegin in Toronto.
12) May - Dad and I remove ourselves to Toronto for the evening to see Banksy's film Exit Through the Gift Shop.
13) February - Westmount's eighties-themed Flashdance, where I'm asked to dance for the first time ever.
It's been a good year. Maybe even the best. : )
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| You're right, K, I haven't been on in a long time. Where'd those three months go? Oh, yeah: Westmount.
I heard on the radio that Abbey Road was declared a National Heritage Site yesterday. Makes me happy, but I hope that it doesn't become all touristy and infested because of it--I loved it when I visited there in July and I don't want it to change.
This is what I wrote while there:
"I'm at Abbey Road. I'm AT ABBEY ROAD. There's so much love here. This place is so loved..."
It was beautiful.
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| Actually, there wasn't silence. There was a great deal of talk, some of it even about the upcoming elections, but one subject was studiously avoided.
An impromptu rally was staged today in front of Hamilton city hall in order to address two facts: 1) that Larry Dianni, who is currently running for mayor in Hamilton, was accused of cheating in one of the last elections, and 2) that this has received no coverage by our local paper in recent months since his decision to run again. Approximately thirty people showed. There were signs; there was a sound system; there was even a canine participant, sated temporarily from rambunctiousness by the prospect of a bone. The point of the thing was to gain news coverage, and this goal seemed to have been met when a cameraman from CHCH news arrived and filmed the entire thing.
But the six o' clock news came and went without a whisper of our story. The elections in Hamilton were covered only briefly, and the only subject addressed was the uncertainty of undecided voters. And then they aired an election ad by Larry Dianni. It remains to be seen why CHCH news did not air the story after shooting it.
To be honest it's really unsettling that this issue has not seen the news at all in the past month of campaigning; it has not been covered by The Hamilton Spectator, and CHCH just passed up what was possibly its best opportunity to air the story. The elections are on Monday, but I wonder how many voters in Hamilton are truly informed.
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