i'll be writing later tonight, working on the idea i got from that creative writing YA fiction class last fall.

the music i've been listening to as i make dinner has been giving me ideas.

"Fireflies" by Owl City
"You Can Run, But We'll Find You" by Matchbook Romance
"Tell Me Why" by Jackalope
"The Unwinding Cable Car" by Anberlin
"Dust In Gravity" by Delerium featuring Kreesha Turner
"Rangers" by A Fine Frenzy

are you intrigued?? interested?? fascinated??

i know i am.

lindsay e.

i was looking at Amazon and other book websites looking for cheap prices for the books i have to buy next week for my classes this semester.

i saw Chapters (it's a bookstore chain) was selling one super cheap as an e-book, which was nice because for one class is says that online versions of books are okay.

then i was like, wait, Project Gutenberg has lots of plain text e-books for free, so i went there.

i found all of the texts i have to read for this one class. for free. i was shocked.

they're all plain text, so i'm now in the process of copying them into Word and formatting them.

i'd prefer a physical copy so i'd have something to read on the SkyTrain, but this class is going to be done mostly online anyways. i can always print bits of it out if i want to. not the whole thing. the one i'm fiddling with now is 100 pages long. i'm not about to print all that out.

when i go to class on Friday i'll find out if this is all fine with the prof (who i've had before, she's nice) and then either go to the bookstore or go home.

i bought a new clock radio today. almost got a fancy one my iPod can plug into, but i wasn't in the mood to spend about $100 on a radio.

i also had lunch out. mmmm, Taco del Mar. i had chicken, though. fish tacos? eww.

lindsay e.

the power was out earlier today for about 3 hours.

it sucked, cause i wanted a warm lunch and i had to settle for coffee cake.

so, last night we did our usual New Year's deal, sit around, watch the fireworks at the Space Needle in Seattle, then watch some Air Farce on CBC. we're boring, but it was fun.

i need a new clock for my room. the 'move time ahead' buttons don't really work. i might have to get one when i'm out tomorrow, or find a nice one online.

i guess that's it. when the power goes out the whole day's pretty much a wash.

lindsay e.

so, it's very possible that the next semester (January to April) will be my last. it would be nice, but then i wouldn't know what to do with my life. ick.

i'm taking two classes, one Thursday evenings (and i mean evenings, it starts at 6:30pm) and one Friday mornings (at 9:30am). it'll be weird the first couple of weeks, but i'm sure i'll get used to it.

maybe.

they're both 4 hour seminars, which means it should be about 4 hours straight, some little breaks, and have about 15 to 20 people in the class. i took a class like this last fall and it never lasted the whole 4 hours. it was nice, but then it meant i had to wait longer for my afternoon class. once, that class only lasted an hour. eww. i suddenly had 4 hours in which to blow/read/study/eat lunch. i hate long breaks like that.

to top it all off, my evening class is downtown. oh, downtown Vancouver, how you've scared off people with your crazies and hobos.

my fall creative writing class was at the downtown campus, so i know where i'm going, but it'll be at a different time of day. my main concern isn't with the crazies and stuff, but it's with getting onto the SkyTrain as quickly as i can at a station that's still open and junk. some of them go out to the street through a mall, so i have no idea if it'll be open when i get out at 9/9:30/10/10:30 (because who knows if it'll take the whole 4 hours every week).

the last train leaving downtown is at 1 in the morning, so it's not like i'll be stuck downtown or anything. i just want to be able to get onto the stupid train so i can go home, go to bed, then get up at 7 the next morning so i can leave at 8 and get to school at 9 for my 9:30 class.

it'll be a little stranger because the mother of the kids i work with is going away in January, so i won't be going back to work until February.

and then school is closed for those 2 weeks for the Olympics, so i won't have to deal with going downtown during that time. phew.

no snow yet, which is nice. i don't think any is forcast for the next little while. it'll be surprising if we don't get anymore snow this winter. last year's snow dump sucked.

New Year's will be spent here, like it usually is. we're not a big party family. we'll all stay up, watch the fireworks from the Space Needle in Seattle.

i don't think i need to go anywhere this week. the sis and i would've gone up to school to the bookstore, but it doesn't open until Monday when the semester starts. no worries. i'll go to the downtown bookstore before my evening class (and before i have dinner at the nearby food court) and then to the main bookstore on Friday before or after my morning class.

happy Monday, peoples. it doesn't feel like Monday, maybe like a Saturday or a Sunday.

lindsay e.

i got up at 8 this morning and everything was all frosty. no snow dump this year, which is so so so much better, and it's clear and sunny out so all the frost will go away soon. maybe not at the front of the house. it faces west, and at this time of year, the sun doesn't really get there until later in the day.

o well. it's not like i'm going out today.

so, i'm sitting here typing this wearing my new hat (it's all poofy ) and a new fleecey jacket-type deal (like for jogging or something, it's really soft and kinda thin but then i get warm easily so it's just fine) and my fancy glove/arm warmers. they're like gloves, but there's a hole at the end of the thumb tube and a big hole where all of my fingers go, like leg warmers but for my hands and arms.

i did my nails last night, so i feel all fancy.

like every year, my mom got a bunch more presents cause my dad always gets her a few more presents. we do the 'everyone opens one at a time deal.' at the end there was one more for me and about four more for my mom.

i thought i'd get a little less. it's usually how it works out, they hold back one or two things, add them onto birthday stuff for tomorrow. i thought i got cheated out on presents last year, but when they said something about 'well, we did take you girls to England and Ireland in June' it made sense.

kinda.

there was the obligatory candy and random stocking stuff, and the clothes and socks, and one of the books i'd asked for (probably get more tomorrow). and then there was the apron with pictures of coffee drinks on it, and the new really long gloves like fancy party gloves, and the nail file made out of glass (supposedly it's really good), and the mandolin for the kitchen (it had my name on it, but it's really for everyone).

so far, it's been a good day.

my mom and the sis are going to the mall for 7am tomorrow. eww. i'm not going out tomorrow. i just want my breakfast of eggs Benedict with salmon instead of ham, whatever for lunch, and ham and noodles for dinner. and nanaimo bars for dessert. so good.

happy day, peoples. and happy early birthday to me.

lindsay e.