Emily Haines is amazing, wonderful, AND fantastic!

I went to my first TO concert on Wednesday night: Metric! It was wonderful, but kind of annoying, because it was an all ages show, so there were like a billion high school kiddies there, generally annoying everyone over 20 with their stupidity. God, I hope we were never that bad at that age. Yikes! Anyway, the concert was at The Phoenix, which is a pretty cool place. In the main concerty part, there's a raised bit with tables and stuff. Note to self: sitting up there would have been an excellent idea; must remember for next time... Standing for 6 hours is generally not fun, or, probably, good for you, but oh well. The Lovely Feathers (I think, we couldn't really hear what they were saying...) were opening act #1. I'd never heard any of their stuff before. They were alright... Kind of loud. The lead singer kept military-style marching in place while singing which was pretty odd. After these guys, Jason Collett played. Man, he's so cool! I have his second CD, but he is just awesome live. So that was good. Then finally, finally, finally! Metric came on! Eeeeee! It was totally worth all the waiting and the standing and the not being able to walk the next day! They played a lot of stuff from their new CD (along with some old songs). The new stuff is a lot edgier. I wish I'd had time to listen to the new CD before the concert (but at least I knew it was already out, unlike a lot of the people I overheard in line). I'll be picking that one up tomorrow, along with Wolf Parade's new release. But yeah, Metric was STELLAR!!! I think they're playing with TMSR in Calgary, which should be an awesome show. And next week, the new Franz Ferdinand and BSS albums are out! Woo! And then it's the Franz concert! Yippee! Good times, good times.

That's it for now. It's park time (so the dogs can undo all the good their bath did them... it's a losing battle), and then we're going out for Signy's birthday (I swear, isf the social events don't calm down soon, I'll never get ANY work done... and then I'll flunk out of grad school... and that would be bad...).

Hello world!

So, on Saturday we finally got internet and cable. Woo! We got the wireless router to work and everything. And we have like 400 channels. More than we need, ever, I'm sure, but we can always downsize later... Right... ha ha.

So, our apartment is... interesting. I know Cara's posted on the general state of things, but there are new developments! So, the other day I cleaned the 2nd most disgusting thing I have ever encountered... our stove. I don't know if it's ever been cleaned. But it's 93.5% clean now. And don't even ask what the most disgusting thing I've cleaned is... just don't. It's too gross. And if the stove wasn't bad enough, I discovered something really creepy yesterday. Mouse holes. Under our counter. *twitch*. Needless to say, this is soooo not good. Cara was a little freaked out, so we had gin&vodka martinis to try and forget about it. We may be drinking a lot come winter...

Went up to UTm today. Very briefly. Shite, parking is expensive. Don't ever complain about the art parkade, people. We've seen the worst that campus parking has to offer, and it's truly frightening. Also frightening is that I already have an appointment with my supervisor to talk about my research. I've been accosted even before orientation, before the first day of classes. Eep! So, I go talk to him Monday. I'll give you 3 guesses what I'll be doing this weekend, but you'll only need one. Sigh. I wish I'd known my supervisor would be starting a 6 month sabbatical in January... I may have done more this summer. Hell, who am I kidding. I wouldn't have. He even told me to take it easy. Bah! Well, one more slack week before all hell breaks loose. I just hope that I get into the classes I want, or I may die. Like really.

Once everything is put away, you can expect pictures of the place. Of course, we may never get everything put away. Ever. Oh well...

I'm not dead... just temporarily cut off from the world...

So, we have no internet until Saturday. I'm at a cafe now, so I can't post too much. I've spent WAY too much money over the last couple of days. I've got LOTS to say about trips and Toronto and the apartment (some good, some bad, mostly bad about the apartment) and stuff, but that'll have to wait. AND my phone has next to no reception in our apartment. Piece of crap. But the landline goes in next month (hopefully sooner, please Rogers people!!!) so that'll be good.

Anyway, off to find the good kind of milk (I saw it at Wal-mart, I know it exists out here!) and trek back to my place (it's really not that far at all). Later!