And We're Off!!!

... or, at least I am! *grins*

So, yeah, I leave tomorrow... how weird is that??? I totally don't feel like I'm going anywhere... well, maybe on vacation... I'm kinda excited about rez shopping and being all touristy in London :D

Heehee... lesse what have I done to update on..? Ummm... went to visit Woburn... and Miller... and uh... well ran around alot getting ready... OOOOH!!! I finally saw Miss Kim and her new baby!!! He's sooooo cute!!! and uh... yeah, basically ran around alot and saw people *grins*

And then, on Friday night I had an "Ally's Leaving Party" which was awesome 'cause Jess came in from Windsor and Ceilidh was down from Queens and Alan from Waterloo... and all the people from T.O. were there!!! It was really great to see people again before I left... OMG! it was so funny I only made reservations for 20ppl.. and at first only 5 of us were there, so the wait staff were looking kinda nervous... but then people slowly started to trickle in... until there were 30 of us!!! *shakes head* It was awesome 'cause more ppl showed up than originally thought they could make it... it was actually quite a nice surprise!!!

*shakes head* You guys are sooo crazy, I'm gonna miss you all over there in England... the trip back to my place was wayyy too funny! Taking over the subway and me being 'teacher Ally' on the Woburn field trip... and then taking over the bus with the boys kareoke-ing (horribly out of tune I might add :P) at the back... *sigh* It's times like this I realise that we all really are insane and that we sooo belong together *big watery grin*

I love you all and I'll miss you all muchly (even if I'm having fun :P).
Much love,
From the fittingly insane
Ally

...Summer... (is now over *sniffsniff*)

*Jumps up and down excitedly* Look!!Look!!! Not only did I actually keep my word and post again today (no, I still haven't finished the ironing - I've gone grocery shopping tho!!! *grins proudly*)... but I titled my post with a word!!! well... sort of...

In any case, I did have a rather wonderful summer... Not as exciting as many of my other ones - in fact, it was downright dull in comparison - something that caused me to despair at times that I was becoming one of these boring people :P. But, yes, I would have to say that, in spite of the fact that this summer was rather less filled with crazy adventures than the previous ones, it was still loads of fun.

I did end up relaxing after the conference - which is, in itself, a miracle... although what I call relaxing most people would call... well... not stressful... just, not exactly relaxing... I read a ton of books, hosted the family when they came up from Italy (yes, I hosted them, when my mother told me we were hosting, she neglected to mention the fact that she wouldn't be home at all during those two weeks :P *shakes head*) ... lets see, what else did I do...? hmmm... yes... played Em's campaign... tho I didn't get to finish 'cause I wasn't around at the end... neither was my character tho so it all worked out *grins*... awww... I miss Rheys... she played such a wonderful grimey little boy ... but I don't know where the character sheet is *pouts*...

Circus also went rather well... I wanna do a couple more classes before I leave... OOOH!!!! and I can do walkovers and handstands again now!!! Haven't done them in about two weeks since classes ended... but I could do them then!!!!!!!!! What else did I do... hmmmm... went up to the cottage to see the family and had fun tubing in the roughest water I have ever seen... went to wonderland with my little twin cousins and my not-so-little-anymore other cousin for thier first time and got the most adorable picture ever of us on the Ghoster Coaster :D... I went for my G test... and didn't get my liscence (not because I failed. Oh, no) because I ended up going to the hospital instead *wrinkles nose* Yup... my sciatic nerve went out of alignment in the middle of the test.. not a big deal in itself.... happens often enough... but..yeah... It was a pretty entertaining scene... especially 'cause doctors can't do a thing about it *grins*
... OOOH!!! and how could I forget (especially since it's what put both my sciatic nerves out in the first place :P) We moved!!!! into my stepdad's place... so, yeah... that was pretty interesting... I actually like my new room... and the location is convenient 'cause it puts me closer to my friends at UofT... AKKK!!! Just to give some perspective on how much of a bookworm I am.... excepting the 7 or 8 boxes of books I sent to our place up north, 7 out of the 10 boxes filled with my bedroom stuff were full of books!!! and I have at least 3 more boxes worth of books lent out!!! My room is a library!!!!

Heehee... the last couple of weeks of summer were undoubtedly the best spent at home... there was the day I played football with the guys... and climbed the goal posts *shifty eyes*... there was Baldwin's party (where I had circus the next morning)... and the party at Hinkle's (which occurred while the family was still in town :S)... Bike riding with Langan... camping out in my empty house for a bit... then the weekend where I camped out at people's houses in scarborough for 5 nights *giggles* the first day of which was the party at Ju's where all us Traf (or ex-Traffie) girls had a sleep over and before we headed off to rule the world :D... and the last day of which was sauce making!!! I was at my grandmothers from 7:30 am until 5:30 pm!!! OMG! I never wanted to see a tomato again after that!!!... and ooops... that wasn't the last day!!! I spent the night after that at Em's *grin*...

And, oooh!!! before that was MONTREAL!!! where I got to see MARC!!! *jumps up and down excitedly* Jessiann and I took the train out to Montreal to meet marc and had an awesome time!!!! we traipsed all over town to find a club that was open on a Wednesday night... but find one we did *grins* We really need to go over a weekend when schools on :D... awww!!! We stayed in the cutest little B&B right next to McGill campus!!! It was amazing!!! Especially 'cause we got to see Marc again!!! heehee!! It was nice too (even though we missed our train home and had to wait an extra 5 hrs) 'cause I got to spend more time with Jess before she ditched me to head off to windsor :P!!!

But yeah... There were a lot of goodbyes... other Jess headed off to Dal after the girls night... we moved Nick into rez at York that weekend (OMG!!! Peter and "do you supply the toilet paper or will I have to mail him some?" *cracks up*)... and Ju headed out to Alberta (Alberta!!! Now we'll be even further away from each other when I go *pouts*) 2 fridays ago (was it really that long ago) After we spent all day playing in the park and decided that we were never ever going to grow up :P!!! We even played in the wading pool just to prove it *grins*... and then Em headed off to JAPAN (!!!) on last Wednesday... *shakes head* everyone's leaving me!!! Zheng's at UPenn, Heymien's at MIT... a bunch of people are at Queens and Mac and Waterloo and Western and... ahh!!!

Heehee... when I went up the the cottage (again, for more tubing :P) on the long weekend, I took the train out to meet my dad near Baldwin's house and I made him come meet me at the station before he left for uni *giggles* and he actually came!!! *shakes head* waddya know, maybe he will miss me after all :P

... anyhow, I spent all of last week froshing with the UofT people which was loads and loads of fun!!! Awww, man, Innis has the most amazing residences ever!!! I told Langan and Ting and Milani and Ben that I was moving in with them!!! Anyhow... the girls somehow managed to convince Langan to come out clubbing with us on the engineering clubbing night which was great!!! Even if he did leave at midnight! (from a club!! Honestly... I don't care if he had class at 8 the next morning :P *giggles*) ... but yeah... overall it was fun... I met everyone's roomates and made loads of new friends... and gave everyone the wrong impression that I went to UofT (whoops :P) ... anyhow, I headed up to York yesterday to visit with the people up there... which was also loads of fun 'cause I got to see people...

Wow... I actually did a lot more that I thought this summer!!! I even got to see Spammalot with Em H and Evan!!! It was absolutely hysterical, I loved it!!! And I got the best (late) b-day present from Em B ever while out shopping for books with Em H (confusing ain't it???) She bought me Gone with the Wind and Last Chance to See... *sigh* I love those books... they're sooo amazing....

OOOH!!! And I even made it to the Ex this summer!!! I went with Nal and Alan and we met up with one of Nal's friends from Quebec who was in the skating show - which was soooo cool btw 'cause it was a combined circus and skating show!!!! Anyhow, it was also fun 'cause I got in some french practice :S... my french has gone pathetically down hill from disuse...

Lesse... what else is there... Oh, yes, I finally got to see Arms and the Man... Ma and I went to the Shaw festival... It was Incredibly funny... and well done... though I prefer the humour to be slightly more muted to allow for the message to come across *sigh* I swear GB Shaw was a satirical genius even if he didn't want to be.

After spending saturday at Niagra on the Lake, it was off to Ottawa to get my Visa... which was shockingly easy to do compared to a simple change of address on my health card *shakes head* Ottawa was pretty neat, We got to go inside the parliament buildings and up the peace tower, which was actually pretty cool...

And, so yeah... that pretty much brings us up to now (even if I did dispense with my story out of chronological order :P)... all I have left to do now is bake Nal some peanut butter cookies before she heads off to Oxford for work tomorrow... funny how we're just missing each other... she comes back the day I leave!!! Then, I suppose I should really get started on packing my things up and deciding what I am going to take with me... and on massaging my wrists ... Ouch! I never realised before just how painful it is to type long, pointless blogs on a laptop :P

Hope everyone's having fun!!
~Ally

AHHHHH!!!!!

*grins* nothing's actually wrong, I just like using expressions as titles :P... What?!?! *looks innocent* It's more attention grabbing... or will be until I overuse them...

Anyhow... I promised that I would blog sometime before I headed off to Merry-Old-England... *crinkles forehead in consternation (Oooh, big word! Big word!)* why is it that you always hear it referred to as either Merry-old-England or Dreary-old-England??? I mean, really, isn't that a little confusing??? Which is it??? Merry or dreary??? It has to be one or the other, it can't exactly be both... unless... the merry one is really meant sarcastically *nods intelligently*... but I don't think so... can you really see what was once the largest colonial power in the world allowing people to treat it saucily???

But I digress. I figured that with everyone else gallivanting off to uni (or, in Em's case, gallivanting in Japan :P) now would be as good a time as ever to update. Especially since my brain seems to tend even more toward insanity during periods of excessive inactivity (one needs only to look to the paragraph above this one for proof!) ... hmmm, perhaps it's because my inactivity prevents the insanity from flowing out of outlets it would normally otherwise flow out of and, so, it is forced to remain inside my head like a stagnant pool of water (except, of course, it is not entirely stagnant since the insanity never stops coming inward) in which my brain is slowly marinated until it becomes complete and utter mush! And do you know what the worst part is???? I have only actually been inactive for a week!!!! Not even!!! and I'm already at this stage!!!!!! *takes a deep and gasping breath and looks as though she is about to continue on until...* ... ewwww... could you imagine a marinate made of stagnant insanity??? or stagnant water for that matter??? Yuck!!!

*Shakes head in disgust* Getting right back on track, As I had nothing particularly important to do today, my dearest mother decided to take advantage of my availability and give me some ironing to do. Now, normally this wouldn't be so bad... I would also have normally refused - especially since this wasn't just a little bit of ironing, Oh no, it was two whole basket-loads of it!!! Unfortunately, my mother, being somewhat desperate to get that laundry ironed without having to do it herself, decided to bribe me... she didn't even bribe me with that much!!! I am very sorry to say, that I was bought for the extraordinarily cheap price of 25 dollars - and as strong as the Canadian dollar is at the moment, $25 still ain't all that much!!!... but I was poor and desparate, and I owed her about that much... So what could I do but take the offer?!?!

And that's how it came to be that I spent all of this morning (and some of this afternoon) ironing old tea-towels... and I'm only done one basket!!! Which may beg the question: If I do, in fact, have something else I should be doing, why on earth am I on here blogging??? and just what did I mean when I suggested that now would be as good a time as ever to update???

Well, you see, as stubborn as some wrinkles are, even the toughest can only force you to bend your will -and not the rest of your brain - toward making them flat. This of course leaves the rest of your brain to wander free and unfettered by your will - which we all know is extremely dangerous in my case. During one such episode, my thoughts actually (willingly) wandered to my will (I know, shocking isn't it? Never fear though, my will was sufficiently distracted that it didn't even notice) and watched curiously as my will imposed itself on flattening a scrap of cloth.

Have you ever noticed how human an activity ironing is??? I don't mean in the obvious sense - yes, of course it's a human activity Ally, humans are the only creatures (with the exception of those poor pets that have been domesticated by slightly twisted owners) that wear clothes!!! They're also the only ones technologically advanced enough to have created an iron! Not to mention the only ones with the proper appendages for using one (possibly because we made them :P)!!!
What I mean, is the that the fact that forcing the cloth be straight simply 'cause we wish it so, is such a human thing to do. Just as creating the fabric for that cloth was. It's remarkable how human beings always seem to insist on imposing their will on the world around them. That is not to say that other creatures don't do it, they just don't do it to the same degree. Just look at the world! If we want more hamburgers, we cut down the rain forest. We want to cross country? We blow up a mountain to create a railway line. We don't like the marsh in our backyard? We drain it, fill it with dirt, and then build a mall on it - 'cause you know, the bloodsucking brands are so much better than the mosquitoes :P.
*sigh* Truly though, it's disgusting... it's times likes these that I realise just how much contempt I have for the Human race - myself included. I'm really no better than the rest... worse in someways *grimace*...

Funny, ain't it? The fact that I'm not exactly a fan of humanity, but I plan on studying it for the rest of my life... I am going into archaeology and anthropology after all... *shrug* that's okay, I suppose I like the dead ones since they are already dead and can't do any worse *wrinkles nose*...

Anyhow, on to more exciting topics!!!! Like... uhh... how my summer was!!! Great actually!!! *Grins!* Can you tell I'm trying to avoid the second laundry basket???

Uhoh! there goes the phone! Gotta run, this post is too long anyway! I'll write more later (I promise, seriously, I will!!! and I don't even mean three months from now!!! :P)

With Love,
~Ally

p.s.

... since I'm already on and have absolutely nothing else to do... I should probably do that update I had planned... especially since we all know how often I get on here *grins*

Well, let's see... The recital was amazing... I had loads of fun and managed not to screw up too badly in anything... it was pretty crazy though since we had two shows again and I had six numbers in each... Evan, Emily, Gillian, Kaitlyn, Alan, Nick and Julianne as well as all of the family came to watch since it was my last show, and they all seemed to enjoy themselves... so yeah... I still haven't seen the video but I'm told it was pretty good. Em's slideshow for the 10th anniversary was AMAZING and everyone loved it... it was kinda scary though to see pictures of us together when we were that small... oooh!!! and it was really funny, 'cause everyone was mad 'cause they wanted me to go to music banquet... but I couldn't 'cause I had rehersal that night... and then we were talking about who they had gotten to DJ and they were saying that they couldn't get Alex 'cause he was busy... at which point I cracked up... 'cause, you see... Alex does the sound for our dance shows *grins*... I told them it served them right for putting Music banquet on a night I couldn't attend :P...

Then came formal... well.. actually... no... first came football playoffs which nearly all of us missed... (mainly 'cause we were all at my house setting up for the after party *looks sweet and innocent*.... well... at my grandmother's first and then at my place... 'cause the inspector was checking out our house for the people who are buying it... and we couldn't exactly let on that there was gonna be a huge party!!!) ...whoops... that's okay, we still came in fourth... yup... then came formal... which was soooo amazing!!! we all met up at Kav's first and had crazy amounts of fun taking pictures around the pool before 4 stretch limmo's full of us... that's right FOUR!.... took us over to fantasy farm where we proceded to have the time of our lives. ... it was sooo great and sooo much fun!!! everybody looked gorgeous - yes, that's right, even the guys :P - and we all had an insanely awesome time dancing and hanging around... even the teachers!... After that, the four limmo's full of people plus more who drove headed over to my house for what shall from now on be known as the never-ending party!!!!

... From what people tell me, it was an insanely-awesomely-crazily-amazing party... mostly I remeber not sleeping and cleaning up endless amounts of cups... and dancing and eating and just having a pretty damn good time!!! It was actually pretty amazing... and I warned the neighbours beforehand so we didn't have any problems there... although the police did show up around five in the morning for a noise complaint... because the sobber people were outside playing frisbee on the street!!! - honnestly, I'm not even kidding!!! I swear the cops must of thought we were nuts.... they were like "uh... could you wait to play frisbee until a more decent hour"... I can't lie, it was pretty funny :D!!!

OMG!! it was insane!!! not only did the party last alll night, but we went all the next day too!!! Basically we had a never ending BBQ/Buffet of food, talked, hung out, drank more, played football and frisbee at the park(- and, oddly enough, as soon as we started playing, some cops pulled in the parking lot *shifty eyes*) ...climbed monkey bars, swang on swings and generally acted like the little kids we still are *grins*. It was great!!! and then after all of that, and on almost 48hours of no sleep, pretty much everyone helped clean up!!! which was pretty much a party in itself!!! By the time we finished it was 10 on friday night (yeah, my school's weird, prom was on a thursday *shrug*) and the only eveidence that there had been a party was the 12 garbage bags in my garage!.

... so yeah... it was pretty crazy... and OMG!!! my prom dress was sooo gorgeous! I had actually picked it up in oxford last summer for 65 pounds! it's like this purpley-pinkish-blue colour that shifts depending on the light like raw silk! and my hair was sooo amazing!! I made Langan help me take it out after the party and there were 122 pins. 1-2-2!!!!! ...

... *sigh* it was amazing though and I totally wish we could do it again!!! Even if it did mean I was dead tired when I showed up at the studio for work on Saturday morning *grins* ... OOOOHH!!! SIDE NOTE: Miss Kim had a baby boy two weeks ago!!! I still haven't seen him but *jumps up and down excitedly*!!!

... after that... things pretty much went back to normal... school resumed for a week before exams... we had athletic banquet where the gifties definately swept the awards ... CONGRATULATIONS ZHENG, ADRIAN AND HEYMIAN!!!! and Angel and everyone else who won!!! but yeah... I swear our year's insane, you'd think that being gifted would mean being bad at sports... *shakes head* that's probably the biggest misconception ever... not only are they all bloody brilliant, they're all insanely good at sports as well!!!

Exams were fun - as always... yes, I know, I'm weird :P... and I did fairly well on all of them... could've done better on bio but *shrug*... I still say that that one question was impossible to answer since logically once you said that one of the statements was incorrect the other was as well :P!!!! *wrinkles nose*... anyhow... I got my 90's... well, all but one... although algeo and calc were definately thanks to Mr Chan and Mr Mo's help... but yeah... calc was still an 88... which meant I had to wait until 2 days ago to find out - that I GOT IN!!! WOOOHOOO!!! Oxford, here I come!!! *jumps up and down excitedly*.... the only bad part is that now I wont get to ski in the rockies next winter *pouts*!!!! Ah, well, I guess you can't have it all...

anyhow... so school ended and summer began... with me showing up to school everday for a week... *shakes head*... it was funny really... it's like I'm never going to be able to leave Woburn... but no, I had an SAC luncheon one day, and I had to go check all my marks and collect them for Oxford... which resulted in some pretty funny scenes... like me playing stones with Mr. Breadner in his office on one of the days... *shakes head* ...only me...

... Then, my summer started in earnest... and in typical me fashion, I headed out of the country! - this time, to the Global Yound Leader's Conference in Washington DC and NYC for two weeks... and it was INCREDIBLE!!! there were 364 of us from over 40 different countries!!! it was sooo amazing, I met sooo many great people from all over the world!!! It's insane what some people have done - sat in on autopsies and surgery, hiked mount kilimunjaro, done safaris, gone camping in the wilds of who-knows where, really been to and lived in crazily exotic places and seen things I've never seen... and I am thoroughly jelous!!! We all just clicked so well and so fast!!! I'm going to miss my fellow GYLC-ers sooo much!! and we KNOW we have to have reunions right!!! and alternate hosting them!!! I can't even begin to describe the experience... it's truly the people you meet that make the conference worth while!!! and now, I know that whenever I travel, I'll always have a place to stay :)!

... so yeah... that pretty much brings us to the present... and to the never-before-seen circumstances of Ally having absolutely nothing to do!!!... well, okay... that's not entirely true... I still need to get my full G... and we've started up a senoir dance class at the studio every wednesday night - which is awesome 'cause almost everyone has come back for it!!! and I mean everyone, some of the girls left 3-5 yrs ago!!! It's soooo much fun and I can't wait to start up again!!! - even if I did get fat again from eaing so much food these past two weeks :P... and I'm gonna start doing circus lesson again on Saturdays... only now I'm doing arial and acro - which is really exciting 'cause I haven't done them before... but yeah... other than that... and reading... and joining Em's D&D campaign (what?!?!?! I haven't played in years... 'sides, I'm gifted, I'm entitled to a little nerdiness every once in a while ;P!)... I have absolutely nothing to do.... part of me wants to get a job... but maybe... just maybe... I should relax for once in my life ;)...

As always, with love from the ever-insane,
Ally

EEEK!

Oh my gosh!!! I can't believe I'm actually done!!! I'm officially no longer a High School student *blinks rapidly*... I can still totally remember walking into the main doors at Woburn for the first time... and how it felt to be in grade nine... and just everything... it all just went by soo fast... and it's funny how everything just sort of blurs together... I can't even begin to imagine not be there... not having to wake up digustingly early for 7:45 Student Council meetings on mondays... or staying rediculously late for Stage Crew like I used to... or ... well... not being stuck there repeatedly day after day!!! I'm going to miss it sooooo soooo sooo very much. Woburn is a huge part of what made me who I am today... and for everyone who was there through it, even just the littlest bit, I thank you!

As for my friends, especially the gifties and the teachers I have no idea what I'll do without you guys next year!!! I'm at a complete loss for words (wow, that's shocking, that almost never happens :P) ... I'm not sure whether to be excited about all of these new doors opening up for me, or sad that I'm leaving so much behind...

... I'm sorry for the rambling-ness... but I'm still really just trying to digest it... I'm not even quite sure what I want to say... or what the point of this post was... I was originally just gonna catch up on everything I've been doing since the last blog... but well... yeah... I was suddenly just overwhelmed with... everything! There are just so many good memories that I doubt I'll ever forget... or if I do, I'm sure that one day, hopefully in the not so distant future, I'll encounter something or someone that'll dredge them all up... and I'll definately have a good laugh :P... Aww man... all that 90's music in the STEP office... We NEED to go Kareoke!!! ...Kav falling of her chair at Tommy's on saturday :P... the guys climbing in the windows when they were late for english... me climbing out of the window onto the roof in algeo... the guys "fishing" for Ben's waterbottle with rulers in calc... all of our crazy complaints about physics... Jesse's endlessly amusing physics tests: "Mrs Enright, what's this" "Mrs Enright, HELP!" "Mrs Enright, I wrote you a song, wanna hear it?" or the "grasshopper" :D... aww man... and those never ending Chem classes where Mrs Russell always managed to cram in an entire new CHAPTER in the last five to ten minutes of class... *shakes head*... I didn't think it was possible to cram that much information into my skull... I'm soo gonna miss all of our crazy bio classes... and our insane english trips... and just hanging out with the teachers during spares... and driving them crazy during class... our gifty end of year picnic was amazing and I'm sooo glad we did it!!! It just brought everything together in the end!!!

*sigh* All of those crazy times together during the years... whether in class or out... and when we were suposed to be in class but were out... the football games.. the basketball games... that soccer game against those random gino guys at meadowvale park... Early morning Timmy's Trips during bio... and all the other crazy stuff we managed to do... not the least of which was the girls dissecting (AKA playing with) a cow's eyeball while the guys hid in the library :P...

*shakes head* it's been an amazingly fun ride and I'm gonna miss you all more than I can truly say! Never fear though, (or maybe you should *evil grin*) I'll definately come back and visit every chance I get... and never doubt that that will be often! and I know everyone is gonna be coming over to visit me in Oxford next year right?!?! :P

With Love,
Ally

Oops..!

*laughs*... I woke up in the middle of the night after yesterday's blog and realised that I had forgotten to mention *dumdumdum* FOOTBALL!!! How could I have?!?! *laughs* ... but no, I'm on the team again, and it's been sooo much fun!!!... and this year I'm playing Safety instead of Tight End which is actually more fun *shrugs* who knew? We've actually had a pretty good season so far... or up until Agincourt beat us as soundly as they did last week *winces* that was not pretty... So far Mr. Rooney's forced me to sit out 3 games due to ear infections/fluid in my ears *wrinkles nose* I don't know why, It's not as though having no balance and falling while walking and twisting your ankle and pulling all the muscles in your foot... twice *blushes*... impairs your ability to play football in anyway :P... but yeah... the whole fluid in ear thing really doesn't help my natural clumsiness... I actually fell off my chair in chem... and I was just sitting there!!! *sighs*... ah well, it was funny...

And AHH!!! Omg!!! how could I have forgotten to mention my courses this year... I think I'm nuts for taking them btw... even if they are fun... and I do have two lovely spares *grins*... and up until last week there was a late start every tuesday which was even nicer :)... but yeah... I went alll gifted 'cause I'm apparently crazy :P. I did: Algeo w/Mr. Mo, Calculus W/Mr. Chan, Bio w/Rooney, Physics w/Mrs Enright, Chem w/Mrs. Russell and English w/Mrs Billinghurst... tho I also crash Ms. Mo's Eng class a lot *evil grin*... but yeah... it's been fun... though I'm sure you can see why 90+% in each course is killing me *dies again*... ...*groans and lies still for a bit, then glance around to make sure that no one's watching *... ... ...*jumps back up a moment later*... *dusts herself off* anyhow... I think I'm gonna go stretch... (you know that rigger mortis really tightens the muscles :P... *blushes*... sorry, I had to... it was just... right there *points up to part in the last sentence*...) okay, really, really, I am going now! *ducks the rotten tomatoes, vegetables and other random gourd-like things being thrown in her general direction*

Ttfn,
Ally

Wow!

I guess saying "it's been a while" would be a major understatement *cringe*

I did make it up the CN Tower in under 29 mins... 24mins 11s to be exact, a full 5 mins 5s less than my previous best time, so that was happy ;D... Oh wow... alot has happened since then... life's been a bit hectic... alot of fun *grins* but a bit hectic... oddly enough, for once I don't have any big trips to talk about... well... I did go to NYC for a couple of days in November... I was there for my Oxford interview... yes, I know, odd isn't it? I apply for University in England and my interview is in the states :P...

But yeah, I'd never been to New York before, so it was quite exciting and I dragged my mother all over the city... on foot *evil grin*... did all the typical things: saw ground zero, went into Tiffany's... had breakfast ... saw battery park, when to times square Which is CRAZY btw... omg! It's as bright as day in the middle of the night!!! And nowhere before have I ever seen a human display of "safety in numbers"... the pedestrians just sort of encroach on the road until they take it over completely and block all of the traffic... it's fascinating to watch... and lots of fun to do!!! We also saw "Fiddler on the Roof", which was absolutely astounding!!! and met Rosie O'Donnell which was pretty cool, she's as awesome in real life as on TV, funny too! My interview went... well... it was fun... more like a class than an interview... and at the time I didn't think it went well... but it appears that it did!!! *jumps up and down* ... heehee... so I'm in... well, sorta... not yet... I need 90+% in all of my courses... which is pretty much well... *dies*... so I really hope I can make it!!! if not I'll hopefully be at UBC doing some skiing *grins*. I didn't get into Harvard or Stanford... not exactly shocking, I didn't expect too... they usually don't accept morons :D...

Anyhow, Christmas came and went and I had fun spending time with family and getting presents... Linna and I did a pointe piece together for the school 'Holiday' Assembly which was alot of fun, and we sang the music council version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" for the last time... Took emily to see that Twyla Thwarp/ Billy Joel musical while it was here... the second half of that was amazing!!! ... there was no trip this year :( but hey! you can't have everything! Instead I had some really good snowball fights, got soaked to the bone and refrozen again numerous times *glares at Lagan and Evan evily. You two both sooo deserve to die*... climbed some trees... yes *shifty eyes* in the middle of winter... had more snowball fights... worked on my first New Years at home in years... but that was cool 'cause I was still around ppl... got back in time for midnight and then went toboganning/rolling around in the snow with Kat which was wayyyy more fun that you'd expect...

This winter had some fun parties... watching some of the gifties get drunk for the first time probably made my year *grins* *cough*Ting*cough*... We took Kat to see "The Boyfriend" for her b-day, which was really really cute! and her first musical - so, lot's of fun *grins*... I dragged Kaitlyn, Gillian, Lagan and Alan up to Collingwood to go skiing with me over the March break and we had an awesome time... and no sleep thanx to Lagan's lovely little penchant for making us scream in the dark *glares again**shakes head* I swear, one of these days I really will kill that boy... not only is he brilliant and nearly perfect... he's... well... brilliant and nearly perfect *glares and wrinkles nose*... he should be outlawed :P...

We put on plays in English, I did 'A Streetcar Named Desire"... I directed, abridged the play to 45minutes, and played Stella... so that was a bit of a crazy time... lot's of fun tho... and my group was great - despite thier being a bunch of lazy bums :P , but, no, I love them all and it was great fun... as was watching every body else's plays. They were all absolutely amazing... and we topped last year's plays by a long shot!!!

My 18th b-day came and went... we made a wonderfully colourfully-hazardous b-day cake... which ppl claimed reflected my personality... though I have no idea what they were insinuating *looks innocent* ... man do I feel old though... and I still haven't gotten my full G lisence yet... *sigh*... I should prolly get on that...

Anyhow, my mom got married on March 25 in a lovely little ceremony... the food was very very very yummy... I kept eating off her plate once I'd finished mine *looks angellic*... prolly not the best thing to have done at the head table... *giggles* ... and there was no dancing!!! really, what is a wedding without the dancing?!?!?! *shakes head*

I was back in New York over Easter with the Drama, Dance and Art departments from school and we had a great time running around the city. I saw more of Central park... which is absolutely stunning btw, just gorgeous... and the statue of liberty - which I was not allowed to climb *pouts* ... and went shopping... and saw "The Complete Works of Shakespeare - Abridged" which was hysterical, and "Threepenny Opera" which was pretty cool... all in all it was an awesome trip! and I got to spend quality time with ppl I hadn't hung out with in years... and spent most of the time dying of laughter... aww man, I'll miss everyone sooo much next year... I really can't believe that it's almost done... the year has just flown by... it's just... gone!...

... my last recital is in two weeks, formal/prom is in three... and then exams... and then... I'm done... out of public school forever... and off to University... somewhere... I'm not sure where yet... hopefully England... it's just... surreal really... I haven't quite grasped the concept yet... so yeah... that's pretty much it... *nods* and now I'm just sitting here listening to my oldies and wondering how long it'll be before they're considered classical :D... oh, wait! they're already 'classic rock' :P

Anyhow, I'm off to dance around.
Lot's of love,
Ally