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It's Been A While
Posted by Ashleigh
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10:48 PM
Sorry it's been a while since I last posted. I suppose it's not a terribly long hiatus, but anyway, here I am again. Not sure how long this post is going to be, but we'll see what happens.
So the situation with Guelph and Manny and Shannon hasn't changed since my last blog entry. Manny came here once or twice to yell at me, and I called Shannon once to ask her to pay my Internet bill, reminding her that this school year isn't finished yet, and she only said she'd stop paying for me after the school year ended, so I got my Internet bill paid. Other than that, I haven't talked to them at all. I've been talking to my brother, Andrew, regularly. He's kind of annoying, but he's not really involved in the Guelph issue, so there's no point in cutting off contact with him when he has nothing to do with the conflict.
It looks like my best option is living in Bolton with Alex right now. She talked to her mom and according to her the conversation went (very roughly) like this:
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ALEX. So Mum, how would you feel about a third person living with us?
ALEX'S MOM. What? No! ... wait, who?
ALEX. Ashleigh. Her parents have pretty much kicked her out because she wants to move to a school where she'll be happier. Now she's trying to make enough money to go there on her own, but it's tough and she has nowhere to live this summer. It's just a bad situation for her, all around.
ALEX'S MOM. Ummm... I'll have to think about it.
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Apparently, Alex says that this is a good sign. She thinks her mom is okay with it after hearing about my situation, but she needs to get the okay from their landlord. Last I heard, her mom was kind of seeing, but not quite officially dating the landlord... I think... (sorry if that's inaccurate, Alex. Feel free to correct me in your comment), so I think that might help my situation, but I don't want to get too smug or confident just yet. I really hope it works out. Along with getting to see Alex a lot more, I'll be able to see Chris a lot more, too. His mom works in Bolton, and he drives her back and forth from there a lot. Alex's house is also within walking distance to a Tim Horton's and a Subway, so I can get jobs there. I really hope I can live with you this summer, Alex! I'll even help you clean your room! REALLY clean it, like organize everything and alphabetize your book and CD collections! Yay! Cleanliness and organization!
I still need to email Guelph and ask them if their June 1st deadline for transcripts has an exception for transferring York students this year. My exams don't end until June 2nd because of the strike and my marks don't get put onto my transcript until ten days after my final examination. This is completely beyond my control, and 0% my fault and 100% York's and CUPE 3903's fault, so I hope Guelph makes an allowance for my case. I've also been calling STA with no answer, which is extremely aggravating. I've called four times in the last two days and not once has anyone picked up the damn phone. I even redirect myself to Student Services, but they won't pick up, either. I left a message and hopefully someone with a brain will get it and know what to do about it when school starts again on Monday. It should not be this difficult to get a transcript sent somewhere. I asked Andrew if he'd go to the Student Services office and ask about it for me, but he wouldn't, because he's lazy. I'll ask Chris the next day he has off work.
So I know I'm going to sound like a geek, but that's okay, I don't mind. I've started drawing webcomics on Photoshop and The Sims 3 has just released three great new interactive teasers. All of these advertisements, promotional videos and activities are just getting me more and more anxious for the release date (JUNE 2ND in Canada, whooo!). The teasers are SimSocial, Sim Friend and SimsSidekick. SimSocial is basically a mini-version of The Sims 3 you can play online. I wouldn't really call it a demo, because it's not really the actual game and is much less in-depth than the real thing, but it serves to show people how the game generally functions. It's pretty sweet. I only stopped playing it today to go out to dinner with Chris. You can play it as a Facebook application or on The Sims 3 website, but I've been having problems playing the game on The Sims 3 website, so I've been playing it on Facebook. Sim Friend is pretty cool, too. You pick a Sim from a selection and from then on, you become their friend. That friend will send you emails, asking you for advice in order to help advance their careers, love lives and general happiness. If you give them good advice, they'll be more successful in their lives and win achievements and gain trust in you. You can go online to see all of their success/failures and to look at how well you're helping to manage their lives. If you give them bad advice, they'll be miserable and if you consistently give them bad advice, they'll quit being your friend altogether. My friend is Selma. She just got abducted by aliens outside a nightclub and I told her to go see a doctor to look at the mysterious lump behind her ear, haha! Oh, Sims, how I love thee! SimsSidekicks is a web application that lets you browse the Internet with one of the Sims in The Sims 3 as your buddy. They basically just hang out in the top left corner of your screen and do different animations depending on their personalities and what site you go to. Apparently, Firefox is supposed to be releasing a plugin for SimsSidekick soon so you can go to any website you want with your SimsSidekick and you don't need to use the separate browser underneath your Sim to browse the Internet with them. You can just use your regular Firefox browser.
So going back to the webcomics; I know I've probably said before that I'm not really into webcomics, but I do like to give new artsy things a try. My friend, Maggie (I mostly call her Mags) has a webcomic called Lord Knows. I was having a three-way chat with her and Alex on Skype a little while ago and Alex suggested that Maggie have guest strips on her website. She thought it was a great idea, so both Alex and I volunteered. I did a very poor drawing on Photoshop (I don't have a tablet and my scanner's a piece of shit so I couldn't draw it by hand and scan it into the computer to colour) and gave it to Mags, who loved it for some reason. So I drew another guest strip for her and she loved that one even more. She says I have a knack for webcomics, and I figured since they're fun to do, I'd start some of my own. I don't think I'll post mine online, though. I really don't want to stray too far away from writing, but webcomics really are fun to do. I just finished my first one of my own, but I want Alex and Mags' opinion on it. Unfortunately, they're spending the weekend camping in Marilyn's backyard with like a hundred million other people and lots of booze. Not really my thing. I love camping, but I don't like strangers or being around alcohol and I ESPECIALLY don't like those things together. I was going to go, anyway. Marilyn invited Chris and me, but after I told her to go to Hell and rot there, I uninvited myself. Chris said he wouldn't go if I didn't and assured me he was fine with not going and that he'd probably be busy working, anyway. I have to wait for Alex and Mags to get back tomorrow to get a critique on my first comic strip of my own. In the meantime, I'm taking advantage of Alex's absence to catch up to her level in Restaurant City, mwhahahahaha!!!!
Today was a lovely day. I had dinner with Chris at the Pickle Barrel at Yorkdale today and then we browsed around Indigo for a bit. I only got about three hours with him, maximum, but it was still so nice to see him and he made a really big effort to get enough time off to come visit me since he knows I've been going through a really hard time essentially alone. Overall, it was a nice dinner, but just a note to any vegetarians who don't like zucchini or eggplant, don't eat at the Pickle Barrel. Everything vegetarian (which isn't a lot to begin with) has zucchini and/or eggplant in it. I had to order a pasta and specifically request that they don't put any zucchini in it. I had a really good pomegranate smoothie, though. I haven't been able to afford a smoothie in months. It was nice to be taken out to dinner, as bad as I feel for making Chris pay. Hopefully, his anniversary gifts will make up for it, but I won't say what they are in case he reads this before he gets his gifts on our anniversary. I think I'm going to have to make him another card and wrapping paper, unfortunately, but he seemed to love it the last time. He even insisted on keeping the wrapping paper I made, haha!
Lately, I've been feeling really neglected by him, but I know it's not his fault. His stupid, whiny, childish family demands all of his attention all the time and his time on the computer is limited, plus with all the work he has to do he just doesn't have any time for me. That's why seeing him tonight was so important to me. It's just hard going from getting texts from him every fifteen minutes and hours on the computer with him every night to being lucky if I get three texts a day and maybe an hour on the computer with him every other day or so... When he's able to, he spends all his time with me, he just isn't able to most of the time right now. He says his dad is looking into buying a car for him and his sister and since it's not likely that Danielle's ever going to get her license, he'll have it pretty much to himself so I'm hoping that means we'll get to see each other more and have an anniversary to ourselves without parental chauffeurs.
Anyway, I think I'm done this post.
See ya!
So the situation with Guelph and Manny and Shannon hasn't changed since my last blog entry. Manny came here once or twice to yell at me, and I called Shannon once to ask her to pay my Internet bill, reminding her that this school year isn't finished yet, and she only said she'd stop paying for me after the school year ended, so I got my Internet bill paid. Other than that, I haven't talked to them at all. I've been talking to my brother, Andrew, regularly. He's kind of annoying, but he's not really involved in the Guelph issue, so there's no point in cutting off contact with him when he has nothing to do with the conflict.
It looks like my best option is living in Bolton with Alex right now. She talked to her mom and according to her the conversation went (very roughly) like this:
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ALEX. So Mum, how would you feel about a third person living with us?
ALEX'S MOM. What? No! ... wait, who?
ALEX. Ashleigh. Her parents have pretty much kicked her out because she wants to move to a school where she'll be happier. Now she's trying to make enough money to go there on her own, but it's tough and she has nowhere to live this summer. It's just a bad situation for her, all around.
ALEX'S MOM. Ummm... I'll have to think about it.
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Apparently, Alex says that this is a good sign. She thinks her mom is okay with it after hearing about my situation, but she needs to get the okay from their landlord. Last I heard, her mom was kind of seeing, but not quite officially dating the landlord... I think... (sorry if that's inaccurate, Alex. Feel free to correct me in your comment), so I think that might help my situation, but I don't want to get too smug or confident just yet. I really hope it works out. Along with getting to see Alex a lot more, I'll be able to see Chris a lot more, too. His mom works in Bolton, and he drives her back and forth from there a lot. Alex's house is also within walking distance to a Tim Horton's and a Subway, so I can get jobs there. I really hope I can live with you this summer, Alex! I'll even help you clean your room! REALLY clean it, like organize everything and alphabetize your book and CD collections! Yay! Cleanliness and organization!
I still need to email Guelph and ask them if their June 1st deadline for transcripts has an exception for transferring York students this year. My exams don't end until June 2nd because of the strike and my marks don't get put onto my transcript until ten days after my final examination. This is completely beyond my control, and 0% my fault and 100% York's and CUPE 3903's fault, so I hope Guelph makes an allowance for my case. I've also been calling STA with no answer, which is extremely aggravating. I've called four times in the last two days and not once has anyone picked up the damn phone. I even redirect myself to Student Services, but they won't pick up, either. I left a message and hopefully someone with a brain will get it and know what to do about it when school starts again on Monday. It should not be this difficult to get a transcript sent somewhere. I asked Andrew if he'd go to the Student Services office and ask about it for me, but he wouldn't, because he's lazy. I'll ask Chris the next day he has off work.
So I know I'm going to sound like a geek, but that's okay, I don't mind. I've started drawing webcomics on Photoshop and The Sims 3 has just released three great new interactive teasers. All of these advertisements, promotional videos and activities are just getting me more and more anxious for the release date (JUNE 2ND in Canada, whooo!). The teasers are SimSocial, Sim Friend and SimsSidekick. SimSocial is basically a mini-version of The Sims 3 you can play online. I wouldn't really call it a demo, because it's not really the actual game and is much less in-depth than the real thing, but it serves to show people how the game generally functions. It's pretty sweet. I only stopped playing it today to go out to dinner with Chris. You can play it as a Facebook application or on The Sims 3 website, but I've been having problems playing the game on The Sims 3 website, so I've been playing it on Facebook. Sim Friend is pretty cool, too. You pick a Sim from a selection and from then on, you become their friend. That friend will send you emails, asking you for advice in order to help advance their careers, love lives and general happiness. If you give them good advice, they'll be more successful in their lives and win achievements and gain trust in you. You can go online to see all of their success/failures and to look at how well you're helping to manage their lives. If you give them bad advice, they'll be miserable and if you consistently give them bad advice, they'll quit being your friend altogether. My friend is Selma. She just got abducted by aliens outside a nightclub and I told her to go see a doctor to look at the mysterious lump behind her ear, haha! Oh, Sims, how I love thee! SimsSidekicks is a web application that lets you browse the Internet with one of the Sims in The Sims 3 as your buddy. They basically just hang out in the top left corner of your screen and do different animations depending on their personalities and what site you go to. Apparently, Firefox is supposed to be releasing a plugin for SimsSidekick soon so you can go to any website you want with your SimsSidekick and you don't need to use the separate browser underneath your Sim to browse the Internet with them. You can just use your regular Firefox browser.
So going back to the webcomics; I know I've probably said before that I'm not really into webcomics, but I do like to give new artsy things a try. My friend, Maggie (I mostly call her Mags) has a webcomic called Lord Knows. I was having a three-way chat with her and Alex on Skype a little while ago and Alex suggested that Maggie have guest strips on her website. She thought it was a great idea, so both Alex and I volunteered. I did a very poor drawing on Photoshop (I don't have a tablet and my scanner's a piece of shit so I couldn't draw it by hand and scan it into the computer to colour) and gave it to Mags, who loved it for some reason. So I drew another guest strip for her and she loved that one even more. She says I have a knack for webcomics, and I figured since they're fun to do, I'd start some of my own. I don't think I'll post mine online, though. I really don't want to stray too far away from writing, but webcomics really are fun to do. I just finished my first one of my own, but I want Alex and Mags' opinion on it. Unfortunately, they're spending the weekend camping in Marilyn's backyard with like a hundred million other people and lots of booze. Not really my thing. I love camping, but I don't like strangers or being around alcohol and I ESPECIALLY don't like those things together. I was going to go, anyway. Marilyn invited Chris and me, but after I told her to go to Hell and rot there, I uninvited myself. Chris said he wouldn't go if I didn't and assured me he was fine with not going and that he'd probably be busy working, anyway. I have to wait for Alex and Mags to get back tomorrow to get a critique on my first comic strip of my own. In the meantime, I'm taking advantage of Alex's absence to catch up to her level in Restaurant City, mwhahahahaha!!!!
Today was a lovely day. I had dinner with Chris at the Pickle Barrel at Yorkdale today and then we browsed around Indigo for a bit. I only got about three hours with him, maximum, but it was still so nice to see him and he made a really big effort to get enough time off to come visit me since he knows I've been going through a really hard time essentially alone. Overall, it was a nice dinner, but just a note to any vegetarians who don't like zucchini or eggplant, don't eat at the Pickle Barrel. Everything vegetarian (which isn't a lot to begin with) has zucchini and/or eggplant in it. I had to order a pasta and specifically request that they don't put any zucchini in it. I had a really good pomegranate smoothie, though. I haven't been able to afford a smoothie in months. It was nice to be taken out to dinner, as bad as I feel for making Chris pay. Hopefully, his anniversary gifts will make up for it, but I won't say what they are in case he reads this before he gets his gifts on our anniversary. I think I'm going to have to make him another card and wrapping paper, unfortunately, but he seemed to love it the last time. He even insisted on keeping the wrapping paper I made, haha!
Lately, I've been feeling really neglected by him, but I know it's not his fault. His stupid, whiny, childish family demands all of his attention all the time and his time on the computer is limited, plus with all the work he has to do he just doesn't have any time for me. That's why seeing him tonight was so important to me. It's just hard going from getting texts from him every fifteen minutes and hours on the computer with him every night to being lucky if I get three texts a day and maybe an hour on the computer with him every other day or so... When he's able to, he spends all his time with me, he just isn't able to most of the time right now. He says his dad is looking into buying a car for him and his sister and since it's not likely that Danielle's ever going to get her license, he'll have it pretty much to himself so I'm hoping that means we'll get to see each other more and have an anniversary to ourselves without parental chauffeurs.
Anyway, I think I'm done this post.
See ya!
