mikao's world

faded...

i really do not remember weather this cold before, all this week it has been absolutely freezing... like freezing cold beyond belief. when i checked before it was sunny and -21C, or -4F. i can remember it being -35C before when i was younger, but i don't remember it feeling this cold. i've taken to biking everywhere as it seems a bit faster, but the sound of bicycle tires on packed sastrugi is almost unbearable, worse, i'd even venture to say, than the sound of finger nails on a chalkboard.

had a somewhat good day, went and worked on yearbook this afternoon. we got our proofs to check from our last submission. unfortunately, some of the pictures are messed up and the lovely blue colour that we picked for a background on a lot of the pages doesn't do well with black type (you pretty much can't read it at all), so it is going to cost us a lot to change that all. and, we have a ton of work to do before the 27th when we have another major deadline. unfortunately, i also have class all next week so i won't be much up for working any time except the evenings... and as layout editor most of the main work is up to me to get done once the photographs have been taken. but, after this deadline we only have four pages left and that always makes me sad, yearbook is such a major part of my year and i have a lot of fun doing it.

i made supper for our whole house today (i have five roommates, holly, joanne, tamara, rachel, and maria)... i made a lovely chinese buffet sort of a meal: rice, chow mein, garlic beef, sweet and sour pork, shrimp chips, and stir fried vegetables. mmmmmm.... i didn't know how to make sweet and sour pork so i just fried some cut up pork roast and then got a recipe off the internet for the sauce and altered it and added some stuff and pineapple, and it turned out absolutely delicious.

got a lot of research done for my positional paper (due on friday) so that is good, now i just mostly have to pull it all together and write it. other than an hour and a half in the yearbook office tomorrow afternoon, i plan to hole myself up in my room and write write write. that's the plan. whether or not it actually happens could be another story. but i'm hoping i can get at it. i have an ailment i like to call chronic procrastinationitis.

after i went to the library for a bit tonight i watched old school videos with some of my roommates (our college makes a video each year of highlights and people and stuff) and so that was fun... seeing old people not seen for awhile and remembering things we once did and how things used to be.

did some thinking about relationships. relationships past. relationships over. in particular a relationship that never really existed that people just can't let go of.




i wonder how things will turn out in the end.

Staying home alone on a Friday
Flat on the floor looking back
On old love
Or lack thereof
After all the crushes are faded
And all my wishful thinking was wrong
I'm jaded
- John Mayer, "Love Song for No One"