"Oh I, I don't know why, I really hope you go and die so I can live here without you..."

About a month ago I had my room in Oakville posted for rent on the Places for Students website. I immediately had a response from someone named Andrea, and she came with her parents to have a look at the place. She e-mailed me later that night and told me she wanted my room for May.

I was happy and a bit skeptical, as it all seemed too easy. I was right. In the coming weeks I attempted to get Andrea to come to the house and sign the lease, so that I could start finding a place in Toronto for myself. I explained this to her in several e-mails and messages on her cell phone. I finally got a hold of her after about a week and she assured me she still wanted the room. I was relieved, and started to make the arrangements with my landlord. We then, both continued to contact her in hopes of having her commit to the lease. She then e-mailed me and told me she now required two rooms (for some unknown reason) and when we told her we could accommodate that request, we never heard from her again.

Flash forward to this morning when I am awoken my a text message from Andrea on my cell phone (actual spelling):

“Hey I jus got my phone back which is y I didn’t call u im really sorry….im not sure if ur still there…i ended up taking daniells room.again im really sorry n I hope there’s no hard feelings as I will b moving in today.”

You may be asking yourself why I’d care about the fact she is now moving somewhere else? Despite not having her cell phone she still had my e-mail address and my phone number within that e-mail so she could have realistically contacted me at any time, but that’s not even the best part. The best part is, Danielle is MY roommate who lives upstairs. So not only did I NOT sell MY room, I did all the work showing her the house and tracking her down and now Danielle gets to move out and I have to spend my summer LIVING with Andrea.

"But I will see you again, I will see you again, a long time from now…"

Do you ever have one of those nights, when you’re driving and just the right song comes on? I had a night like that recently. On a dark and rainy night driving back to Oakville the shuffle of my car stereo chose City and Colour’s, Hello I’m in Delaware. Driving along alone, I couldn’t help but feel the song matched my mood perfectly. Thoughtful, nostalgic, thinking of people I’ve lost. People far away, people I know won’t be coming back. I’ve never been a big believer in the “its better to have loved and lost…” cliché, but I found myself wondering if it were true. After much debate I’m still undecided.


Perhaps this nostalgia comes because I know my life is about to drastically change. In two weeks I will no longer be a student, I will be thrust out into the working world to fend for myself. Obviously I’ve been a student in some form for as long as I can remember. But I’ve also been thinking about the people in my class. We’ve experienced and accomplished great feats and great lessons this year, it will be hard to think of a time when I won’t see them everyday. I wonder if any of these people will stay in my life, and hope that some will.

It just seems that as I transition through certain phases of my life certain people come and go; some go when I wish they wouldn’t. I’ve been fortunate to have a select few, key and quality people remain with me through what can be difficult times, something of which I will always be truly thankful. It is a difficult thing to determine: who will stay with you, and who will go. Some claim their long lasting loyalty and presence in terms like ‘always’ and ‘forever,’ yet I already find myself forgetting them. It’s a shame how people can disappoint at times, that no matter how much you wish that they wouldn’t do exactly what you suspect. But somehow you know they will.

So there goes my life
Passing by with every exit sign
And it's been so long, sometimes I wonder, how I will stay strong
No sleep tonight
I'll keep on driving these dark highway lines
And as the moon fades, one more night gone, only twenty more days

But I will see you again,
I will see you again,
A long time from now

There goes my life
Passing by with every departing flight
And it's been so hard, so much time, so far apart
As she walks the night, how many hearts will die tonight?
Will things have changed?
I guess I'll find out in seventeen days

But I will see you again,
I will see you again
A long time from now

My body aches, and it hurts to sing, and no one is moving
And I wish that I weren't here tonight, but this is my life

But I will see you again
I will see you again
A long time from now

But I will see you again
I will see you again
A long time from now

Go see Blades of Glory immediately. Now! Get going! I had the extreme pleasure of seeing the new Will Ferrell/ John Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) comedy about two figure skaters who become the first two same sex partners in the pair’s competition.

Ferrell’s character, Chazz Michael Michaels is a self proclaimed lone wolf whose success rides on his crazy tactics and party lifestyle. Heder’s character, Jimmy MacElroy is born and bred, squeaky clean, naïve and wholesome. The two men are polar opposites and fierce competitors. When they tie for the gold medal and refuse to share it. Their physical altercation in front of the world gets them banned from men’s figure skating for life.

When a loop hole is found in the skating regulations, the two opposites attempt to become partners against the brother and sister skating combo, Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg played by real-life husband and wife, Will Arnett and Amy Poehler. The Fairchild’s set out to cheat their way to the gold and break up the newly established bond between Ferrell and Heder.


It’s interesting that I am able to discuss the plot of this movie without much absurdity, which I assure you the movie s ripe with, but that’s what makes this movie great. It is another ridiculously hilarious comic classic that Will Ferrell and now John Heder are becoming known for. Dirty jokes, comments that don’t make sense, scenes and outfits so absurd that you lose yourself in the humour and just enjoy it. That’s what makes these movies great. Any school, work, money or life stress, they help you find a way to laugh anyway.