Someone's gonna get the busy signal.

This Picture

First Light is offering students free hi-res photographs from their royalty-free collections, but since I'm not a designer, I'm going to use my free pics on my bloggity blog, which is looking rather dull compared to my incredibly creative blog friends.

Life of an Intern

Being an intern feels so cliché. I don't have a place to sit, so I have to sit wherever someone is away. I have to make chit-chat with everyone : "So, what do you study? Blah blah blah..." And I get to do the most mundane tasks like e-mail 200 individual people with an attached picture of them at an awards show last night. This is what they mean by paying your dues.

Cossette said they were going to get back to me about the summer internship today, but my contact, Eric, wrote me to tell me they've been too busy and everything is still up in the air. God, the suspense!!!

V for Vendetta

In other news, V for Vendetta was oh so entertaining, but not for anyone looking for a storyline that runs deep. No, V for Vendetta doesn't have an actual Point, there is virtually no character development (save Natalie Portman's torture and subsequent "freedom"), and all the big explosions have fireworks. What this movie does is inspire a passionate reaction from all its viewers - whether it's a passionate hate because the movie was so over-the-top, or a passionate sympathy for the anarchistic views of the Wachoski Bros. Either way... if you haven't already, go rent it when it comes out. It's fun!

Lord of the Dance

This is a bit of old news, but my mom took Ryan, Datura and I to see Lord of the Dance at Casino Rama two weeks ago. Highlights include:

• The Lord wore a diamond studded gold belt that says : LORD OF THE DANCE
• A chorus line of highland dancers in their black bras and black stockings, jiggling where girls should never jiggle in public

How do you compete with big tits?

There's just something about spring that makes me want to wear orange and drink Fresh smoothies and paint and ride my bicycle and do all those wonderful min_o things I've been neglecting all winter. The daytime high hit 14*C this afternoon, and already people are wearing flipflops! But that's to be expected because Torontians LIVE for summer weather and after five whole months of being bundled to our noses, we're all itching to show off some skin.

To catch up on my life thus far - the college strike has ended. The teacher's attempt to improve the quality of our education by walking out for three weeks in fourth semester was resolved by binding arbitration - the mediator basically told the teachers to GO. BACK. TO WORK. FUCKERS. And that was the end of that political battle.

So besides a couple of mandatory dates when I have to go back to school to hand in stuff, write tests, and do presentations, I'm pretty much free! I've been interning at First Light, a stock photography company (comme GettyImages, Corbis, Veer, etc.) and I helped them with their industry event last Thursday when I worked on my feet for 14.5 hours.

We had over 500 guests and every major ad agency and production company in Toronto was represented. It was open bar, so everyone was totally wasted, and there were shiatsu masseuses, Bobby Brown make-up artists, and three Virtual Reality games! They had James Bond, Star Wars and a flight simulator. The flight sim was pretty cool, but it took a while to get used to the controls. Star Wars was disappointing because it wasn't in 1st person, although it was cool to use a virtual light sabre. I didn't get a chance to try James Bond, but it was a 1st person shooter, so it was probably pretty good. What's the point of VR if it's not in the first person???

I feel like I've jumped into the advertising industry headfirst! It's great and it's not as scary as I imagined. I'm currently waiting for an internship at Fjord Interactive - Cossette's interactive wing. I have a feeling my work with online porno will come in handy for sealing the deal, but how much can I tell them? Should I confess straight-up that I worked for the pornos, or should I shuffle around the topic? We'll have to wait and see. But my main competition for this spot is against Courtney - a polished, brand-whore with huge tits. How does a poor Chinese girl with scruffy sneakers compete with Channel sunglasses, LV handbags and tits that hang like watermelons off her slender, ass-less frame?

That's about all I've been up to... working for free and starving for a new summer wardrobe. I failed my road test, and I'm not anxious to do it again. I'll spare you the details of that particular pathetic story. Poop.

miew miew went the mitten

Do I sound lost? I think I must... and there are times when I don't even know who I am anymore. Maybe it's because I'm starting a new cycle in my life - another year - it's my birthday next Wednesday. Is my body preparing me for the future or holding me back? I feel crazy and confused and there ain't a soul who can help me.

A poetic melancholy overwhelms me as I write this, I can't say why. Where am I going with this?

There is a party for me tomorrow... I must put on a smiley face. And I must mean it. I owe it to my friends to be happy that they are here for me. But no one can help me. It's all up to me. That's the scary part.