Updates

Long time no blog. The last few weeks have been hectic with the end of semester and all. I blocked out everything that was going on outside of school but once it was done I finally took the time out to think about things and realized that I am good. But here is an update on how things have been for me:

-I’m officially single (Facebook official and everything lol). I harbor no ill feelings towards he who shall not be named and it helps that I barely see him. Montreal is small but it seems huge when you want to avoid someone. Truth be told though, we were never on the same page and in our own ways we were probably holding each other back.

-I’m not trying to mingle. I don’t have any prospect right now even if I was trying to. I have been extremely focused and anti-social lately. I am surprisingly happy with being alone right now.

-I have learned to drive stick. I had Trackstar teach me. It was pretty interesting and he was so intense; I guess he thought I was going to crash his car. But I think I’ve mastered it and right on time cause I am looking to buy a new car and when I browse through the listings stick is always cheaper than automatic.

-Oh yeah by the way I am not cutting my hair. That was a bad idea for me to begin with not sure where my head was at when I said that. Short hair don't does care lol.

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Short Hair Don't Care?

I think I'm gonna cut my hair.  Not the classic "big chop' that most women do when their hair is so damaged they have no choice but to cut their hair lol. But a short hair do for the summer. 


I'm honestly tired of weave/braids or whatever. And I have been told that I would look good with short hair so maybe now is the time to test that theory.


My sister thinks I'm being too emotional and just looking for something drastic to do to make me feel better. I say she is reading way too much into it. I've always wondered what it would be like to have short hair. Like a Rihanna circa 2009 look.


Anyways I am still thinking about it.

#decisiondecisions

A promise is a comfort to a fool...

You know that moment when you are afraid to get close to someone because you are afraid that ultimately they will be the ones to hurt you. And then they assure you that they will never hurt you intentionally and "promise" to be there for you through thick and thin. Then you let your guard down and everything seems to go well until you need that person and they are not there like they "promised". 

Yeah well that "promise" was tested between me and Body quite often since the beginning of the year mostly by him. I was there. But when it came time for him to be there for me he was not. I can't even begin to put it into words what happen, in all honesty I have been trying to write this post for a while but could not find the words. I still cannot find the words, all that I know is that I cannot believe how wrong I was about him.

I feel like just two weeks ago I was on cloud 9 and now I am free falling to my death. 


In the words of my father "A promise is a comfort to a fool..." (way before Sean Paul ever said it). I should have know better.

#thatsall 

The strike is in full swing

So my school is on strike. It is kind of complicated though because my faculty is not on strike, but the school is. Let me try and explain.

The student association that represents all the undergrads held a General Assembly to vote on whether or not to strike. First off let me say it was the most biased General Assembly I've ever been to. The majority of people in attendance were pro strike, the vote was held by a show of hands (which definitely made it hard for some people to vote against the majority) and less than 5% of the students turned up to vote.  It was also very

unorganized, microphones were working and they tried to ustream it but it kept going in and out which delayed the G.A.

The general atmosphere of the auditorium felt like some kind of retreat. Lol it gave off the vibe that we all should have joined hands and sing Kumbaya. This may sound ignorant as f^ck but I felt like I was surrounded by a bunch of vegans that drink their juice from recycled spaghetti sauce jars and dressed in hemp. Someone was literally playing the banjo. While waiting for the assembly to start I was listening to hypothetical conversations of what is going to happen once we are on strike. The same theater student I tweet about on a regular basis were doing the same annoying shit they always do such as blowing bubbles in peoples faces like the are 5 years old. One guy was doing a monologue about.... I don't even know remember what it was about and there were a lot of emo people here. One girl started crying out of nowhere.

Anyway in the end they voted to go on strike. The numbers we overwhelming like 85% for and 10% against and 5% abstained. At the same time it was very biased because of the show of hands voting and less than 1500 people turned out to vote when there are over 30000 people who attend the school.

When the results were known it turned into a controversy because a lot of people expressed that they did not know about the vote and their main argument was that it was kept hidden from certain faculties because the people who run the student association wanted a particular result (Yes) and therefore it was heavily advertised to the faculties that would give that result (which has a bit of truth towards it because I did not hear a word about the strike on campus but I happen to watch the nightly news a few nights before and heard that apparently we were voting on whether to join the strike). 

Because of this a few days later my faculty and another one held a separate closed ballot vote to decide if we were going to join the student association and strike. The results came back as 25% for, 75% against, <1% abstained. About 2500 people came out to vote out of about 12000 possible voters for my faculty.

That's how my school is on strike but not my faculty. So I did have to technically cross the picket line but I was not alone.

Students blocking a bridge during rush hour each later being fined $494.

To Cross or Not to Cross... The Picket Line?

My school is voting on whether or not to go on strike tomorrow due to the upcoming tuition hike. I will be voting NO. Usually I'm down to support causes like these but enough is enough now. Over the last few years there have been multiple strikes have resulted in nothing but tons of time wasted.

Just a bit of history on tuition in Quebec...

Since 1994 until 2007 tuition was frozen at about $1700 a year (politicians - you gotta love them). After 2007 a new political party came in to power and basically decided that it was time for tuition to increase. From then to now tuition increased to about $2200 a year. Which still is not too bad in my opinion -- probably because ever since I've been in University it was at that rate. Now they are planning to raise tuition by $325 per year for 5 years bring it to just over $3800 a year. Again which I guess it is something to complain about because it is a huge increase over a short period of time. But if you compare it to any other province in Canada or even the states it is still a bargain.

Another reason I'm kind of hoping the majority votes NO is because I don't want to lose a whole semester over something that really isn't going to change shit. I'm definitely trying to graduate this year. I already feel like behind in life in general and with school especially. I took some detours and I'm just ready to be done with school. If I was on the straight and narrow through my University career I would have graduated in May of 2011. But I spent a year and a half in a program that I really did not like so I started something new and now I'm graduating in December 2012 *fingers crossed*. Lol I still I have mixed feelings about the program I'm in now. Some days I hate it but most other days I love it. But no matter how much I complain at the end of the day I know I made the best decision in changing into this program. So I've finally accepted it.

Last reason is that the University Provost wrote a letter to the faculty basically stating that they should not support a strike and it should be business as usual. Hmm. This could lead to some real complications.

Anyway let's hope the majority votes NO or I may be crossing the picket line.

#thatsall