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November 25, 2003
All is fine and all is in order, for now at least. I just finished writing my exam for television and my exam for Print. I felt relatively confident about both of them. My television exam mark was a 68, but I fought back, and got stuck with a 70, so that’s good.
We had a guess speaker appear for class, someone you all have probably heard of Global’s Meteorologist Cindy Day who also appears in the Daily News. That was pretty boring… she talked about her past for about 15 minutes, then started asking if we had any questions for her… “I look up at the sky and watch the cold front move and the clouds rising…” like how boring is that? What a life…
Once again, its been ages since I wrote a journal entry, but not a lot happens here in Halifax… I still miss everyone down home. I miss the pugs and the kitties and so does Alice… Now Jeremy has a kitten named Mouse I suppose, it looks so cute! I miss my kitty… My kitties…. But they all died before I came to Halifax. I used to have 5 cats at once, but they all died, one by one. I feel so bad sometimes because I know I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to them, I was busy in my grade 12 year… =(
So now I’m listening to Smile Empty Soul in my CD player, after I burnt off their album, looking at my pencil, running out of lead and my remaining cinnamon roll I cannot make room to stomach. Tonight I have to try and talk to Halifax Municipal councillor Debbie Hum for a story idea that I presented to my print instructor… as well as prepare for a tour of Clary Flemming and Associates, a co-owner of the Atlantic Media Institute (AMI). Today, I wrote my Print exam… well, I have high hopes for that exam… oops, sorry, he called it a quiz. “Well, now that cuts my study time down by about 3 hours,” said Kyle Davis, one of my classmates. lol I guess quotes just grow on me. The quiz was really easy. We had to pick out which words were spelled correctly, like analyse and analyze, and picnicking and picnicing, it was really dumb… then we had to re-write two stories, piece of cake. I’m just glad we’re finally getting rid of Richard Dooley!
It’s so ironic though… I was interested in journalism before I came to AMI. Just last year I was so focused on going to St. Thomas University (STU) and taking a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism… but after hearing about all the shit we hafta go through, I don’t think I wanna do any reporting! I wanted journalism because I liked to write, not because I want to talk to people! I talk through my writing, I inspire and perspire on paper or in text, but now I almost hate journalism. I want to do technical… tell me how to operate a camera, how to do digital editing, how can I produce a piece of news? I never want to professionally go about and find contacts and sources to write a hard news story for the front page of the Chronicle Herald. Dooley is so boring!
My photography instructor, Paul Darrow, also from the Daily News, is a lot more interesting than Dooley… and his photography assignment was almost fun to do too! But instead of doing fun things like that, I have to go to court on Monday with my class and file a 300 word story on what happened in the court…
So now I sit here, sipping my berry punch, or fruit punch, the frozen juice from the can, wondering, ‘what else I should buy people for x-mas?’ I bought my mom and dad a cute pug calendar I’m sure at least my mom will love, its pug puppies! I bought Alice a ring for x-mas with two vertical, diamond shaped sapphire stones on white gold, but I also went out and bought her another ring for our 8 month ‘anniversary,’ a promise ring! I’ve never been with someone so long and I never want to be with anyone else. Everything is so perfect with her, everything has just ‘clicked,’ its amazing!
Alice and I have been getting really fet up with our apartment lately! It’s so annoying! The other tenants are so loud and obnoxious and even the floors are creaking at us now… There has been loitering out in the main lobby since well before we got there, and it still hasn’t stopped really, even though there is a no loitering sign posted by the entrance stairway.
Since we’ve been here, there have been at least 5 fire alarms or related warnings… we’ve gone through a class 2 hurricane with winds gusting 170 km/h and we had our bedroom window leaking like a faucet! Not only that, but we had our power out for 4 days, with phone and internet. Our bathroom fan has NEVER worked, the fan over the kitchen stove has NEVER worked… the superintendent fixed the kitchen fan, but it’s loud as hell… my dad says the bearings are gone in it… go figure!
When we moved in here, we had to wait for about an hour. The apartment had hired people to come in and clean our carpet in the living room, and people had came in previously to paint the walls… ha! The paint on the walls was done so sloppily that we needed a knife to be able to turn on a light, put something in the wall outlet and close the fucking chain lock! ALSO, we needed to get the bathtub knobs replaced, because the internal hot water knob was stripped and we had a hard time trying to get the hot water to work right for a warm shower! I think that’s just too much… so both Alice and I are starting to seriously think about moving out of here as soon as our 1 year lease is up at the end of August. Don’t even get me started on the laundry!