melissa

My Personality

Neuroticism	15
Extraversion	53
Openness to Experience	92
Agreeableness	60
Conscientiousness	51

You are a calm person who is considered almost fearless by some, however you are sensitive about what others think of you. Your concern about rejection and ridicule cause you to feel shy and uncomfortable around others. You are easily embarrassed and often feel ashamed. Your fears that others will criticize or make fun of you are exaggerated and unrealistic, but your awkwardness and discomfort may make these fears a self-fulfilling prophecy. You lead a leisurely and relaxed life. You would prefer to sit back and smell the roses than indulge in high energy activities. Generally you are not considered to be an emotional person, however you are aware of and in touch with your emotions. You are tenderhearted and compassionate, feeling the pain of others vicariously and are easily moved to pity, however you feel superior to those around you and sometimes tend to be seen as arrogant by other people. You are well-organized and like to live according to routines and schedules. Often you will keep lists and make plans.

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Here is my summer schedule:
-June 16: Riverview for Ryan's birthday
-June 17: Saint John for Tan-Nee's long awaited arrival from afar.
-June 23: Vacation starts
-June 24: Wedding BBQ for Angela Duff and Bob Deveau
-June 25: Head to Shediac for Vive L'Acadie 2006, long overdue visit with my cousin Jennifer who I haven't seen since 1999!!
-July 1: Work Canada Day at Budget, get dbl time and a half for 14 hours! bling bling.
-July 25: Lagwagon, Lawrence Arms, and A Wilhelm Scream in Montreal
-August 11: DONE BUDGET FOREVER!!!! YAYYAYYAYAYYAYYAYAYYAYAY :D :D :D
-August 14: Nofx in Halifax with a shitload of other awesome bands, including Hope!
-August 19: Mary Balser's wedding in Halifax
-August 30: Leave for Toronto...getting more excited and nervous by the day.

Here is what I need to do before I go:
-Have lots of love time with all my peeps.
-Have a few little love adventures with Neener Neener.
-Have to figure out where the bleep I will be living. Hopefully- http://www.neill-wycik.com/coop_en/
-Get most of my shit back to Riverview. I AM SO SICK OF MOVING!!
-Get some vegan sneakers and boots.
-Go to Val's cottage because it is beautiful and amazing and relaxing.

Umm...that's it for now I guess.

Part 1: The Birth of You

Were you a planned baby? I definately was
Were you the first? Yup
Who was present at your birth? My parents
Were your parents married when you were born? They sure were
What is your birthdate? August 7, 1981

Part 2: The Family

How would you describe your family? open minded, awesome, weird, ALL VEGETARIAN/VEGAN
Are your parents married? Divorced? Seperated? Married
Siblings or an only child? One brother
If you have siblings are you oldest, middle, or youngest? Oldest
What are your siblings names and ages? Ryan- 22
Which parent do you get along with best? Definately my mom, but me and my dad have awesome political discussions
What do you fight about? housework, what is considered "real" work, money
Do you have step parents? nope

Part 3: The Friends

Do you have more than one best friend? Yup!
What do you like to do when you are together? hang out, talk, eat food, drink beer, road trips
Do you share the same interests? Sure do
Which friend can you tell anything to? Well, at first, I listed off about 15 people, but basically it boils down to, the friends that I am close with, I can tell anything to..so all 15 of you! ahahhahahaha

Part 4: Your Personality

How high/low is your self esteem? pretty high I would say...although I am falling victim to women's body image issues
Do you get depressed about things easily? nope, been there done that, never again
Are you happy? I am, except not with my job

Part 5: Appearance

Are you comfortable with the way you look? Yup
Do you have any piercings besides your ears? nose
Describe your hair: brown, always up, little bit curly

Part 6: The Past

Were you a strange child? Umm..I used to climb all the time, my parents called me a monkey
What did you used to love that you no longer do? swim, i used to write a lot more than i do now.
Do you have the same friends? I still keep in touch with a bunch of my high school friends, and Me and Melissa are going strong for 12 years! yay!

Part 7: The Future

What is your ambition? To get a Ph.D, contribute to radical change, to have the cafe go strong, to network with other radical groups
Are you scared of growing old? yes
Do you want to get married? I don't want to me married by the state or the church, but I do want a "love-union-party" woot woot.

Part 8: The Outdoors

Do you prefer indoors or outdoors? outdoors in the summer
What is your favorite season? summer
Weather? Sunny, not too hot
Do you like walking in the rain? no, but i like dancing in the rain

Part 9: Food

Are you a vegetarian? cheating vegan
What food makes you want to gag? meat
What is your favorite dessert? chocolate covered strawberries

ya, i'm very sick of my job. i went to the capital last night with asaf and saw a guy named greg who used to work at budget until he quit and got a better job. i was telling him how excited i am because at the end of may i get a raise, paid vacation, and paid sick days. he was like, you dont have paid sick days, i had paid sick days!!! HE STARTED AT BUDGET AFTER I DID!!! GRRRR...that makes me sooo mad.

so i might go to stu in july for summer session and take french. if i can get a full time student loan, then toot toot, french here i come, and fuck you stupid job.

i cant express to anyone how sick i am of this mindless employment.

after the antics i pulled last night and how i feel today, i have decided to break up with booze for awhile. so many embarrassing stories...paranoia isnt as bad this time though. i got home to a love note from my lover with an added bonus message, "i hate you when yer drunk". i think that really hit home. no more of these crazy nights.

Check this place out peeps, seems to be the best place I have found yet!

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So, I am sitting here at stupid Budget at the stupid Fredericton airport. It is 11:54 pm and I have been here since 8:00am. I have a stupid fucking reservation on the last flight, which is now delayed to 12:40am and I HAVE to meet it because the customer is a Mccains employee. I am so livid right now I dont even know how to express myself. Everyone and everything is making me so upset I could VOMIT. Even people coming in the doors and standing in front of my booth make me mad. Going home and getting sleep after working a fucking, what will be, 18 hour shift is more fucking important than meeting this fucking stupid delayed flight. i hate capitalism more at this very minute than i ever have in my goddamned life. i cant wait to get the fuck out of this job and go to school and not have to work a shit job for at least another year.

So, finally, after THREE FUCKING YEARS, Shane actually came to Fredericton to visit. It was FREAKIN AMAZING seeing him. MAN! He only stayed overnight and left on the early bus, but it was SOOO GOOD to see him again. I was so happy when I saw him pulling up in the car! YAY SHANE! WOOT WOOT! He might be moving to Fredericton in September which SUCKS cuz I will be moving to Toronto. I hope I get to see him again this summer. I felt like it had only been a week since I had seen him last.

I want the old crew back together soooo bad! Churchill Row Unite! I need these people back for my sanity. But unfortunately, I will be going to Ryerson. I am going to be soooo sad if Shane AND Tan-Nee move to Fredericton for September, ESPECIALLY because I will be gone :( We need to have a Churchill Row Reunion party before I go to Ryerson, I have just decided.

Yippee YAY!

Easygoing Herbivore 75% vegan jerk

You're a vegan or vegetarian (or at least you're close, in your diet or ideals), and you stick with your beliefs, but you aren't a pain in the ass about them. You probably avoid getting into arguments with the people who got the "Militant Meatface" result on this test, but you also get annoyed with the hardcore vegans who make you look bad. Your friends are on both sides of the fence, and that's okay. Good job.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 97% on vegginess

Link: The Vegan Jerk Test written by batbucket on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

As I sit here at work and as "Time goes by so slowly for those who wait, no time to hesitate" I am freaking out cuz I want to go to TORONTO and get out of BUDGET. I can't wait! WOOT WOOT! I just wish that I had some friends in T-dot..poo..guess I will just have to be a hardcore student...eek! All I want is to get an overall A average on my masters degree, is that too much to ask...4 1/2 more months....tick tick tock.

I got really hammered on Tuesday and Thursday..oops. I made a complete ass out of myself, divulged information that is better left unsaid, and went a liitle wonky. I have this problem where on the day after I drink I am overly paranoid and anxious. I do not want to see anyone from the night before because I think everyone is mad at me and hates me. Isn't that silly? I really can't help it. :( I'm sorry for doing stupid things that have direct repercussions (?) on my wonderful friends.

You Are Barney

You could have been an intellectual leader... Instead, your whole life is an homage to beer You will be remembered for: your beautiful singing voice and your burps Your life philosophy: "There's nothing like beer to give you that inflated sense of self-esteem."

You Are 50% Weird

Normal enough to know that you're weird... But too damn weird to do anything about it!

A - Available: committed relationship- 6 1/2 years strong baby!
A - Age: Twenty-four
A - Annoyance: Knowing that I have an honors degree and I work at Budget, knowing that the majority of people are ignornat and not willing to learn/change

B - Best Friends: i have a million best friends...how can I even begin?
B - Bar: Taproom, crapital, phoenix
B - Birthday: 7 aug 81

C - Crush: i have one!
C - Car: nope
C - Cat: simon, cutest.cat.ever

D - Dead Pet's Name: sammy,pink,sparky rip :(
D - Dad's Name: Steve
D - Dog: sammy, and he's dead :( gawd, i miss him

E - Easiest person to talk to: Momma/Looloo/Mae/Mel/Bu/Janet/Keeley/everyone?
E - Eggs: fuck eggs
E - Email: no thanks

F - Favorite color: blue
F - Food: yummmm I LOVE FOOD!
F - Foreign Slang: i dont think i have one

G - Gummy Bears or Worms: meh to candy
G - God: agnostic
G - Good Times: good times are a comin when i get to traaaaana

H - Hair Color: dark brown
H - Height: 5'1
H - Happy: much better now

I - Ice Cream: cookie avalance
I - Instrument: no
I - Idol: no one really

J - Jewelery: nose ring/earing/iloveyou ring/random ring
J - Job: budget...grrr....
J - Jokes: nah

K - Kids: maybe some day, little scobax's aahahahahahha
K - Karate: i was in it with brian rose like 1o years ago!
K - Kung Fu: no

L - Love: going on trips, punk rock, intelligent people
L - Longest car ride: toronto
L - Lipstick or Chapstick: whats the diff

M - Milk flavor: milk is sick
M - Mother's name: Elise
M - Movie last watched: Ultraviolet- BOOOOOOO!!!!

N - Number of siblings: One.
N - Northern or Southern: global south please
N - Name: Melissa

O - One wish: oh gawddd...there are so many, a healthy planet mostly
O - One phobia: the dark and creepy religious stuff
O - Otter pop: hmmm?

P - Parents, are they married or divorced: Married.
P - Part of your appearance you like best: i dont know
P - Part of your personality you like best: open minded

Q - Quick or Slow: mostly slow i think :P
Q - Queer or Straight: does anyone really know?
Q - Queen or King: who needs em

R - Reason to smile: that im getting out of this shit job
R - Reality TV Show: none
R - Right or left: left

S - Song Last Heard: propagandhi something
S - Season: Summer
S - Series: Sex and the city, carnivale, weeds, mostly HBO series

T - Time you woke up: 7:50 am
T - Time now: 1:38 pm
T - Time for bed: depends what time i have to work the next day

U - Unknown: future
U - Unicorns: ??
U - I AM: the most amazing person that ever existed

V - Vegetable you hate: none, i love em all!
V - Vegetable you love: ALL
V - View on Politics: far far left, as far as she goes almost..hee hee

W- Worst Habit: i dont know
W- Where are you going to travel next: to montreal to the anarchist bookfair, hopefully
W- What's up: at work

X - X-Rays: lots
X - X-Rated: nah
X - XYZ: ....

Y - Year I was born: didnt we already find this out?
Y - Year it is now: 2006
Y - Yellow: ok

Z - Zoo Animal: NO MORE ZOOS! have animal sanctuaries that are undisturbed, animals are not a commodity for show
Z - Zodiac: Leo
Z - Zoolander: funniest.movie.ever

Here is my update:

-I have been accepted into Ryerson University for a Masters of Arts in Public Policy and Administration for the 2006-2007 year!
-I have been awarded a $6,000 Ryerson Graduate Award
-Tuition for 12 months is $7,000, of which I have already paid $500, and will only have to actually pay $500 more out of my own pocket due to the award! yay!
-I will be applying to a residence called "The International Living Learning Center" which is an old hotel that consists of all single rooms with private bathrooms. (Sounds like Forest Hill all over again!)
-I will be applying for 4 more external scholarships of which two letters have been sent by my profs already...
-If I dont get into residence, I am fucked, unless Shane stays in Toronto and then I can live with him
-So, I will be leaving this shit-forsaken job at Budget sometime in August, going on a lovers getaway, and then heading to the big city with $1,250 saved...ahahahah...oh well, its better than nothing I guess
-My parents are the best parents that ever existed and are actually driving me to Toronto and staying for a day or two!
-I am getting a raise at the end of May which is exciting and will have paid sick days and two weeks paid vacation! woot!

Thats all I got for now kiddies

what a neat quote...

Four Jobs You've Had In Your Life:
1. Budget- Customer Comes First!
2. Cendant call center
3. Dish pig
4. Teacher's Assistant at STU
Four Movies you Could Watch Over and Over Again:
1. Anchorman
2. Dumb and Dumber
3. Pretty Woman
4. Peter Pan
Four Places You've Lived:
1. 8-a wilmot, fred
2. 80 million different houses in moncton and riverview
3. 796 Churchill Row, Fredericton
4. 572 chestnut
Four TV Shows You Love to Watch:
1. Desperate Housewives! toot!
2. Family Guy
3. Arrested Development
4. Weeds
Four Places You've Been On Vacation:
1. Trannnnna
2. Montreal
3. Jamaica
4. Florida
Four Blogs You Visit Daily:
1. Livejournal
2.
3.
4.
Four of Your Favorite Foods:
1. Stir fry with garlic & bean sauce
2. burritos
3. perogies with super supreme
4. smoothies
Four Places You'd Rather Be:
1. South America
2. Europe
3. South East Asia
4. on a healthy planet
Four Vehicles You've Owned:
1: CORSICA!! WOOT WOOT
2: ...
3: ...
4. ...
Four People to Be Tagged:
1. Mason Jar
2. Goslin
3. Gsynth
4. thats all i got, i have like 6 friends on this list....ahahhah

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10 Firsts:
First Best Friend: My brother or becky arbeau
First Screen Name: baxterhead
First Piercing: ears
First Crush: rob pelkey
First Music: old 60's music
First Car: corsica YAY
First Stuffed Animal: a pink bear
First love: jon jewett
First Time Being Drunk: 16 years old, had sex in a friends bathroom at a party...hee hee

9 Lasts:
Last Cigarette: 10 minutes ago with kira
Last Alchoholic beverage: probably beer, and it was 2 or 3 weeks ago
Last Car Ride: tonight with the corolla rent a car
Last Movie Seen in theatres: hmmm....i dont know
Last Phone Call: momma
Last Kiss: 30 mins ago with the bf
Last CD Played: punk rock mix made by dan barrett
Last bubble bath: i had a bath today, without bubbles
Last time you cried: yesterday when i thought my brother was dead in the woods

8 Have You Evers:
Have You Ever Been Outside The Country: Yup, the states and jamaica
Have You Ever Dated One Of Your Best Friends?: no
Have You Ever Been Arrested: yup, i have been to jail for justice
Have You Ever Skinny Dipped: nope
Have You Ever Been on TV: i might have
Have You Ever Kissed Someone and then Regretted it?: not really...
Have You Ever had a Suggestive Dream About Someone?: yes
Have you ever cheated?: unfortunately, i have

7 foods you hate:
1. meat
2. brussel sprouts
3. black licorice
4. water chestnuts
5. meat
6. umm...
7. umm...

6 Things You've Done Today:
(In no particular order)
1. hugged my parents and brother
2. drove home from riverview
3. didnt go to stupid work
4. went to the cafe
5. had 2 coffees
6. got funny computer things for george

5 Things you ate today:
1. coffee
2. stir fry
3. chocolate
4. toast with pb/j
5. smoothie....yummm

4 People You Can Tell Anything to:
1. nick
2. momma
3. tan-nee
4. keeley
5. janet and katie b...i added this one for you honies

3 Choices:
1. Red or Black: black
2. Hot or Cold: hot
3. Sun or Rain: sun!

2 Things You Want to Do Before you die:
1. travel a lot
2. tear it down brick by brick

1 thing you regret:
1. not doing as well as i should have in university

When it permeates every aspect of your life
When you live to perpetuate the destructive nature of capitalism
When the things you enjoy are just out of reach
When it comes down to the actualization that your life
Is not yours.

Hopelessness, despair, and no prospect for an actual existence
Upholding the impersonal values of faceless corporations and governments
No respect for the poor and desperate working class
Capitalism at its finest hour, we are reaching critical mass
My patience is running thin.

Why do we work to live instead of live to work?
The potential for class consiousness is attainable but never realized
The clock ticks as we are underpaid, underemployed, and mentally impoverished
While the suits gather at their gala dinners and closed door meetings
Deciding our fate.

We have been stripped of our dignity, potential, and have lost social control
Appropriated by the hands of those whose freedom we provide
While ours is dismissed, disregarded, and abandoned
We breed ignorance, disrespect for life, hatred, and greed
Decided for us.

When it permeates every aspect of our lives, we have no other choice
Than to take our lives into our own hands
Revolution, blood, sweat, and tears
I am an Anarchist, a Feminist, and an Intellectual
This system must fail, or we will die.