My birthday ride!!

2005 blue chevrolet optra
Originally uploaded by w_yvr.

This year my mom has given me one of the best, and certainly the most extravagent, birthday gifts I have ever received -- a 2004 Chevrolet Optra! (The photo at right shows the '05 model and colour of my car.) I can't believe that I have a car. So many years in the wanting, and now there's bright blue one sitting in our driveway. :) My autotrader days are over!

I've actually had the sedan for a couple of weeks now, and I've been driving it to school every day. If I said that I feel extreme guilt over abandoning the TTC, it wouldn't be true. Driving to and from school in my own car is sooo much better than waiting for two busses and a subway. (As I say this there is some guilt coming up, but I'll address that once the euphoria of my new car has ebbed.)

- Now taking suggestions for a road trip in late August.
- This car is drive-through friendly.

Workin' it in the a.m.

Gudentag! This morning I'm finishing up some very basic research on research (ACNielsen wah wah). Mornings are better than evenings for my productivity (despite the fact that I'm momentarily blogging instead of schooling myself).

The reason I blog is to inform you that I Am Robot and Proud's latest album, The Electricity in Your House Wants to Sing, is very, very good. Its sound is more compact, minute than those heard on Grace Days; it fits somewhere between The Catch and the Spring Summer Autumn Winter album. If you live in Toronto, you can buy I Am Robot And Proud CDs at Soundscapes on College (my absolute favourite place to find music).

zat is all. now back to work.

Olympic Island

Got a great call at work today -- Constance phoning to say she bought us tickets to the Broken Social Scene/Feist/Bloc Party/etc show at Olympic Island this summer! Takes place June 24, 2006. I want my old camp friends to join us.

In other news,

• my Holga is missing; the basement may have swallowed it
  
• Femme Generation is playing at the Boat tonight. attending with Ariel and her new boyfriend Madison.
  
• This is the first of my photos on flickr to be favourited by another user. this occured because the user collects images of tea, and mine was of a tea shoppe.
  
• this is Easter and I don't care.
  

April 6, 2006

Beloved, bright, good Dana,

April 6th will always be your birthday, and you will forever be a great part of my heart and mind. I love you and miss you. I'm so sorry.

Your Kyra