OMG, I'm exhausted. I am going to bed! This is a really short update just to let everyone know I'm still alive. I'll do a good update tomorrow... promise!

time: 5:06pm
today is: Audra McDonald's 30th birthday :) 30 years old and already has 3 Tony Awards...
IMing with: no one
singing along with: Les Miserables TAC
last theatrical production I saw: Rent
last movie I saw: The Flintstones - Viva Rock Vegas (I have little cousins, remember?)
anticipating: The Lion King in July, NYC next weekend, and London (England) in August
reading: nothing... Harry Potter soon!
link me up: Tonya's finally updated journal
quote of the day: from The West Wing, "The Crackpots and These Women":
Josh: (Listening to "Ave Maria") This is a beautiful piece of music, do you know this?
C.J.: I'm Catholic.

Helloooo! My my so much has happened!
First of all, I’m going to New York City on Friday!! Here’s the crazy story: My mom runs a development company. They build buildings, and my mom basically does everything – all the marketing, sales, bit of accounting and financial predictions, deals with pissed off purchasers, designs the occasional loft, modifies floor plans, pretends she’s an architect and re-designs parts of the buildings’ structural properties, deals with construction issues, and tries to keep peace in the office among the people who work for her. Do I ever see my mom, you ask? Well, occasionally :). Anyway, the owner of the company that my mom runs has been a real pain lately, and stressing my mom out more than she already is. Eve, who owns and runs the real estate company my mom hired to actually sell the condos and lofts they build, has noticed my mom is a little stressed (Eve and my mom are pretty good friends). The owner of my mom’s company is pissed off at Eve for no good reason, and my mom has been sticking up for Eve.
SO, Eve randomly phones me up at home a couple weeks ago and says to me, “Hi Lis, listen – I want to send you and your mom to New York City for a weekend. You tell me when you want to go and what shows you want to see, and I’ll do everything else.” After making sure Eve was not under the influence of any mind-altering substances, I managed to get over enough of my shock to tell her when we could go and what we wanted to see :). So, as promised, Eve took care of everything! She told my mom on Friday at our office – it was hilarious. All I hear is my mom saying, “WHAT???” about forty times from the meeting room, and then, “Lisa! Get down here!!” lol, she couldn’t believe that I’d known about this for two weeks and hadn’t let anything slip (it almost killed me, btw).
SOOO, my mom and I are off to New York Friday afternoon, seeing The Music Man Friday night, seeing Aida Saturday night, and coming home Sunday afternoon! Turtle and I are going to do something Saturday afternoon. Oooo… Saturday morning, my mom and I are doing a trek through the downtown area. Like, Wall Street, Battery Park, and… COURT HOUSES!!! Sorry. I’m a geek. I know. I also read the U.S. Constitution in my spare time. It’s gonna be a Law and Order morning :). Mwahahahaahaha…
What else? Oh yeah – I finished high school! Woohoo! My final marks were good, except for stupid English. My OAC marks are: English – 72%, biology – 73%, French – 75%, drama – 80%, media/literature – 80%, writer’s craft – 85%, politics – 90%, and law – 90%. So, OAC average is 81%, but my top 6 OAC average (which is the one that counts) is 84%. However, Nova Scotia only looks at your top 5 OACs, which means my average is 85%. So basically, my OAC average is 84 and a bit :):). Quite respectable!
So I've decided to have the eye operation. Well, "I've" might be the wrong pronoun. Everyone who knows me has decided I should have it, so I went along with the LOUD majority. Might as well get it over with this summer, before I get a real job and go into the semi-real world. It's not that it's a big deal or painful, it's just a freakin' inconvinience! I can't swim for three weeks! That's the biggest pain in the ass. I'm a fish - I spend my whole summer in the water. We have a pool in our backyard. It's going to kill me. I'm so pissed off about it. The other side is of course that I won't (hopefully) have to do this again, so the absence of swimming pays off in the long run. However, my attitude is 'fuck the long run, I'm just going to be hot and miserable for three weeks.' Just a warning - if anyone DARES send me e-mail telling me that getting my eye fixed now is all worth, and I'll thank myself later on in life, I swear to God I will hurt you. I will hurt you so much you will not remember your name, let alone how to turn on your computer. You've all been warned :)
Hmmm... what else? Did everyone have a good Canada Day? Lara? Discover any new water bottles?
I know I had more to write in here, but I forgot. Doh. Oh well, more later!

July 1st, 2000

Happy Canada Day!

time: 8:01pm
today is: Canada Day! :) Also known as Crack Day!
IMing with: Jeff
singing along with:
last theatrical production I saw: Rent
last movie I saw: Mission: Impossible 2
anticipating: The Lion King in July, NYC next weekend and London (England) in August
reading: nothing.
link me up: Tonya's FINALLY updated journal

Ahh... I'm running out of the house to go downtown for fireworks! I'll give you all a real update when I get home!

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June 22nd, 2000

time: 6:22pm
days of school left: 0! NONE! RIEN! WOOHOO! Last exam tomorrow!
today is: nothing
IMing with: Jeff
singing along with:
last theatrical production I saw: Rent
last movie I saw: Mission: Impossible 2
anticipating: The Lion King in July and London (England) in August
reading: nothing.
link me up: Egroups - the best mailing lists
quote of the day: unknown:

"If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining."

I really should be studying for my OAC law exam tomorrow. I've been making study notes allll day. Making study notes (typing them up and stuff) is quite an effective way of studying. I've done 10 chapters; I have 2 chapters left to do. "Defences" and "Sentencing." Someone put me out of my misery now!
Back to the salt mines...

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June 21st, 2000

time: 5:14pm
days of school left: 0! NONE! RIEN! WOOHOO! Exam on Friday
today is: Lindsay's dance concert
IMing with: Lara and Mary
singing along with: Kiss Me, Kate, BCR
last theatrical production I saw: Rent
last movie I saw: Mission: Impossible 2
anticipating: The Lion King in July and London (England) in August
reading: nothing.
link me up: Benny Boards
quote of the day: Mickey Mouse:

"Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes."

No work today :( There was a huge fire undergroud (a generator) on King Street West, between Bay and University. My subway stop is at King West and University... the train wasn't stoping there! So, I went back to sleep. Plus, there was no power in our office for most of the day, so no one got much done and went home early. To make up for today, I think I'm going to go into work tomorrow afternoon (I had the day off tomorrow).
I really don't have much to say today... maybe I'll add more later!

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June 19th, 2000

time: 8:59pm
days of school left: 0! NONE! RIEN! WOOHOO
today is: the morning after
IMing with: Jason, Jeff and Stacy
singing along with: nothing
last theatrical production I saw: Rent
last movie I saw: Center Stage - loved it way more than I should have!
anticipating: The Lion King in July and London (England) in August
reading: nothing.
link me up: Benny Boards
quote of the day: Eileen, talking about doing *somthing* to a certain skinny, cute, white boy:

"I'd probably break him... but it would be fun!"

Oh my. Where to even start? Yesterday was the closing show of Rent in Toronto - again. I was in line for Sunday night's show from 9:30pm on Saturday to 5:30pm on Sunday. I got an hour and a half of sleep at the most :) It rained for most of the day on Sunday and got as cold as 10 degrees celcius outside (for you Americans, that's about fifty degrees). By 1:30am this morning (when we finally went to bed), we all were, as Stacy put it, "slap happy" :)
However, lack of sleep and all, I had an AMAZING time :) Mary decided to throw me a birthday party in line. She made loot bags, full of toys too! And Eileen made me a t-shrit that says "moo with me" across the front. I'd wanted a RentBirthday for SO long... Thanks guys again!!
The Sunday night show was amazing (saw the show on Friday too). Dom was on as Mimi, and she was on FIRE! Cary was better than usual; Trish was absolutely wonderful and adorable; Mark (Ford, he plays Collins) was just incredible - his "Reprise" gave me goosebumps; Curtis was on as Mark and he was sooo great (making the role his own, despite his nervousness); Shaun (Angel) was fabulous (he's gotten SO good! So much better than Buffalo); Jacqueline (Joanne) was amazing as always; Brian (Benny) was great; and Erin (Maureen) brought the house down :) She was just AMAZING - *so* funny. I thought I was going to pee myself during "Over the Moon." That's all the Rent stuff for now - more later in the other part of the site.
Serious part of this entry now - I have a delima, and I need feedback on this. What I would really like is someone to just make the decision for me, but we all know that isn't how life works, unfortunately. So, here's the deal:
As most of you have noticed, I have one eye that always turns in. It's like that 'cause of my Albinism (Albino Child... yup that's me) - the eye muscle is spastic. So, on July 13th, at 10:30am, I can have an operation that will center the eye. It doesn't improve my sucky vision; it's basically for cosmetic reasons. They are no real risks, because my vision in that eye is so sucky already :) I've already had this eye straightened twice, but it keeps going back. Getting it fixed is really just a large pain in the ass because I'll have to wear a patch over my eye for a while and then not go out of the house for a bit 'cause I can't get dirt and shit in it. So it's a pain in the ass. I don't even notice that my eye turns in. Do you guys notice it?? I dunno. Feedback please. What should I do?
Okay, time for sleep again. I'm so dsam tired!

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June 12th, 2000

time: 10:55pm
days of school left: 3
today is: nothing special
IMing with: Dave, Eileen, Mary, Turtle, Jeff, Elizabeth and Staci (phew!)
singing along with: How Glory Goes by Audra McDonald
last theatrical production I saw: Rent - at the Pantages in Toronto... how weird is that?? The show was AMAZING!
last movie I saw: Center Stage - loved it way more than I should have!
anticipating: The Lion King in July, no more high school, London (England) in August, most of the Easter seaboard of the USA coming to visit :) and Sel coming to visit!!!
reading: nothing.
link me up: Steve's Diary - I love Steve... I want to meet him! :)
quote of the day: Jason, after Mrs. Wilton walked down the hall and harassed one of our friends:

"Oh, go eat your mother!"

ahhh... the only way I can get everything done that I need to do this week is if I cut out sleeping entirely.

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June 11th, 2000

time: 9:15pm
days of school left: 4
today is: nothing special
IMing with: Tonya and Press
singing along with: The Last Session
last theatrical production I saw: Rent - at the Pantages in Toronto... how weird is that?? The show was AMAZING!
last movie I saw: Center Stage - loved it way more than I should have!
anticipating: The Lion King in July, no more high school, London (England) in August, most of the Easter seaboard of the USA coming to visit :) and Sel coming to visit!!!
reading: nothing.
link me up: Steve's Diary - I love Steve... I want to meet him! :)
quote of the day: Rita Mae Brown:

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."

Yes, pick yourselves up off the floor, this is a *real* update. One of my many goals for the summer is to update this thing at least once every two days. We'll see how I do :)
How freaky is it that I'll be finished high school in 4 days? Well, technically I'm not done until June 30th (which is the "official" last day of school), but my last class is Thursday and then my last exam in Friday the 23rd. That's crazy. I'm so old.
So, I saw Rent on Firday. The show was AMAZING! I didn't fall asleep at all during it (not even "Your Eyes"), and everyone on stage (with the exception of Not-Not Trish... Trish called out) was really really good! Dom was on as Mimi and was simply amazing! I have not seen a Mimi like that since May '98! Cary has improved and was great with Dom... Matt (mark) was wonderful, as was the rest of the cast. Erin (maureen) deserves a mention too :) She was a lot of fun and a great voice. I *will* have my big review of the show up under "My Rent" before hell freezes over. Really. I will.
Another one of my goals for the summer is to finish my Rent journal. Both the edited version (online) and the unedited version (paper). As you all are my witnesses, I will finish it. Another goal is to actually update the other sections on this site. That goal is looking a little sketchy, but we'll see.
OH - we are celebrating Lindsay Turtle's birthday in line next Sunday, the 18th. That lucky little Turtle is going to be in NYC for her actual birthday, so we're doing it on Sunday. I'm making cupcakes. Anyone have birthday candles?
lol, you should hear my voice. It sounds like I'm a boy going through puberty with larengitis (sp?). I sound ridiculous :) No idea what is wrong... I don't feel that sick... I've had a miserable cold for 2.5 weeks, but that's normal for me. Who knows... I better not be getting sick for next weekend. Mind you, knowing my luck (Vancouver... Ft. Myers... NYC...) I'll probably be hospitalized by next week. Grr.
I have to say goodbye to Mrs. Reid on Tuesday. :( I'll be an emotional wreck that night. We'll give Mrs. Reid a tribute on Tuesday, so you'll all learn who she is then, if you don't already know.
Okay, I have to go finish a writer's craft assignment (the last one WOOHOO!) so I'm off.

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June 7th, 2000

time: 10:01pm
days of school left: 6
today is: nothing special
IMing with: no one
singing along with: The Last Session
did Lisa update recently?: I think the fact that I actually updated this is a major accomplishment
last theatrical production I saw: The Lion King - bow down to the Goddess that is Julie Taymor
last movie I saw: Center Stage - loved it way more than I should have!
anticipating: The Lion King in July, June 16th, most of the Easter seaboard of the USA coming to visit :)
stressing about: oh. there's just so much...
AHHHHH: I got a single room for school next year!!! WOOHOO! How did Marin Mazzie NOT win the Tony Award?? OY. Let's not go there...
made me happy today: let's do "made me happy in the past week and a half..." there's been so much!
Things that make you go 'hmmmm': WHY WHY WHY does Tripod keep changing their site around??? Pick a freakin' design and stick with it!!
I really should be: doing my law project
reading: nothing. But I read a mystery book by J.D. Robb yesterday... lol, I've read three of them in less than a week
new thing I did / learned today: all about the exciting world of collective bargaining in Canada (law project)
link me up: The Rosie O'Donnell Show - very fun stuff :)
quote of the day: Max and Linds, this is for you:

"Nobo-"
"The Pre-"

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