five books at a time.

From now on I will only allow myself to get five books out of the library at a time. It starts to stress me out when I have 28 books out and they're due two weeks from now and I'm only done two of them.

I figure five is good because that gives me a couple extra in case the first couple of books don't hold my attention.

Right now I'm studying early music (Gregorian chants etc.) ... It's all part of getting my ARCT... and it's been really interesting. I just started and we're just looking at the 400s and it's crazy...which inspired me to start reading more than just what's come out right now.

I really enjoyed literature in grade 12 but basically forgot a lot about what I learnt, because I did art through all those classes and didn't pay attention.

Soooo I found a list of books I am going to work through. I will make my pilgrimage down to the library with my gross amount of books to return and start fresh with this massive list.

Side note.
I listen to viva radio in case you haven't already heard, and I found this show on it called, "Believe it! Achieve it!" I'd already heard of it, but I had never listened to a whole show (they're only like 20 minutes long). It's this guy Troy who interviews congressmen in the USA. It's terribly funny in both senses of the word. One it's just so sarcastic you can taste it, and two, it's terrible that he actually organized interview with these men and then basically wasted their time...but it is incredibly amusing.

I realized that I hadn't written anything in my blog about going to PORTLAND and my 19th birthday so I thought I'd write in note form a little of whats been going on in the last five days or so.
- picked my mom up from work at five p.m last Friday and drove all the way down to Portland (five hours or so)
- toured around Portland...Loved it, except there's nowhere to eat because it's all bars....soooooooooooooooooo we found this Thai restaurant..and I'm not the biggest fan
- checked out lots of art galleries (bought cheap art that I am in love with check out emilyblackapple.net)




- went to Powell's books which is a used book store which is a whole city block wide...and deep (beautiful)



- went to MAC and found out that it's really cheap there
- loved that there was no tax on anything
- stayed at this crazy trendy hotel
- loved Portland

the next day was my nineteenth birthday...it was a family birthday in Langley. and i felt really honored...I'm planning something with my friends later (Cady's birthday is...today actually so we might do something together..?)

I can drink in public.

Then I came down with a cold/fever.

So that's just a little bit of explosive goo from my brain, to catch you up on things.