Tall, Dark and Mongolian

Today: finished Pride and Prejudice and had Mongolian Hot Pot :D

I've had an aversion to Jane Austen for many years due to my love of Russian Lit. Tolstoy has always seemed superior to Austen and I never tried to get past the first chapter or two of P&P. Two things about Austen:
I was surprised to find that I really liked it - enough that I think I'll read the rest of her stuff. She is good at explaining how people are feeling. And I like her sense of humour.
Secondly, Darcy is really overrated. Not that he isn't a good guy, but I'm pretty certain most girls in reality would find this kind of guy boring and awkward. All my life I've heard fellow ladies rattle on and on about how they want to find their Darcy. They don't. They want charisma. They want Wickham. I think I want a cross between the two. Someone who's willing to throw caution to the winds and run away, but who decides to get married first.

Mongolian Hot Pot! Wow! Great stuff. Kind of like Korean Hot Pot. If you've never had either, I will take you out for it :D
In short, everyone is given their own pot of soup stock and there is an all you can eat buffet of stuff (vegetables, fish, tofu, noodles, dumplings etc) to put in your soup (which is boiling on a mini cooker in front of you). And they give you plates of thinly sliced uncooked meat which goes in as well. Amazing! Dinner takes the whole evening and you kind of make it up as you go along... Made me realize I know very little about Mongolia and so Wikipedia, here I come...

This whole experiencing new things has truly inspired me and made me all happy and excited about life. I am currently perfecting my list - everyone I talk to gives me suggestions, so it is getting longer. I just found out today that this is called a Bucket List. Somehow never heard that term before.

First ever visit to burger king today.
First ever real heart palpatations this evening.

life to the full

I've been listening to this BBC radio programme online recently, called "I've never seen star wars." The idea is that famous comedians come on to the show and try a bunch of things they've never done before. It's inspired me to start on a list of my never befores. Which I will try to fulfill over the summer.
- eaten a big mac
- waxed anything
- driven. car or motorcycle
- listened to: Pink Floyd, The Sex Pistols, Joni Mitchell...
- actually, looking at the Rolling Stone top 100 albums, I've missed out on a lot. I think I will try to listen to the top 15-20 this summer. Also willing to take suggestions.
I have this sort of laissez-faire approach to music.. which means I've also never been to a genuine rock concert, I mean one with good bands. I've never been to an opera either.
- tatoo
- bought alcohol for later use (I know this sounds weird..what to say)
- read: War and Peace, any Jane Austen, Meine Kampf
- seen: Titanic (the whole way through), Chinatown, Pulp Fiction, Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.

That's the list so far.

I've sort of been inspired to go to this tomorrow night, but I have no one to go with so far. Anyone interested?

Just discovered the brilliant sport of teapot blowing, and am absolutely THRILLED about trying it out tomorrow.
Other news: moving to Scarborough in a couple weeks. I'm going to miss living downtown... contemplating permanently switching to St George so I can stay in the middle of things next year.
Also, happily learning about tropical rain forest conservation :) and trying to decide what to do this summer.

Someone today said to me, "Why not go into medicine?" with such conviction that it threw me off guard. I'm just not used to people believing in my abilities like that. Weird.

Unsettled (a poem)

When I was young and innocent,
I wanted to grow up to be a dark beauty
Tall, with red lips, white teeth
and long flowy hair.
I shall have to settle for cute.
I never wanted to be CUTE.