November 18th, 2007 11:53 am [ ] [ mood | blah ] [ music | Steamulation-Justice VS Gambit ] Long overdue. I've been in Toronto for two and a half months now and I finally started feeling like I things are under control. My room is kind of small and ghetto and it's just really weird living in a hotel. It will never really feel home-like even though I call it "home" and my roommate and I covered up the awful art and the empty walls. At least it doesn't have mice. My roommate is awesome. We get along really well. We like a lot of the same stuff and we respect each other. It's kind of weird though because she always speaks Spanish on the phone and now I'm starting to understand a lot of what she's saying. I've been to more shows than I though I would get to go to since I've been here. Animal Collective, Stars, Shiny Toy Guns (twice for free because I got guestlisted), Day Two of Virgin Fest (some guy on the street gave us his tickets), and tonight I'm going to see Motion City Soundtrack/Mae/Anberlin. Oh, and last night my roommate and I went to a family friend's bands cd release which was this experimental sort of jazz which was cool. Last Wednesday I went to see Christopher Guitierrez (heychris) do a speaking. It was really really good. It was one of those moments where you feel as though someone knows exactly what is going on in your life. It was just really inspiring. Afterwards me and some girls I might (who were super nice) went out for supper with him. It was just all pretty unreal. All of this being said school has been kicking my ass. I have at least one huge project due every week. I'm currently working the hardest I have probably ever worked in my life. It's odd though because I never thought that I would be super stoked to be getting seventies and that's pretty much how it's been going. Living on my own is way harder than I expected too. When I'm not doing homework I'm doing laundry or I have to buy groceries or clean or something. I definitely have a lot less time to do fun stuff but I'm starting to feel like everything is more under control. I promise now I will keep everyone updated more. Oh also, my hotmail hasn't been working, so if you want to email me send it to vivikeknutson@gmail.com. I have to go play with sculpey now. 2

April 11th, 2007 9:25 pm [ ] [ mood | sick ] [ music | Viola-Chase Pagan ] So I obviously win at life at posting on here. Lowdown since January: Started my last semester of high school. Went to Toronto for my interview at OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design...despite having college in the name it's a university). Did my portfolio interview (and kind of felt not so great about it). Went to see Copeland/Switchfoot. Started to get the best English marks I've gotten in high school (In AP English). Went to see Armor For Sleep/Underoath (third time)/Taking Back Sunday. Finally got to meet Aaron. Met most of TBS, lol. Went to the Film Festival full on. Saw seven films. Moneen. Enough said. Super bad cold. Lost my voice. Found out I got into Guelph and OCAD. That's pretty much it. I still haven't heard from LU, but they needed my portfolio. I brought it to them a couple weeks ago but they still haven't called me. Now I have decisions, decisions. I really should go do my homework. (Sara I have your birthday present (I've had it since befor ethe 25th) but I haven't seen you to give it to you...) 4

January 14th, 2007 3:19 pm [ ] [ mood | contemplative ] [ music | The New Year-Death Cab For Cutie ] So I realise I haven't posted in roughly two months. A lot has happened in those two months but nothing so drastic and significant that I feel the need to discuss right at this very moment. Mostly I just want to say today is my birthday. I am now legal to gamble, vote and take my shirt off on the internet. I thought my eighteenth birthday was going to be more exciting than it has been. But I guess that's what happens. To be honest I haven't really done anything. But I still have hope for it. Today I turn eighteen, and I'm really not sure how I feel about it. 3

November 1st, 2006 10:43 pm [ ] [ mood | sick ] [ music | BOSMT-Peachcake ] I've been so busy lately. Like ridiculous busy. I have something for Cabaret everyday at lunch. I'm at school until seven on Mondays, and five thirty or six Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Thursdays I don't do anything. I work all weekend. Oh, and I have dance practices Saturday mornings. And BL Theatre alternate Saturdays. Actually sometimes I don't work Sundays. Anyways, I need to sell Cabaret tickets or it's going to get cancelled. It's Friday November 24 and Saturday November 25 and tickets are eight dollars. It starts at seven. Atleast come to watch the dance, because I choreographed can-can and swing (with some help of course). I think I'm going to regret admitting to that. I was sick on Hallowe'en so all I did was give out candy and pretty much no one came. I was a tooth fairy. I'm pretty sure it's tonsilitis. There's a film festival this weekend, but since I'm so busy I think I'm only going Sunday. Maybe Saturday night. I want sushi really badly. I think Saturday will be dance, BL, work, sushi, movies. I don't remember anything anymore if I don't write it down. I schedule everything. This is really random and probably boring. I have a headache. 3

September 15th, 2006 9:58 pm [ ] [ mood | happy ] [ music | When You're Around-Motion City Soundtrack ] Tonight at the bar my dad met Alexisonfire. He got me their autographs. What a sweet dad. I went for supper at Gargoyle's. I wanted the Organic Greens but apparently there was an outbreak of ecoli in the States. So they only had romaine. I got the Thai Chicken Salad. Minus the chicken. Then I played laser tag and like a solid hour of DDR. After I played some games to win tickets. I got two dinosaurs, a dinosaur eraser, and a big package of Fun Dip. I'm pretty sure I want to go again soon to atleast play DDR. I'm getting pretty good at it. Straight up next time I'm not working who wants to go? 5

September 14th, 2006 8:09 pm [ ] [ mood | complacent ] [ music | Femme Fatale-The Velvet Underground ] So, life. It took me forever to remember what I last posted. So that mean's time for an update. I got a new job at the Great Canadian Bagel. I start training on Saturday. I'm still on call at the art gallery. I bought a new camera with all my own money. It's an Olympus Evolt E-500 digital slr. I now obnoxiously photograph everything. It turns out school was completely messed up. I worked it out and now my schedule is Strings, Gr.11 Art, Jazz and a spare. Also Repetoire after school Mondays and Wednesdays. Oddly enough I didn't have the prerequisites for Gr. 12 Jazz or Gr.12 Repetoire. I don't know how I lived through a high school day before I had my spare. On the first day of school I got hit by a kid riding a bike while stepping off the city bus. I scraped up my hands, bruised my elbow and messed up my knee. Then I got allergic reactions to the band aids on my hands. I'm pretty much a-okay now though. Just taking lots of medicine for the allergic reactions. I pretty much spend all my time now taking pictures, playing piano, and going for coffee. I think next Thursday I want to go see the new exhibits at the gallery, probably in my spare. Anyone want to go with me? 2

July 30th, 2006 7:14 pm [ ] [ mood | scared ] [ music | Clothes Off!-Gym Class Heroes ] My eye got really swollen today. I swear I look like Sloth from The Goonies. On top of that I'm about to go make a complete ass of myself attempting to play poker with a bunch of boys. I've only played poker like twice ever. And I LOOK LIKE SLOTH. Ugh. Why do I agree to to things... 2

July 28th, 2006 11:39 am Life [ ] [ mood | chipper ] [ music | One Day Women Will All Become Monsters-Chiodos ] So, I got a job. I work at the art gallery, otherwise known as the "TBAG". It is a ridiculously sweet job as I spend most of the day reading, drinking coffee and socialising with coworkers. Everyone that works there is super nice and awesome (that means you too Ben!). I'm really happy I got any awesome job even if it's only for the summer. I volunteer(ed) there also. I say volunteered because I didn't volunteer at all this week, but the plan is to start again on Monday and go on Mondays and possibly Fridays. I help with the little kid art camps and I really like it because the kids are sweet and actually really into learning about and making art. Aside from that life has been fairly slow. I went to see Halifax and Anberlin (and Hawthorne Heights and Story of the Year) last Wednesday (the 19th). Halifax and Anberlin were amazing. I was really disappointed with Hawthorne Heights. I swear they played the same song for forty five minutes and just had all these blinding lights. After I met Halifax and Anberlin (except Knate). Everyone was really nice and I talked! I was so proud of myself because usually I'm ridiculously shy and just end up rambling and being stupid, but not this time. I just prefaced everything with "I'm really really shy!" and I accomplished my goal of telling Stephen (Anberlin) that I read his blog. Obviously I'm a big nerd. Anyways good times were had. Also last Saturday I was in the Dragon Boat races. We came in 48 out of 60. Not the greatest but we had a lot of fun. Aside from that mostly I spend my time working on art, going for coffee and falling asleep fully dressed from daily events. Basically I live a pretty exciting life. 3

June 24th, 2006 8:56 am [ ] [ mood | awake ] [ music | I'm Content With Losing-Underoath ] A quick list of all of the things that have been taking up all of my time lately: -band -final projects -black light -Boys Night Out -grad stuff (aka watching everyone graduate aka the longest 3 hours ever) -art projects -French essays -boys (ughhh!) -Music Pres elections (hehehe I won!) -Youth Symphony recording -Warped Tour (or the best day of my life) -Minneapolis -birthdays -grandparents (both sets) -my parents 25th wedding anniversary I'll update later with the deets. I've got to go buy something to wear tonight. 1

April 22nd, 2006 12:25 pm [ ] [ mood | sick ] Sup to everyone that is in blacklight. I'm not going to be there because I'm sick. Just thought I'd let you know so that you can pass it on and such. I'll update more later. 1

April 14th, 2006 8:06 pm [ ] [ mood | bored ] [ music | Ma Jolie-Bear Vs Shark ] I know you were probably all doubting it but I did infact get dressed. Noble Prize worthy, I must say. The grandparents are here. My grandma has already brought up two of her favourite subjects: the fact that I do not eat meat (and yes chicken counts as meat) and the fact that she wants more than anything in life for me to take up golf. We've actually talked about that twice now. I snuck away though. And by snuck away I mean I'm across the room from them. They are all "ohh and aww" ing over the power of technology. DVD players are amazing objects. My dad is taking them through parts of Master and Commander (he loves that movie like it's going out of fashion) and narrating it and explaining everything. My family is crazy. As amusing as the scene in front of me is, I've witnessed it too many times. I'm bored as hell. Maybe I will paint. Or be captured by pirates. 2

April 14th, 2006 4:31 pm [ ] [ mood | dorky ] [ music | Monster Hospital-Metric ] I really should cahnge out of my pyjamas soon. Really I should, my grandparents will be here any time now. Somehow I just don't seem to have the effort. I hate holiday days like this. They are so lazy and boring and family visits and the highlight of the day ends up being you vacuuming your house. Bitter? Me? Whatever are you talking about. Okay, I really am going to put on some clothes. I swear. Scouts honour. 2

March 25th, 2006 1:40 pm [ ] [ mood | cheerful ] [ music | Death Cab For Cutie ] Death Cab is such a perfect soundtrack for today. It's so sunny and beautiful out. Spring is refreshing. I'm the luckiest girl because I get to go for a walk.

March 5th, 2006 8:53 pm [ ] [ mood | sick ] [ music | Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead-Ted Leo and the Pharmacists ] Mostly I'm just updating to show my new toof monster stuff. And by stuff I mean one thing. I found a bag of sculpey today so I thought I should take advantage of that. ( Monster Hospital ) I have a new layout too. 2

March 1st, 2006 9:27 pm [ ] [ mood | weird ] [ music | Nothing's Ever Going To Stand In My Way (Again)-Wilco ] I'm so lazy. Only not...time just seems to have this way of slipping by. Or maybe it's that I waste it by watching Degrassi and lurking about on the internet. (These are kind of my excuses for not updating and they are quite possibly the lamest things ever.) Tonight I bought my daddy and brother coffee because I am super sweet, or something. I've been going to shows all the time lately...or so it seems. It's pretty sweet. This is so fragmented and weird. I'm mostly only doing this instead of drawing my t-shirt designs for art class. It's kind of ridiculous that I'm not done yet. We're silkscreening them on to t-shirts and I'm the only person in the class who's ever done this before and does it on a regular basis. It just took me a super long time to think stuff up because I wanted it to look good (pretty much everyone is just using stencil letters to spell a word and drawing a star) and because I was behind from being sick. I'm also supposed to gather stuff for media arts to take pictures of. Today I spent basically the entire class looking up pictures of baby animals because I am ridiculous. I'm kind of ready for summer now. I have no idea what classes to take next year, but I kind of know what I need to take, I just don't know if I should take grade 12 art and not take media arts or what... I can't think of anything else to say right now... (PS-Allison, I'm super sorry I couldn't go to cabaret. I feel terrible about it. I hope it went amazing. Also I hope you are feeling better.) 2

February 16th, 2006 10:06 pm We All Know What You've Done [ ] [ mood | sad ] [ music | Dear Interceptor-The Academy Is ] Everyday that passes is a day less that I have to go to that school. Today some boys in my art class put glue in my hair. I don't know them. At all. Never said anything to them in my life. I have no idea why. And I started to cry. Long story short: I suck. 2

February 7th, 2006 8:08 pm So Save Your Breath [ ] [ mood | cranky ] [ music | Black Mamba (acoustic)-The Academy Is ] Bsdkhfsdlfhsd. I am going to punch art class boy in the face. Seriously, maybe I'd be more inclined to help you and lend you my things if you ever gave me a reason to trust you AND YOU DIDN'T MAKE FUN OF EVERYTHING I DID OR HAD THE ENTIRE CLASS. I am sorry I am so "scene" and "emo" (WTF?WTF?). I'm sorry I actually want to succeed in art class and I that I enjoy it and that I want to succeed in life. I am sorry I'm actually doing what I'm supposed. I'm also tired of you asking me innappropriate questions. And all of the racist comments. Seriously leave me alone. 1

February 6th, 2006 10:22 pm Hold The Phone To Make It Better [ ] [ mood | anxious ] [ music | Momento Mori-The Academy Is ] Sooo school. I'm not sure how I feel. I think it's somewhere on the slightly disappointed side of things, but I'm not sure. Art is okay. It's a really small class, or maybe it just seems that way because I stick to myself and I don't really know anyone. There's a few people I've seen before and this kid I know who wouldn't stop asking me to help him. I'm okay with helping someone occasionally, but seriously if you need that much help for the things they needed help for, I think they may need some sort of worker with them. I'm not saying that in any sort of mean way either, I mean it in a completely factual way. I bought all my crap tonight. Tomorrow we get to draw a picture of anything with whtaever we want as a test of sorts. Media Arts is huge. It basically seems really easy, or atleast the writing aspect is. We're just analyzing photos, but not even fully, they're just supposed to be like three sentences, kind of pointless. The amount of people kind of really makes my head hurt. French is nice and small and full of people I know and seems like it's going to be fun. That's basically all I have to say about it. Math is...eh...I don't know anyone in that class really and it's huge and it's full of those people that are...well it's hard to describe, but they are loud and obnoxious, and they stare at you like your very presence offends them. I guess I'll just keep my head down and do my work. It was also kind of amazing because I got rediculously lost for like every class and seriously almost started crying every time because I basically suck. Oh and I got my marks. I did better than I've done but I didn't exactly shower myself in glory. A couple high eighties, one eighty bang on, and a mid-seventy. Hopefully I can do even better this semester. 1

February 5th, 2006 9:39 pm This Story's Getting Old [ ] [ mood | weird ] [ music | Snitches and Talkers Get Stitches and Walkers-Fall Out Boy ] Can someone rob a bank and give me 3000 dollars? Plzthx. There is a summer art program that I would love to attend, but really, who has 3000 dollars? It has everything I want. Fabric printing, fashion design, photography, drawing, screen printing, etc. Bah. What can you do. Dear Canada, please start programs of this nature, thanks. School again tomorrow. New classes, thank goodness. I was getting so tired of the old ones. Also, a semester more slack than the last one, which is pretty much amazing. I hope I don't get bored. I just realized I'm going to have a grade ten homeroom. Sweet. I've been feeling so creative lately, and I have all sorts of plans, but I don't really have the right supplies. I've been making do with a lot of what I have, but I need to get a few things, asap. Ugh, I am so out of it. I need to clear out my binder and decided whether to switch to the orange one. I am so boring. I made a new monster baby. ( See him. )

January 29th, 2006 9:11 pm My New Friends [ ] [ mood | creative ] [ music | Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn-Hellogoodbye ] Today I made a sock monkey. Then I had a sock monkey photoshoot. One day I'll have enough money to afford a new hobby. ( Read more... ) 3

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