So this is my first post to my first blog. I don't know if anyone will read it. I don't know how anyone would find it. But it's a nice way to say what's on my mind without anyone I know being likely to read it and therefore possibly be offended by anything I say. It's also a nice way to just talk about things whether or not anyone cares. If anyone is actually reading this, kudos to you. I don't know how interesting it will be, but we'll see where it goes.
I guess I'll start off with some basic information about myself. My name is Becky. I live in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, but I was born in Kelowna of the same province. I'm a second year student at the University of Victoria, doing a double major in Anthropology and Greek & Roman Studies. My interests and hobbies include singing, playing alto saxophone which I've been doing for...almost eight years now. Wow. I also love love love watching movies. Any kind of movies. I have a bit of an obsession with Paul McCartney (of Beatles fame, obviously). I saw him live in concert on 3 November 2005 in Seattle, and I can honestly say it was the single greatest night of my life so far. I have an obsession with anything cheetah or leopard print as well as anything green. I have five tattoos and fifteen piercings; body modification is a big interest for me, although I would never do any extreme modifications on myself. I live in a basement suite with two of my best friends. If anyone is actually reading this, and for some reason you want to ask me something about myself, feel free.
Now onto my update-type thing, I suppose. Lately I've been absolutely obsessed with Wicked, the musical. My choir teacher gave us the music for For Good, one of the songs from the musical, in grade 11 or 12, I don't remember, but we never got the chance to learn it. I finally found a full recording of Wicked with the original cast online. I'd love to see a live production but it's unlikely to happen soon. Anyway, I've been singing For Good constantly when I've had the chance. The only thing that sucks about living with roommates is that I can't sing all the time. I guess it's sort of a good thing that we're apparently all living alone next year. I'm going to go into a rant about this for a second. One of my roommates, I'll call her KP, decided all of a sudden, about two weeks ago maybe (although I'm pretty sure she decided awhile ago but just decided to spring it on us), that she plans to live alone next year. Now, because my other roommate KD can't possibly do anything against what KP does, she has decided she also wants to live alone next year.
Now, it's not that I have any problem with living alone. In fact, now that I've gotten used to the idea, I'm actually really looking forward to it. Not so much having to pay higher rent than we are right now, but I'll have my own entire place, and I'm hoping to find an apartment building that will take cats so I can bring my baby Willy with me from my mum's house (she'll be glad to be rid of a cat, we had six cats but my sister took one to Vancouver with her, my mum would be happy to be down to four). It'll be nice to only have to pay for food that I'll be eating; to be honest, my roommates eat a lot more than I do, but I still have to pay for a third of the cost. Not that I'm angry about that, that was the agreement, but I know I'll save a lot of money buying just what I eat, which isn't much. But, as I was saying before, the thing I'm looking forward to the most about living alone is being able to sing whenever I want to. I'll be able to record more YouTube videos (which I will hopefully post on here in case anyone wants to have a listen).
Anyway, back to the living-alone rant. I don't have a problem with living alone, as I said, looking forward to it, but it would've been nice if she had told us a little earlier. As far as I knew we were all planning to live together again next year, but apparently we're just the worst roommates ever as far as KP is concerned. She hasn't said that outright, but she keeps doing these countdowns on Facebook and on her Livejournal of how many days she has left living here, and she keeps calling it a hellhole and stuff. I don't really know what her problem is, but KD and I have been nothing but good roommates. We're both clean, we're not noisy when it's inconvenient for anyone else, we clean up after ourselves, we don't hog the bathroom. Something I should mention is that KP is a very, very confrontational person, but she does it in a backhanded sort of way. She never says anything rude or confrontational to your face unless you push her to it, but she also enjoys conflict and tends to create it just for the hell of it. I can't even count the number of fights we've gotten in over the almost eight years we've been friends, and I'm not saying they've all been her fault, but I think it says something that I don't get in fights with any of my other friends. I just don't take that shit from people. KD and KP rarely get in fights because KD hates confrontation and will do pretty much anything to avoid it.
Anyway. I've been thinking about this whole living alone thing and about how it's going to affect my friendship with KP. I'm not worried about KD, we have a very relaxed friendship and we'll meet up at Starbucks and chat and whatever. I don't know. I mean, KP is a good friend and a fun person to be around when she feels like it, but she can also be really moody and really bitchy for no particular reason. She says the reason she wants to live alone next year is because she just found out that her trust fund has a thing that if her rent is over $600/month or something, the fund will pay for part of it. I'm the only one of the three of us who actually has to pay for everything myself. KP gets her tuition paid for by her trust fund from her grandparents, and KD gets her rent paid by her mum and probably part of her tuition at least as well.
I should mention that KP has a twin sister who also used to live here in Victoria with us, she was pretty much my best friend, but she dropped out at the end of first year and moved back to Kelowna. She did a lot of shit at the end of first year and over the summer that I won't get into, but basically ended in her not being friends with anyone in our group anymore, although she seems to be under the impression that we'll all be friends again at some point.
That's enough about the living alone thing for now. Back to Wicked.
So because I'm so into the musical right now, I was reading about it on Wikipedia and then decided I wanted to read the book that it was based on. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. So I moseyed on down to Chapters yesterday and picked it up, along with three other books. The first is The Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. I don't think I mentioned that I'm a huge lover of Brad Pitt (typical, I know) so the movie is one of my favourites, but I've never actually read the series, although I'm fully aware of how excellent the books are. So I've decided to give them a read. The other two books I bought were from my guilty "teen fiction" author pleasure, Sarah Dessen. I've read almost all of her books; it's kind of cool because none of them are really tied to each other except that almost all of them are based in the same city and the people in them go to the same couple schools. Anyway, the two that I bought are called Lock and Key and Along for the Ride. Right now I'm reading Lock and Key; I didn't want to get into Wicked until I've at least got a good strong start on the two Greek & Roman Studies papers I need to write; one for my City of Rome class and one for my Roman Art and Architecture class, both need to be between 2000 to 2500 words I believe. I've got until 1 April for the latter, and 7 April for the former. Let's just say I've been a little less than motivated this semester; this whole school year, really. I don't know what it is, lack of sleep maybe, or just emotional exhaustion, but I've been skipping more classes than I should and procrastinating even more than usual. I always manage to scrape by with at least a B on all my assignments and exams (except than one Linguistics midterm, C+), I always manage a couple A's, but I'm planning to go to law school after I get my B.A. and that goal is slipping further and further away with the more B's I get. Standards for law school are insanely high and I'm considering having a talk with my mum soon about going down a different path. Anthropology is always an option, it's a good career. The idea of grad school scares me though. The future is always scary.
Anyway, I think this is plenty long for a first post. Serious high-fives to anyone who bothers to read this and actually manages all the way through. I swear most other posts won't be this long, but to be fair, it was an intro post, there's a lot to be explained. Anyway, I'm off to go read some more and then go to bed, let's see if I can force some decent sleeping habits on myself. Apologies if I made any awful spelling or grammatical errors, I'm half asleep right now.
Good night and sweet dreams to anyone out there who is reading :)
