oh man, i was just checking up on al's website and he's got a lot more of those halloween photos up and wow....i'm sooooo gone in some of them! i went and uploaded all of my pictures (because i now have this unknown concept of new-found freedom) and you can laugh at them, it's great!

i'm telling you ALL, i have started a new fad with those huge-ass earmuffs, matthew LOVED them. he literally took mine off and started wearing them on the street...plus flo had bought a pair of her own, and i had bought two more for simone and tanaks (that's right, i KNEW tanaka would love them) we basically looked soooo goofy walking along bloor street to meet up with robin, merrill, ben-jammin (gotta roll the shoulders when you say that name... ;p), and geordie. i miss the pol200 people so much! we used to have sooo much fun driving our T.A. nuts with our craziness, and how many times did we just randomly stand up and leave the lecture when it got boring? and our professor's HORRIBLE fashion sense! that was a joke and a half!

it's been so long since i've randomly walked the streets of the downtown area, it's quite refreshing...depending on the area. ben wandered around with me around the bloor area, and the little underground tunnels were full of people who all seemed to be in a rush to go somewhere important, so of course, we deliberately walked slowly and laugh at them. but later on that night when i was walking around spadina and queen, there was a real nice laziness in the air and it was quite fun, just randomly poking my head into little cute jewelery stores, and sketch bookstores.

which brings me to a little rant about shopping. i hate shopping at this time of the year. everything seems so rushed, and people seem to lose their sense of decorum and manners, just pushing and shooving and hurraghing...i hate the fact that christmas is so commercialized and everything is about BUYING something. you can't buy love. you can't buy happiness (although i know there are people out there that would contest). you can't buy all the time back that's been wasted doing god knows what. i don't know what all the rush is about. is it so important to spend cash on something for a person? i'd rather just go out and see people, and spend time with family and friends, maybe watch a movie, or catch up over coffee....that's so much more productive. too bad we can't have another black out like the one we had in the summer, although it would be a little bit more uncomfortable considering it IS coldER outside now.

well now, i guess i'm done the rant....and now that i've finished with that, i guess i'm done with this post as well.

i lied, i went and saw the mona lisa smile today, it was a good movie with tons of potential, but most of the characters were underdeveloped and the ending was quite unfullfilling. the whole movie centered julia roberts and in doing so, many great actresses (like julia stiles) seemed unimportant. oh well, maybe they want to come out with a sequel, which of course, will suck.

ok, now i'm really done. ;p