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Books and Movies

Feb. 10, 2006 - Le Père Noël est une ordure
Posted by marie at 02:07 in Books and Movies
Without even meaning too, i read a whole book today, although it was pretty short (only 93 pages) took me about 2 hours maybe less... It was a play/movie script: "Le Père Noël est une ordure"! O.O But I am still on my Chomsky goal!! It's just that being sick all day I meant to read somehting easy and quick :D


Feb. 9, 2006 - New Resolution!!!!!
Posted by marie at 10:37 in Books and Movies
After browsing this really motivating site (check it out in the blogroll, it's "A Book a Week"), I decided I would do the same! After all we all need some knowledge, don't we? So I have decided to read a book a week and watch a movie a week! We'll see where that leads me, hopefully to something good!!!! :D

My first objective, finishing Chomsky's book (Hegemony or Survival) before Sunday night! Only 100 pages to go!! I can do it! :D

*motivated*

Ways to keep in touch, part 2

When you are in a long-distance relationship like Joel and I, you have to find a way to keep in touch. Of course, it isn't always easy, due to time difference and personal obligations... But at least you can get the technical things out of the way. Before Joel had his own laptop, he had to share his computer time with his brother, which made it very difficult for me to find a time when we were both available. I remember spending a lot of money on phone cards to call the US, and it was awkward for both of us to block our phone lines just to say "I love you" for 3 hours.... Plus Joel's phone being cordless, it beeped after 3 hours and if his dad needed to use the phone after we had, he would get mad because the phone was dead... Or sometimes it wouldn't be on the hook all day, and when I was sad or lonely and really needed to talk to Joel, he would pick up and the phone would die straight away, which was hard to accept for me because I had waited until midnight to call him. that created a lot of tensions between us, I would sometimes go to bed upset and cry or think it was Joel's fault, and promise myself I wouldn't talk to him for a week until he missed me to death, kinda like to punish him for making his phone beep... Of course, that was wrong, because he wanted to be on the phone as much as I did... So at some point we made a deal that Joel would go to the computer lab and talk to me from school, which wasn't a bad idea per se, but not that good of an idea either, as he would tell his friends he had to meet somebody everytime they wanted to hang out, which meant he would never hang out with them...

Another problem is that, at the lab, all the messengers were disabled... So Joel and I had to go to http://e-messenger.net but then again it wouldn't refresh quick enough and it wasn't easy to use (although their thing is great and stuff, and in our situation it was better than nothing). So we had a great idea, Joel downloaded the Firefox extension called Chatzilla and we met in a room we had made! and it was great cuz the chat window would blink when I talked to Joel and that would solve our problem! Also, Joel had a small headset with like a mic and earphone togehter, very discreet and unnoticeable... So he used it to let me hear what was going on in the lab... Of course since all mesengers were disabled, he had that great idea to download Gossiptel which is a great service (when it works) that is even more competitive than Skype! Unfortunatley, the school seemed to realize what was going on cuz they disabled the mics a few days later... But at least it was a fun thing to try!! I enjoyed hearing the background noise in the lab, made me feel like I was there with Joel!

Also a great thing now is that Yahoo! Messenger lets you send FREE text messages to American and Canadian cell phones (but you have to set your home country to canada or USA in the options). Some people might pay to receive the messages, so ask your friends before spamming them! So does MSN messenger but you have to change your home country in your .Net Passeport profile!

I will soon post a list of all the messengers we like to use and our tips and tricks to talk for free or for cheap! So stay tuned!!

What to do together when you're away from each other...

One of the hardest things is to know what to do together when you're away from each other... There are lots of things you CANNOT do, like going out together, having lunch together at a nice restaurant, and so on and so forth...

So now, the question is, how not to get bored? Well, there are many things you can do! You can play online games, talk, do your homework together, watch CNN videos and such together, read online books together, you just need a bit of imagination!

Joel and I often eat together, like at the computer and stuff... I know it might sound silly to those who are in a normal relationship, but the goal is to share something together... Since you can't go out to eat or sit at a table together, then why not eat on cam, at least you feel a bit closer, you do things at the same time, and you can talk... So it's almost like a normal lunch!

Moreover, what Joel and I do, we try to support each other as much as possible. A blog is a good idea for this, because it's kinda like your private space, where only you two get to write. Recently, Joel decided to start a diet, so I told him, "hey, know what? I'll do it with you so you don't feel like you're making efforts alone!" Eversince, we both have been posting our meals on a diet blog. I have been posting mine here also for convenience reasons that is why I made a category that I called "diet".

It is also good to fix yourselves objectives, like, read this or that book together, or each on your side and then talk about it. We are reading "1984" by George Orwell right now. And Joel is helping me with a Chomsky book I am reading for scholastic reasons.

Well, come back for more, I'll try to post as much as I can on the subject. In the mean time, bear with me and my meal menus, so that Joel can check them out easily! (That's also a way to keep my blog updated, and therefore up the list, cuz we need more traffic lol XD)

Well anyway, that's all for now, folks!

Joel is so cute!

Joel and I were talking, as always on mic and cam, when suddenly Joel gets up and goes: "omg I had a pen 2 minutes ago, where did it go? I had it just now...!" So he looks around and tries to find it but he doesn't! So I go: "err, your ear?" and yes the pen was there!
Joel usually puts his pen behind his ear when he is studying, and he sometimes forgets about it!

It's kinda like on TV I guess, when the guy is looking everywhere for his glasses and can't find them but they are on his head! lol :D

So how useful is it to have a girlfriend that is thousands of miles away? ;-)

cute virus ahahah

Second lunaversary!!

Today (4 feb my time, it's past midnight here) is our "first kiss" lunaversary lol!!

So every month I wish Joel a happy anniversary! We have been doing that for more than 2 years!!! I feels good to have somebody to bother like that! But what really feels good, is the real anniversary, when you know it is another year together that you are counting!

So honey, happy anniversary lol :D ^.^