Last night, Paul and I stayed home for the 3rd year in a row. We considered going out to the Malediction Society party a few blocks from here. Unfortunately, our babysitter got sick. That would be my mother, who caught Ben's sinus infection two weeks ago, and, like me, hasn't quite recovered. So we decided to stay home again this year ( Read more... )

Let's look at the last partial-decade of New Years Eve's:

2002 into 2003: The Last UBC NYE
Rampaged through a few parties around Kitsilano with my college friends, drunk on tequila and 7up (IT WAS COLLEGE).
Met suiichiban at a party at the "Animal House" (and happy belated birthday Stephen!!)
Ridiculousness Quotient: 9 out of 10 ( Read more... )

Many people have asked me to tell and re-tell the story of how my fiance asked me to marry him. Including my boss, today, when I showed her the ring. It is something that my co-workers and friends - especially women - want to hear ( Read more... )

And now, I present: the tracklist of the CD I am burning for the boyfriend for our three month this weekend. That's three months since we met at Bar Sinister. So here's what goes on the CD - all songs that fit the relationship, or which have come on when we've been dancing together.

1. the chameleons :: swamp thing (because that is what he ( Read more... )

munt (m'unt): contraction of "man-bunt", a technique used by teams who want to win more than they want to actually kick the ballI got into work this morning, and immediately started comparing exhaustion levels with the co-worker who I recruited to play on my kickball team. Because we're both still tired from Saturday's all-day kickball challenge ( Read more... )

for the UBC people:
All the kids are using TrekConnect. You can find me on there at my hotmail address (jillian (underscore) tate (at) hotmail (dot) com).

snakes on a muthafuckin' plane!
My AE just brought in a Snakes on a Plane poster with which to adorn the office. That's just AWESOME.

non-resident evil countdownI took my cat to the ( Read more... )

Due to the long weekend, I was finally able to go out to Malediction Society last night. This is another of those goth nights I've wanted to go to forever, but Monday's are usually an early morning for me. But without anything to be up for today (except catching up on some work), and with the camping trip I'd planned cancelled (again, the work ( Read more... )

So the boyfriend and I are sitting around catching up on each other's Monday and Tuesday last night, and he tells me an anecdote about how his friends are asking why, if he has a girlfriend, his MySpace page still says "single". To which I respond, "changing your MySpace status is like getting pinned in high school was in the 1950s." It's not the ( Read more... )

This week has gone by awfully fast in some ways, and not fast enough in others. The not fast enough parts have been related to my return to a regular workweek, since the week before I left was short, and I quit checking my work email around halfway through vacation. Adjusting to working again took a few days ( Read more... )

Last week, a package arrived for me from the UK, containing a shiny new, if somewhat wrinkled, PVC dress. I'd bought it off eBay (link goes to listing with pictures), hoping the size was accurate, because it was less than half the cost it would be in Los Angeles, even with shipping. When I tried it on later that same evening, I found out that the ( Read more... )