Maundy Thursday

Today is Maundy Thursday; I just got back from church. The Maundy Thursday service is to remember the events of the Last Supper. It's my favourite service of the year.

It's a very subdued, somber service. We don't process in from the back, as usual; instead we come in, the choir following the crucifer (one of the servers, me tonight) who is carrying the cross. After that, things continue as in a normal service until after the sermon. Then, the priest takes off his cloakish thing (I'm not sure what it's called...) and washes people's feet, as Jesus did at the Last Supper. Anyone who wants to can go up and have their foot washed. After that, there is communion, and the stripping of the altar.

At my church, the altar is raised, and there are steps up to it; it takes up the front part of the church. During the stripping of the altar, all the cloths, candlesticks, candle snuffs, and such are taken off the altar and taken to this little room where they are stored when they're not being used. During this time, the 22nd psalm is read, which is a pretty poignant psalm.

So after all this, the altar is left bare, and the lights are turned off one by one, slowly, starting at the back, until all the lights are out, except for one hanging oil lamp, which is only out on Good Friday. Then everyone leaves in silence and darkness.

After I had changed out of my server's robe, I walked back through the dark church. I was the only one there. When I got to the end of the aisle, I looked back. There was something about that one hanging lamp in the darkness, above the bare altar. I don't even know how to explain it. It made me stop and think for a minute. It reminded me of a lighthouse.

Send the nerds off to their own party with a pretty girl to give them awards.

New Title Scheme Wanted

Read this. It makes lots of sense. Especially all of you out there who are at Lisgar. A lot of us need this reality check.

March Break is over. *cries* It'll be good to get back though. I've been out of it for awhile, with all the sickness. I'm all better now. I'm just afraid of all the catch-up work I'll have to do... *shivers*

Send the nerds off to their own party with a pretty girl to give them awards.

Random Dream Flash!

Ok, so I had this really real seeming dream.

I woke up one morning and my dad came up to me and started yelling at me:

"Where were you last night?? I waited up for you until five am but then I had to go to bed." I kept saying "What? I was in bed..." I had no recollection of going anywhere the night before.

But then I went and talked to this random person who I think was, like, my best friend, and she said "Oh yeah, we were at this crazy party. You disappeared for awhile with a couple guys for awhile..."

And I couldn't remember anything! It was a crazy, crazy dream.

Send the nerds off to their own party with a pretty girl to give them awards.

"Don't say anything too intelligent!" ~Bride and Prejudice

Well, I'm feeling better! (Finally)

I miraculously showed up for school on friday, and I'm glad I went. I missed you guys! (Yes Avery, everyone). Friday was pretty uneventful, Saturday less so. I went to this skating party with Louise, and I thought it was going to suck (I'm not a huge skater). But I thought it would be ok, since I was with my friend. (No offence louise, I'm just not a huge skater).

So I walk into the skate changing hut, to put on my skates, and I hear from one end of the the hut "Hey Evie", and who should be there but JOSH! SURPRISE! So, yeah, it was a good evening.

I saw Bride and Prejudice today with Lauren. I loved it, but I have to see a real Bollywood film sometime. She's here beside me and says hi.

So, I'm not in Montreal. Ellie is sick, and therefor we can't go. :( . We'll have to come another time. I'm sorry Lucy!

Send the nerds off to their own party with a pretty girl to give them awards.

"I really enjoyed shooting you" ~ANTM

This is me, still sick.

I have The Flu. While I feel SO MUCH BETTER, I have a nasty cough and a runny nose, therefore I am not allowed to go back to school.

On Monday night, I was so so sick. It was the worst day so far. My fever was 102.5 . I sat on the couch and cooked. You could have cooked a pizza on my face. Not that you would have wanted to eat it though, as Erin said.

I'm going crazy. I crazy hate sitting around, I have a crazy amount of work to catch up on and I crazy miss everyone. A lot.

I'd better be back before March Break. The lack of dealing with a few things is killing me. It seriously is. I need my life back.

Send the nerds off to their own party with a pretty girl to give them awards.

Nose hair doesn't trump anything

Sickness blows.

I've been home sick all day today. Yesterday, I got a fever in French class second period (we have four in a day, btw) but I decided to stick around, there were way too many reasons to stay. English class was fun (I'm stealing your spot forever Kisten).

After school, I collapsed on the couch, and was ordered to bed early. Had crazy dreams and kept waking up all night due to fever. Woke up in the morning burning up, and was ordered to bed for the day. Was not allowed to go to school. Am still bitter about it. There were so many reasons to go to school today, but unfortunately, my mother overruled them. *grumbles*

Anyway, PLEASE comment anything that happenned today. I'm bored out of my skull. I've been home all day. Have not set foot outside. Calling would be better, in fact. *Makes Bambi eyes at everyone*

Send the nerds off to their own party with a pretty girl to give them awards.

"But Mr Martin, didn't you want the golfballs?"

W00T!!! JIMMY!!!

Last night, I went to the Canadian Improv Games, the Ottawa competition. Well, one night of it(with Avery and Colin). And might I say, Jimmy (lisgar's team) is awesome. I want to be them when I grow up!! It was mildly depressing that I doubt I will ever be good enough for Jimmy, but it was so much fun.

There were various games that each of the four teams that were competing that night had to play (character game, style game, theme game, story game) and Lisgar had the highest score in every single category. It was amzing. The way they worked together as a team, helping everyone keep the ideas going, adding on, it was like they were one person.

Okay, so here's how it worked: the three refs would announce which game was going to be played by which team, and then one member of the team would come up and introduce themselves. They would also ask for something form the audience. For example; Lisgar was doing the story game, and they asked the audience for an outrageous lie. The refs would run around, writing down the answers and then they would pick one for the team. Lisgar got in this case the lie: "It's true; I made up the saying 'It's not you, it's me'". They had the funniest story, and it worked so well.

Another awesome Lisgar moment, was when they did their style game, which is where the team picks a style with which to tell a story (ex: crime scene investigation show [we SO called ti Avery!!!]). Lisgar brought a keyboard and did a silent movie, about someone with a deadly food allergy. Ben Farrow is my hero, and wow is he good at improv piano.

At the end of the show, right before they announced the winner (they hadn't been telling us the scores all the way through), this one guy who helped organise the CIG (he was wearing a shirt that said "PANTS". Awesome, no?) got up and announced he was giving away a special, unnexpected prize. He asked for anyone in the audience named Jeff to stand up. We forced up (lisgar supporters as a group, anyway) our drama teacher Jeff Lawson (J.La) but unfortuinately, PANTS guy said that there were too many. He did this again with Sarahs. He then asked for Colins. So, Colin that I was sitting with stood up. "I need a Colin who likes to go to the library." All the Colins sat down, except the one near us, who kinda hestitated.

"You look hesitant," PANTS man said.

"I lost my card," Colin replied.

"Would this be it?" PANTS guy asked him, holding up his library card.

I will never let Colin hear the end of it.

Anyway, Lisgar is number one of ALL the nights going into the finals (no one thats competing tonight looks very good) even beating the arts school Cantebury!! Booyah! In ur face BOFA!! (Bofa is the Cantebury team, technically, it stands for Best Of Friends Always, but other schools have another way of translating the acronym...)

I'm SOO going to the finals on Saturday, and getting there so early, so the stupid Bofas can't steal the center block of seats. Avery and Josh you guys are coming. I don't care if tickets cost ten bucks, Josh you're coming.

One last note (I know this post is rather long): It has come to my attention, that a rumour has been circulating Glebe that I am dating a certain Josh O. I don't know who started it, but its a cause for much laughter at our school, for various reasons. I've actually been asked by people at Lisgar if we're dating, the most recently at the Improv games by this random guy I've never seen before. Oh no! Not the 'Josh and Evie make a cute couple" club again! *hides* (Shut up, Eva. You too Avery).

Send the nerds off to their own party with a pretty girl to give them awards.

Eva and Evie show

No, not really. Not another show. That would get stupid. The first one was a fluke, it was so funny (if I do say so myself)

Has anyone noticed how supremely pointless health class is by this point? We've learned the same stuff over and over every year. By this time, we DO know where babies come from and not to do drugs. Apparently they don't have any trust in us.

So instead, I am blogging. First order of business: COMSTOCK BIRTHDAY!!!

I'm so sorry that I can't be here to give you birthday hugs, but I know they won't be in short supply.


[Insert person hugging made of slashes and underscores. ine didn't work. blogger hates me.]


Here is a hug for you guys. Yes, that was a supreme wste of time, but I don't really care. Happy Birthday! I'll have your present there sometime. It's due sometime in May, by our schedule gift-giving schedule. (I love the CDs SOO much)

Now, a toast. To whatever, I just feel like putting the drink Jonah gave me up here. Because I think it is awesome, and inspired me to make that hug.


[insert drink made of slashes and underscores]


Thank you for your time. I love to waste :D.

Okay, so what's up with me and my life? I need to write an article for the Lisgarwrite. It was due a week or two ago, I think, but the Lisgarwrite needs more articles, so I shoudl write one. Anyone have any story ideas? Please guys? Help?

Isn't it funny, how you can be scared of something you don't know anything about? Well, that's it, isn't it. You're scared because you don't know anything about you. I mean, it. (Wow, Freudian slip, eh Ave?) I have been pondering this for a while now. Conclusion #1 is that I'm a huge coward. Other conclusiosn to follow.