Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen

I'm currently reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I love the way it is written. More people should write like that. I'm still on the first volume and so far it's pretty good. I've always been a sucker for understanding texts from the olden days, but I'm trying hard to get myself acquainted with such styles of writing.

I also have a new article posted for AmsterdamAvenue. Funny, how most of my articles are written near the month end. I just put it off till the last minute. Nevertheless, I've kept my promise thus far, 2-3 articles a month.

Gone

OK, so I've officially announced my switching of accounts on amsterdam-avenue. I'm gonna miss that page, but at least I'll have a better url now. Anyway, I'll be hanging around here on my personal page for a little while longer...

Please find the new amsterdam-avenue, News, History and Rants @
amsterdamavenue.wordpress.com

I have transferred all my old posts so it's not like I'm starting from scratch again.

Nice Feature @ WordPress

For those of you anxious to see my new layout on my soon to be new page, you can visit it via the previous post. I'm not finished yet and have just discovered that Wordpress lets you make multiple pages on one. So therefore I will be adding my literary works, films and a whole bunch of other things there. I haven't officially opened that page up yet, meaning updates will be posted here and I'll probably be posting my articles on my main page for another few months. What you see there is just what I transferred from amsterdam-avenue. Anyway, just thought that was a really great feature, although I can't seem to get the page looking like the one I have over at amsterdam-avenue. Well, I guess I can live with that. Besides, I think the look of the new page is much more sleek and modern.

Wordpress. NO HYPHEN!

Oh, how I hate hyphens.

This hate has driven me to resent my amsterdam-avenue username.

OK. OK. That's not really it. But yes, I am really that weird.

I managed to get amsterdamavenue.wordpress.com which sounds so much better than what I have right now for my main page(amsterdam-avenue.blogspot.com). No hyphen! And Wordpress sounds a lot better than Blogspot.

Wordpress also has a lot more layouts, much nicer than the ones they have here. If they have the nifty feature of export/import like they do here, I'm switching hands down.

I'm really happy that nobody took the username I wanted and that my page will no longer have that ugly hyphen.

I'll post updates here if I do decide to switch accounts.

EDIT:
Alright, so Wordpress does have the import/export feature. I'm probably gonna switch accounts then. Not yet though.

Depressed.

I've been feeling down for the past 5 years, but I think this feeling, which I can only describe as the feeling of emptiness, has escalated during the last 2 years. I have changed, but everything is the same...I've become extremely anti-social and negative.

I have goals, but those goals mean nothing really, I just keep thinking, I'm gonna die anyway. What's the point of accomplishing them?

I've secretly become this cynic. I feel like everybody is insincere and judgmental.

Then I came across this website.

Are you clinically depressed?

If you identify with several of the following signs and symptoms, and they just won’t go away, you may be suffering from clinical depression.

• you can’t sleep enough or you sleep too much
• you can’t concentrate or find that previously easy tasks are now difficult
• you feel worthless and hopeless
• you can’t control your negative thoughts, no matter how much you try
• you have lost your appetite or you can’t stop eating
• you are constantly irritated or become enraged even at small things – and this is new for you
• you have thoughts that life is not worth living, or have a plan for how you would end it (Seek help immediately if this is the case)

I fit all the descriptions, except the ending life part. It's more like, I want to live alone and socially withdraw myself from people.

Shit. I have these symptoms, but never actually knew they were signs of depression. No, I will not get help, because no one can help. This feeling I have is created by outlooks of the past, present and future. I can't think of anything that would make it go away for good.

Alright, Canadians.

Why does it seem Canadians are more caught up in American politics than their own? I mean sure, the events of America will inevitably affect us but not before our own. I'm writing in reference to Obama's Inauguration, which was on practically every news channel today(all day), here in Toronto. I hardly see anything of the sort dealing with new Prime Ministers.

Ideal Life.

If I so happen to be lucky and manage to become a law school graduate, here is what I want. A boring, simple life, on my own.

I imagine living in an upper-middle class, 2 bedroom loft in downtown. Similar to the one above.

The first room, will be my office and at home library (a nice looking one) with a huge window looking out to the beautiful Toronto.

The second room, my bedroom, will be nice. That's the only way I can put it.

Have a decent car and decent furniture from IKEA.

A spacious kitchen, complete with a stainless steel LG fridge, with the HDTV screen on one of the double doors.

The oven has to be attached to the wall, not the stove.

Spacious sink; I hate doing dishes in a puny sink.

Lights that I can control the dimness of.

Hardwood floors throughout.

52 inch, flat-screen TV hanging on the wall.

Aquarium with weird/interesting creatures as I probably won't have time for dogs or cats. I'd end up talking to the fish! Oh dear, help me!

Surround-sound throughout the loft. So I can listen to some nice music everywhere I go.

My collection of rock albums, displayed.

Huge posters of legendary rock artists, nicely framed, hung on walls throughout. (Similar design to the frames you see in the picture, but with different pictures.

My ideal day;
Wake up, make a huge delicious breakfast, get ready and rush to work.

Listen to some awesome music while I'm stuck in traffic.

I'd finish work around 7.

Go to Dominion's (grocery store), buy whatever I need for the next few days.

Come home, make a crappy dinner while listening to 80s music on my surround sound!

Take a shower.

Go on the computer, read or write.

Watch some dumb reality show.

Go to sleep.

That's basically the gist of it. Satisfying? Perhaps to some extent, yes.