August 7, 2003

Not much to report here, I just felt like I should add some words to this since I haven't updated in two and a half months. I'm at home in Almonte right now. I've been here for about a week and leave in 4 days. It's just a quick visit to say hello. It is incredibly hot around here and I never shut up about the humidity. It's normal Ontario weather but I don't like it. The summer so far has been going great. I finished that course (and didn't get an A on that paper so it's true that I have no idea what will get me an A). I finally found a job at a little office in Victoria doing part-time office work. It's nothing exciting but it's money.

My cat just started growling through the window at a neighbour cat who decided to lounge under the picnic table on the back patio. Well isn't he confident. When I opened the door for Kitso to eat him, she ran away and so did the neighbour cat. I should have gotten a job in feline mediation.

Rebecca and I moved closer to downtown at the beginning of July. It's super rad sweet to be so close to downtown but we've yet to bus every day up to school, but it should only take about 20 minutes and we'll get on before most other people so we won't have to stand all the time like last year. Score? Yes, I believe so. And it's great this way because now we can get completely drunk downtown and simply roll home. Thank goodness for hilly Victoria. If we roll too far we'll end up in the ocean though. BUT practise makes perfect.

As for cancer (I feel I should focus on this due to the nature of this website), I don't care much for it these days. It's becoming less and less important to me and the fear of it coming back is less and less of a focus on my life.

OH YEAH! This is cancer related. About a million months ago I applied for a bursary with Candlelighters, the childhood cancer foundation. Then a couple weeks ago I got a call from my old landlord (We moved out on July 1) saying she had mail for me there. So I went over and picked it up and opened it as I was walking down the street and low and behold, I got myself a $1000 cheque in the mail from Candlelighters with a note saying something along the lines of "Dude, Heather, that was a dope letter you wrote us. Here's some bling, spend it on school or something, or just go out and have a good time. Your pals, Candlelighters."
Crazy, no? So now I'm $1000 richer, I'm gonna get cancer every year at this rate. I skipped last year but I didn't know what was in it for me, now I do. So anyway, mad props to my peeps at Candlelighters .

Also, a few weeks earlier, a woman from Candlelighters called me and wanted to ask me something because I was part of their Survivor's Network (I had no idea one existed, yet I was not only a part of it but worthy of question asking). She wanted me to write a little somethin somethin about myself so they could put it on the dedications page of a website about this fundraising bike ride that they were sponsoring called the Coast to Coast Ride, raising money for children's cancer research. So anyway, I wrote one about myself, stealing most of it from things I'd already written (lazy? yes) and I wrote a little something for Rachael, a girl I met through the Ottawa Cancer Center who died from brain cancer at the age of 22. So you can check those out at the Coast to Coast Ride website in the dedications section under day 3 I believe.

So, as you can see, my fame is rising slowly but surely. It can only grow though, my dears.

That's about it for now. Turns out there's more going on than I ever think. Oh yeah I turned 21 at the end of June. That was fun. My age keeps getting bigger but I stopped maturing mentally around 16, I think. Someone told me the other day that boys don't have cooties and I could kind of see their point, it was strange. Maybe I am getting older.

That's it for now.

Fists up, elbows out, GO!

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