shh...you'll scare it away

I'm doing a quick post while my internet is still working. Because it's been a betch lately and does this connect-for-ten-minutes-then-disconnect-like-an-annoying-bugger-for-several-hours-on-end thing.

So I'm sorry for the shortness of this entry.

Or, you're welcome for the shortness, maybe, if you've been annoyed by my recent long ones.

I just wanted to show you the gorgey picture of Brad Pitt Tina and I took at TIFF when we were there this weekend.

Yeah. We saw him IRL.

OMG WE SAW HIM IRL OMG!

part 1: the sisterhood of awesome; part 2: tina and laura do TIFF

First things first:

The first week of Sisterhood of Awesome is almost complete with Grace doing her video tomorrow. I can't wait to watch it, but I just hope that she gets it up early-ish because I'm going downtown tomorrow (more on that later).

It's been an awesome week meeting the girls and it's so exciting that I'm going to get to know these awesome people and have friends in different parts of the continent and on a different continent.

I've posted a link to the channel as well as all the videos that have been uploaded so far.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO SISTERHOOD OF AWESOME CHANNEL!

Monday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo1SFDkQpr8
Tuesday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Ivxs6XM2E
Wednesday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp8hsQxPn3s
Thursday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaeDTknonrM
Friday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE0uMy7TC3I

Next topic.

Tina and Laura do TIFF.

For those of you who don't know, TIFF is the Toronto International Film Festival and it's pretty much the most exciting celebrity event to happen in Toronto all year.

Actually, I'm pretty sure it's just The Most Exciting Event To Happen In Toronto All Year.

We're going to watch Burn After Reading, that new film with George Clooney and (OMG!) Brad Pitt.

We're staying in a hotel over night tomorrow so that we can celebrity hunt at night and be downtown for our festival screening on Saturday.

We've come up with an itinerary that goes something like this:

1. Check into hotel
2. Go to Eaton Center for shopping, go to dinner
3. Go back to hotel to freshen up (tentative)
4. Go celeb hunt at Secret Life of Bees screening (tentative)
5. Celeb hunt at Burn After Reading Gala Screening (MUST)
6. Possible resuscitation of Tina
7. Free game - STALK IT UP!

It goes on from there, but I think you get the picture that we're crazy people.

We've also mapped it all out on Google Maps:

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(if you click the link that says "View Larger Map", above, you can see all the destination pins we've set down)

I'll post pictures of TIFF later. But right now, I need for you to go watch Sisterhood of Awesome immediately.

DFTBA,

Laura

good news for you and some bad news for me

First, the bad news for me: my town just got a little bit crappier than it already was.

"How is that even possible?!" I hear you ask in astonishment.

Very simple. A vast majority of the awesome is leaving to live at university this year. This includes my friend Jenny and her BF Pat, Brandy, Jason and Nick (though, granted, they're not that far and I'll still see them since my school is on the same campus) as well as some of my friends from work including Evelyn, Chloe, Peter, Jen, Andreas, Jared and Gonzalo. And some others that I will probably remember when I'm done typing this and will have to mention in an edit.

The fact that they're all away from home, living on their own makes me very sad and lonely (especially because Joe - my only friend to still be living in my town this school year - is still out of the country and won't be back until next month) and also insanely jealous.

I'm ready to move out of this house, I just can't really afford to right now. I'd need to have a roommate and all the potentials are currently living in residence (BLAST YOU ALL).

Eff. I can feel the crushing weight of this crap hole bearing down on me as I type this.

So on to the GOOD NEWS (for you. And me, actually. HURRAY!)

The good news, is that your week just got a LITTLE more awesome.

"How so, Laura?" I hear you ask in wonder.

Simple: I'm taking part in a YouTube vlog project with 4 other people I met on nerdfighters.com.

And YOU GET TO WATCH! HURRAY!!!

I just gave you something to do this year while you're supposed to be doing homework. You're welcome.

It's kind of like FiveAwesomeGirls and FiveAwesomeGuys - only not because we're called SisterhoodOfAwesome. Though, the concept is the same - 5 people communicating via video blog, and getting to know each other that way.

That's the great thing about this project - I didn't know these girls at all until Kris asked around for people interested in doing a vlog project with her in the forum on the ning.

It's going to be EPIC!

I've posted the teaser trailer video I made below so you have more info, as well as today's vlog that I made.

YOUR WEEK JUST GOT SO MUCH MORE AWESOME!

You're welcome,

- Laura