April is rarely a good month for me. March and April are usually messy, confusing and feel too long. Sunshine and beautiful weather comes and goes like a real tease, and you sit around waiting for it to settle down already. Work-wise, it's around the end of the fiscal year and the beginning of a new chapter for the youth program I coordinate, so it's the craziest time. School-wise, classes are over and the projects and exams loom over you for several weeks. And you know, I just feel tired. I am looking forward to getting this stuff done and finding a way to muster up more ambition and energy.

The Cher concert was hilarious. The outfits, the music, the people attending. The Village People opened for Cher and they were so hilariously awful; completely reminiscent of a junior high dance competition. But these guys have a cult following so there's no need for talent or too much pizazz, I guess.

I have been working on my take-home exam all day, which is due at the end of the week. Me and my classmate are studying the presence of women in the Ottawa Xpress, Ottawa's weekly arts and entertainment paper. It's going well, except for the fact that I think I was too eager and have dug myself into a little hole; I left a message with the Xpress over the weekend to request a written mandate or something we could include in our introduction about the Xpress. I didn't expect a call back, except this morning I checked my voice-mail and discovered a very enthusiastic message from the General Manager. When he called back later on, I tried to explain that I just needed a bit of information, but he suggested meeting over a beer on Wednesday evening to discuss the matter. I don't know if he's nervous because of what our research might indicate, but I tried to make it clear that these findings weren't going to be published or used for any other purpose. Then again, maybe I'm totally jumping the gun and this guy just wants to have a look at my work. Guess I'll find out later on.

This week may end up being way too long, way too hard and maybe a bit weird...