Deletion

It's starting to become clear to me lately that it's important to keep a journal of some sort no matter how sporadic the updates are because it helps to organize life. It helps me anyways. I started using Google Calendar a while back (first week of June now that I look at it) to help me be more organized. I'm not sure when it happened, but my life got a bit more busy, and it was enough to warrant signing up for a google account. The plain old making list thing wasn't cutting it anymore. Perhaps I'll make the switch over to Google permanent in the future since it also gave me a new email account.

So, I want to begin recording my life again in some capacity. That's the purpose of coming back here after so long I guess. I initially started writing this entry on Livejournal (last entry on there was in Appril, which I found out was made private for some reason...), but Jimmy said to do it on here. This involved me scouring for my username and password, and then somehow I was logged in after discovering my Google Photos account. So, technically, I already had an account and didn't need to make a new one for Calendar...Yeah, maybe I should consider merging everything together somehow.

The natural place to start would be late April and May, but I really don't remember everything that I did. Let's attempt this though. It'll be a memory exercise with a little bit of cheating from Facebook and other resources that hold clues as to what I did in the pre-Google Calendar era.

May 2010

Before I get to the actual May 2010 stuff, I have to talk about my term 2 marks (of course...). They were: 7, 8, 9, 10. Yep, sequential and indicative of how much I enjoyed each class. I wasn't too surprised with any of them; however, Fairy Tales definitely should have been more than a 9. It's really the only disappointment of the bunch. The anthropology course was my highest mark, which further helped push me more towards that path.

Alright, what did I do in May? I remember taking Anthro 1A03 - Intro to Cultural Anthropology. I was at school early the first day of class, and I ran into Justin in the student centre. I told him I had class that night, and he happened to be in the class too! It was an excellent class. Professor Cummins was a great teacher; he certainly kept me entertained with his stories and beliefs. In that first lecture, he told us about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: McDonalds, Nike, Wal-Mart, and Disney. It was stuff like that that made the class worth going to two nights a week. I ended up getting a 10 in the class, which is slightly disappointing since I got a 91 on the midterm (my highest mark on a test in university I believe). Overall, a good class.

Having Justin in the class was great too. There was always a mention of poop after each class from him. Yep, he is obsessed with poop. Not actually, but he does use the term often enough for it to be a joke. I see him all the time in the student centre too while I'm doing setups. At one point, I was over at his house playing Katamari, which I have to say is the weirdest game ever. I couldn't even beat the level that I was playing. I also went to Westend for the first time, which I discovered to be delicious. Kieran works there and had added mushrooms or something extra anyways to our burgers.


(Blogspot deleted everything that I wrote from this point on, which was a lot. It's late, so I'm going to bed. I will attempt to remember what I wrote tomorrow.....I knew I should have stuck with livejournal....)

Tests

I'm updating on here instead of starting my cultural studies essay that's due on Wednesday, mostly because I really don't like the class and the essay topic isn't all that exciting to write about. I've been putting it off for like two weeks now too, but that was because of midterms and such. Wednesday of this week was really crappy in that I had my botany quiz in the afternoon (uber hard for some reason) and my neuroscience test at night (fair test, would have done better if it weren't for botany...totally did not know anything about the vestibular system...). I also had to work that day, which was really annoying because the shift itself actually took us 2, 3 hours, but I normally had night class that night anyways. So, I had to work 5:30 until my test at 7:00, then go back after at 9 to finish, which if I had my regular class, it would have been 10 instead. Ah well, didn't affect my test, so...

Random dreams... On the night before my test, I was just hanging out with some people at Andrew's old house, and the conversations were about the topics that I had to know for my neuroscience test...It was like I was studying in my dream...Yeah, kind of really sad.

Blah, I'll write more later when I don't have a headache...and when I have some of that essay done...and when I do something worth mentioning on here...

Bug

I am sitting at Williams across the street from Mac, alone as usual. They take debit here, and I forgot to bring my microwaveable dinner from home...I have night class soon, so this is going to be quick random post.

Work kind of sucks right now because I keep getting shifts at crappy times, but whatever.

A guest prof for my ecology course showed us his collection of insect porn. I'm not kidding...He's a crazy bug-obsessed person that takes pictures of raccoon and dog crap in his backyard because there are bugs on it. He spent half an hour taking pictures of two spiders mating, and checks a pair of walking-sticks everyday. Apparently, walking-sticks hold the record for longest time in copulation, which is 78 days if I remember correctly. Yeah, overall entertaining and bizarre lecture.

I have a neuroscience midterm next Wednesday, and on the same day I have a botany quiz. Yay fun.

I am sad that I won't be able to see HSM3 in theaters, mostly because I don't have time now.

Yeah, I need to walk back to my locker and then head for class.

Swamped

So, I figured I should update if I'm going to procrastinate. Actually, I'm not really procrastinating because I was technically doing work, just not for an actual class. I was working on my article about a method in treating depression (using magnetic pulses) for the Meducator (the health research/ethics magazine at Mac). I believe the deadline is on Wednesday for the next issue, so needless to say, I'm behind on this and also a lot of other stuff. I've got many, many chapters to read for several classes. I have to finish Romeo and Juliet because we're done discussing it in class now. This is why you don't stop doing work for other classes to study for a midterm, but I had ten chapters to go through for that so it seemed like the good thing to do at the time.

I got the position for Frontline editor! It's exciting, but we haven't been able to really start yet. We had one meeting so far, and hopefully one next week. I'm just glad I'm actually involved in something at the school now. Next goal is to find something physically active to join, but I need to learn how to balance the current commitments.

Thanksgiving weekend involved studying for previously mentioned midterm. Damn ecology.

My Internet is being bizarre again. I think we're switching to Rogers some time, eventually. I had the thought that it's funny to order over the Internet while still on another provider because it's like going behind their back and betraying them. Yep.

My laptop is also being bizarre. I made a folder to put all the articles I found for the Meducator in, and the next day the folder randomly became corrupt. It won't even let me delete it, and my bried investigation on the Internet (Google) did not help. It's not the only foler either, but I don't remember what the other one is for...Yeah, next thing I did was backup important stuff on USB. Also, something occurred that removed all the useless desktop icons that came with the laptop too...Um, virus?

I found the first Superman movie 4 disks dvd at Zehrs for only $7, so I purchased it despite the last cheap movie I bought there not work properly (newest Planet of the Apes). This was also the first time that I'm seeing the movie for some reason, and I thought it was pretty good for when the movie was released. Imagine is Clark on Smallville could reverse time...This season has been a lot better actually.

I finally had Friday off again yesterday and was able to meet Kelly. We ran errands and went to the same stores we always go to at the mall, which is EB Games, Pet Crazy, and Sunrise. Then we went to Wal-Mart and saw the current state of the construction there. It kind of makes me sad to see the Brantford Mall gone actually.

I now wake up before 9:00 automatically without an alarm.

I'm going to Mac tomorrow after lunch to read Neuroscience textbook in the library until I work at 5.

I watched The Fox and the Hound last night, and it's still sad.

I'm tired right now. Um, probably because I wake up before 9:00 when I don't have to...

Here's hoping I catch up on everything this upcoming week.

Brief

So much for daily updates, eh? It's been super busy lately though. It hasn't been a good time at all. Let's see, since my last update, I've manage to slice my finger with a scalpel, which is for botany, and I had it in my bag. I cut myself again during the lab yesterday too, but not as severe. I also had a sore throat yesterday too; most likely from being rained on as I traversed the campus. This didn't help on my neuroscience midterm, which went so-so at best. At one point during work, I crushed my hand in the giant walls that we have to move out to divide up CIBC Hall into separate smaller rooms. When I went in to volunteer last week, the first thing I got were instructions to do something, without a hello or anything at all, which I thought was kind of rude...My essay for cultural studies is kind of not good, but we'll see. Printing it wasn't fun either, as I was in Thode attempting to print my ad in colour, but the colour printer is only in Mills for some reason, unless the computer lied. Yeah, I should go and do work now...

Illusions

I've decided that it's absolutely necessary to eat a large dinner prior to my night classes. Staying awake in neuroscience last Wednesday was certainly a challenge. This means a change to my saving money plan of only spending on two days a week to spending any day of the week with a limit of $20, which I probably won't reach anyways, so...Yeah, neuroscience that night wasn't fun at all. I was pretty close to like a mental breakdown or something too, from being uber paranoid about failing the course due to those damn brain teasers, which should not be worth 15% of our mark. 5% would be more understandable...After the first one that night (had us figuring out why it made sense for a term to be in the denominator of the equation...), I couldn't focus at all for a bit, but then stress slowly dissipated and went away almost completely when the second one he gave us was a lot easier.

I did the Cootes field trip assignment for Ecology on Friday with Christine and Krisna. It was a good time overall, as we didn't do the guided tour and went on the trails ourselves. I was a little disappointed we didn't see anything cool, like flying squirrels and coyotes (we had a list of animals/plants found there). On the way back, we decided to be intense and run along the trail like Indiana Jones. Okay, maybe only I saw it like that, but we did go faster.

I hate not being able to be in my room because my mom wants to watch TV shows on my computer...It's fine I guess, but I just would prefer to sit at my desk to read.

I didn't get all the stuff I wanted to get done this weekend, which means it's going to be a busy week, assuming I'm productive. Sleep is such a waste of time...only because it prevents me from doing work.

Speaking of sleep, I've been going to bed super early lately. I think it was Friday that I went to bed just after 8:00. That's Dave Edge early, or even earlier I think. I've also been having some pretty intense dreams too. I remember having a lion or some sort of giant cat that was after me in a zoo/amusement park. Then, there was one where I had to investigate some kid's room because he got kidnapped or killed or something, and it involved some sort of spirit. There was one where I had before, except this time is themed differently. Pretty much, there's like a intense competition involving a lot of random people I know, and there's several tasks to complete. The whole thing is a race with different parts to it. Anyways, the one I had like last night or the night before was Disney-themed, and one of the tasks involved listing all the characters that we could find in the area. I guess I thought I was being clever in the dream by going around the perimeter only to find no entrances, forcing me to scale the wall. The other competition dreams I've had before were much more intense then this, sometimes involving jungle mazes with creatures and mechanized stairs/floating steps.

New episode of Smallville and Supernatural premiered on Thursday. Smallville seems to be heading off into the right direction even though the episode was full of nonsense. At least Clark's at the Daily Planet now. Yeah, somehow a college drop-out with no experience other than writing for his high school paper managed to get a job at one of the biggest newspapers in the country. He even got his own desk and everything too. If only the real world worked like that...Supernatural was spectacular as usual. It was just amazing. You know what else is amazing? The chocolate banana drink that Kelly made me yesterday.

Scramble

I've fallen completely behind on my blogging, but I just haven't had the time to do it. Actually, that's a lie. I have time to do it, but I'm just too lazy to usually. So, this entry is going to be pretty random and jumbled around.

So, I'm pretty much back in school mode now. It's been a busy time, and it's only going to get busier with upcoming essays, labs, and in a few more weeks, midterms. A lot of my free time is spent in Mills, which funnily enough was library I didn't like going to last year, but Wainman was right when he said the noisiness is just background noise that you tune out. There's also nice and quiet corners on the third floor too if I ever feel the need to have absolute silence. I'm getting a lot of reading done, but I don't know how effective my studying is this year though. It's certainly a lot more than what I did last year, but I guess we'll see.

Classes are going okay. I like my Shakespeare prof a lot, even though we're not really analyzing the play super in-depth like she said we were. We were supposed to look for our group members (which aren't even for anything really) last week, but it was just a mad scramble and so chaotic that I just left. I really don't know how she thought it would be possible to find three people in a class of over 200. Botany's going well too. Well, I have my first lab tomorrow for it. Ecology is kind of blah right now, but I like the prof, and I have it with Christine. Neuroscience is definitely not going to be fun or easy at all...And Cultural Studies, which I cannot read for really. This is the one class I'm willing to put off reading for right now until the last minute, and it's probably my least favorite right now too, but I have it with Tony...

I had a complete total "durr" moment last week. It was the first class for neuroscience, which I have at 7:00, and I totally went to the wrong room without thinking. I even checked earlier in the day to see where it was, but somehow I ended up in Chester New Hall instead of Togo Salmon.

I like running into people I know on campus. It doesn't happen too often for me, but it's nice when I do...

Work has been pretty good. The last couple of setups haven't been too bad at all. I work again tomorrow, where I only have an hour and a half for it, so I hope it's not a huge setup. I'm also getting used to the tables (not the giant round ones), although I usually just drag them across the floor than carry them. It's just easier that way...

Volunteering has been pretty decent too. I think my goal is to try and get to know the staff there better. I feel like I don't do it enough though, which is why I was hoping to find something else at the volunteer fair today at Mac. Unfortunately, nothing I was interested in fits my timetable. Plus, I'm still hoping to get the Co-editor job for the Frontline, but I'm thinking it'll be tough since I have no experience in any of the programs they use...I'm also going to to apply for Junior Editor for the Meducator, so hopefully I get one of those. Otherwise, I'll just write articles for them I guess...I'm still a little annoyed I couldn't join any of the clubs/instructional classes I wanted to because of my timetable. Curse night classes...

I met up with Kelly last Friday at Coffee Culture, and we dueled again on Mario Bros. I think my favorite part was when she thought she was so clever hiding in her Koopa shell seemingly invincible, but I ground-stomped and owned her. It was a good time.

Dave, Brianna, and Wainman were home for the weekend, and I saw them on the Friday night for a bit at Brianna's house. I'm glad they're enjoying their university/college life so far.

Oh yeah, I worked both nights on the weekend, with Saturday being pointless because it was only around 2 hours that I was there. Sunday, I got there really early, and...I sat in the library reading for over 4 hours. Literally. It's not like I was just on my laptop the entire time and not reading. I did have MSN on, but hardly anyone ever talks to me anyways, so it wasn't a big distraction at all. Suffice to say, it got really boring. There were three of us that night for work, which was completely unnecessary for the setup, but I'm getting paid for it, so...

My TV shows starts this week! Well, all except Heroes, which is next week. House was tonight, which I had to watch at 11 (I totally stopped doing this entry to go watch it). It didn't feel like a season premiere, but it was a good start nonetheless.

I've been okay with the whole spending money on food thing too (except for earlier when I broke a $20 to get a smoothie, which wasn't that great...). So far, I've been bringing my lunch instead of buying it, so that's good. I've also been exercising in the morning before I leave, which actually makes me not tired for my morning class so I should have been doing it all along last year...

So, all in all, things are going well-ish. Well, I think my horoscope on Facebook (new Facebook is crap by the way, but whatever) some time ago was a good description. It said something along the lines of me making changes in areas, but not focussing on other ones, which I think is true or was true, or will be true.

And now, I should finish doing the stuff I need to finish doing for school and not get enough sleep, for I have to be up early in order to make my Cultural Studies tutorial.