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.

Separate

So, school's definitely back in session. I was actually feeling kind of stressed out the other day even though I had at the time only had one day of classes. Then I realized that I was being silly...

Yesterday was annoying actually. I was told to go home first after my class because my dad wanted to use the car, but then he didn't need it, so I pretty much wasted reading time, only because I can't do work at home at all. It's dumb, but I just can't get anything done here. For example, I'm updating on here from home right now. Then I volunteered in day surgery for the first time in two weeks due to Labour Day.

I ran into Rachel today, and we had a nice catch-up. I hadn't seen her in the longest time. We were supposed to have lunch along with Rose a while ago, but nothing ever came of it. It's just nice seeing people you haven't seen and seeing what they're up to. Although, it sucks how some people disappear from your life completely, and it's only by chance that you ever see them again. On the other hand, if people were really friends, then they'll be in each others' lives.

I must go to sleep now...Actually, the past two nights I've gone to bed around 9:00, 9:30. Hooray for irregular sleeping patterns.

Plants

I went to Mac around 12 yesterday so I could start reading stuff for my classes. To be specific, I finished the first two acts of Midsummer Night's Dream and part of the first chapter for botany. Needless to say, I enjoyed reading the play more...I went to work at 3:00, which is why I had to go to Mac in the first place. It was a really boring set-up as it involved setting up 200 chairs mostly. Then later that night I went over to Jimmy's, and we played some Smash Bros. Brawl. It's such an epic game...

I didn't do much today. It was just grocery shopping and more reading. Apparently, perfect flowers are bisexual...

First Day Again and Turtle Power

Yesterday was the first day of classes, and boy was it boring. Yep. All that happened was the going through of course outlines. It sounds like my two English classes are going to be pretty lax though. Botany (actually Plant Biodiversity, but it's botany.....) sounds like it's going to be pretty annoying though. I had the professor last year, and it seems that all her annoying traits are still there. Then again, it could be fine. Hopefully she will continue to use the overhead and not write anything, as her handwriting is largely illegible. I hung out with Laura last night; another good time at William's.

I had today off, as my lab for ecology doesn't start yet for another week or two. So, I hung out with Kelly. Once again, we went to several places including Coffee Culture, the Food Basics plaza on King George, and the mall. We dueled on New Super Mario Bros. with great enthusiasm, so people around us probably thought we were crazy. I've more or less mastered the Koopa or turtle power-up. There was a turtle at the pet store that actually paid attention to me. I really wanted to take him home, but I can't spend the money on a turtle right now unfortunately...

Lists 2.0

So, daily updates are clearly not happening here. Um, I'll try to do weekly updates, on the same day, but not today because it's the middle of the week. I'm thinking Sunday? Anyways, I'll just list off what's been going on to the best of my memory.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
- went to Cambridge Centre with Kelly during the day
- talks of jackalopes
- went to Dave's at night, last group hangout before everyone left :(
- watched Bruce Lee movie with bad dub
- went to Wendy's after with Tony and Jimmy

Thursday, August 28, 2008
- went McMaster with Tony and then Staples and then mall

Friday, August 29, 2008
- Coffee Culture with Kelly, picked up her textbooks
- she bought two of the same book
- went to Andrew's to see him, we went to Addida's outlet

Saturday, August 30, 2008
- not sure what I did during the day
- went to work at night and saw Tony's dorm room
- all three of my submissions were printed in the Frontline

Sunday, August 31, 2008
- worked at 2:00
- left to go to Chapters and then to see Jimmy at his house
- went back to Mac to work second shift

Monday, September 1, 2008
- went to Toronto with parents
- hung out with Kelly at night, played Scrabble

Tuesday, September 2, 2008
- worked in the morning
- bought some of my textbooks and rented a locker

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
- went to Mac for Clubsfest, thought last year's was better

Weekly updates would be in this list form, so maybe I'll strive to do daily updates...

Lists

Um, let's continue to be lazy on this blog by doing a list of the past few days...

Saturday, August 23, 2008
- hung out with Wainman around Brantford (mall, William's, Silver Bridge, Glenhyrst, etc.?)
- got eaten by mosquitoes
- alien crop circle is actually a labyrinth (one created by the aliens though)
- went to Kelly's, watched gross television (Kenny vs Spenny), and had pizza

Sunday, August 24, 2008
- went to A Song for Guatemala at St. Mark's
- people are really, really, really talented
- went to William's after with Tony, Laura, Wainman
- used my video camera for the first time since last year

Monday, August 25, 2008
- first shift at Mac at 9:00 for setup staff
- easy job, but hard to move giant round tables because I'm short and weak
- went to Lime Ridge for a bit with Christine, Amber, Grace
- saw Jessica, Becca, and Jaimie at Lime Ridge
- volunteer shift at 4:30 in Day Surgery; there were two of us, met another student volunteer
- went to Dairy Delight with Brittany and Eden (her sister) for a bit; she's back in Ottawa now

Tuesday, August 26, 2008
- hung out with Jimmy around Brantford (Staples, Future Shop, Quiznos, Wal-Mart)
- bought lunch box, paper, and Heroes: Season 2
- Tony joined us, drove through construction and missed outlet
- went to flea market, Dairy Queen, and mall
- family came and visited

Yeah, I only have pictures from Saturday...

IKEA

I went on an adventure with Kelly today. We started by going to Coffee Culture for food because we hadn't had breakfast/lunch yet. Kelly wanted to get her student card, so we headed over to her student center, but the lady wasn't there so she couldn't get it. There was a jazz festival or something in the park, but we totally missed it. We also went into the old library, which is now being used for lectures I think. We also sat in Kelly's bedroom in the lounge if she doesn't make it to her bus. After a very long time on Colborne due to construction, we stopped by her house to print off Google maps for IKEA because we decided to go there as I had never been. That place is ridiculously big. We decided that we're going there when we win the lottery. That's right, WHEN we win the lottery. Anyways, I almost bought shelves but didn't. Coming back, we stopped at DQ for ice cream. Oh, we also played The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny many, many times in the car, and now we're going to learn the lyrics so we can sing it at random times. Yay.

Oswald

Let's begin with Tuesday night, in which I did nothing because I stayed home, but it was really boring. Alright, Wednesday I volunteered in the afternoon in Transport. It was the busiest shift I've had since we actually got a decent number of calls. I didn't work with Ray this time, who I worked with last week, which was too bad, but Irn (sp?) is nice as well. I went to William's with Jimmy in the evening, and he installed Microsoft Office and Photoshop on my laptop, so I'm pretty much all set now. Thanks! I watched part of the Olympics opening on his laptop, and it was pretty awesome. After that, we went to Wal-Mart for Jimmy's back-to-school shopping. I acted like a child there and told him to buy everything we came across.

I applied for another job at Mac, as part of the setup staff for the student center. This time though, I got a response Wednesday morning (I had applied late Tuesday night), which was really surprising because I never get a response, and it was super quick too. Anyways, I had my interview Thursday morning at 9:00, which meant that I was going to be partially unaware and really tired, but I ended up getting the job. Success! I go in Monday morning for training/shift.

I ran some errands at Mac before I headed back for Brantford, where I went to the mall to visit Tony and Laura and to get a sub. I went home and wolfed it down before going to the hospital for another shift in Transport. It was really boring this time though as we only got three calls in the entire three hours, and they were all short trips. I think this might have been my last shift in Transport too unless I get called in again.

Around 4:00, I left to go to Lime Ridge with Tony. We wandered around there and got some Yogen Fruz, which I thought was delicious. He bought a laptop bag, and I bought an Oswald the Lucky Rabbit figure for only $5.00, because it was on sale from $44.50. Yeah, there was no way I wouldn't have bought it. After Lime Ridge, we went to Jackson Square. I used to go there a lot when I was younger, so it was like a trip down memory lane, except some things I remembered differently. We then walked down the street downtown Hamilton before going to the Tea Hut. I ordered different stuff this time - a freeze or whatever and spring rolls-, and they were good. We stayed until 10:30-ish before heading home. Well, I had a good day yesterday.

Toshiba

My dad bought me a laptop yesterday because he felt that I should have one, being an university student and all. I guess it makes things easier for me while I'm at school, eliminating the need to write down notes on paper. It's a Toshiba. I'm really excited about it actually. I'm starting to transfer some files over.

Last night, I went to The Fox and the Fiddle with Tony, Dave, Brianna, and Wainman. It was an alright time, but I obviously didn't belong there. I just figured I should at least go once. Pool was fun though, and I liked Dave's card game that went with it.

Today, I went out with Kelly to William's and then the mall before getting Tony to go to Wal-Mart, where I bought a laptop bag, a mouse and some other school supplies. I also got another puzzle to do, with this one being a scene from Bambi. After that, we went to find the donkey again, but it wasn't there. The other animals were though. When we were done, we went to Dairy Delight, where Dave and Jimmy joined us. Some of us went into the library there, and I took out two comics. I hadn't been in that library in the longest time. There's a series of books I remember taking out from there that I really liked, but I have no idea what it is now.

Housewarming

I went to Andrew's house today for his housewarming because he's moving out to London soon and living with Mark, Andrew Barchuk, and Mike Todd. It was a nice gathering, and luckily, it was nice day out today too. They had to move it today from last weekends because it was raining that day. Andrew's mom pretty much organized the whole thing I think, and the activities and stuff reminded me of the sort of stuff she organized when we were younger. As well, she makes excellent food; I particularly enjoyed this seafood dip (I think someone mentioned there's crab in it?) she made today. It was overall a good time, but now I'm left with the fact that they're actually leaving soon, but I'll see them around for sure.

















P.S. As Kelly and I were leaving, we saw a car parked in their driveway with "666" as part of the license plate, and they had the Tasmanian DEVIL hanging off their mirror. I'm sure it's just a coincidence...right?

The Richers

I'm writing about yesterday again, which is a common occurrence now because I'm too tired to do it when I get home. I'll start off with saying that I finished Buster in the morning. I attempted to switch parts with Strike Noir, my other Gundam, and make a combined one, but not enough pieces attached the same way. I'll have to pick up another one sometime, or maybe get back into lego or something.

After I ate lunch at home, I went out with Kelly to go to Glenhyrst because I wanted to see the gallery. I didn't really like some of the stuff they had on display, but some of them were really well done. I actually enjoyed the rental gallery more than the actual one, and it was neat to see a work there that my high school art teacher painted. It all went a little downhill after we left the gallery though. On the way to the car, we saw two expensive looking cars, which is what I think prompted us to go seek out the giant mansions where the rich people, or "richers" as Kelly called them, lived. There were a lot of really big and nice houses, but we never really found the true richers. There were castle houses that I liked though, where it has towers of sorts.

Failing at finding the richers, we went to Cash Converters to sell Kelly's CDs. Unfortunately, they weren't buying, so we went to the Buy Shop. They weren't buying either. By this point, we were both tired and a bit irritable, but the Beat Goes On bought them. Well, they bought some of them anyways. So then we went to Coffee Culture and the library before parting ways. Later on, I went over to Dave's house, which was nice because I hadn't seen Dave in the longest time.

Just a little more than two weeks left until school starts now...

Tiffany

Yesterday, I went to Tiffany Falls with Tony, Kelly, and Laura. We couldn't find it on the map for the longest time, so we ended up going back and forth on the highway. Well, it was the 80km highway. At one point, I pulled into some place that I couldn't go around in, so I had to reverse out the way I came in to turn ourselves around. Eventually, we made it there and we walked through the small trail leading towards the falls. It was beautiful and really nice there. I enjoyed walking across the rocks and logs, and scaling partway up the hill. I would have kept going, but there weren't as many things to grab on to, and it was getting really steep. My phone was dying, so I didn't get more than three pictures.

It started to rain and hail, so we headed back to the car and went to Wendy's. This is the Wendy's that I try to avoid going to because the service there is absolutely terrible. It's on Main St. E (I think thats the street). The employees there work ridiculously slow for one thing, and they're always not very polite to customers. I ordered a salad with chicken in it, but apparently their grill or whatever wasn't cooking the chicken properly, so they gave me a spicy chicken that normally goes on chicken burgers instead. The same thing happened to Laura too. So yeah, worst Wendy's I've been to. After that, we went to Chapters.

Later on, I had dinner with Laura and Diana at East Side Mario's. The food there was amazing, and I ordered my first drink, finally. It was a very expensive meal though. I ended up spending a lot of money yesterday because I also had to get gas. I want to just leave my debit card at home, but then I don't want to be without it in an actual emergency, such as running out of gas...Anyways, we then picked up Diana's brother to take him home, went to William's/Tim Horton's, and then we went to Laura's to watch Penelope. It wasn't a bad movie, but I thought it was going to be more so a comedy. It still is one, but just not what I thought it was going to be like.

BBQ and More

Today was my all-day volunteering day at the hospital because I signed up to help setup for the BBQ that the volunteer association was having. The sheet said to go in at 9:00, but Mike, one of the guys in charge had told me to go in around 10:00, 10:30, so I just went in around 9:30. Setting up consisted of moving tables, chairs, putting up tents, etc...I guess it's pretty obvious what was involved. I had my lunch there and helped serve some hamburgers before my afternoon Transport shift, which was bust at first but slowed way down. I got a discharge call mere minutes before my shift ended though. Everyone at the hospital is so nice. People kept saying thanks and stuff to me, and I'm just thinking I didn't really do that much or that I could have done more.

After I got home, I went on MSN and found Kelly being bored so we went downtown for a bit. I returned the two movies I took out, of which I only watched one (Epic Movie), and we went to Coffee Culture. I think I go there more than William's now actually. We went to the mall to see Tony, but he had already left or something, and so we went to the pet store. I think I'd like to get a turtle.

I stayed in again tonight, but I was bored. So, I played Scrabble on Facebook against Kelly, but the thundering outside kept cutting my power. It got pretty annoying, but it seems to have stopped now, and my Internet is still working. Below is a shot of how far I am with Buster.

I guess I'll mention this now too. The Frontline (newspaper at Mac by social science people from what I understand) was looking for submissions, so I sent three in. One of them was something old so that was kind of cheating. It was my short story I wrote for Writer's Craft, which I liked so I figured why not? Then I quickly wrote a random one page article, and a sestina, which surprisingly didn't take me very long to do for some reason. I don't think it's too bad either. Hopefully they publish one of them because apparently they're going to be hiring soon (paid position!), so having this would help when I apply. Also, the Careers Ambassador coordinator finally sent out a email regarding training dates, so I'm pretty much all set for that. Yay involvement and progress in my school life! Obviously this is nothing, but it's a start.

Timetable

I totally forgot to post my timetable in the last entry, which I wanted to do once it was finalized. So, here it is with term 1 first and then term 2.

Four Days

I'm a couple of days behind in updating on this blog because it just takes longer than it needs to be so I never feel like doing it. So, now I'm here to update on the missing days before I'm even more behind.

So, let's begin with Sunday! I spent the afternoon reading 52 even though I should be reading Jimmy's Batman comics first, but I started 52 and was hooked like I was with the first volume. My parents and I left around 3-ish for Pacific Mall to see some family from my dad's side. Most of them live up in that area I think, but an uncle flew in from France. We got sidetracked on the way there because of that explosion that happened in Toronto so the highway was closed. It took us an extra hour or so to get there because of traffic lights and such. We walked around for a bit in the mall since the family weren't going to be there until 6:00-ish. I bought a bubble tea from a cute girl because I felt bad since no one was, and she was across from a place that sold these red bean cake things where there were huge lineups. We eventually went over to the Market Village next door for groceries, but I went off on my own to another store and found a turtle massager as an early birthday present for Kelly and a Buster Gundam model for myself (that Gundam was the cheapest one on the entire shelf, but it's still cool). After that, we met up with the family and had dinner at some restaurant there. The food kind of really sucked. We headed home after that.

Now for Monday! I went to downtown with Laura. Stir it Up was the first place we went to, and I found out that all their prices went up. This just makes me not want to go there anymore because it was already pretty expensive. We went to the library where I took out all four plays I'm going to be reading in my Shakespeare class, assuming that I'm still going to be doing English. I also took out Epic Movie and a Romeo & Juliet movie (one of the plays we're doing). We then went to Coffee Culture before we left downtown.

I volunteered that night at Day Surgery, but I left half an hour early because there was nothing else for me to do. I checked all the areas for restocking, did the recycling, and I discharged the rest of the patients that they had.

Later on that night, I hung out with Kelly downtown. We found these swinging benches that we didn't know existed, but others did because there's a lot of names and such scratched onto them. We went down by the river where a father was teaching his son baseball by letting him hit rocks with a bat, or he was just letting him do that and not teaching. We sat under the bridge for a while before we went to the mall to see Tony, who joined us later. We went to Wal-Mart twice and attempted to find an imaginary donkey that Kelly made up (it prob exists and was just sleeping). We then got food and went to Kelly's for a bit. American Mall is a really bad musical.





























































So, that's a Kelly durr face up there. Apparently there's a store that offers free hugs...And I made a plastic origami box while at the mall.




Next is Tuesday, or yesterday as it is known for this particular case. I volunteered in the morning for Transport where we got very few calls. Although I found a book of word searches so that keeps me mildly entertained. My neighbor from across the street came in for a bit too, so it was nice talking to her for a bit. After I got home, I started cleaning my room, which was really just throwing out all my university notes from last year. I think I'm going to actually file everything from now on. I definitely need to get another set of shelves or drawers though.

That night, I finally watched Brother Bear with Brianna after planning it for over a year. We signed each other's year books too, which was also long overdue. Her message was really nice and I really enjoyed her drawings too.

That brings us to today, Wednesday. I volunteered in the afternoon in Transport. Oh yeah, I'm volunteering a lot this week because I was asked to by the convener since people were going to be away. Anyways, the senior volunteer I met and worked with today was really funny. It's too bad that I probably won't work with him again though cause this shift was a one time thing.