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.