Train Post

Trains are super boring. Makes me hate traveling. I was super excited to find out that they now have Internet for everyone, but it is so painfully slow that I’d almost rather not try. Spend 30 minutes checking your email and then you’ve had enough. I wish I could sleep and just wake up when we make it home. Arrg. The lights are so bright! And it’s pitch dark out! What am I suppose to do?!?! Somehow I’m just not in the mood to study… I can never really get much work done on trains. Too sleepy and can’t concentrate! I did however get a lot of reading done on the train last night…. But that was because there was pretty much nobody in the car. I didn’t make it home until late last night and then I slept super well because I was so tired. Monday was insane! So many meetings and things that needed to be done that day! Tomorrow doesn’t sound like much fun either. Busy busy. I’m just focusing on this week right now. Midterm and presentation on Friday… and I’m trying not to think about much after that. Scary. Anyways, I think I’ll post this when I get home, way too much effort to post it now. Evil Free Internet! Lol.

Mid October Already!

Assignments are multiple, but not stressful. School is busy though. So many damn group projects...

Yes, it's the middle of the day but I'm in my PJs. It's because it's so FREAKING cold up here. It's suppose to warm up next week, but wtf, my apartment is always cold!! It's not even winter yet! SO not cool!

Got some interesting news today that I want to think over a bit... I'm never one to get my hopes up for anything... I refuse to even get excited about this... life lessons have only one thing to prove: this won't happen. I can't even imagine it. Too unlikely. Stop thinking about it Shannon! It will never make sense!

Finished study notes today for my one and only midterm this year. Shockingly though nobody else in my program seems to have midterms (except my one class). It's so going to be like first year! I've got a bit of time to study though... sounds like a good activity for tomorrow and Tuesday... so much spare time and so much lack there of. Why can't time spread out more so that I'm never to rushed and never too bored. That would be great.

P.S. Going to a halloween party... what should I be? Too bad I threw out my ladybug one last year...

BDAY Celebration Weekend!

OMG! School is so stressful already. I feel like I have half the amount of time I normally have to finish everything... and quite honestly I actually do. There are a lot of really stupid assignments, which I can certainly tolerate... but I am seriously NOT a fan of all this group work stuff. Either you feel like you are not contributing enough to the project or you are afraid of doing it all on your own. I've never been the best at sharing, and group work is so not my thing. Perhaps it would be more tolerable in small groups, but when you have to deal with four or five other people, I start to lose my patience. Anyways, that's my little rant about school. I know it's not about the marks... but really.... it's always about the marks!

So Maggie came to visit me for my birthday (technically last weekend, but it's also still my birthday week)... she arrived on Friday and we stayed up catching up. Saturday we went for a walk... ended up at two malls... and then shopped downtown before going to lunch with Heather. We chilled at my place for a bit before leaving to show Maggie Heather's new appartment. There we practiced some "modern" dance... lol... and Heather showed us some really cool tricks! Of course we also got to play with Nelly and Sally! :) Anyways, Maggie and I then went to visit Craig for a bit before dinner. It was such a busy day... that ended with dancing... watching shows... and one a.m. hot fudge sundaes! Awesome! Then this morning Maggie and I went out for breakfast (I LOVE PANCAKES!) before she had to leave. :( Spent quite a bit of time on homework before Jenn got back and started telling me all about her awesome week. I hope that this wasn't the last fun weekend for a while... but it seems that it may be.

HAPPY BDAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!
Isn't it just so awesome that everyone gets a holiday today to celebrate MY birthday!! lol. Today also is my last day of the summer since I've got school tomorrow! :( Better make it an awesome day!!

NY weekend!

Through crazy-bad traffic on Friday afternoon, I drove down to Maggie's house to visit her for the weekend. We first went to her sister's house for dinner with her family and to help pack up. Then we got ready to go out dancing at night. The club was cool... good drinks! :) Music was awesome at the beginning but nobody was dancing... but then near the end when everyone was dancing, the music started really sucking. How do you dance to rap if you are a white girl?? Just asking. Anyways, the next morning after cheerios we left to move Beckie and Dave into their new house. Some packing first, then the big move. That was really tiring... but at least I never had to do any really heavy lifting. After assembling some furniture and arranging the house a bit, Maggie and I left on our NY mini trip. No problems at the border :) We got to the awesomest mall ever and shopped a bit. I got new jeans and a sweatshirt! :) Yeah for pants that fit and don't need a belt!!! lol. We went to fuddruckers for dinner, which is the best burger restaurant ever!! It's kind of like make your own burgers, since you get to design your own topings... seriously, that was an amazing burger! After dinner we went to Target because I had never been and I got to see all this cool food you can't get up here. OMG! Must go grocery shopping there one day!! wow. The next morning Maggie's mom made us french toast! It was very delicious!! I must find out how she made it so soft... it was much better than my mom's french toast! Anyways, the drive home was really smooth but I missed my exit and ending up driving through downtown T.O., past the CN tower and such. It's funny how much being in T.O. and N.Y. makes me smile. I honestly could barely stop smiling the whole time I was in both cities. lol.

Last week before school! Must have fun... and fininsh this Dicken's novel (Oliver Twist).

A Good Summer

Last week was pretty much one of the best days of my summer... actually although the summer started off pretty miserably, it's been pretty great lately... here is what I have been up to:

1. Got my grade back from summer school... A+ of course!! YEAH!! :)

2. Went to Waterloo with two of my friends to visit Sharon and her boyfriend. Had an awesome time shopping in the area and hanging out together at night... sleepover was awesome!

3. Had a BBQ at my house while the family was out. A bunch of friends came over and we cooked food and then played twister. I haven't played that in soooo long, but it's so much fun with friends! This was also a sleepover and a we went out for brunch again, and I discovered a new favorite restaurant.... despite the horrible service.

4. Got new glasses that help me not look like I'm in high school

5. Had dinner with Heather S and got to see all my old coworkers

6. Yesterday I went shopping with Heather J, and then had sushi dinner. Sushi is still hard to fit in my mouth, but I forced it and it was so worth it! Yummmm.... Eel!! :) We also got some frozen yogurt from the same place I went with Maggie a few weeks before. That place is sooo cool!!

7. Just got back from shopping with my mommy... I'm starting to work on a whole new wardrobe for school. I need clothes that make me look my age.

8. Read some good books, including a lot of Jane Austen and Angels & Demons... now I'm working on 20,000 leagues under the sea... which I'm not enjoying too much.

9. Went mini-golfing with Jenny and Celia in town... and then showed them around the town. We also made a delicious salmon wrap lunch and discovered some cool things about my town that I never really knew.

10. Finished catching up on True Blood episodes so now I know what everyone is talking about. :)

FINISHED!!

Well, I'm dying to know my final grade for my summer course, but assuming I passed (it would appear pretty likely), I have officially completed my undergrad! WOOT! That's pretty exciting, and also kind of sucky. I don't want it to be over, I want to be an undergrad forever!! At least I still have school in September to look forward to, but honestly, it's not going to be the same!
Anyways, since I've been back, I've been continuing my reading obsession and working through my second Jane Austen novel. Apart from the total lack of origninality when it comes to naming her characters, I love the stories and I feel like they make me even more girly than before (not that I don't see the danger in that, but I love old fashioned romances). I can't wait to get back to school so that I can steal some more of my roommate's stash of old school books. lol.
Anyways, not much to say now, being here sucks.

Study Time!

I can't believe how intense this summer course is. I feel like I just moved back and started school but I already have a midterm this Friday! Ouch! And I was like so convinced that we hadn't learned enough yet but when I started going through my notes I realized I already have pages and pages of stuff to study. Not to mention it might help to do some re-reading of the texts. Anyways, once the midterm is over I think I'll have a pretty good weekend. Friday night Jenn and I were thinking of ordering take-out and watching a movie. Then on Saturday I will help Heather move if she needs assistance. Then I'll spend a lazy Sunday catching up on reading for my class. Can't wait! Just have to make it to the weekend!
In other very exciting news, I finally ate apples slices today (big goal: eat whole apple). lol. It's been about seven weeks since I haven't had any delicious apple (minus apple juice which so doesn't count!). Next goals are sushi and salad. I could probably do salad now, but my mouth doesn't open up enough to eat sushi... and I'm nowhere near being able to eat a burger. Oh well, I can wait. It's not like I'm really missing out on anything. Soft foods are just as good as hard foods!

Summer School

Move was successful. I'm not back at school preparing for another semester to start. Today I went out and bought my books, which I'll start reading as soon as I finish 'Oryx and Crake'. I'm not too excited for all of them, but I hope they all aren't too painful to get through. I also went dress shopping with Heather and she found a really cute summer dress and beautiful necklace. My new roommate and I seem to be getting along well. Today was the first time we had a real conversation, and she seems really nice. Jenn is still here too but my other roommate from last year moved out. Anyways, I have lots of reading to do before school starts! Night night!

Excuse The Extreme Lack Of Updates!

I'm back! lol. Almost fully! But not quite! Recovery has been painful, boring, tiring and aggravating. The lack of decent pain medication was upsetting, although I understand that it had to be liquid and that does limit my choices... but the morphine was so great that I wish I could have kept that up a little longer! The other stuff the gave me made me very sick and I woke up every hour or two the first night to throw up... which is traumatizing when you can't open your mouth. No need for details there though! Anyways, I survived my first week (minus the severe weight loss - probably at least 20 pounds - which made me sickly thin). It's been getting better since then... especially with all the ice cream! Two weeks in I discovered I could eat cake (although at a rediculously slow pace)... so I'm getting back to my normal weight slowly. When my friends came to see me and bring me green tea ice cream (LOVE YOU!) they totally noticed how skinny I was.... and how chubby my cheeks were. Fortunately the swelling is going down some more and I look almost normal. My mom says that my new chin makes me eyes look extra big, which is a little creepy...

Anyways, before the surgery, I got a new laptop, which I totally love! I also finished reading Jane Eyre and Little Women. I also read a biography on Kurt Cobain which was really interesting. During recovery I reread Le petit prince and I'm almost done Madame Bovary. I recently bought Oryx and Crake and I can't wait to read it! You'd be surprised how little reading I've been able to do this summer... surgery just made me want to sleep all the time and I couldn't keep my eyes open. But now I can leave the house (if only for a few hours) and have fun!

This week I went to Alice's convocation because she had an extra ticket. It was a really nice and perfect sunny day... and the ceremony wasn't nearly as dull as I had expected! BONUS! lol. I videotapped some parts for her and then we went on a major picture taking spree. lol. :) Then on Wednesday I visited my old work to buy plants for my apartment. It was awesome seeing my old coworkers and gossiping with them! I really miss work!! Staying at home is super boring and so not my style! It's aggravating that I'm not aloud to do things and go places even though I realize that I don't have the strength to do them no matter how much I want to.

Summer Reading

Okay, serious lack of updating! oops. Well, exams went well. I've already gotten two of my grades back, and I'm proud to say that they are both A+s. I've kind of been bored since school ended. The day after my last exam I started my favorite hobby - summer reading. Already read The Great Gatsby and Little Women... as well as Cobain Unseen which is the coolest book ever, even though it's not a novel. I'm currently reading Jane Eyre because I have heard good things about it. I really want to read the other three books in the twilight series, but I can't seem to get my hands on them... stupid libraries... so they might have to wait.

So I've moved back home for the moment. Already finished my first week back at work. Lots of the same people as before, so it's kind of nice to be back. Only a couple more weeks to go. Then I'll have all the reading time I want until summer school starts. Oh the possibilities.

On a sadder note, my laptop may or may not be dead... not sure yet. So I haven't had much Internet time... nor am I enjoying typing on a real keyboard now. SO MUCH EFFORT!!

So Little Time

Studying is painfully boring. Why ever did I say that I liked it? lol. I'm officially done one take-home that was due aujourd'hui, and almost done (need to review it again) my second take-home that is due Tuesday. I have an exam Sunday that I can't exactly study for (we are going to be asked to read an article and respond to questions for French...) but what I am freaking out about is my HIS exam and my FRE exam. At least I have made my HIS study notes... but I think it's going to take me a while to memorize them. Tomorrow starts my two day dedication to FRE. I hope that by the end of this week I'm done all note making since my exams are Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. EEK! I hate not having much time between exams to study for the next one. Oh well. I just need to focus a lot on HIS right now. I actually should be spending my last few days here in a more exciting fashion. But I can't. School is my focus as always!

Last Week of School!

One class down. By Wednesday I'll be done three and by Thursday afternoon I'll be done all my classes! I only have one more assignment to hand in, one quiz, and one oral presentation (ick!). Oh, and five exams. lol. Although I'm "currently" working on one of my take-homes. So yah.... not much else to do. But I can't wait for this weekend (apart from it being Easter) because my friends are coming to visit me!! YEAH!!! :)

Joyeux Anniversaire Alice!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALICE!! I hope you are having an awesome day!!

My weekend started yesterday afternoon and I have been decently productive. Now I really need to start my English take-home. I know it's not due until exams starts, and there is still another week of class, but I need to get it done early because I HAVE FRIENDS VISITING ME FOR EASTER! :) Yep! I'm excited! I'd be so bored otherwise... because I don't really feel like there is much homework left for me to do. Stupid end of school. Why am I so unstressed so close to the end?? Arrg. I wish the weather was better now, so that I could go outside. It was nice yesterday but it's raining so much right now and it's suppose to rain tomorrow too. :( GRRR! I hate being stuck inside with nothing to do. I wish my cd/dvd drive was working so I could at least play games... and I'm so angry that I forgot to take my dad's one when I was home this week.

Yes... I was home earlier this week. Tuesday after class I trained into home... then went out to visit Tacky for her birthday. I just had to give her my card! lol. By noon on Wednesday I was already on my way back here. I was litteraly only in the GTA for 15 hours. CRAZY! I don't want to do that again.... especially when I had to rush back for class Wednesday night! Oh well... back to boredom now. ta ta!

IT'S SPRING BABY!!

Stress is reduced. Spring is here and I feel so much better. Petty drama seems to fall away with the rebirth of spring. New chances, new opportunities. It's honestly such nice weather today. I took advantage of it this morning to go her groceries... I even went to the farther away grocery store (OMG!). When I got home I worked on my English presentation a bit and went to the group meeting. I think our presentation will be boring but everything the teacher expects. Hope we do well! It's really my only stresser right now. Anyways, as soon as that ended I called Heather and we went for a nice walk in the awesome weather. I hope it continues to be nice out... even though the forcast isn't as optimistic. I don't care. I have hope. I'll take anything but snow! lol. Man, I really love spring... and really hate winter! I honestly feel like a different person... like I have escaped the heavy cloud or something like that. Dunno. I hope this keeps up! TTYL

It's an effort.

I can't believe the end of the semester is so close. In most of my courses I have only one (major) assignment left before the exam... which include two oral presentations and one history paper... plus some slightly less heavy stuff like text translations and journals. Of course this means that exams are coming up way too soon, but I don't seem to mind so much this time. Two of them are take homes so I really don't have all that much studying to do... right? I suppose that is a bad mind set to have. Anyways, things are really boring around here. The drama is getting to me a bit, but I hope that problem is eventually get solved. I'm not going to lie, I could use some good cheering up right now. I feel a little down and I don't know why. Maybe because I don't have a good summer to look forward to, or because teachers seem out to get me. This one teacher threaten to lower my grade on an assignment because I don't talk enough in class (comparing me to the other students)... but that's just not cool because we are all different and she can't tell that I am really making an effort to participate. Honestly if I speak once in class that's already a huge effort on my part. Sometimes I don't have anything to say, especially when we are taking about current events because I have a serious lack of knowledge in that area... so what am I suppose to do? Last class I asked two questions, and if she can't tell that that is a huge effort I don't know what else I can do!! GGRRRRRR!!!
Anyways, nothing more to say... just don't let me down.

Twitter Syncing

For your own personal enjoyment, I have added twitter updates to my blog... so now you can read what I tweet if you don't have me on Twitter. lol. Super lame, I know. Please, it's not like I update one of these more than another, but oh well, syncing is good, right? If this starts to get creepy I'll have to fix that... but I'm still pretty impressed with my handy work. lol.

I actually made food... wow.

Although not often spoken of, I pretty much can't actually make food. I mean real "home cooking" style meals. I have no concept of this type of food production. So I freaked out a bit when I had to come up with something interesting to make for Heather's potluck tonight. Jenn came to my rescue with an awesome salad idea. I spend yesterday baking cookies (three kinds that revolve around an oreo theme) with Jenn, and then today we put our salad together. Now we are getting ready to go out and play games at Heather's! I have add a purple headband to my outfit and don't really know what else to do to my hair.
Anyways, things are good. I spend some productive time in the library this afternoon and found a very helpful book. Now I just need to find the motivation to work on the essay. Stupid history course. lol.

New Hair Color

Weekend:
Friday - Went over to Heather's house, then went shopping downtown and at the mall with Heather and Jenn. Probably did homework after, but I don't remember.
Saturday - Homework then baking with Heather. We made a coffee cake and some sugar cookies. The cake was lemon zesty and upside down... but in good ways! lol. And the cookies were suppose to be ducks and sheep (spring themed) but they grew when cooked them in the oven... so they turned out to be more like turkeys and clouds... lol. We also made racially diverse boy and girl cookies (some were more burned than others....) ha ha! Oh!! AND Heather died my hair that day too! lol... It was suppose to be a chestnut color, but it turned out more light brown with reddish tints. It looks pretty dark in this picture, but some people tell me it looks kind of strawberry blonde (which I don't agree with btw).
Sunday - Little homework then Jenn and I spent a while getting ready to go to Heather's tea party. We hot all dressed up and went over to drink tea and have intellectual conversation.

This week:
Monday - My history seems to be getting better (health wise) because he didn't seem like he was going to die during the lecture. Then I went to English class and had to sit through presentations for three hours. OMG! Anyways, we also got our midterm essays back (I wrote it before I went home for reading week) and I'm so freaking excited that I got a 95% on it! When he handed it back to me he even commented on it's amazingness. Thing is, I'm not an awesome English writer, but apparently he likes my thoughts... or my ability to regurgitate his theories back to him. lol.
Tuesday - Super boring class. Lots of reading. Mail came and I found out that I passed a french competency test that I had been stressing out over back in January. I not only passed... but I must have done very well because I do not need to take an extra course if I decided to go to teacher's college to improve my french.
Let's see what other goodness will come of this week. CELEBRATE!

Near the END now...

It's almost the end of the school year! *tear* I have like no plans for next year that interest me... and now it looks as though my stupid university does not even want to give me my minor... which they promised me! I am so mad! I went to see an academic adviser because my course thing is so screwed up, and she did not think that there was anything that could be done to save it. I cannot express how upset I am about that. I was told that I did not need any more french classes, and now they are telling me that I do... well it is a little late now! OMG!! GRRR!

In other news, I have chosen my new hair color. According to Heather, "it's bold". Isn't that what I need? To make a statement for once? I don't know... I don't think it will be as bold as that time I went platinum blonde! Perhaps bold in another way...

Nothing much else is now. My grades are quite kind to me, and exam schedule as been posted... and of course once again I get to end before most people. BWHAHAHAHA!! lol.