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.

Vday

It's READING WEEK! lol. My roommate and I started it off with cake on Thursday (she owed me). I lamely started doing my homework and assignments that night... and of course worked hard on Friday also. Today I got a lot done, and all I have left are two take home midterms that don't seem overly painful (but the English one is VERY time consuming, and the other requires me to read a 512 page novel first). Of course I should probably get a head start on my History essay... but we will have to see how much really gets done this weak. lol.
Friday Heather and I went shopping (the bus system was free all weak because of the 50 something day strike earlier). So Heather and I took the bus and bought some shoes.... and Heather got some summer things (Hope you are having fun in Cuba BTW!)... and then we did lunch. It was a great Friday until I got home and did some homework...
Anyways, happy Valentines day to all who celebrate. Jenn and I went out for dinner... and I'm in a cheery mood because of my love for Sangria. :) lol

HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY!!

He saw his shadow. 6 more weeks of winter. boo.
One day I will make it up to Wiarton to see my lover.
Or I'll go to see Phil and pretend I'm in the movie.

Other than that, things have definitely been busy up here. Last week there were some winter events going on on campus, so Heather and I went dog sledding and for beavertails one day, and another day I got the traditional maple syrup on snow treat.

In other news, I broke up with Matt. It wasn't meant to be. And I knew it for a long time.

Friday morning, around 3:20am, my roommate comes storming into my room almost in tears complaining about server back pain. She had mentioned it to me before, but this was so bad that she was thrashing around on my floor and couldn't sleep. I really didn't know what to do, so I called her mom for her and I ended up taking her to emergency. To make a long story short, the doctor's took a few tests but couldn't figure out what was wrong with her, although the tests did point out that there certainly was something wrong. Anyways, they actually called her back two days ago and told her she needed to come back because they think she had pneumonia. So she went back today, and the nurses freaked out on her and now she is on antibiotics... and even though there is a very small chance that I could get pneumonia from her, I'm certainly keeping my distance. lol. This all happened while I was trying to write my english essay over the weekend. And I am ever so proud I finished it in two days, despite crazy sleep deprivation unlike any I have ever experienced before.

Not much else to say of importance... Maggie's trip up here was fun, despite the horrible cold that prevented us from going out.

School is challenging - just the way I like it... but I'm still looking forward to reading week.

.:Post 500:. LANDMARK!!

Yup, I finally made it to 500 posts! It's been soo long since I last updated that I forgot that this one was going to be special! lol. Anyways, things since my last post have been a little crazy! That Monday I went to English class (first one of the semester) and found out that I was already a book behind (although everyone in the class was also) so I had to read A LOT to get it done for the following class. I also had this uber important french test last Saturday that had me really freaked out. I know I did exactly as I imagined I would do, but unfortunately my performance was pretty bad. I wouldn't be surprised if I failed.... honestly. Also, I had thought that the written part had gone alright, but it turned out that I made a few mistakes... so odds are really up in the air here. Anyways, Saturday night I went out to celebrate Jessica's birthday with my roommate. Before going out we had a margarita party that was super cool... and certainly a must do again! Then pretty much this whole week since than I have been busting my ass do get stuff done (especially ANOTHER English novel) so I can have a free weekend with Maggie. In fact, she's on her way here right now! lol. I aught to clean me room actually... Anyways, HAPPY 500th POST!! :)

School Time

First full week of classes. Technically last week was the first week of class, but it started on a Tuesday, so after tonight I will have finally had my first five days. lol. Another important thing to note today: It's my little bro's 19th birthday! OMG! Happy bday RY!!

Since I've been back at school, I've:
Monday: survived the epic train and taxi ride... then Nathan's going away party at Craig's house.
Tuesday - Thursday: Exciting days of first classes
Friday: Start studying for stupid test
Saturday: Epic shopping and library day, followed by studying
Sunday: another study day and wasted time... followed by watching Mulan with Jenn and having a chocolate binge.
Monday (today): One class down, some studying and another class to go. yeah! NOT.

Train

I am on the train, heading back to school. I will be there soon… but then it will take quite some time before I get to my apartment. This train is really full… my luggage had to be stored in the bathroom because there was no space left. I guess all the other students got a lot of stuff for Christmas and have to bring it all back like me. ha ha. I named my suitcase Fatso… because it’s soooo fat! And no, I don’t want it to lose weight, because that would mean taking something out of it that I want to keep. Fatso is in the bathroom… and I am sitting alone on the train. I actually have space now because some people just got off.

Last night was the Chinese food night to celebrate Ry’s birthday (which is still a week away actually). My grandparents and one of their friends came over and despite my best efforts to find something on the menu that sounded almost authentic, I failed to get anything but American-Chinese food.  meh.

I am about to start my 8th semester of university. Does that sound crazy to you? I still love it after so many semesters. ♥ ha ha. I must be crazy. Anyways, I still do not have all my grades back from last semester (I actually only know two right now) but I did all right. I think I will enjoy my classes this semester, although I’ll probably suffer quite a bit with my English class… too many novels to read!! Plus I really suck at English! This is the first semester I am taking a History course… and sadly it is a first year one and I am seriously not in the mood to hear the difference between a teacher and a professor again. *GAG!*

Wish me luck!
(Especially with getting Fatso home without hurting myself!!)

Seriously Needing To Update!!

Last post was from my first train right home in December. I came home... went to my orthodontist appointment... made some excellent study notes... did a little Christmas shopping... and then went back to school that Saturday. I didn't even have the time to see any friends. Anyways, I was only back at school for a few more days... that were mostly focused on studying for my last exam. The Monday I was at school, Matt took me shopping and he bought me the nicest boots I have ever had! :) He had to have them ordered in from another part of the province because they didn't have the color I wanted in my size. lol... I'm picky! ha ha. Anyways, I ♥ my bootsies! ha ha... I didn't take them off the whole day I got them. When Craig came by to visit me that night I was still wearing them! he he. The next morning I got a ride to the station from Matt's parents (buses are on strike)... so I didn't have to wait alone at the station. They were really nice and I hope they liked me!

Anyways, I survived my train ride back home. But the next day it snowed like CRAZY! I tried to drive down to visit some friends out of town, but when I made it to my friend's house to pick her up, I had to drive home again because the weather was tooo bad! I actually got stuck on her street three times and she had to help me dig out my car! lol. I also got stuck that day in my own driveway because I couldn't make it up the hill! I guess that is what I get for driving a little car! lol. Anyways, we rescheduled the meeting and met up on Christmas eve for lunch. We talked about the trip we were planning to New York after Christmas and updated each other on our lives since the summer. I couldn't believe it had been so long since I had last seen them!

Christmas day was alright. I got excellent gifts (aka money for my NYC trip) and some nice clothes. Nothing really special though. Ry got a really cool camera and a record player... both suit him pretty well. I was mostly overly excited about a special message I got that really made my day. Sometimes I wonder if I get such messages just because the sender wants to amuse me, or if... I don't know... but I hope that's not the reason. Anyways, that night my uncle and new aunt came over for dinner. I had never met her before (she's only 6 years older than me!!! CREEPY!!) but she is also really nice. I could actually imagine her more as my friend than as my aunt. Dinner was excellent though.... I really enjoyed my pumpkin soup! :)

I did go shopping on boxing day... with my mom... but I got nothing. I wanted to save all my money for NYC! lol.

The following day (the 27th) we got on the bus and took the long long long ride out to NYC. I shopped A LOT!! lol. And spent more money than I ever have at one time in my life! I also found a new obsession with Guess... I love my new wallet... and watch... and earings... and bracelet.... The second day of our trip we went sigthseeing, but even then we had a lot of shopping time. We got to go to all the really nice stores... but we were sooo tired from all the walking that we decided that before we go back next time, we will have to workout a lot! lol. I really MUST go back! I had too much fun! I saw so much, and yet it feels like I barely saw anything at all. I was a little sad that I never made it to SOHO... but there will be a next time! :) WITH NO PURPLE TOE!! lol.

New years was also great this year. Alice, Jenny W, Celia K, Sharon, Henry and I went to Moxie's for drinks and to do the countdown. The raspberry kiwi crush was really awesome! Even if I had to have it virgin. lol. It was fun sounding like an experienced drinker for once. lol. It was definitely fun watching my other friends drink and take their first shots. ha ha. The manager actually came by to personally thank us for coming, and the waiter was really awesome! He gave Celia a free desert because it was her birthday a few days before! :)

Tonight I just got back from dinner with my elementry school friends: Heidi, Tara and Heather. Heather and I actually went back to our old work to visit before heading over to meet the others for sushi! Dinner was really good... but I was mostly excited for my green tea ice cream! I was surprised to find that my other friends really like sushi too.... since I normally reserve such dinners for high school friends.

Anyways, tomorrow we shall celebrate my brother's 19th birthday with chinese food... then I'm back to school next week for my last semester! How tragic! :( It's still exciting though. Annoyingly though, they still haven't given me all my grades from last semester yet... GRRRR!!!

Train Post

Train running late. Just what I wanted to hear after waiting two hours in the train station! Buses are crazy in Ottawa, so I left school right after my exam so that I could make it to the train station, without lugging my suitcase around in the snow again. (I thought about going home, so as not to have to wait so long, but I’m still exhausted from dragging my suitcase through a foot of snow… you won’t believe the resistance snow creates!) Anyways, train isn’t THAT late…yet… so I’m surviving. Just bottle that anger up! : ) lol.

Review:
Wednesday the third – last day of class… followed by super fun study night! Lol.
Thursday the fourth – Two exams followed by another fun night of studying.
Friday the fifth – Study day followed by exam number three at night. Then crazy night with Jenn and Jessica… that didn’t turn out as planned, but was nevertheless interesting. I definitely learned my lesson the hard way that night!
Saturday the sixth – Tutored Mila in linguistics for five hours… got a free sub! Then started study note making at night.
Sunday the seventh – Made more study notes then went out to see the Nutcracker at night with Matt. It was super cold that night! But I loved the ballet! Then of course, I studied more when I got home that night.
Monday the eighth – SEVER cramming! Lol. And shivering in freezing cold room!
Tuesday (today) – STUDIED all morning, then (read above about snow). Now I’m just upset that I’m going to be missing a new episode of House! Boo!! : ( I also just ordered myself a delicious chocolate milk to keep my amused for a little while on this super boring train! I don’t even have any creepy people beside me! Two seats all to myself! Woot!

SMILE! AHHHH!!!

Now that's a CREEPY picture! lol. I just figured it might be time to stop doing lame smile photos and actually show my lame braces for once. I didn't really mean to looks so angry though... Anyways, today is my last day of class... and unlike most students here... only one of my classes was cancelled so I still pretty much have a whole day of learning. PLUS I have TWO exams tomorrow... although I don't think that they will be overly challenging (I'm not saying that they will be easy, I mearly mean that no matter how much studying I do, I don't think that my mark will improve). I also have another exam on Friday... for which I really need to do more studying, but I can't bring myself to do that before I get my two exams tomorrow out of the way. After my exam on Friday, some girls from my class are hopefully going out to celebrate the end of "La francophonie par les films"... and then on Saturday I'm hopefully going to see the Nutcracker with Matt. Of couse, then I get to spend the rest of the weekend cramping for evil Tuesday exam. I need to do really well on that because my mark in that class is below my A standards. I swear it's the teacher's fault, not mine. He doesn't make tests that suit my testing abilities. lol. And he actually dared to give ME a B+ on a paper! HOW DARE HE!! GRRRRR!! So yea, I feel like I'm failing that course, so it's not going to be a fun weekend. :(