News worthy?

Ha, I just read this in one of the top stories on CBC.ca. An excerpt from the story titled

Thousands without power day after windstorm

"New Brunswick seeing light

About 40 New Brunswickers, mainly in rural areas, were still without power, said the New Brunswick Power Corporation."


How does this make the news? 40 houses, that is incredible! They'd really have to call around at that rate to find 1000 people without power.

zzzzzzzzz

Ok, I'm up at 3:30AM writing a paper critique that I got a week extension on. Why did I wait till the last minute you ask? I'm asking myself that same question. However as I sit here pondering the strengths and weakness of this study I am being serenaded by the water softner that is in my room. Beginning at 3AM it has been making a ton of noise doing whatever it does to replace the calcium in my water with sodium. No wonder I never seem to get a good night's rest, this damn thing is so loud! I'm a heavy sleeper but this is ridiculous. I usually wake up when it starts but then fall back to sleep but that sleep that I fall back into can't be as good as the normal sleep resulting in a tired state all day despite getting 9 hours of sleep. Well, I can't blame that thing tonight and nor will I be getting 9 hours of sleep.....

sweet dreams

Survival

I made it through last week, I can't believe it. I had to manage my time ridiculously well. I learned 6 weeks of environmental water chemistry in a day and a half. Now that just goes to show what I've learned in my 4 years here; how to cram! I went into the exam after practicing on 2 old assignments, a set of old notes and 3 old midterms. They were all basically the same but when I got in there he through a huge curveball and had stuff I had never seen a question on before. I don't know how I did it but I managed to get over 75 on the thing! I was devestated walking out of that room but was ecstatic today when I found out. Ontop of that exam I had 3 assignments and another midterm last week. It was crazy to say the least.

My letter commenting on the crap clothing selection at the UoG bookstore made it in the paper which was great!

On Sunday I worked the boxoffice for the M&W soccer games. It was so slack, I got paid to read a book for 4 hours. Oh, I did sell 24 tickets. That's what I'm talking about.

I got my photobook full of summer pictures printed and got it last week. The quality however left much to be desired. It looked as though someone printed it at home and pasted it in a book and charged me my first born for it. Hopefully the replacement they're sending will be of a similar quality to last year's.

Orange County

I always thought oranges were a pain in the ass. You know, you have to sit there and peel them before you can eat, your hands get all sticky and then you have to throw out the peel. So much work.. But then I discovered you can cut them up really fast, so I've been eating alot of oranges and loving it. mmmm.

O-town

Last weekend Ian and I made the trip to Ottawa to visit Ben and Charity and catch a couple Guelph Gryphons field hockey games. It was a great time in an awesome city. The weather co-operated on Saturday so we were able to walk around and check stuff out.



7 Half-pints on a stick!



This is me eating shwarma... that was a horrible idea.


The war memorial.


A lookout right behind Parliament.



Parliament at night.





The city was so nice I'm going to try to come back sometime soon! I'd seriously consider living there if it wasn't for the 8 month winters they have. Oh, and I'd want to live in 24 Sussex.

Ironic

October is breast cancer awareness month or something. Today I passed a sign that said "support breast cancer research" the only problem with that was the fact that the sign the phrase was on is owned by the local tanning bed place. You know, the place where they toast you with UV rays.... great...