Almost there!

I'm almost done. Just two more assignments to hand in before finals. I brought Chico up this weekend for the rest of the semester to keep me company. The real reason is that my mom is going to Australia and I'm fairly convinced my dad would forget about him.

Here is Kelsey holding him. Notice how he's leaning as far away as possible.. haha. He's trying to get to me, taking the picture. What a loser, so needy.


On the way back to Guelph this morning I saw a windmill blade being transported somewhere, it was HUGE. So cool.

Yes, occasionally I take pictures while driving.

Burnout

Ok, it's official, I am currently millimetres away from burning out. I counted the number of assignments I have. This semester I have 24 assignments consisting of labs and calculation assignments, they range from 3-10 pages and take way too long to do. Most of them are geology shit and you have to map stuff and make figures. On top of this I still have midterms and a real sized paper. THIS IS CRAZY.... I was going to go home tomorrow but can't now b/c these things are just too huge!

I have to plan my life by the minute to finish these beasts. IT SUCKS!

Funny videos

Windmills in the library

This week was bittersweet, the beginning started out so crappy. Tons of stuff due and not enough time to get all the assignments done. Sunday to Wednesday I spent over 12 hours in the library each day... crappy! 3 assignments got moved to next week though so the end of my week was alot better and let me do some birthday stuff.

This picture I snapped while driving by the big windmill at the Ex at the end of October. I photoshopped the background to black and white while keeping the windmill the same. It was reflecting all that blue off the sky. I thought it looked pretty cool.

Some of the best

Here's some of my favourite pictures that I've taken over the past year.






Ok, so here's the story. I know you can identify.
I was swimming in the pool on sunday night at school playing innertube waterpolo and I had to go pee really bad. Not wanting to run back to the locker room I contemplated just going in the pool. (they're full of chlorine, don't worry about it) But then, fear came over me as I recalled the legend of that magical dye that turns red when you pee. After discussing my predicament with one of my other teammates we both concluded that this dye doesn't exist. However, the fear was still in me and it was a chance I wasn't willing to take. Everyone has heard of this mythical dye yet no one has actually ever seen it. I seriously doubt it's existance but I'll let you test it first.

Orange County II

Ok, I just ate an orange and noticed the sticker on it said it was from South Africa. That's crazy! A piece of fruit traveled half way around the world and then I ate it. I wonder who picked it and what their like..... Life must be way different for them. It's almost like one of those thoughts you have when you think that You are You and that you're a person who can make your own decisions and stuff. Mind bending..

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...

Multiple dreaming layers

Last night I dreamt that I was back in a canoe and catching up on my tanning. I miss the summer and canoeing ALOT! It was much better than the night before's dream. That dream was crazy and started with me working at a shipping yard for the couple months before camp. I ended up climbing a cliff and at the top was my program counsellor from school for some reason (who's husband is a cliff ecologist). I was looking for someone so scrambled back down the cliff and found that the shipping yard was now on camp property and that it was winter. There were tunnels through the snow drifts that outdoor ed had made and they had fans in them to keep the air circulating through them. It was this point that I made my way to the tuck shop which was more like a trading post and ran into my dad. It was then thanksgiving and I was freaking out b/c I noticed that I had cut my thumb off some how. It looked sick. I couldn't remember right away how I had did it but realized that I hadn't actually cut it off but only dreamt that I had the day before while documenting a crime scene with Nanook on the side of the road. Once I realized that I hadn't actually cut my thumb off I felt alot better. I then went sledding at camp and then woke up.

All of that makes sense when I think about. Everything that showed up in that dream somehow relates to someone I saw or somewhere I went over the previous couple of days... It's weird how stuff like that sits in your subconcious.

Indian Summer 2006

Yesterday I made the trek from Fonthill to Port Sydney to take part in the summer debrief for Boys Camp deemed "Indian Summer". In the afternoon we had a meeting and at night we made a huge fire.




We all pitched in for a mammoth firecracker from Smiths called "PLANET SMACKDOWN"! We lit it on top of the blob tower entertaining the cottagers across the lake.






Lets be serious now, the firelighting was the highlight! I got to shoot the roman candle at it sending a fireball into the air and a blue ring of death across the beach.

A few thoughts

Learning from past experiences this past week I got a haircut instead of buying a hat. Gone are my golden blond summer locks however, I am now disheartened until I may be sunkissed once again. Looking at some pictures with snow in it has made me remember how much fun it can be. Maybe I'm not that sad about winter's accelerated approach this year.

I like this picture.


Look, snow on the beach.


I like this one too.


Elliott, just five more minutes... seriously

Man sized bladder

I'm feeling better now and thought of a funny story. Charity will appreciate this.

A couple weeks ago I headed north on a week long field trip for one of the courses I am taking. I slept for most of the 6 hour drive North and have concluded that the air must have been dry in the van and I breathed out most of my body's moisture content because I didn't pee for over 15 hours. Impressed? I certainly was.

Back at it!

Here I am, back at school.... how does that make you feel? Well, it makes me feel crappy to be honest. All this structure, due dates and stresses. I'm living in a house with 3 random girls which is interesting. I managed to score the basement which on the downside doesn't have any windows to the outside world but is about the same size as all 3 girls rooms combined. I've set my hammock up in it which I still have yet to take full advantage of. We don't have a long distance plan so I'm counting on other people calling me or taking of advantage of skype until December. The living room situation is hurting to the max, right now it contains one couch, one chair, and a kitchen table.... Thats it, a pretty sterile environment. Someone should really donate a tv to the room and some cable while they're at it.

Today I had a lab all afternoon which was crappy and then it started to rain. Should I expect less from Guelph? The town of eternal drizzle. Needless to say but today is bordering sucky/mediocre at best.

I was in Kingston on the weekend and snapped some pics.

Finito

I'm gone for the summer to Pioneer Camp working as a tripper. I'll be updating my summer blog instead of this one, check it out at http://pioneercamp2006.blogspot.com/ . Leave me comments already!!

Final Highway Moments

I tried to get some cool pictures on my last night shift last Thursday.... I don't really know why the vehicles don't show up at all but it does look kind of cool.











Another great sunset on the way to work, you can't really go wrong with these.

Dust Bowl and Tornado watch

Today I realized that the date on my watch has been wrong for the past two weeks and the big soccer game today between Holland and the Ivory Coast is actually tomorrow...... but it works better b/c i'll be able to watch some of it. Apparently May does have 31 days, not 30.

On my way home from work today I saw a dust devil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_devil) in a bare field. It must have been over 100 ft high and 30 feet across, it was really cool as I have this fascination with tornadoes and dream about them constantly. I stopped on the side of the road to watch it, then it hit some trees and disappeared. I didn't have my camera... It seems I always see cool stuff in my car when I don't have it. I'd love to chase tornadoes some day but I think I'm too scared. I think this fascination with them started when a twister when through Fonthill in '96, I still remember running down the street to get in the house before the crazy downpour began. The twister ripped through my friends properties and took down a drive in movie screen that was ironically about to play the '96 hit "Twister". I shit you not.