Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The days go on and on

This morning I was up at 6:45 for yet another lovely morning lab.
It was snowing and I was hot and cold at the same time which is not pleasant

I spent my lab examining sunflowers, they have gotten so large and beautiful, I am hoping that they will bloom soon, and they I can take pretty pictures.

After my lab I killed too hours with Elaine and I was productive, I read my evolution paper for next week, now I just have to summarize it and then I will be prepared
I have my evolution lecture and after that I went back up to Rez because my animal behaviour class was cancelled so I have a two and half hour break until my Limnology lab

My limnology lab was longer than it needed to be and I have to go in on Saturday and Sunday to take measurements, yuck.

After my limnology lab I bused down to college heights to mail camera batteries to my dad as he is taking my camera to Australia with him and he leaves next Tuesday. I am so jealous, I wish I was going. I also grabbed a few things I needed and sadly missed the bus going up by a few minutes and have to wait 30 minutes and rather than going to mcdonalds, I got a gas station hot chocolate and sat at the bus stop in the snow waiting

Once Back in Rez I made Potato Wedges with Jenina, and chicken burger type things which we delicious.

I spent the rest of my evening cutifying my T-shirt for the pub crawl on Friday, Thankfully it looks nice because there was a moment in the middle when it was horrible, but now it's cute and Jenina thinks it's cute and Dan thinks It's cool, so It's all good.

The Rez council meeting tonight was alright, ran later than I would have liked but I'll live, I think I'm going to drink so water and get ready for bed, I'm tired and have another fun filled day ahead of me tomorrow.

Night!

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Another day closer to the end

This morning I tried to sleep in, sadly Dan texted me on his first break so I was awake earlier than planned and got out of bed by 9:30

I spent my morning unpacking for the most part, I am now 90% unpacked, but my room is a disaster zone

My classes went okay today, nothing really new or exciting.

After my 3 hours of class I sold Semi Formal Tickets for an Hour and a half, and then I had to go to a group meeting at 4:30, and I am really not a fan of working in groups, right now I cant get anything done because I am waiting on other people to submit their data. Then once it is submitted I can work with it and see if we found anything of significance.

After my meeting I did a few things,
Sent out some emails
Called my daddy
Edited the Nomination Forms for Rez council Elections
Had dinner

Eventually at 7:30 I went to the gym with Katie and I had a solid workout, feeling pretty good. On our way back from the gym we noticed that Liz's car was gone, which is sad, I feel like I wont see much of Liz anymore :(

My plan now is to shower, moisturize and then hit the hay, I need my sleep

Night!

Monday, February 27, 2012

Headache :(

I was up early
Had a long lab
Had my limnology midterm which was soso considering I didnt really study all that much for it.
Got back two midterms today, I got 90 in Eco Analyses, yay, but only 70 in animal behaviour, sad.

Then I had to sell semi Formal tickets for an hour and half and then I went to the gym
made dinner
Hung out with katie and Adam, did homework,

had a very late exec meeting, which recently ended and now I must be off to bed as I am tired and have an aching headache :(


Night!

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Back to PG

Reading break was in some ways a nice break, but it was not restful nor really relaxing.
Things were, for lack of a better word, tense with Dan and I, which was unfortunate.
I got to see Erica which was awesome, she got to see my house and we went shopping and I introduced her to Sushi and we had awesome fun times, I miss that kid. I also go to go to a comedy burlesque show for Haley's 21st birthday which was awesome and I would love to go to it again. I also got an RA position for next year, I will be the educational RA and I am going to live with Katie. Also when I was home I applied for some jobs, one of which was with E.S. Crop Consult and I applied Saturday, the emailed me back on Sunday, Interviewed me on Friday and offered me a job later that same day. I am quite excited, though it will involve commuting, it is a mon-fri job, which means I can work at Rona on weekends, and it is more relevant to my degree and I am quite sure I will accept the job offer. It is something new, and I think it will be a good experience. Yesterday I worked for 4 hours at rona so I wouldnt get kicked out of the system and then I had a date night with Kristy.
All in all reading break was fun, but not restful. I am very tired.

I was up this morning early, out of bed by 9, and I packed up and such, and flew back to PG with Liz at 3, got into PG, hung out with Katie and Adam, and then Katie, Liz and I went to go grocery shopping and it took us 25minutes to get Liz's car out, it was parked on a sheet of ice and covered in ice, and we had to push it out, but we are awesome and we got it out on our own.
We got groceries and starbucks, and then once back at Rez I unpacked my groceries, made dinner and started studying for my Limnology midterm tomorrow and Katie and Liz kind of both left me to go hang out and spend the night with their men, so I am all alone, and I dont like being all alone in Rez.

Jenina wont be back until tomorrow so until then I am alone.

The plan for the rest of the night is to prep for classes tomorrow, shower and go to bed and try and get a good nights sleep, and then tomorrow I hope to be able to squeeze in some more studying before my midterm tomorrow.

I am right back into the studying and class, no break, oart of me wishes that i had a day to settle in, I don't even think I can unpack until Tuesday or maybe tomorrow night. Within a week I should be settled back in.


Night!

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Not in a study mood

Up at 730
Watched the magic school bus
Ate breakfast
Read evolutionary paper
Went to office hours, studied for eco analyses
Had Eco analyses midterm
It went well
Had plant society and environment lecture
Organized recycling
Went ti the gym
Procrastinated
Watched Charlie as the chocolate factory
Had amazing potato wedges
Made a mug cake with Jenina
Avoided studying
Will be off to bed soonish

Night!

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

2 more sleeps, I can make it

This morning I was up at 6:45, and surprised by the fact that Jenina was already awake, the poor girl only slept two hours because she was studying for her midterm.

I went to my lab which only took and hour, and then My friend and Lab Partner Elaine and I visited the invertebrate zoology lab, they were looking at molluscs, it was neat to go back and look at stuff.

After that we studied for our evolutionary midterm, and then at 11:30 we had the midterm and it went soso, though I am starting to think that I made some dumb mistakes and I hope I ended up doing okay.

After that I had lunch and hung out for a bit before my animal behaviour class, and that class was alright, we went over the sample midterm questions and then had a short lecture. I think I have a lot of go over in the class, because it is all about understanding the big idea and applying them to examples.

I had my Limnology Lab at 3, handed in my assignment and my Lab Partner Karlee and I got back our paper that we handed in last week and we 89%, which I am happy with, the marks we lost were reasonable, the lab was pretty quick, we were done in an hour.

After that it was back to Rez and studying became my only task, I studied and ate, and ate and ate and studied and snacked and studied and talk to Dan very briefly and then I went to Rez Council and no one really showed up, and it was a very quick meeting, which was nice. I finished up my notes after the meeting for my Ecological Analyses midterm tomorrow.

I'll be off to bed soon, as I will be up early so I can watch the magic school bus while I eat breakfast and I can then be productive in my office hours.

2 more sleeps
2 more midterms
lots more studying
2 trips to the gym
packing for home
cleaning up before I leave
etc
etc


Night!

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Productive day

Finished my limnology paper,
Finished my assignment that is due the Monday after reading break, started another assignment all before my classes.

I also went down to lass early to get a free cupcake in honor of Malthus' birthday

My classes went okay, I got an assignment back and handed another assignment in and my discussion group went alright.

After class liz and I went to the gym and then I commenced procrastinating. I had dinner, showered, called my mom, sent emails, made lunch for tomorrow, snacked, studied a tiny bit, watch a new episode of the new girl and it was so funny.

Oh I also won an iPod today through a contest on my everyday earth, I'm really good at participating in their contests and I plan to keep on participating? Who knows what else I might be able to win.

Today was also valentines day, and I was a little sad that Dan and I couldn't do anything but I will survive, we also could even talk on the phone because he went out and stayed out later than he should have and when he got home e had to go to bed.

I spent the last little bit of my night amusing Jenina with how big I can make my hair, I currently have a pony tail that is as large as my head, it's crazy!

I'll be off to bed soon, I have to be up at 6:45 for another long day of labs and a midterm and other Wednesday things. I have my evolutionary midterm tomorrow and I have not been in a studying mood which is not good but there is nothing I can do now.

Night!

Monday, February 13, 2012

Just keep moving forward

This morning I was up at 6:45, after a not nice sleep, I couldnt fall asleep last night, and it has affected my day.

I went to my lab at 8am, and it was another short one, I was done in about an hour, which was nice as it gave me time to study for my evolutionary midterm, which i did for just under two hours before class. I had 3 classes today:
Evolutionary Bio Was Quick as usual
Limnology, though it is only 50 min like evolutionary seemed to go on forever and it has a habit of doing that.
Animal Bahaviour I could have skipped as we were just watching David Attenbourough (Spelling?) films, which were interesting but I am unsure if that was the best use of time.

After class I went back to Rez. had a snack and at 3 Jenina and I went to the gym, I didnt work myself super hard because of what happened to my legs on Saturday, I did the next level of my running walking thing, which is walk 7, run 3 and I survived, after that I walked a bit more and then stretched and when I got back, my legs didnt look worse, which is a good thing. I got back and started working on my limnology assignment for a bit and then I kind of gave up on it and went to go study and ended up making a multi-course dinner, I am rocking the procrastination, after dinner, I showered and then started actually studying.

I studied until 7:45 when I had my Rez Council Exec meeting and it was quite successful, the studying, not the meeting, the meeting was tense and kind of awkward. There was a confrontation and I didnt know how to react or what to do, I wasnt involved in it, I was just kind of there experiencing the awkward silence, and I was so glad to be out of that meeting.

After the meeting it was more studying until now, Now I am getting ready for bed as I am quite tired and I have to get up early to do my last hour of chickadee observations, it's going to feel so nice to have my 6 hours done and I wont have to worry about it over reading break, I can just worry about the other things I have to do after reading break.

On a different note, I have a shift at Rona over reading break, it's only 4 hours and its the second half of a closing shift, but it's a few extra bucks which will be nice and that way I wont be terminated from the system, I also asked my manager Steve if I could use him as a Reference on my resume, as I need more refernces. I'm also thinking more and more that I should apply for that agricultural job this summer, I can always work at Rona on the weekends and then I can make more money and get some relevant experience, while still not losing my 'spot' at Rona, I'll have to see how things play out, but after I finish writing I'm going to go look at the job posting again and prepare to apply. It's worth a shot.

Night!

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...

I guess instead of swimming it should be studying,but close enough.

This morning I was up before my alarm went off, probably had something to do with being woken up at 2 am, but some shovelling type sound that was outside, I had to close my window.
I was out of bed by 8am, and out doing chickadee observations by 9

i did observations fro two hours in the rain, it was not super fun, but the chickadees were cute and not only was piggy the squirrel there today, but he also brought a friend, luckily I set up a decoy pile of seeds that distracted them slightly from the feeder. I got back to rez at about 11:15 and started heating up some soup, and did some mild home exercises and lots of stretching and then I had lunch.

the rest of my afternoon was spent hitting the books, I studied and did homework, and eventually it reached a point where I was done, I didnt want to study any more so my studying went down hill. i snacked and watched movies and studied, and had dinner.

After dinner there was more procrastinating and looking into how to prevent varicose veins because of what happened yesterday, now I am all panicked :(

My plans for the rest of the night are to shower, and get organized for tomorrow and get to bed early.


5 more sleeps
3 midterms
3 assignments
1 discussion
2 meetings
and who knows what else
until home

Night!

Saturday, February 11, 2012

A productive Day, also It's raining....

This morning I was going to allow myself to sleep in, I had set an alarm for 10, sadly I was awake before 9 and out of bed by 9, I took my time getting ready, had breakfast drank my tea, watched tv, and I would have continued slowly getting ready for my day, but i got a text just before 10, and then at 10:30 I had to go move casino Night stuff back to Keyoh, and while I was doing that I put up semi formal posters to kill two birds with one stone.

Once that was done, I began working on my limnology assignment that is dues wednesday and I would say that I am about half way done, I'm just having trouble discussing the significance of the variable we calculated, I'll work on it again tomorrow and maybe I will figure it out. I also finished and printed my Eco Analyses assignment so that is good to go.

After that I studied a bit for my three upcoming midterms, and as a break I worked on my Plant society and environment assignment that is sue on Tuesday and I finished it to a point where I could hand it in and do okay, but if I have time I will work on it a little more before I hand it in.
The rest of my afternoon was studying and procrastinating in the form of cooking, I made turkey shepherds pie and it is delicious :)
At 5:30 there was the Rez Challenge Semi Final which was Music Trivia, and needless to say 3rd floor won, however it was a tie at the end of the trivia part and we won via a cheer off of a cheer that has a clapping routine associated with it, by the end of it my hands were hurting. I got the LMFAO cd as a prize, I really wanted what Kealy and Jenina got but they beat me too it, they got speakers that are made out of recycled things and they start off flat and you fold them to make little boxes and they are surprising good speakers, and I always see them but I'm never willing to buy them, even though I want them.

After Rez Challenge jenina and I went to the gym and we were there for an hour and a half and i worked myself hard, perhaps too hard, as I now appear to have a bunch of bursted blood vessels on my thighs, it looks odd and I am not sure as to how or why it happened, but I know that my legs were fine when I left for the gym, now not so much (you could look at my other blog where I will be posting a picture) I'm a tad worried, it doesnt look very nice.
Oh another I did after the gym was place Just Dance 3 with jenina which is actually a lot of fun. I then showered and I am now getting ready for bed, I have another busy day tomorrow and an early morning. I hope to go chickadee observing in the morning for two hours, but right now it is raining so I dont quite know how that is going to work. I hope it's not raining tomorrow, I need to get two hours in and then one more hour on tuesday and I will have reached my 6 hours that I need for the project.

Here's hoping it stops raining by the morning.

6 more sleeps
3 midterms
3 assignments
1 discussion
3 hours of chickadee observations

before home.

Night!

Long long long day

I was up before 8 and I am still awake now and it is after midnight

I went to core fit this morning, and it was a solid work out, though I bift it on the floor in the sports centre which was no fun

After that I showered, went to class. My classes were okay.

After class I went to Starbucks with Katie and Liz , which was nice to hang out for a bit

After that I had dinner and then went to casino night which was a good it was much more successful that I was expecting. So many people. I was bartending all night and I ate way too much snack food :(

I am now so tired and I just want to go sleep as I have a sickly sweet taste in my mouth.

I'll be going to bed soon and this time next week I'll be home.

Night!

Thursday, February 9, 2012

There is an end in sight

This morning I was up once again at 7:30, I watched the magic school bus while eating breakfast and then I got my stuff together to go to my office hours at 9. I also read the paper I had to read for my plant society and environment class today, the paper was soso.

On my office hours I got stuff out for casino night, read the paper for my evolutionary bio discussion next week, and that was relatively productive, but I was struggling to focus, I had woke up with a headache which never is never a good thing.

After my office hours I went a picked up the semi formal posters from copy services, and they look nice, but I did not enjoy having to carry the posters around to my classes.
Eco Analyses went well, and the discussion in plant society and environment went well, and then after class, Elaine and I went to the greenhouse and moved our plants so that they can have more space and that there will be less of a shading problem. After moving our plants we worked on our third assignment together, which has to do with the statistical analysis of our data that will be done at the end of our experiment. That only took us about half an hour.

After that I went to the housing office to get my posters approved and to fill out a cheq req to get my money back for what I spent on casino night.
After that I had a snack and then I went to the gym at 3 and I had an awesome workout, cardio and strength and stretching, and once I got back home I made apple cause and then apple muffins with my homemade apple sauce, and then I reheated frozen chili for dinner and started making a curried cabbage, and chickpea soup. After I finished dinner I took a shower and tried to be productive.

I didnt get any studying done, but I did work on my limnology assignment which is due on Wednesday and I am aware that I need to really start studying, maybe tomorrow I will have time between class and casino night and if not I will get up early on Saturday and get a shit ton of studying done and I have three assignments to finish.

I will be off to bed soon so that I can get up for core fit in the morning.

8 more sleeps

Night!

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Too tired to write

Up at 6:45
At school from 8-8, 12 hours.
Working in computer lab for over two hours, hating excel
Faculty student mixer, fun, but time consuming and didn't speak to all I would have liked.
Ate poorly, feel shitty
Have cramps and a headache and an overall feeling of blah
Long meeting
Meeting followed by tying may gift bags, 30 to be more precise
Tries to do more, can't focus
Need rest, will do more in the morning

9 more sleeps till home

Night!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

So Little Time, So Much to Do

This morning i was up at 7:30 and watched the magic school bus as I ate my breakfast.
I left at 8:30 to go observe chickadees and spent the first half hour trying to get pictures and then spent and hour doing actual observations, I got back to Rez just after 10 and had a snack and got ready for my classes and I left at 11ish and got to me eco analyses class early.

That class went alright. I got 100% on another assignment :) and that means additional 4% of my grade :) After that I had Plant Society and Environment and the lecture was okay and at the end of it we got our midterms back and I didnt want mine back, the class average was 71, and I though I had done horribly, turns out I got 86%, go me. Though to be fair the prof was pretty easy with the marks on the long answer questions
Next came the Evolutionary Bio Tutorial and we had to discuss a paper about antartica and Penguins, sounds cool, but the coolness ended with pictures of penguins, there was nothing else cool in that paper, I was disappointed.

Right after class Montanna and I had to go shopping for things for Casino Night and we got lots, from food to prizes and more :) We also spent lots of money that I will have to be reimbursed, and I hope that doesnt take too long as I am on a budget. We shopped later that I would have liked as I had plans to go to the gym at 4 with Katie, and that 4 turned into 4:30 because I was late and by the time we go to the gym it was almost 5. i just did cardio, I had too little time and there was too many people for me to do anything else.

After the gym I made dinner, worked on my paper that is due tomorrow and it is almost done, I emailed it to my partner and I am just waiting to hear back from her and then it will be good to hand in and it didnt take as long as I thought it would to do, after the paper was emailed off I organized prizes for Casino Night, we had surprise goodie bags for people to bid on, which should bee exciting, we also have two gift baskets and some other prizes as well. I made the gift bags and such and that took longer that expected and that was really time that I should have spent studying... oops

I'm behind. Today was was supposed to study for my Eco Analyses MT and yesterday I was supposed to study for my Evolutionary MT but neither of those happened. My room is a mess, I should be in bed already, but I had to shower and do dishes. I just have so much to do in the next 10 days, and I dont know how I will mange to get it all done.

Wish me luck. I am going to need all the luck I can in studying and getting things done before I go home on the 17

Night!

Monday, February 6, 2012

Started off a good Day

This morning I was up at 6:45 to get ready for class. I got up and dressed and ate breakfast, I was disappointed to find out that the magic school bus was not on at 7:30.
I went to my lab at 8 and it was an easy one, I was done in a about an hour but I stuck around because I didnt want to go be alone, and I worked on the assignment that is due next week in the lab, and I worked a bit on my limnology paper.

Eventually we left the lab and it was only just after 10, I reviewed evolutionary Bio and ate my lunch, and soon it was time for class.

I had my three hours of lectures, and all were standard.

After class I had a snack and then went to the gym with Katie and it was after the gym that my day went down hill and quick.

Dan "Surprised" me, he got a new iphone, and facetimed me, now I would have been excited except Dan doesn't have the money to be buying a new phone, and when I wasn't excited by his purchase, I was in fact upset with his decision, he called me moody and ended the conversation. So that was awesome, and it affected the rest of my day.

I was less motivated, my eating well went out the window, right now I feel so sick from eating food that I didnt need that I wish I could vomit so my stomach would feel better. And the worst part is, is that I dont think the reason why I am upset is understood, yea I'm upset because I was called moody ( and FYI people, if someone is moody, calling them moody is in no way going to help the situation ) I was upset because Dan is spending money that he really shouldn't. It drives me crazy, in general, when people don't handle money well, it irritates me, why is it that so many people, especially those in my generation don't beleive in saving for a rainy day or saving for a future, they only live in the now and spend their money on things that are great and fun and entertaining, but they never save money to do things like, get out on their own, travel, own a house/apartment,or what if something unexpected happens, like of I don't know, You rear end a 10 tonne truck and wreck your car and you have get a new car and you don't have any money put away, what if you gets sick and have to miss work but you dont have sick leave and you have bills to pay. i know I shouldnt let what others do bother me but it does and when it's someone I love it frustrates me to the point of me getting a little angry.

This night just keeps on getting worse, Dan and I have no spent the last hour, arguing Via text, which is the worst way to have any sort of conversation and now not only am I upset but so is he, and I can feel a breakdown coming, it's just a matter as to when and where it happens.

Night!

Sunday, February 5, 2012

A productive day!

This morning I was up at 7 and had breakfast
I left Rez before sunrise and as I was walking out to observe chickadees at feeders the sun was rising.
I observed chickadees for two hours. And it was nice and relaxing though it was a bit cold. There was also a pesky squirrel that was pigging out on the feeders and affecting the birds choice of feeder. I wish I has a camera with a good zoom and I could have gotten some awesome pics, I will try when I go out another time to get some good pictures.

Once back I cleaned the living room and had a snack before going to the gym, I worked out for an hour and my learning to run is up to the next level which is walk 8, jog 2. It was a good workout, felt really nice.

After the gym I had lunch and showered and then went and did some valentines day card making that Katie was doing for her floor and that was fun, I made cards and watched one Of the bring it on movies, I think it was the third.

After that I vacuumed as I didn't do it earlier because I didn't want to wake up Jenina. I vacuumed and then started doing notes and studying in a relaxed manner.
I haven't revived anything from my partner that I am writing a paper with and the paper is due Wednesday so I was kind of hoping to have a rough edit of it together by the end of today, but that is not happening. I may have to resort to working on her parts which I would rather not do.

I has a nice dinner of orzo and shrimp and veggies and a relaxed evening. I'll be off to bed soon as I have an 8 am lab tomorrow and I'm still a little tired from all my early mornings

12 sleeps until home, time is just flying!

Also on a not so happy note, my jaw is bothering me, right now it really hurts :(

Night!

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Struggling to stay awake

I did not have a good nights sleep last night, it was late and I was in a foul mood and it resulted in a poor sleep. It was also a short sleep.

I was up at 730, and had a big breakfast and packed up all my stuff to go on the lake field trip for limnology. I went down to the school for 9 and my group prepped all the stuff we would need out on the lake.

We left at 1030 and got to the lake at 11 and it was a long difficult walk out to the middle of The lake as it was in about a foot of snow and it was a long distance.

Once in Ye middle of the lake we got to work, the holes in the ice were pre drilled for us which was nice and we had to take a buch of measurements, I think the craziest one was the ice measurements, there was over 50cm of ice. We finished our measurements in just over and hour and then we has to wait for the other groups to catch up before we could do the sediment grab from the bottom, after that we packed up, filled in the hole and started the long walk back.
I had been worried about getting cold but Getting too warm was the real problem, all the walking and it was sunny, by the time I got back to the bus I was sweating and all I wanted to do was get my layers off and then after that all I wanted to do was sleep.
Sadly sleep was not in my future, we had to do some stuff in the lab once we got back and I didn't get back to rez until just after 3, which was way earlier than I was expecting.

Once I was back I had to call my boss to see if I can get a few hours when I'm home in two weeks so I don't get booted off the pay roll and he is going to try and work something out.
After that I called my mom to tell her about my day and then I Skyped with Dan for a bit, but then I was cold and tired and decided to go watch a movie and bundle up on the couch and I haven't done much else since, I ate a bit, watched multiple movies as I'm going to bed really soon.

I'm so tired, I could have gone to bed at 7, but I don't want to mess up my sleep cycle too much so at 9 I'll go to bed so I can be well rested for tomorrow as I have to get up early once again.
Tomorrow will be a full day, I have to do feeder observations in the morning, and I have to finish some assignments, start studying, go to the gym and umm I think some other things that I am too tired to think of.

I can't wait to go to bed.

Night!

Friday, February 3, 2012

Friday, but kind of not really

Today may be friday for most, but I have my limnology field trip tomorrow morning, so it's not really the weekend.

This morning was up at 7:30 to eat breakfast and watch the magic school bus, and that was nice, I tried to wake up Jenina to go to core fit with me, but that failed, so I ended up going by myself, which is sadly becoming a trend when I go to the gym, The class was so intense, it hurt lots, but in a good way.

After the gym it was nice and sunny out so the walk back to rez was nice. I showered and got dressed and got ready for class, I left at about 11 so I could take my time getting to class.

My classes went okay, in my Animal Behaviour class we got discuss why humans use spices, as spices are phytochemicals that in most cases are toxic, and it turns out that most spices have antimicrobial properties and they kill most of the bacteria that cause food poisoning. Onion, Garlic and All Spice, are 100% effective and preventing some of the most common bacteria that cause food poisoning, such as salmonella. It was very interesting, we also discussed how warmer places use more spices because bacteria are more prevalent due to their warm climate. Cold countries use little spice because they dont need to preserve/ protect their food from microbes because they are basically living in a fridge. It was a very interesting lecture.

After that I met up with Katie and we went on an adventure down to save on and I got my prescription filled and got some milk and a few other groceries and then we had starbucks and had a nice chat about life and such.

Once back in Rez, my room was full of life. jenina and her friends were making a penis cake and a card for their friends birthday and they put so much work into it. I made black bean burgers for dinner and they were super yummy, after that I didnt do much, I gave my expert advice on icing penis cakes. I also have been getting stuff ready fro tomorrow, I ended up borrowing Jenina's friend Ashley's snow pants, because I couldnt do Liz's up and they were short, I couldnt do ashley's up either, but they were longer.

I packed up my snacks and warm clothes and such and Im partially ready to go tomorrow.

Tomorrow I also have to phone Rona and talk to steve about working an hour when I am home in two weeks so I don't get kicked out of the system, so that should be fun.... I'm hoping it doesn't take long because it will be long distance.

I've been a little sad lately, Dan and I have not been communicating. I feel like he doesn't care, he just forgets to make an effort to communicate with me. I try and make an effort, yesterday I wrote him a long message about my day and he didnt reply until he was going to bed and he didnt even reply to my message he just said goodnight. It's getting a little frustrating and I've reached the point where I'm not going to bother putting in the effort to tell him about my day and whats going on if he isn't going to do the same, I find myself going on facebook and being disappointed that I dont have a message, I check voxer (the walkie talkie ap) and no messages and I'm kind of tired of being disappointed. Orr last skype date didnt go well, and I just don't know what to do, and I can't even really tell him how I'm feeling, life can suck sometimes.

I hope to be going to bed soon, but Rez is loud, so I think I'll have to wait until 11, when some of the noise will be dealt with and then hopefully I'll get to sleep before midnight as I have to be up early to eat a big breakfast and get ready to go out on the frozen lake for the day. I really wish I didnt have to go, I have better things to do on my saturday, like homework and studying etc, but I guess I'll have to do that all on Sunday, I have a feeling I wont want to be productive tomorrow after the field trip, I'll be cold, and probably not very happy which means lack of productivity.

I feel like I haven't written this much in my blog in awhile, I guess I just feel like I have the time.

Night!

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Jenina made cookies, delicious but problematic

This morning I was up at 7:30 and I ate breakfast while watching the magic school bus

I had my office hours at 9 and spent them reading and studying and I left them early to put up posters and I put up 36 posters in less than 15 minutes, 2 buildings and 8 floors, lots of stairs. I was the poster putting up champ.

I went to class and I had my first midterm in plant society and environment and it was kind of difficult. It was long and had some questions that I was not expecting.

After that I had a group meeting for animal behaviour and we can now start collecting our data which is good. I'll be going out on Sunday for two hours to collect observations

After the meeting I went back to Rez and I was doing homework but I was also in as uber snacky mood, which I am going to blame on pms.
I made rutabaga dough and then made pizzas on them.
Then it reached the point where I had to go to te gym to get away from the snack foods. I did cardio for an hour, half on the track, half on the elliptical. It was a good workout.

I came back and Jenina was making cookies and they were so good, I want to eat a million of them, but I only ate one, I had to have self control.

I'll be off to bed soon, and I have core fit in the morning, Wooo.

15 days till home

Night!

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

A quick entry so I can go to bed

I was up early for my 8am lab,
The lab took 3 hours, lots of measurements

After that, I had veggies for lunch which we yummy

The evolutionary Bio which was alright, we got out early which was odd.
It's respect week so there were free cupcakes in the winter garden and I was bad and had one and was so disappointed with the lack of delciousness, it was just sugar, I could have had something way better

I studied a bit and went to my animal behaviour class and then to my limnology lab which was 2 hours today, we were just working on our paper and I finished my sections of the paper in two hours so I left to go make dinner

I had tacos, skyped with dan, went with Liz to visit Katie, went to the gym with liz,
Did my running plan thing, can back, showered
Went to rez Council and
then had a nice talk with my mom. I miss my mom :)
Can't wait to be home in 16 sleeps. Time is just flying

I need to get some rest now


Night!