The never ending sunday

This morning I got up at 8, having gone to bed after 3, so it would be a slight understatement to say that I was tired
The reason I was up early was because I had the Nissan leaf from 8-11 and I wanted to take advantage of my time with the car, at 830 I left in the leaf and went shopping.
I bought lots of groceries and I I excited to have a full fridge.

Once back at res, I was not productive, I have been so tired all I want to do is lounge about, and that's what I did

My only plan for the test of the night is a shower followed by a good nights sleep

Night!

A quickie

A quick summary since its late and I need sleep

I did homework, watched movies, finished an assignment it Elaine, watches more movies, did more homework

Then had an awesome fun night out, pre drank with Katie, Liz and kris, we modified settlers to make it more fun, then we hit up the genny and met up with Adam Dan and cait and had super fun times. Liz left early but made it home safe, kris showed up even though he said he wasn't coming as him and Katie left at about 2

Adam was an awesome friend and took the last bus up with me to the university, he was concerned with my safety, such a nice boy adam is, I miss hanging out with him.

Time to drink something as I'm thirsty and then bed, I have an early day tomorrow


Night!

Friday, wooo

Today was an okay day,
This morning I had my lab at 8am, it was an interesting lab, we learned about how to immobilize animals, and I got the opportunity to to shoot a 32caliber shot gun, that shot darts. It was neat, and a rather cool experience.

After my lab I had my society and space seminar which went well, it was a nice way to end my school day. When I got home I was sadden that Katie was not home. I found out that she was down at Liz's playing stuff like Mario kart, so I quickly caught the next bus down, and we all hung out and played settlers, I almost won, but kris pulled ahead ad ended up winning

We went back up to res because Katie was on call and ha to be back by 4. Once back at re we watched movies including mulan, which we all sung along to.

Katie has been having a rough night on call, sad :(

I have even having a rather dull evening, and hopefully my weekend with be productive.


Night!

oh where oh where had my productivity gone, oh where oh where can it be?

I was up at 8am this morning, had breakfast, took a shower, thought about being productive, but wasnt, just after 10, I went down to the school to pick up a list of awards that were still able to be applied for through awards and financial aid, and then I went off to my plant Ecology Class, which was rather dull as per usual, I really feel as though I am not learning anything in that class :( After the class, we had out plant Eco lab, which involved us going outside and surveying a 30mX30m plot and IDing all the plant species in the area and estimating plant composition, it was very time consuming and not all that interesting. Near the end of the lab is started to rain and lucky for us we were just finishing up so we were able to head inside. After my lab I was super hungry, and headed up to res to make something to eat, on my way up I discovered that I had a package to pick up so it was back down to the school to pick it up. Turns out it was Katie's Halloween Costume. After bring the package up, and finally making it into my room, I had an odd combination of things for lunch and started to work on my pop and com assignment. I managed to answer all the questions, whether or not any of the answers are right...I have no idea, but they all have answers, and hopefully thins weekend Elaine and I will be able to go over the questions, because two heads are better than one. After that I didnt accomplish much, I made dinner, and sat around, Katie and I chatted and hung out with some guys on our floor. People are playing spoons, so things are getting a bit intense, people keep coming by trying to find out who has who and to get ideas as to how they can "kill" who they need to "kill" I have a feeling the rest of my night is shot, I'm just not feeling it, and I am starting to realize that I need more friends, I feel like I'm always alone :( Even though I'm not always alone, I guess I just miss having lots of people to talk to, I suppose I might get used to it. Productivity, Please Come back to me...please.... Night!

Some sad new today

The sad news did not occur until the evening, so first I should summarize the rest of my day. I was up at 6, because I had meeting at 7 for the Panama Field School, the meeting went well. It looks as though it will cost us less than $2000 to go, which is awesome and I am very excited. After the meeting I spent some time studying for my geo of Canada quiz, which was at 10. Sadly my studying did not help me, The Quiz had several questions relating to the readings....which I did not do.... oops. Good thing it was only worth 10% and now I know for next time that I should do the readings. After that class, which was rather depressing, and writing that reminded me to email my profs about the lectures, My Social geography went well, and lucky for me it was my last class of the day as Pop & Com had been cancelled. After class I had lunch and started laundry, and such. I also handed in my programming sheets to Jenn, and did more laundry including sheets and towels, that was productive. At 4, I helped out at the peace week BBQ as a grill master :) It was fun, I feel like I still smell like meat After the BBQ Kris was over visiting and doing homework, later on liz and Jeremy came over and this is where the sad news comes in. Liz and Jeremy had been in the lowermainland the last few days and Liz's dad was not doing well, and they came back today and Liz informed us that she would be finishing up the semester and then moving back home to help out etc. It was a sad moment Katie Cried lots (*This may or may not have actually happened) And Liz almost cried, but kept it together... Anyways I'm sleepy and a bit sad so I think I should just crawl into my bed and sleep Night!

My First RA Event

This morning I was up at 7, and still tired, I got ready and went up to Becky's to buy a good food box before it was too late. Then I went off to my Pop and Comm Tutorial, which was okay, followed by my wildlife Ecology class which was interesting, Followed by my Plant Ecology class which was rather dull, I still dont think I have learned anything in that class. After my classes I went up to res to get ready for the Groove class at 12, I went with Elaine again and had a lot of fun, it's a good fun workout. After that I had lunch, took a shower and tried to study for my geography of Canada Quiz, but I felt too tired to study, as horrible as that may be, I was just not productive, I ended up just laying about. At 5:45 I started preparing snacks for my First RA event which was a Planet Earth Movie Night

I made chicken nuggets, bagel bites, mozzarella sticks and there were chips and gummy worms. Just before 6:30 the first person arrived, and two more came at about 6:30, we waited a few minutes to see if anyone else was going to show up, and when no one did we started watching the planet earth episode about snow leopards, and about half way through two more people came, bring up the total to 5, which was not a great success, but it was fun I guess. Hopefully next time I will get a better turn out. My plan for the night now is to go to bed early because I have a meeting at 7am, and then I have a geography of Canada quiz at 10, which I have not been studying for. Night!

Super Sleepy Chanel

I have been so tired all day today, and it is rather annoying. I had my first class at 10, and that was okay, though I am starting to real discover that I dont like the lecturing style of my geography of Canada prof, I find it hard to follow his thought process, and to take notes on what he is saying etc. My Social Geography went well, I like how my prof for that class lectures, but he is the famous Jim Windsor, who has quite the reputation of being a cool prof I grabbed and sandwich to eat before my next class because I was sleepy and I was hoping the food would help keep me awake. My Pop and Comm class was rough, I was struggling to stay awake, and struggling even to remain even the slightest bit focused. After class, I was glad to be done and I went back to res and actually managed to be focused for a bit and worked on my Pop and Comm Assignment, and got a fair bit of it done. At about 5, Katie and I went to go feed Katniss and then we went out for all you can eat sushi, and we both ate way too much, I still feel stuffed. After that I was not productive, I lounged about waiting for the RA meeting and soon it was 9:30 and time for the meeting and it ran a little over an hour, and I am super duper tired and my muscles are very sore, and I am going to attribute my sore muscles to the fact that I am very very tired, my muscles better not be sore tomorrow because I will be going to groove with Elaine at 12. Tomorrow night is also my first active event as an RA, I'm doing a planet earth Movie night, with the hopes that some people will be up for some conversation after, and if not at least I get to listen to the great Sir David Attenbourough talk about snow Leopards Anyways I think I need to hit the hay, I'm super duper tired Night!

Past my bed time

Quick entry because it's past my bedtime
Had a productive morning from 8-12
Did homework etc

Rest of the day was less productive.

Went on a date with a boy named Brandon, and it was nice, we had Thai food and then we hung out and watched a few movies, lost track of time this why I am writing so late.

Need to get some sleep


Night!

A dull day

This morning I was out of bed by 930 and on the couch in my pjs watching the perfect man on tv when all of a sudden I see Jenn and Fabris walking down from keyoh and they wave at me and flail and long story short eventually I ended up outside helping with the "tailgate" party that I had no real intention of helping out at.
It was supposed to go from 10:30-11:30, but no one really showed up till 11 and people were more interested in the free food than anything else, but I guess it was kind of fun, but I did waste my most productive time of the day which was unfortunate.

I showered and then my dad called me and we had a nice chat and we discussed my term paper that I will be writing on gay space and he gave me some good ideas and I think it will go well.

I did some other small amounts of homework, little things here and there, but the majority of my day was not productive, I did paint my nails as I also hung out with a guy named Brandon, who was nice.

My evening was spent watching weeds along with Katie and kris trying to construct a foam suit, which was very amusing.

Also there were just two people making out on the grass hill outside our room, basically directly outside my window and kris opened the widow and told him to go to second base to which he smiled and then shortly after the pair got up and left. I think it was super funny. And also a tad ridiculous.

I now plan on hitting the hay so I can get up early and be productive.

Night!!!

A tired Friday

Last night I did not sleep well, which resulted in a tired and some what grumpy Chanel. I had my 8am lab, in which we had to find radio collars in the woods with transmitters, and it was so hard and frustrating and it took us like 3 hours, and all I learned is that I dont like radio telemetry, and I hope to never have to use it for research. After my lab I had To give my Social Geography seminar with my partner on Globalization and it went well, and i am super glad that is now over. After class, I had lunch and watched weeds with Katie and then we went down to Liz's because we are Cat sitting, we stayed there for a few hours doing homework and I drank hot chocolate and such. Once back in res, we watched more weeds and hung out and Kris came over and brought slurpees and we all watched weeds and then we started to play never have I ever, and truth or dare, it is quite fun. I think I will be having an early night though as I am quite tired. Night!

Busy day

Busy day
Up at 730
Class at 930
Lab at 1030- planted 500 seeds in my plant Eco lab, it took us until 1230 or so to set up out experiment,
I went to the library, took photos of my readings rather than doing them
Met up with my geo seminar partner, we talked about the seminar and worked on a worksheet

At 3, but actually 330, I met up with Erin and Russ to learn what I would be doing in terms
Of helping out with their research, I get to sort through birds nest looking for maggots and pupae and fleas, should be an interesting experience.

After that, I worked on homework and had dinner, and hung out with Katie until 7 when we went down to the moose. We had moose fries, and hung out with kris, Fabris, Ryan, Adam and Ryan and Adams roommate Jamie (I think)
It was lots of fun and lots of laughs!!!

Now I am watching weeds with Katie and kris and I plan on finishing the episode and then shower and then bed.

Night!

Getting it done early

So, I have some time, and I dont want to be productive, so I will do this now. My day today was alright, I stayed in bed till just before 8, and then had breakfast and took the on-call phone for Katie as she had an early class. At around 8:30 I took the phone to the housing office and I went to go talk with Jenn about some programming stuff, I am having a planet earth Movie Night next Tuesday, where we will watch planet earth and then hopefully discuss conservation issues, or at least that is the plan, I don't know how many people will show, but I hope not too many as I am having the event in mine and Katie's room, which will fill up fast, so hopefully if many people come they will not mind getting cozy. After chatting with Jenn and such I went back to my room and worked on my to-do list for the day, and as I was doing so a note got slipped under our door, and it informed us that there was a mouse/shrew running about on the first floor, going in and out of rooms, when Katie got back from class I told her what was up and she was not impressed. We both went to leave, me to go to class, and Katie to go inform the housing office about the mouse and as Katie opened the door she screamed, jumped back into the room and somewhat demolished our little shelf, at this time I burst out laughing and opened the door to find the tiny little mouse/shrew on the floor and it scurried into the housing office. I laughed all the way down to the school, Katie was not pleased. I found out later that the mouse was caught on sticky paper and was sadly killed :( *Moment of silence for cute baby mouse/shrew* My classes today went okay, though by the time I got to my pop and com class I was tired, like closing my eyes in the lecture tired, but I pushed through. I went back up to res, and got my posters approved, and picked up the on call phone as I am on call today, yaya! Katie and I hung out for a bit and then she helped me distribute my pamphlets to Neyoh, I will do Keyoh later, I also put up my posters in Neyoh, Keyoh will be done later. We hung out and had dinner, and I got a call about a plugged toilet, which I assumed they were able to fix by plunging it, as I did not hear back from them. I had Taco salad for dinner, and Katie and I watched an episode of weeds, and we made snacks for the floor meeting that Katie was hosting at 7, she made popcorn. While this was occurring Liz and Jeremy showed up to drop off the keys to their place as they are heading home to the lowermainland, they were supposed to be going down this weekend, but sadly Liz's dad had a stroke last night, so they left today so she can be there for her family, I am sending out good vibes, and I hope they have a safe drive down to the lowermainland. Katie and I had the floor meeting and it went well, at around 9 I am going to go to early rounds, and then I am heading up to Keyoh to distribute pamphlet and to put up posters, and then at 9:30 there is the res council meeting so I might as well go to that. The rest of my night after that will hopefully be spent studying for my geography of Canada Quiz that I have in a week, until I do rounds at 11 with Susan, and then I can go to bed, which I am looking forward to. On another note, I forgot to mention that yesterday I must have danced a little to hard at groove as my back is killing me, I think I made have gotten to into the chest pops or something, I hope it feels better tomorrow as it is rather uncomfortable. Anyways I guess that is all there is to say thus far. I hope the rest of my night is quiet. Night!

A more productve day

Today was a more productive than the past little while. I had 3 hours of class from 8:30-11:30, and the it was up to res, to get changed to go to the gym with Elaine, we went to a Groove class, and it was so much fun. It was basically a free for all dance your butt off like a fool class. It was so much fun, we plan on going next week too :D After that we hit up the farmers market for some indian food and to buy salsa and veggies etc, I went up to the housing office, so i could pick up the on call phone for Katie, and to also copy my study survival pamphlets to distribute, it took quite awhile to copy and fold the 133 of them, but I did it, and they are done and look nice and colourful. After that, I went back to my room and hung out with Liz and managed to get a wildlife eco assignment done. I dont know if it is right, but it's done and it's not even due for a week :) Go Me! At 3pm, ERICA called me and we had a very nice chat, and we caught up on life. Things are going well for her. School is good, the boy Allan is good, all in all things seem to be awesome, and I am very Happy for her and also a bit Jealous, but thats okay. I really enjoyed our chat, and I hope we have one again in the nearish future. After that I tried to work on my Society and Space Seminar on Globalization, and that just didnt go awesome, I find it so hard to sit down and just knock it out, I lack the interest and the motivation to do so, but I need to get my ass in gear as I have to give the seminar on Friday, it doesnt help that the guy I am working with has a very different schedule than mine which makes it hard to get together to work things out. I hope it goes okay. I also managed to make a poster for a planet earth movie night that I will be having next week, where we can watch planet earth and eat snacks and then hopefully talk about conservation issues. Kris ended up coming over and him and Katie had what I will call a small disagreement which was a bit awkward for me, luckily I was having a nice Chat with Danny via Facebook, which was able to distract me from the awkward. I am very glad Danny and I remained friends even after breaking up, he's such a nice guy. The last part of my evening has been spent watching weeds with Katie and Kris and pretending to be productive. Weeds is turning out to be quite a good show. I do plan on going to bed early tonight as I have the opportunity and I am super tired and I need some sleep. Night!

Productivity= low, Life also = low

I didnt sleep super well last night, I stayed up too late not being productive and was then up at 7:30 this morning, as a result I had a slow morning, very slow, like half speed kind of slow. I eventually completed my morning routine in far from record time, and headed down to the school for 9, as I was meeting Kurt so we could go meet up with Doug and John in the greenhouse to discuss our plant Ecology experiment. The meeting went well, we found out what we needed to know and were able to refine our experiment a little further, which is good as the proposal is due tomorrow and we start planting on Thursday. After that I headed to my Geography of Canada class, and today we had to turn in an interesting map of Canada, I found one made out of the license plates from the different provinces, I thought it was rather neat. The lecture was okay, but it was a bit rushed which is unfortunate when you are trying to take notes. After that was over I had my Society and Space lecture and we were talking about sex, sexuality and space and gay space, which proved to be an interesting topic for me, and it may be a good idea for me to do that for my term paper, though we will see. After that I had a 30 minute break between my classes, which I spent in my class room, eating lunch and copying over the notes from the previous class on to the printed out notes as I cant easily print the notes before the lecture, and thus transfer things over after. My Pop and Com class was so so, I still find it hard to focus on the material, especially for an hour and 20minutes. After class Elaine and I Edited out Plant Ecology proposal and printed it off, which was a nice feeling. Then I went back to res and Katie and I went on a mini-adventure to get ink, and cold medicine for courtenay and to get trail mix from shoppers wholesale. After that I tried to be productive, and it didnt go well. I printed things off, tried to do some reading, but found myself to be sulking a bit, and whining to Kristy via text about life. Today was supposed to be the start of the new, but apparently it was the fall back into the hole of procrastination and no motivation, but tomorrow is another day. All I have left for today is the RA meeting at 9:30 and I hope that it doesnt go till 11 like last week, as I am sleepy. Night!

Could cut the tension with a knife

Today was an interesting day. My morning was spent cooking pancakes and bacon, as Katie and I were hosting a floor breakfast from 10-12, We cooked soo much food, we thought it would never go away, but eventually we ended up having to make more pancakes as the first round of them ran out, we also ran out of bacon. It was a decent morning, watched cartoons, chatted with residents, ate pancakes with whipped cream and berry sauce and it was so yummy, I had even got up early to make some pancakes from scratch so I could actually enjoy them We did breakfast until 1ish, and then I showered and tried to be productive, but I was not very successful. Also boys are stupid. (all I'm saying) The rest of the afternoon was not eventful, but at 7, Katie and I had a roommate mediation, and it was super uncomfortable, you could cut the tension with a knife, I actually got a tension headache. Liz was nice enough and brought us starbucks, which was a nice treat. I further back up my earlier statement that boys are stupid, so very stupid. I need some rest, soon I will go to bed, I'm tired, and stressed and tense and lonesome, wah :( Night!

Kept thinking it was sunday. Its not

I managed to stay in bed this morning until 9:30, which was a nice feeling. I had breakfast and watched tv, and then I started to be productive.

I got some work done, I was actually quite productive up until about 3, then my productivity died down :(

Katie and kris came up and we went to the grocery store so Katie and I could get stuff for the breakfast that we are doing tomorrow morning for our floor

The rest of my day was not super eventful
We hooked up net flix, and thus movies have been playing all day
I worked on my plant competition proposal with Elaine and Kurt, Hayden was supposed to be there but turns out he is in Vancouver until Tuesday when the proposal is due.
I spent some time as the fifth wheel as Katie and kris were here along with Katie's sister Elsa and her boyfriend Joey, I felt kid of lonely :( poor Chanel
I also missed out on playing settlers as I was working on the proposal when they started so I couldn't join in, oh well, there will be more games


I don't think it will be a late night, I have some dishes to do and some things to organize and then I can hit the hay so I can be wide awake for the floor breakfast tomorrow morning

Night!

Still a very tired Chanel

I had an 8 am lab this morning, and lucky for me I got no calls when sleeping last night, though the phone did ring once this morning, but just a single ring, and I went to answer it, but it stopped before I answered it. I dropped the phone off with courtenay, as I had class to get to. My lab was kind of annoying, we went out into the woods to take a variety of measurements, and we were in plots that were loaded with Devil's club, and i was getting attacked. I was also annoyed by the fact that some people in my group were sweating the small stuff, and making things take longer that they needed to. The lab took 3 hours, and in the end, I was the only one with data I went to my first real society and space aka social geography tutorial, and it went well, I participated and it made me less nervous for the seminar/tutorial that my partner have to lead next week. After the seminar my partner and I met up to discuss our game plan, and we sorted out the main things we wanted to address etc, and I will do some more work on in this weekend, and hopefully be in a good place on Sunday. I also went to the library and took out a book that Jenina recommended called the no nonsense guide to globalization After that I was done all that I needed to do at school, and it was back to res to help Katie get ready for her and Kris' one year and she was ooey gooeying all over the place, she got ready and we chatted, until about 3 when Kris arrived to get her and he brought her a rose that had Happy Anniversary printed on it, which was super cool, and he gave her a card. Shortly after that they were off and I was left by myself. Instead of doing homework, I made soft pretzels, before heading off the hill to meet up with Liz for all you can eat Sushi, which was pretty good, but I ate way too much. Now that I am back at res, I dont have much in the way of plans, I'm going to try and get at least something productive done, but I'm tired and can't focus and all I want to do is sleep. It will be an early night tonight, I hope res is quiet. Night!

2nd shift on Call

I did not sleep super awesome last night, I ended up staying the night at Marks and I just could not seem to fall asleep and then I was up super early, and back at res by 7:30. I ate breakfast and was down at the school by 8:30 and in the library reading the paper for my Society and Space Seminar tomorrow. I managed to get that done before class, and then I had 5 hours of class. Wildlife ecology was okay except I was having trouble staying awake, and it was the same thing in Plant Ecology. After that I had my first Plant Ecology lab, and it seemed to be a rather pointless lab, we went out into the woods and measured the DBH of trees and we took measurements in order to estimate their height. The lab was over by 1:20, instead of 2:20, and then I ended up running into Fabris and going to the library to photocopy the readings for the seminar that I have to lead next friday. After that I picked up the on call phone and went to my room to eat some lunch, since I hadn't eaten in awhile. I then tried to nap as I was super tired, but that didnt go well, I just wasted time. I wasted most of my evening, I'm too tired to do anything, but I have to stay up till 11, as I have to do rounds at 9:30 and then again at 11, and then finally I will be able to sleep. I am grateful that tomorrow is friday, even though that means I have an 8am lab, and tomorrows lab will be outside and it's quite cold in the mornings now :( I guess I will continue to be useless until I finish all my rounds and such and then it will be off to have a good nights sleep. Night!

Wednesday, the 12th, Fabris' day of Birth

I was up early, even though I didnt have class till 10, because I had to meet up with my plant ecology group so we could try and come up with a plant competition experiment to do, we brainstormed and managed to come up with a few ideas, and by tomorrow, we should know which one we are doing as we need to write up the proposal for next Tuesday which is really soon. After that Elaine and I hung out until 10, when I had my geo of Canada class, which went okay, nothing special, learned about regionalism, after that it was off to Society and Space aka Social Geography I had one more class after my Geography classes and that was my pop and com ecology class, which I am finding hard. I can't seem to stay focused during that class. I drift off about an hour into the class and the class is an hour and half, I need to work on that. I met up with Liz, and we walked up to res to meet Katie so we could all go to the mall and to the grocery store. At the Mall Katie was getting Kris his anniversary present, as they are celebrating their one year on friday, Cute! After that we went to save-on for groceries, yay! Once back at res I had dinner, and printed off notes along with a paper for my lab on friday. I even read the paper, because I am obviously a super student. After that I tried to research Globalization, along with writing my Canada Journal, but that went less well. Tomorrow will be a more productive day as I am on call, and will have no choice but to be productive. My plans for the night are to hang out with Mark for a bit, since Katie abandoned me again to go to Kris'. Sleeping will also be part of the plan for the night, so exciting Night!

Tired Day

I woke up and I was not happy about waking up, the RA meeting ran till 11, which is past my bed time and I did not go sleep right away afterwards, resulting in a tired Chanel. I had a tutorial at 8:30, which went okay, followed by wildlife ecology and then plant ecology, and I am learning that in plant ecology we never do all the things we are supposed to do get done in the class, we spend too much time on group stuff, and not enough time on the actual lecture. After class we made our groups for our competition experiments, I'm with Elaine, Hayden and Kurt, should be interesting. We are meeting tomorrow morning to try and come up with an idea for an experiment. After that Elaine and I went to the First Farmers Market of the year, and we had spicy greens for lunch and bought ogo pogos, which consisted of marshmallows, peanut butter, butterscotch. I also bought lettuce and salsa, which I'm sure will be delicious. After that I went back to res, and I didnt really do all that much after that. I printed off some notes, and sat on the couch in a blanket. Eventually I picked up the Neyoh on Call phone for Levi, because he had class until 9, and needed someone to watch the phone, and I had nothing to do with my day. I was going to go to the gym, but I was too tired. Liz came over at 2:30, and she made scalloped potatoes from a box, so I decided to make some from scratch, and they were super yummy, I had them with turkey sausages, and it was all very yummy. Liz and I played crib, and we hung out until Katie came back from class, and then Kris came over, and we all hung out and got on the topic of Halloween, which made me start looking for costumes and ended with me buying a pirate costume and a corset, hopefully when they show up they will be nice. I plan on going to bed early as I am tired, and I am meeting with people at 8:30 to discuss experiment ideas, hopefully we can get it sorted out in a hour as we need to have a proposal done by next Tuesday. Night!

First monday of the year

I was up at 730, even though I didn't have class till 10. I got ready slowly, had breakfast and did my usual morning stuff.

At ten I was down at the school for my first real geography of Canada class, and it was okay, not too dull and I was able to keep up with the notes for the most part which was good

After that I had my first Jim Windsor lecture and it was interesting, lots of tangents and I need to practice taking notes in his class to make sure I am writing down the right information.

After that I had some time before my next class but I just went to the class room and hung out with some people until class started. I also sold another textbook which is awesome, the lecture itself was okay, I find it hard to focus in the class and I think it has something to do with his voice

After class I went up to res to drop my stuff off before heading back down to the school to meet up with a prof and a bunch of TAs and graduate students to go to the pub, as it opened today and our prof, Russ, invites everyone to the pub for free beer and I thought it would be a good experience and it was fun. However I suck at drinking beer, I tried, and got Half way through before I decided that I would not be finishing the beer. My tummy was hurting, probably had something to do with the fact that I hadn't eaten a proper lunch. Attention was drawn to the fact that I didn't finish my beer which was unfortunate.

After that I went back to res, and started making dinner as I was hungry and my tummy hurt. I had a dinner of leftovers and then some cookies.

The rest of my evening has been rather dull, just a lot of sitting and not a lot of texting or talking or doing anything. I did shower, and now I just have to sit around waiting for the RA meeting at 930, until then I will be watching the voice with Katie.

Night!

Sunday, sunday, sunday!

This morning I woke up at 8, after a decent nights sleep. I waited around and took a shower and just before 11, I went down to the leaf, where I was supposed to meet Kyle and Ryan, so I could drive people to the SPCA event. Kyle didnt show up so Ryan just gave me the FOB (aka key) and I was off up to res court to pick people up. I had a full car going to cottonwood park and none of us really knew where we were going, but we found it eventually, and they were safely dropped off and I headed back up to the University to park the car, and plug it in (weird thing to say about a car) I headed back to res to get ready for what some might call a date, I dunno what to call it, I will call it a picnic type event. While I was waiting to be picked up, Katie and Kris came up and were hanging out when my ride got here, and Katie was creeping him through the window. I went outside, got in his truck and we were off to Purden Lake, which is east of Prince George. I guess I should mention some details, his name is Mark, and he's 6'8 (way taller than me), he has a rottweiler named Tonto, who is super cute, and he came too. The lake was nice, the weather could have been better, but it wasnt horrible. We had pitas for lunch and I spent most of my time petting Tonto, who is a big suck, and he tried to get in my lap, which was funny to see. I don't think he could fit on my lap, but he tried. After a few hours at the lake, we had to head back as I was supposed to pick people up from the SPCA event, but sadly I had been out of reception and the event ended early, so I missed all the texts and was unable to pick people up. I feel really bad, But I didnt know I wouldnt have reception, or that the event would finish early. Mark dropped me off at the University and I ended up getting the leaf and following him to his place so we could hang out, and I was trying hard not to fall asleep on his couch, as I have been feeling quite tired. I had to leave just before 6, as Katie and I were supposed to meet with a resident, but when I got back Katie wasnt back yet, so I had left early for no real reason, oh well, it meant that I could make dinner. I made some curry, and then Katie came home and we chatted and I told her about my day and such and katie OOey GooeyD everywhere. Eventually the resident came and we chatted and did what needed to be done. After that I was able to shower which was much needed as I smelled like dog, and it wasnt going away when I washed my hands, luckily the smell went away with my shower. I think I will go to bed early as I am quite tired, First full week of class starts tomorrow, Wish me Luck! Night!

The never ending first aid course

Last night I did not sleep well, even though I didnt get any calls. I was just worried that I would get a call and thus couldnt sleep. I was up before my alarm and out of bed by 7. I made breakfast and a lunch to take to the first aid course I had to do. My morning was slow and I was tired. At 7:50 I met Krista and Sam and we went to tim hortons and then to the first aid course where we met up with Lee and Levi and Reesha. And that was the beginning of the never ending first aid course. The instructors name was Steven Harper and he openly admitted that he was distantly related to "the" steven harper and I should have taken that as a bad sign. The course moved a turtles pace and the instructor was rude and we ended up having lunch almost an hour late and the course itself finished an hour late, resulting in us being late for Res challenge. I really dont want to rant too much about it. Long story short it felt like it never ended, but thankfully it did and I passed so it's all good We got back up to res mid way through the first res challenge, and we all stepping in to help, even though we were tired and hungry etc. I may of had a sundae for dinner and started getting twitchy from the sugar. So I went home and had some veggies and hummus as I was in need of real food. I finished my undergraduate research application and emailed it to Russ, it was not my best work, but it's done and it brings me one step closer to getting some money for the work I will be doing Katie left me at 7 to go spend the night and Kris' so I have been having kind of a lonely night, but some cool stuff did happen. 1. Ryan showed me the Nissan Leaf and I got to drive it which was awesome and I will be driving it tomorrow :) 2. Krista Came over to help me write and RA report thingy which was nice, we had a nice chat and it was nice company for a bit The rest of my night has been spent alone watching girly movies and painting my toe nails. I plan on finishing up my toes and then hitting the hay early, well before midnight Night!

First day on-call

Need to try and get some sleep so I will write this entry tomorrow when I have time

Okay Better late than never, So my Friday started off we me getting up early and having a relaxing morning before my 11:30 class. At about 10 I decided to check my email and realized that I had received an email from Russ Dawson, a professor of mine from last semester, and he was informing me on a possible research opportunity that I had actually email his associate/friend/my former prof Erin. They did research on mountain bluebirds and tree swallows in a reclaimed mine site in the summer, and the control site and the test sites were at different elevations, and now there is a question regarding whether or not elevation was an influential factor and if it was, in what way. The actual research part that I would be doing is rather dull, repetitive and will likely be boring, but it is lab experience. I would be sifting through the nests for parasites. The extra awesome part is that there is a possibility that I'll be able to get some money out of it, as I can apply for an undergraduate research award which would get me $1500 for the semester, and there is a possibility that I would be able to write a manuscript and maybe get something published before I graduate which would be amazing. Upon finding this out, I rushed down to the school to see if Russ was in his office and he was so we chatted, I agreed to do the work and therefore had to start work on the undergraduate research award application as they are due september 16th, so I need to get that done this weekend. After meeting with Russ I went to my Society and Space Tutorial and it was only 8 minutes, all we did was pick seminar topics, and I picked the first one to get it out of the way as I wont have time later in the semester to do it, I'm doing it with another guy in my seminar, and hopefully we can do a decent job. After my 8 minutes of class I submitted and paid the fee for my application to graduate, so I am all set :) Kind of exciting. After that I was back in res, trying to be as productive as I could, I found the application I needed to fill out and started to do so, Then Katie and I went outside to enjoy the sun. That didnt last too long before Katie left to go get Kris, as it was backyard BBQ and he was coming up to party it up :) Katie and Kris arrived and brought me a screamer, which was delicious. We then had a disney song ID contest and ate food, and then Liz and Jeremy showed up as they were going to the BBQ too! Oh and I forgot to mention in this time I also went to the mailroom to get my package from my daddy that had finally arrived, so I now have my teddy bear, which is awesome :), and i picked up the on call phone. Liz went up to see Fabris and on her way back saw a large group of people partying outside of neyoh, so obviously as I was on call it was my problem, so I called Krista as she was on Call too and she met me and we went out there and broke it up and I was grateful to have Krista as I dont think I could have handled a group that large on my own. We met up with Lee and did rounds at 6:30, and things werent too bad, some dumped alcohol, but not much. After that we broke apart until 9, and in the time I did geography notes and watched tv. Katie, Kris, Liz and Jeremy went to the BBQ to go see Kingsfoil, which is Frankie Muniz's band, and Katie and Kris ended up meeting him and he is so short, like 5ft. At 9, we did rounds again, and there wasnt anything bad, a few lock outs and then we did door checks which involved mostly cooperative people, but some were a little too drunk and thus were not thrilled by the door checks At 11 we did rounds again and at 12 we did them again, and luckily res was quiet as most people had gone downtown which I was okay with. I went to bed around 1, and sleot horribly worried that the phone would ring, but lucky for me, no calls. Night!

A more productive day.

This morning I was up early at 7:30, even though I didnt have class until 9:30, but I was meeting up with a girl to sell a textbook to her. It was a sweet I got rid of one textbook, and made some money, and speaking of money, my student loan came in today, and I paid up all my fees for the semester, and I still have lots left which is always a nice feeling After selling my text I had to go to the library to set up my library account, which I hadnt done since first year and it was a bit awkward. The librarian thought that I had taken two years off when in fact I just hadnt taken out a book in two years. I am a bad student, here's hoping I will be better this year. I also had to ask how I go about taking out books that profs have put on reserve, turns out it is easier that I thought it would be After all my morning tasks I still had about and hour before my class, and I spent it working on my pamphlet on Tips for a successful semester which I hope to get out Next week some time. At 9:30, I had my first wildlife Ecology class, and it was alright. I didnt have the note package yet, which was unfortunate but I survived. I think the labs for the class are going to be very neat, we get to track radio collars, and watch a necropsy of an ungulate and carnivore, and we get to shoot a dart gun etc. Should be a blast. After that I plant Ecology. and I was stoked to find out that It doesnt have a final and less stoked to find out that we had to conduct our own experiment and we have to do it in groups, and I am not a fan of group work, as everyone knows. But I think I will be able to get through it. After class I went to buy the notes package that I was missing and had to stand in a giant line in the book store, but while standing in line I did manage to sell another one of my textbooks, which was a bonus of standing in line. After that It was back to rez to do my dishes and then I went to the gym, yay me!. I worked pretty hard and I am hoping to go back tomorrow after my class, after the gym, I was trying to figure out if I could borrow the Nissan leaf this weekend to help out with Krista's SPCA event that is happening on Sunday, but things are still a little up in the air. The rest of my evening was spent hanging out with various combinations of Katie, Liz and Kris and watching planet earth. I stayed up way past my bed time last night so I hope I can get to bed early tonight Night!

First Day of my Last Year

It has begun, my last year of my degree started today, and strangely enough 2/3 classes that I had today were Geography, not Biology. I was up at 7:30, even though I didnt have class until 10, I had a relaxing morning,ate breakfast, took a shower etc. etc, I finally went down to the school just after 9:30 because I was hoping to be able to sell a textbook that I have, sadly it resulted in me just lugging the text around unnecessarily. My First class was geography of Canada, with a prof who has not ever taught before, but he seems like a cool guy, and the course seems like it will be an okay class, though it will take some time for sure, hopefully I can stay on top of things. After that I had yet another geography class, which is now called Society and Space, but it was formerly Social Geography, it's a Jim Windsor class, who is like the most famous of all the geography profs. The class seems okay, though I am worried about the term paper, as I am not used to writing papers in which I express feelings, it should be interesting to do. I had one more class, and it was my first Biology class of the semester, It was population and community Ecology and just before the class started I got a bunch of frantic texts about the popcorn machine that had not been returned yet and apparently someone else had rented it and they needed it by 2, but I was in class until 2:20, so I freaked out a bit and then got Katie to bring it down for me, because she is awesome. My class was okay, it was a bit dull, but hopefully it will be more interesting as time goes on and if I dont have to deal with the stress of popcorn machines. After class it was back to Rez, to find Katie and Liz hanging out in our room and Liz was making soup, that may have boiled over. Liz left to go to her Cello lesson, and Katie and I went to go pick up Kris and then we went to the mall. I ended up buying some tissue paper and a mini stapler, and spent a total of 6$. Liz ended up meeting up with us because sadly she got the time wrong for her Cello lesson and missed it :( We wandered a bit and then left the mall and went back to Rez, and I made dinner, which consisted of Turkey Sausages, an egg and toast, oh and strawberries, and the possibly some ice cream and then maybe some goldfish crackers....today has not been a good day in terms of me eating well. Liz went to her next class, and Katie and I hung out and then went and dropped off some forms to all the residents on our floor, and while we were doing that Liz came back Oh I also managed to fix a stove for some residents, go me! After that Liz, Katie and I , well actually just Liz and I because Katie got a phone call from her mom, ate cake ( I know more bad eating :( ) Adam came over for a visit which is nice, he lives in Keyoh now, so visits will be less frequent which makes me sad. I miss third floor and I miss having Adam on the same floor as me :( I'm still feeling kind of lonesome, and I am not sure as to why, I hope that as I get more into my classes and going to the gym and such that it will become less apparent. I'll probably go to bed in the next hour or so. Night!

Orientation Day

Today was Orientation and lucky for me, I only volunteered for an hour to give tour in the afternoon so I had the rest of my day to myself which resulted in me being rather bored. I got up around 9, and had breakfast and then watched Miss Congeniality, and Liz came over to visit, Katie had spent the night at Kris' and didn't come home until lunch time. Her and Liz hung out while I went down to the school to give tours, I gave one tour with Blake and it went well. It was quick and to the point and I hope that it was helpful to those who were in our group, it was a little hard to give the tour though because there was so much going on in the school and it was so loud that I can only imagine how hard it would have been for people to hear what we were saying. After the one tour I went back up to Rez to meet up with Katie and Liz and we went down to Save-On to buy some groceries, and I only spent around $20, but then we went into shoppers and I spent another 6 on things I really didnt need, like ice cream, But it was such a good deal that I was unable to resist. Shoppers is bad for that After that it was back up rez, and we were just relaxing and then sadly Katie had to deal with a incident with a resident's mother, and mother's dont make things easier, but I think it has been sorted out to the best of anyone's ability and that is all I will say on that. At around 5, we were all going to go have dinner at Red Robin. There were 7 of us: Me, Katie, Kris, Liz, Elsa (Kaie's Sister), Jessy and Kyla (Kris' sisters) and it was good time, I ate a little too much and today I spent more than I would have liked, but that's okay After dinner we went to CNC to play Settlers, but Kyla didnt come, so there's was only 6 of us and it was a pretty long game and I actually managed to win, I was so proud, and I had a weird strategy that occurred accidentally. I'm so happy. Then it was back to rez, and I will be in bed soon, resting up for the first day of classes tomorrow. Should be good :) Night!

I need school to start

Today was not a super eventful day, the most exciting thing I did was get attacked by a popcorn machine, but I will get to that later. I tried to sleep in which resulted in me getting out of bed around 8, and having my usual tea and toast, and I chatted with Katie, and I started to realize how bored I am. I need things to do, I need a routine, I need the gym, and I hope that I can get into the swing of this soon. Classes start on Wednesday and I can hardly wait. I feel like all I do it eat and sit, and feel lonely :( After much over eating and feeling bored and lonesome, I decided to make some vegetarian chili, which turned out to be quite good. At around 2, Katie and I took the First Floors down to the school for Rez Orientation which is basically a bunch of different presentations that were given by the green RAs, student advising, the chaplaincy, The Academic skills center etc. I didnt really need to be there but I felt obligated to go. I did end up leaving early as I was concerned about my chili in the slow cooker. Luckily it was fine when I checked on it. After a chili check I was asking Morganne about the popcorn machine for the movie night that Levi and I were putting on tonight, and she was in need of help in finding the popcorn in Nugss, so I went down to help her and we found none and she ended up having to get someone to come up to the school to help us, his name was Matt (i think) and he picked up some popcorn on his way up as he was not sure if any was left. We then had the machine and the popcorn, all that we needed for the night. I went back up to Rez to have dinner and to be productive for awhile. I worked on a pamphlet that I am making on Tips for a successful semester and so far it is looking good, I only have 3 more sections to write out. At 7:30 I met up with Morganne to get the popcorn machine to where it needed to go, and levi met us down there and we had one hell of a time. The popcorn machine is kind of old, and none of us knew the proper way to do it or the best way to do it, so we kind of winged it, which resulted in much screaming and grease burns, I even had some spatter in my face which sucked, Levi burnt his hand a bit as did Morganne, but I guess we did entertain the residents who showed up before all the popcorn was made. After the making of the popcorn, without setting off the fire alarm we then had another issue and that was getting the projectors turned on. Levi called Jenn who was able to help us get the projectors going. But the issues were not over, we had sound trouble in the room that I was in, the sound on the dvd player to work and ended up just playing the movie through the computer which worked out to be okay and everyone was really nice about the technical difficulties that were being had. There was also a bigger turn out than I was expecting and I think they all enjoyed watching Megamind. The other movie that eneded up being shown was Zoolander, which is an awesome movie. I had planned on working on my pamphlet while watching the movie, but sadly I brought all I needed except for a pen so I had no choice but to enjoy the movie, poor me. After the movie I had the grueling task of cleaning the nasty popcorn maker, I'm sure Levi would have helped but he is on call and he had to do rounds and I couldnt stand the nasty butter smell and thus cleaned it. It was a challenge to clean and it is still not 100% clean but I am done trying to clean it for the night, I smell of artificial butter and salt, It's gross. All the more reason to dislike popcorn. I will go to bed soonish. Katie went to go hang out with Adam and Kris and Morganne etc, I was invited but needed to clean the machine. I think that Katie will be going to Kris' after which means a lonely night for me. here's hoping that I don't freak myself out. Tomorrow The plan is to give tours from 1-2 and to go shopping with Katie at some point, other than that it will be another boring day, with me not doing much but sitting on my butt eating things I shouldnt eat. Kristy and I started a "fitness" competition on September 1st and so far, I'm really not doing well I need to get my shit together. Soon I will be off to bed, I hope Rez is quiet enough for me to get a good night's sleep. Night!

Move in!!

Today has been a very long day.
I was up at 7, and had to meet up with all the RAs to get debriefed on how move in would go. I technically didn't have a shift from 8-10 but I ended up helping Katie and nikolina with signing in people and giving out keys and then eventually I drifted outside.

From 10-12 I was supposed to be stationed outside of neyoh and that was a tad dull, I socialize with Rez council and they were selling this years t-shirts and they are not too bad this year. I ate a lot of free food today

From 12-2 I didn't technically have a job so I played frisbee, and socialized and eventually drifted over to the BBQ and started my shift early on the grill and I became the grill master, I was the best a hot dogs and veggie burgers but for some reason I think my grill just didn't like beef burgers, they didn't cool well on my original grill but as time went by we shut off the one of the grills and worked on just one grill.
We had do much extra food, we froze 4 boxes of hot dogs and 3 of burgers, but we did cook all the veggies burgers.
I started my official BBQ shift at 4.
It was a good time, listening to music and dancing with BBQ tongs.
Things started to slow down after four o'clock

We spent a lot of time putting things down. And I was dying down a bit my head was killing me and the day was not over yet we still had the floor meeting.

At 7 Katie and I walked the first floors down to the school and gave them the low down on how things will work in res this year and our floor seems to be okay, they listened for the most part and asked questions and such and I think the meeting went well, I didn't say much but it is Katie's floor not mine and I don't want to step on any toes.

After the meeting I had to assist a resident that has locked himself out :( at this point I had lost Katie and ended up heading back down to the school with Fabris and Sam and we raided the food at the parent welcome, it was so good, I wish I could have taken all the leftovers home but they are quite strict about not taking the food home, even though the leftovers just get thrown away.
I may have stolen a wedge of cheese and frantically ran off with it, but I was good and I didn't take the plate.

I got back to my room, and my hands smell
Of smoked salmon from all of it that I ate at parent welcome (random fact)
I hung out with Katie and met kris' sisters jesse who is at unbc this year and lives in keyoh, she is tall like kris and seems friendly.

I plan on going to bed soon as I am tired and I still have a headache. I feel kind is bad for Katie as I know she is drained too and she is on call tonight and will probably be up multiple times to let late arrivals in :( poor Katie
At least tomorrow should be more relaxed than today.


Feeling a bit homesick, here's hoping that goes away

Night!

Can't believe it's been over a week

Today was a day off from training, I still got up relatively early at relaxed and had breakfast and chilled on the couch. Eventually Katie woke up and we hung out and she worked on stuff for the first floor bulletin board. At noon I wash a bunch of the RLTs T-Shirts, and Liz had come over and she brought us Starbucks, which was very nice of her. We then went a set up the first floor bulletin board all together and I switched the T-shirts into the dryer and learned that first floor dryers suck and that I will likely not be doing laundry on my floor as the machines suck more than usual and it is all the way at the end of the hallway. Liz had to leave just before two, and after she left Katie and I went to go put up the door decorations on the floor and we delivered the welcome messages along with little packages of goldfish, many of the first floor residents are already moved in, even though technically tomorrow is move in. The door decs look really good and I was glad that we were done by around 3, and then Katie and I took some time to clean up our room, as it was a tad messy, scraps of paper were everywhere and I was really glad to get it tidied up. After that Katie abandoned me to go visit Kris, and I just hung out by myself and watched tv for a bit. I also took the time to call my mom and my dad, but my dad didn't answer. I found out from my mom that my granny is out of the hospital, which was a nice thing to hear, she had been in the hospital with an infection and I know it was stressing my mom out, and was very relived to hear that she is out of the hospital and doing better. After that I made dinner, I cooked up potatoes and broccoli and some salmon with a ginger line sauce, and it was pretty delicious, and I have lots of leftovers, which is good. After that I painted my nails, and I was super anal about it, it was also super time consuming, and while they were drying I watched more TV, and when I thought that they were dry enough I went to go put away my leftovers, but sadly I mucked up my nails, which was sad, I hate when my nails get nicked and such. I think now that it has been like 3 hours they should be at the point where they should not be damaged super easily...I hope. Katie came back from Kris' at around 7ish, and at almost the exact same time my dad called me to let me know that he has mailed off my teddy bear, and was also sending me my proof of insurance so I can opt out of the student health and dental plan which will save me about $200, which is important. Katie and I then spent a bit of time planning out the floor meeting that has to be done tomorrow, and then Lindsey came over to visit and is still here, and we are catching up on life which is nice. I will be heading to bed soon, as tomorrow will be a long day and a busy day. Night!