Im regreting making scones and pretzels :(

This morning I once again struggled to stay asleep until my alarm went off, probably because I went to bed so early last night. I got out of bed at 7:30 and got read for class while watching the magic school bus as usual.

I went down early and grabbed a tea from Tim hortons and went to my biological anth class which was mostly review, and then in my women and the environment class we had a guest speaker. She was a 95 year old woman who was born and raised in Fraser lake. Our pro did an oral history type interview infront of the class which was interesting and the woman was quite funny and her daughter was present for our class.

After class I went to the library to pick up a book I had requested, the bio anth text book as we have our second midterm next week.

I went back to res to print my conservation notes and to have some food. I had a banana and some yogurt and then I brought celery and peanuts with me to class so I could snack. My conservation class was good, and after class I went to the lab for a few hours, there are 2 missing nests and two nests I have to do and then an extra 15 nests and that's it :) so there is an end in site assuming I can find the missing nests. Tomorrow I will finish the two I can find and hopefully the other two can be found so I can get those done and get the data entered. And then only 15 more to go!

Something exciting that I forgot to mention is that I got an email about the job with the Canadian food inspection agency saying that I had net the requirements and that I would be entered into the hiring pool so I am one step closer, but I don't know when I will hear whether or not I actually have a job or not, I guess I should keep looking for jobs just to be safe.


After the lab it was back to res. Katie and i are both on call so we are pretending that we are both on call in both buildings and we are going to rounds together :) the only downside to being on call is that someone should be arriving tonight and we don't know, wait we know. She was already moved in, she just needed bedding an we had to go to keyoh to unlock a study lounge and we brought the bedding with us and she was there to take it, which was awesome, one less thing to worry about :)

I made white chocolate raspberry scones tonight and then Katie and I made pretzels as I ate way too much ad now I feel kind of bad about myself, I feel like a fatty, but I'll go back to the fun tomorrow and sweat it out.

The rest I my night should be spent doing home work, but I'll likely do nothing until 11 when Katie and I are doing tandem rounds and then it will e off to bed with the hopes of getting no calls.

Night!

Yay, my lip is almost not swollen

This morning I had trouble staying asleep until my alarm went off, but at 8 I was out of bed. I had a boiled egg for breakfast and at 830 I went to the gym and did about 35minutes of cardio

Upon returning to res I was informed that the boiler in our building had blown and we had no hot water so I couldn't shower, instead I went and bought groceries. I got lots of veggies and some chicken wings were on sale for $4 so I bought them to have for dinner as a treat. I thought my groceries were going to cost me a lot, but they were less than $30.
When I was walking to the bus stop with my groceries I came across a book in a bag that said free book and apparently it is a book that is traveling the world, so I picked it up and I will read it and place it somewhere else when I am done.

Once back in res I marinated my chicken wings and was about to have lunch when Elaine texted me to go to the gym, and I went, yup twice in one day. We got to the gym and warmed up with a few laps and then Elaine wasn't feeling it so she went and did yoga and I did strength exercises and stretches for about a half hour, I was sore an sweaty and once back on res the hot water was still no present so I did not shower.

I had to hang out in the mailroom to promote people reapplying to res which seemed odd considering the building currently had no hot water :S
I was there for an hour and then went to the lab for an hour and a Half, I was planning on staying longer, but my neck and back were sore, but I'll go again tomorrow. I just relaxed a bit before I made my dinner of chicken wings and salad and it was a delicious meal.

After dinner I worked on my panama presentation for Friday an organized notes and talked with my mom for a bit and when talking with my mom I discovered that the water was becoming warm so I could take a shower.
I took a quick warm shower which was much needed.
I watched the on call phone for Becky while she went to frisbee and there were no calls :)

There is a part of me that wants to bake something, but it might a bit later hmmm
I will have to think about it for a bit.

I think that's all for the day

Night!

Can never seem to be well in prince george....

I was up at 730, and slowly got ready for class.
My throat is hurting and I got canker sores everywhere, even one on my uvula... And my lip has been swollen since Sunday, I think it's infected, it has a sore on it too, so I have been keeping it covered in polysporin.

My biological anthropology class was boring and long and I learned nothing....
After class I stopped by the clinic to see If I could see the nurse, but sadly there were no open appointments. I wanted to get my lip looked at. I will try again tomorrow

Women and the environment was the same old same old an after class I went to the class gift kickoff and hung out for a bit and go some free pizza for my lunch and then I went to my conservation class

My class went well, I got back my midterm and I got a B+ which is okay I guess, not too bad.

I went to the lab for the two hour break I had between my class and my tutorial. I only got 5 nests done but I was tired and not feeling well
My tutorial was soso, we had a debate about the wolves in Yellowstone and everyone within the group was assigned a role. It was kind of interesting and then we got assigned yet another assignment, this class has so many assignments. I now have to make a 8-9minute presentation for next Tuesday, but I have time

After my tutorial it was time for iron chef. It was res event that I was helping Susan and Fabris with. It's basically a cook off with a secret ingredient and this time the secret was quinoa
We made a quick dish in 20minutes to share with the groups. 5 groups participated and oddly they were all male. Some o the dishes were good, but many taste a bit too salty, and by a bit I mean a lot. We announces prizes and then I went back to my empty room. Katie is at kris' so I am just hanging out by myself and I will go to bed soon, I'm tired and I plan on going to the gym around 8:30 tomorrow. I need to get in shape, I may not be healthy, but I can start exercising. My pants are tight and I have more love handles to love and no one is loving them so I would like to loose them. I'm hoping I can become less of a lazy blob :(

Anyways I'm going to get ready for bed and hit the hay and maybe I I'm lucky my lip and throat will be better in the morning

Night!

Reading week was not long enough

Landed in PG this morning at 930 ad it was rough landing and outside looked like a blizzard
I instantly wanted to go back home

I spent the day doing homework and being tired

I went to a pink party for cervical and breast cancer awareness and then had my RA meeting an I am tired

So

Night

Home tomorrow!

Today was an alright day I was up before my alarm which went off at 6:15, so I could get ready to go to my Panama meeting at 7, and our meeting started with a Quiz :( After the meeting I was in the lab for 2 ish hours and I got 8 nests done I now only have 21 nests left from the reference site and them some random nests to do, and then it's just data entry After the lab I showered, and cleaned up my room, began packing etc. and I cleaned up my room while I made lunch After lunch I went down to the school to meet up with Elaine, we hung out for a bit, and then I had to hang around at the school till 2:30 because I was going a grad shout out, basically you say "UNBC has energized me to..." to a camera and it will be shown at convocation so I said " UNBC has energized me to forge my own path" which was fun. After that I worked a bit on my presentation that I have to give the frday after reading break, I figure I needed to start it. I made my own pizza for dinner including the dough :) and it was delicious Ive been spending my night watching movies, and I just spent some time going though job posting sites, which just make me more and more nervous about graduating and finding work. I'll probably hit the hay early and go to the lab in the morning since I dont fly out until tomorrow at 5:20ish Night!

Was too full of shushi to remmeber

Yesterday was valentines day and considering it was my first one alone since grade 12 it's wasn't bad in any way shape or form


I got valentines

Had
Class

Wrote a midterm

Went to the lab

Hung out with Elaine

Went to all you can eat sushi with Elaine and jenina and I ate all I could I was so full, that I guess I forgot about my blog
:S

Night!

Building up the good karma

Today was a pretty productive day all in all

I was up at 8, as had a slow morning, but I began studying for conservation and I did that for a few hours before having an early lunch.

After my early lunch I went down to the school to meet Elaine so we could study conservation. She was a bit late, but I ended up chatting with Adam and grabbing Tim hortons. And Adam sat with me until Elaine arrived.

Once Elaine arrived, we went to the cafe an studied for a couple hours. She also gave me a valentines day gift of cookies and a stuffed Pokemon :) it was super cute!

Studying went well and Cierra ended up joining us for the last bit of our study time.
At 2:30 Elaine had class so I went to the lab to do nests, I was there for just under two hours and I did 8 nests, I would have done more but my back was hurting and I had to study more for conservation.

As I was leaving the lab I went to the bathroom to wash my hands and found out that someone had left their blackberry in the bathroom. I wrote a note saying that it had been found and that it was at security and left the note where I found it and then I took the phone to security. And that was my good deed for the day!

Once back in res I decided to not studying until after dinner. Instead I looked for jobs and applied for a few jobs and just killed time until I had some perogies for dinner. When I was making dinner I called my mom and chatted with her for a bit and after dinner I talked with me dad.
I was having trouble finding motivation to study, so I took a shower and got into my pjs so I could study in a more relaxed environment :)

I'm now studying for my midterm and watching so tv and I'm just going to take it easy for the rest o the night an try to get a good nights rest so I am we'll rested for my midterm tomorrow.

Now back to studying!

Night!

4 more sleeps till home

This morning I was woken up at 6 because Susan sent me a text regarding putting up the class gift bursary bulletin board, she wasn't done her paper and so she was going to do it herself at 10:30 rather than me going to help her at 8, which was good, but sad that I had been woken at 6 :(
I stayed in bed until 730, watched the magic school bus, ate breakfast, and got ready for my day of class

Biological anth was boring, we watched a movie and hit out of class about 30minutes early, so I used that time to study for my conservation midterm in Thursday.

Then I had my women and the environment class. And we got lemon curd scones and homemade raspberry jam since she was late last week. It was delicious :)

After class I tried to get my conservation bio notes but they wouldn't download to my computer :(

The lecture was good
I had butter chicken for lunch and tried to study
I also ran into jenina and we made plans to go for sushi on valentines day, yay!

My tutorial was okay
I got out early and had to reheat the chili for the heart health event.

The event went well. The talk was short and sweet and it had an okay turn out. I shared the chili with the presenters and they were very grateful

After chili and heart health I did nothing but listen to Katie and kris plan out their trip to Vancouver by the hour , it's crazy

Now in sleepy and not being productive. So I might as well go to sleep!


Night!

BCs first family day

I tried to sleep in and I was up at 830 and out of bed by 10.

I made triple berry pancakes from breakfast as they were delicious
And at around noon I went to the lab and did 10 nests

After that I made chili with Fabris for our event tomorrow and that was quick.

And I studied a bit of conservation and made dinner

Katie came home

I showered and soon I will be off to bed, not a very eventful day

Night!

A quicky because my battery is dying and i want todo this now

Today was more productive
Up at 730
Went up to Susan's at 9 ish so we could work on the class gift bulletin.

Worked on the bulletin until just before 11

At 11 I met with Lisa my women and the environment partner and we worked for about 2 hours. Then I did four nests in the lab and then returned to res

I relaxed

Made stuffed mushrooms for dinner
Made too many but ate them all

Finished my draft of the women and the environment prospectus

Now it's bed time and no alarm is set for tomorrow so I will see how that goes

I need to spend time in the lab tomorrow, and I need to study for my conservation midterm as well


Night!

Still in recovery mode

Last night was brutal, people are so stupid and have no respect for anyone.
It was Avery frustrating night and by the end of it, I did not care about being nice, I was a bitch and I think I should have been one from the start

I don't fall asleep till probably after 4 and someone was trying to get into my room at 3:30, I suspect a drunken fool

I couldn't even sleep in, I was up at 7 and 9 and finally got out I bed at 10.

Katie had gone to kris' last night so when she got back I was able to vent about my night and ten I basically spend my day grumpy and tired and did not accomplish anything

At 4 it was Music trivia res challenge so I went to that and it was fun and over by 5:40, then I needed to get off campus so the plan was to bus down and meet Elaine and we would go for pho

We go to the pho place and it was closed from today until the 18th :( so then we went to res robin which was super busy and crowded and I ate way too much

We killed time while waiting for the bus in the dollar store and then we caught the bus back up. Elaine went home and I'm back in res and I'm going to try and go to sleep and to get a good nights rest so I can be super productive in the morning

Res better be quiet enough for me to fall asleep or it will only ad to my grumpiness


Night!

Friday night on call :(

This morning I was in the lab for 4 hours and I am almost at my goal of 30 nests for this week, I got up to 28, and 10 of them were today

After the lab I had lunch

My class gift meeting
And then at 4 I went shopping for chili stuff with Jenn, Nikolina, and Allison. And I got lots of stuff :)

After that I was on call

I made dinner which consisted of potato wedges and salad, and then I ate candy for awhile

930 rounds went okay, and Christina is coming over at 11 for the next set of rounds and I hope things go well
I did hurt one finger knocking on doors during rounds though :(

Night!

Not in a blogging mood

I went to my classes, got back my biological anthropology midterm and I got 83% whih isn't bad considering the minimal effort I put towards studying

My women and the environment class was frustrating

After conservation I went to the gym with Elaine and I haven't done much since other than wallow in self pity :(

I think I'll just go to bed and hope for a better tomorrow


Night!

It's about time for a real entry

So, keeping a daily blog is hard when you are busy and tired and forgetful, but I have some time so I guess I will take this opportunity to give an overall catch up on things. I'll start with today and go where ever my thoughts take me So this morning I did not go to the gym as planned, Katie had spent the night at Kris' and I didn't want to go alone, so I woke up, had breakfast and watched some Tv. I had quite the chill morning. Just before 11 I went down to the school since I had volunteered to be at the Grad Fair from 11-2 for the class gift committee, and I also had to get my photo taken because I had won an award this year. I did that first, I went and wrote a thank you on a chalk board and held it in my photo, and then I had free pizza and such which was nice and I was hoping it would sustain me until dinner. After that it was back to the class gift table, and looked around at the grad photos and all the grad stuff and it really began to stress me out, but I tried to keep things under control. At 12:20 we did a mass shout out, where we all gathered on he winter garden stairs and shout various things along with various hand gestures, it was fun. Then it was back to manning the class gift table. I stayed there until 2, and after that I went off to the lab to work on my nests. I stayed there for about 3 hours and did 9 nests, and was a dirty, dusty ball after, and I was hungry. Once back in res I made dinner, and once katie left for class I called my dad, because I was feeling stressed about convocation and whether or not I want to go, but I was talking to a man who didnt go to any of his 3 university convocations and he only went to his high school one because he was the valedictorian and it would have looked bad if he didnt haha. Then I spoke with my brother Matt about it on skype, and he brought up some points that the money might not be worth it, and it could go towards other things, like my Panama trip or going to vegas or going somewhere fun, and I am leaning towards not going. I then spoke to my dad again, and suggested that I could get grad photos so I could wear the robe and such and get a picture for my mom and for my Granny and such, and that would only cost about 100$ as opposed to the hundreds it would cost me to go to convocation, and my dad could sense that I really don't want to go to convocation. I also talked to my mom about it, and she was fine with whatever decision I make. I think the thing is that I come from a family where graduating university isn't a huge deal, where as in some families people may be the first of their family to get a degree. This is not the case, I come from a family of educated people, and I think the only way I could out do them would be to get a PhD haha. Everyone at school is telling me to go to convocation, so the pressure is on, but in reality, my school friends are my school friends and my two best friends dont go to my school, so that makes me less motivated to go to my convocation, not to mention the cost associated with it. I think it might be a lot better for me to make a cold cut decision and eliminate all the stress this will cause. However, I am leaning strongly towards not going, but I have until April 5th to make my final decision and I think I should be able to figure it out by then. Now lets look at things that don;y involve graduating RA stuff: It's all going well, lots of events coming up from heart health and chili to gambling awareness, I actually feel like I have a handle on my events this semester and I actually think people will show up which will be a nice change from last semester. Health Stuff: For the most part I'm doing better, I have more energy usually, and have been less sick, but still not at 100% sadly I am still a blob, finding it hard to go to the gym and hard to eat well, I find my time is consumed with wallowing in self pity and in the lab going through nests and sadly I can't do either of those things while at the gym. I'm beginning to think I should not worry about the gym for now, and try and start over after reading break, and try to eat healthy and exercise to prep myself for when I go to Panama Panama stuff: Very excited, I have my presentation to give the friday after reading break, but I am not too worried about it Other Classes: Conservation Biology - The TA is a super HARSH marker, I got my proposal back and only got 73% and i thought I had done well, but now I know so hopefully I will be able to do better on the assignments that are worth more. Women and the Environment - Such a silly class, the assignment descriptions are vague and it makes getting things done in that class difficult. I am in a group of two for all the group stuff and we are focusing on women in conservation, which is interesting, and we want to focus on the motivations behind women in conservation Biological Anthropology - Umm well we got our midterms back yesterday, but I missed class because of my interview so I will probably get it back tomorrow, other than that, not much I can say about that class Other aspects of life: I'm still feeling rather lonely, Katie leave a lot to go hang out with Kris and when she doesnt see him for a day or two she talks about how much she misses him, and she is leaving me this upcoming long weekend to go to vanderhoof so hopefully I can find things to occupy my time so I feel less lonely. I am trying to take time to myself and to take time to hang out with people, but it's hard. I feel like I barely see Elaine this semester because we only have on class together as opposed to 3, and I am not at the school very often, and I'm lazy so I dont go to the gym with her very often. This weekend we are supposed to do something, but we don't know what or when because we have to study for our conservation midterm, and other type things. I need more friends. Anyways I think I want to shower before I go to bed, because I smell like an old library because of all the dust from the nests Night!

Job interview

I'm tired so point for it is
Up at 6
Shower
Dressed fancy for my interview
Took the 7:36 bus
Got there way too early
Had my interview at 9
The oral interview went well, it was done via conference call
The knowledge test was quite possibly the hardest test I have every written,

I made it to my conservation class
Killed time before my tutorial,
Had a rather depressing tutorial about ways to control population growth in humans which resulted in a lot of unethical things, like culling humans or sterilization

After that I didn't do much
I was tired and stressed from my day
I talked to my dad and my mum and now I think I'll go to bed

Night!

Best half birthday ever!!!!

So today was not as productive as I would have liked. I was up at 8, but didn't go to groove because Elaine wasn't going and I needed groceries, so at 9:30 I took the bus down to go grocery shopping.
I got the basics, bread, milk eggs etc, it took me an hour and then I was back in res.

I also confirmed my heart health event speaker so I made the posters for that an got them printed and such,

I then worked a bit on homework before heading down to the school for my 12:30 meeting with my women and the environment assignment partner.
We met for about and hour which I think was longer than necessary since the directions for the assignment were a bit unclear

After that I was going to goto the lab, but then Katie invites me to go to lunch, her treat, so I met her at the moose and we had moose fries for lunch, after that I thought about going to the lab, but then decided that it would be better for me to do homework before dinner, and then going to the lab after dinner instead.
On the way back from the moose we ran into Alex, and we chatted on the way up to res about half birthdays and how mine was today and how I wasn't expecting anything.

I got my assignment done for tomorrow, and then I did some studying before having dinner, for dinner I had a chicken stew type thing that I had been cooking in my slow cooker all day.


After the dinner, I went off to the lab and Managed to get 9 nests done in just over 3 hours.

After the lab I had my RA meeting and when I walked into the room, there was a chair decorated that said "1/2 birthday girl" and there were ribbons and streamers and then Alex walked up to me and said that he had totally fooled me and he had me for my half birthday.
He also wrote a poem and had the entire team read it out, and if I had been a crier, I would have cried it was so cute, I felt so special. And to top it all off I got a gift too! Tea, chocolates and a magnet!

It was awesome!
And the meeting was short and now I need to goto bed because I need to get up super early to get ready for my interview tomorrow, I need to shower and such and I am planning to catch the 7:36 bus :S

Wish me luck tomorrow!

Night!

On call and wanting to go to bed

Today was supposed to be a productive day, but I have been struggling to find motivation,

I was up at 8 and made pancakes and watched the first sex and the city movie and enjoyed it. Then I tried to be productive, working on notes and trying to study for my upcoming conservation midterm and working on assignments, but it was slow going, very slow going

I got a few calls, one for a lock out, one for a leaky toilet, and they were easy to deal with

After dinner I went over to Fabris' to borrow clothes for my interview that I have on Tuesday.
I borrowed some dress pants and a blouse type shirt

Then it was back home to try and do some more work and that wasn't productive, Katie and kris came home

I have to be up until 11 to do rounds and in tired and would much rather go to sleep

I guess will say up for awhile and just do nothing until 11 and the do rounds quickly and then I'll be off to bed


Night!

Such a long are tiresome day

Last night was a blast
I danced, and danced, drank a fair bit, learned that Mountain Dew and Malibu tastes like delicious candy. We went to the gay bar in pg, gala, and it was do much fun

We got home shortly after 2am, and I drank some water, took some Advil and was in bed by 4,
This morning I was up before 7, which is unfortunate, but I had to pee. My alarm went off at 8 am today because of carousel, the RA interview process. It was a long day full of hungover RAs, and in some cases RAs were still drunk, haha

I was running the survival on the moon station with Daniel, it was the basic teamwork exercise, and it was a quick exercise to do.

After the activities, the RAs were asked to stay and entertain people as they waited for their interviews, I took on the task of having people ready to go in to their interviews which involved a lot if standing, and by the end of it all the interviews finished almost two hours late
I was exhausted.

Jenn invited people for pizza and snacks at her place, I ate so much and then borrowed the sex and the city movies from Jenn, Katie had to hang back to debrief and she asked me to wait to watch the movies. I took and shower and waits for Katie, but it's been over an hour, I have a feeling I won't be watching the movies tonight.

Soon I will be off to bed, I'm so very sleepy.

Night!

Chanel is going out, what?

So today I went to my panama meeting
Did 10 nests in 3.5 hours in the lab
Then homework
Now drinking and going out, more to come

Night!

Just thought I would add in an update of the night, It was a blast, dancing at Gala was so much fun and they have these giant fans that are awesome, my hair was everywhere, It was nice to go out and relax and just enjoy being with people. I was out late, but it was worth it Night!