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I have not fallen off the face of the earth. I have not even fallen off my bike, which is remarkable since I have not done much bike riding in the past... well... several years.
Since I last updated, I've been home and back, handed in a major assignment and got a midterm back, had work training, and have started looking for supplementary income (again), have gone grocery shopping to get all the things I forgot at home or forgot that I needed from home (orange juice, anyone? At least it was on sale), saw a girl I haven't seen since first year university and set up a meeting with advising to figure out what exactly I'm going to for my next year(s) of university, have gone out for lunch with relatives and ... not really any parallels to that one.
But let's start from the beginning, shall we?
Home and back: most of you know all about that one, since you all were there! Fixed a couple computers, watched some TV, and managed to actually get the dog to come when I called him -- at least he wasn't ignoring me this time.
Major assignment handed in: the annotated bibliography and somewhat outline for my religious studies term paper, which means now all that's left to do is do is the actual research and the writing. And the final take home paper, which we got our topic for this week, too.
Midterm back in Latin: Ohhhhh I kicked myself. I didn't read the question entirely properly and lost 6 marks (which was only like 2% but still) and then wrote "reflexive" when I meant "relative". Ah well. 95.6% isn't anything to be complaining about.
Had work training: ie. a tour of the facilities. I also handed in my first time sheet. Now the only question is... when will I work again? The guy (who I assume is my supervisor?) said that they want me to work an event with one of the full time staff during a day sometime, but that as of yet, there was nothing in March that would work into my schedule. So what, I don't work until April?!? I'm not terribly happy about that, and so I...
Started looking for supplementary income: But since I'm already juggling two schedules and don't really want to try juggling a third, I'm trying to find work that I can do a bit more casually. For me, that means emailing all the webdesign companies I can find that are hiring and hope that someone "bites". As of yet, no such luck. *sigh* frustrating.
Grocery shopping: not much to tell here, except that yes, I went grocery shopping. And yet my fridge still looks empty. But that's evened out in the fact that my freezer is so packed full. I believe that is evidence that I really am a student.
Picked up things I forgot: yes, I know I didn't take the spaghetti sauce out of the deep freeze. And I didn't take any of those margerine things either. And I needed OJ but forgot. But that's okay; I picked up one of the big 3kg things of margerine for pretty cheap and that should last me at least 'til I come down again ;-). And OJ was on sale. And spaghetti sauce I have that jar of the store bought stuff, which actually isn't all that bad!
Girl I haven't seen since first year: that about explains it all. I took first year computer science with her, and then she moved up to Calgary. She apparently stuck with computer science and is graduating in April before going on to grad school. That makes 3 people that I know of that were in my first computer science class that are actually graduating with a CS degree. Including myself.
Plans for coming university: *sigh* So Hebrew, which I need for my after-degree, isn't going to be offered in Fall. Or it might be, but off campus or as an independant study. Either way, I'm not optimistic. And apparently there's only one other student in the entire university in the major that I'm planning on going into. So who knows if/when it will be offered again, and if the program will even continue to exist. I will, of course, still be able to manage to do this program (assuming Hebrew is offered in the near future), but it will be an absolute pain in the behind. So I'm going to talk to the undergrad advisor for religious studies (who happens to be my religious studies prof) about "what to do" on Monday. I do have some options, but am not sure where they will lead me. But that's why she's called an "advisor".
Lunch with relatives: Thursday was lunch with 2 aunts, 2 cousins and... what do you call a cousin's son? Hm... Anyways, we actually had lunch at a food court, and while often there is nothing really good at food courts, I had a really, really good salad. It was from Arby's and it was called Martha's Vineyard or something like that. Lettuce, "grape" tomatoes (which no, I did not eat), apple chunks, craisins, shredded cheese, sliced almonds and chicken with a raspberry vinaigrette. Highly recommended. As for the relatives part of lunch with relatives, I got to see the new baby (very cute) and heard lots of wedding talk. And then rushed back to school to make it to class on time.
That's about all I have to report. This weekend consists of doing an assignment for next Tuesday, and maybe some reading/research for my term paper. And I should do some Latin. Maybe.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled "programming"
I have not fallen off the face of the earth. I have not even fallen off my bike, which is remarkable since I have not done much bike riding in the past... well... several years.
Since I last updated, I've been home and back, handed in a major assignment and got a midterm back, had work training, and have started looking for supplementary income (again), have gone grocery shopping to get all the things I forgot at home or forgot that I needed from home (orange juice, anyone? At least it was on sale), saw a girl I haven't seen since first year university and set up a meeting with advising to figure out what exactly I'm going to for my next year(s) of university, have gone out for lunch with relatives and ... not really any parallels to that one.
But let's start from the beginning, shall we?
Home and back: most of you know all about that one, since you all were there! Fixed a couple computers, watched some TV, and managed to actually get the dog to come when I called him -- at least he wasn't ignoring me this time.
Major assignment handed in: the annotated bibliography and somewhat outline for my religious studies term paper, which means now all that's left to do is do is the actual research and the writing. And the final take home paper, which we got our topic for this week, too.
Midterm back in Latin: Ohhhhh I kicked myself. I didn't read the question entirely properly and lost 6 marks (which was only like 2% but still) and then wrote "reflexive" when I meant "relative". Ah well. 95.6% isn't anything to be complaining about.
Had work training: ie. a tour of the facilities. I also handed in my first time sheet. Now the only question is... when will I work again? The guy (who I assume is my supervisor?) said that they want me to work an event with one of the full time staff during a day sometime, but that as of yet, there was nothing in March that would work into my schedule. So what, I don't work until April?!? I'm not terribly happy about that, and so I...
Started looking for supplementary income: But since I'm already juggling two schedules and don't really want to try juggling a third, I'm trying to find work that I can do a bit more casually. For me, that means emailing all the webdesign companies I can find that are hiring and hope that someone "bites". As of yet, no such luck. *sigh* frustrating.
Grocery shopping: not much to tell here, except that yes, I went grocery shopping. And yet my fridge still looks empty. But that's evened out in the fact that my freezer is so packed full. I believe that is evidence that I really am a student.
Picked up things I forgot: yes, I know I didn't take the spaghetti sauce out of the deep freeze. And I didn't take any of those margerine things either. And I needed OJ but forgot. But that's okay; I picked up one of the big 3kg things of margerine for pretty cheap and that should last me at least 'til I come down again ;-). And OJ was on sale. And spaghetti sauce I have that jar of the store bought stuff, which actually isn't all that bad!
Girl I haven't seen since first year: that about explains it all. I took first year computer science with her, and then she moved up to Calgary. She apparently stuck with computer science and is graduating in April before going on to grad school. That makes 3 people that I know of that were in my first computer science class that are actually graduating with a CS degree. Including myself.
Plans for coming university: *sigh* So Hebrew, which I need for my after-degree, isn't going to be offered in Fall. Or it might be, but off campus or as an independant study. Either way, I'm not optimistic. And apparently there's only one other student in the entire university in the major that I'm planning on going into. So who knows if/when it will be offered again, and if the program will even continue to exist. I will, of course, still be able to manage to do this program (assuming Hebrew is offered in the near future), but it will be an absolute pain in the behind. So I'm going to talk to the undergrad advisor for religious studies (who happens to be my religious studies prof) about "what to do" on Monday. I do have some options, but am not sure where they will lead me. But that's why she's called an "advisor".
Lunch with relatives: Thursday was lunch with 2 aunts, 2 cousins and... what do you call a cousin's son? Hm... Anyways, we actually had lunch at a food court, and while often there is nothing really good at food courts, I had a really, really good salad. It was from Arby's and it was called Martha's Vineyard or something like that. Lettuce, "grape" tomatoes (which no, I did not eat), apple chunks, craisins, shredded cheese, sliced almonds and chicken with a raspberry vinaigrette. Highly recommended. As for the relatives part of lunch with relatives, I got to see the new baby (very cute) and heard lots of wedding talk. And then rushed back to school to make it to class on time.
That's about all I have to report. This weekend consists of doing an assignment for next Tuesday, and maybe some reading/research for my term paper. And I should do some Latin. Maybe.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled "programming"
