Enter September

Well, it's now September. I can't believe how fast the summer went. The season of changing leaves, brisk winds, wearing jackets in the morning, is now upon us. Also, it's back to school for me, and no more surfing online for hours on end.

This year I have resolved to actually keep up with my studying and not fall behind. The official start date for school is Sept. 10th so I've got 10 days to get ahead of my studies. I realize this is going to be difficult. Crazy difficult. Slacking is in my blood.

I started on Module 1 yesterday afternoon and realized it's a bunch of dry background theory. I was just going to skim over it to get to the good stuff when I saw on page 1 of the text "this chapter should not be skimmed over." Apparently it's essential to this course like a building foundation. Damnit.

I also read over this guide to improve your study habits. They had all these lists of bad habits that students fall into, and I was guilty of every single one of them. I started laughing because it felt like they had surveillance on me all of last year, and merely wrote down my actions and behaviour.

My Life Over Last Week

I decided to start taking the stairs when I get home from work. So, Tuesday and Wednesday I walked all the way up the stairs. In total over the two days that is 372 stairs. I woke up Thursday feeling fine, but by 9:00 at work my legs started to scream pain in the calves.

I wanted to participate in the August Mission over at The Hellblog Network but the camera batteries were 100% dead and unrechargeable. Also, we were broke until payday Thursday.

So Thursday rolls around, I finish work, come home (I took the elevator) and ordered pizza. Kevin then calls me saying he's at Carlos and Murphy's with some friends from work and I should come join them. So I do, after I quickly try and do something with my hair and apply some makeup. The walk almost killed me. Kevin says I walk like there's something wrong with me. I answer, yes there is, my calves are wrong. They are broken because I tried to make myself healthier by getting some daily exercise. That'll show me.

I had a bit of a hangover on Friday. I admit, I've had much worse. It was more just an overwhelming tiredness. Thank God I only work 4 hours on Fridays.

I had another follow up appointment with Lasik MD. They said my eyes have healed perfectly and my vision has improved again. I actually read the 20/15 line with my right eye. I had a bit of trouble reading it with my left eye.

I got home, installed ACCPAC on my computer and started working through the tutorials on it. I then decided to relax on the couch, promptly fell asleep and woke up at 9pm. I then went to bed.

That brings us to today. My calves still hurt like a bitch. I still don't have batteries for my camera. I have to do laundry, dishes, general clean-up of the apartment, grocery shopping. I have to study.

I just reserved a copy of Best Life Magazine at the Grant Park McNally Robinson. This issue has a short story by Chuck Palahniuk that I don't want to miss out on. I'll wait until Kevin gets home to go get it because I'm not walking anywhere today.

Just Because Day

Today is Just Because Day. If there's something you want to do for no reason then do it.

Examples:

-take an unplanned vacation day
-knock on someone's door and compliment them on their lawn
-jump in a puddle
-walk backwards

This is from the list of examples the article gave. Like I'm going to skip work. I actually like my job. I get paid more money than I've ever been paid in my life to sit at the front desk typing stuff and answer the un-busy phone. I can listen to my mp3 player all day.

I only read about this around 8pm and I decided to do nothing, like usual...just because.

Tomorrow is Race Your Mouse Day. The authors said they don't know if it's supposed to be a computer mouse or a real mouse. Either way, it's kinda nuts.

I looked and my birthday is Video Games Day.

Anyways, below is the link to visit the site.

http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/index.htm

Fun Saturday Night ♥

Well,

Tonight was the best night I've had in a long time! I've been getting quite angsty for the past few weeks because I've just been sitting around the apartment surfing online all night long. This morning I messaged my friend Heather saying we need to get together sometime and she said hey, why not tonight?

So we hung out at BP on the patio all night long. Her and 3 of her friends. It was awesome. This is what life is supposed to be like. Connecting with other people, sharing fun times, getting out there and enjoying life.

Don't get me wrong, I love my life with Kevin, but sometimes he just wants to relax at home because he has a hard labour job and he's exhausted when he gets home. I sit at a desk all day long and have endless energy at the end of the day and want to do something. It causes conflict sometimes. Unfortunately, I feel guilty about going out by myself and leaving him alone, but the thing is, he doesn't mind. He's fine with staying home alone playing World of Warcrack. Don't get me wrong, I love WOW. I'm a level 39 Tauren Druid whose trades are herbalism and alchemy. But sometimes I get anxious and want to get out and interact with people in the real world.

We've agreed to go out to the Spike in a few weeks and I already can't wait. I haven't been out to the bar since....last October. Wow, that is sad. I'm only 26 years old and you only live once.

I'm over the top right now. It's amazing how much you can appreciate the little things like hanging out with your friends when you've been deprived for so long. =)

Thursday, August 23rd.

Pretty simple title today. I couldn't think of anything witty or specific.

The Bus Stop

So, today I was standing at my bus stop downtown when a man approached me. I had looked at him then looked away when he looked back. Next thing I know he approaches me and starts talking. Let me say, I had no idea who he was. But it quickly became apparent that he knew me. He asked if I still lived with my parents in EK. Now I'm just thinking frantically, who is this?

Then it clicked. Back when I worked at Archway I used to catch my bus every morning on Louelda and he used to wait at the same bus stop. I even remembered his name all of a sudden. Kevin. I recall telling him I would never forget his name because I'm engaged to a man named Kevin. I recall mentioning my engagement right away to get that out of the way.

Anyways, bus stop Kevin has very intense eyes. You know what I mean, those people, when they look at you, you get the sense they're trying to see into your head with their psychic abilities. Whenever I encounter people like this I try really hard not to look away from their stare. It's like a game of chicken. At least that's what I get out of it.

Still, this is really difficult. He kept mentioning things that I don't even remember telling him and I wondered what else he knew about me. I wonder, how does he even remember all this stuff? I was just some girl he talked to at the morning bus stop. I forgot he even existed over the past three years.

Hair Conversation

Last night Kevin shaved his head. He does this a couple times a year and I'm not a fan of the shaved head look. I don't mind shaving around the sides, but leave the top of the head longer. It just looks better in my opinion. Anyways, I've never said anything about it in 5 years and yesterday I just happened to ask him, "So, what made you do that?"

I thought I was being casual but he asked me, "what, don't you like it?"

I couldn't lie so I said "it's ok." Pretty big cop out on my part.

At this he scoffed and said "well, that's a resounding no!"

He then expressed great surprise that he never knew this.

Long story short, we got into a long conversation about total honesty, and I shouldn't have to hide things like this. It doesn't mean he's going to change his habit of cutting all his hair off, but if I don't like it I should at least say so. This is going to take a lot of work on my part. Total honesty. Unsurprisingly, a Fight Club quote comes to mind.

Chapter 2. Big Bob. "Strangers with this kind of honesty make me go a big rubbery one, if you know what I mean."

Well, I got laundry to fold. I look forward to half day Friday tomorrow.

They Got a Pepper Bar!!

Well, I had planned to post the pics of my completed kusudama but the camera batteries are still dead. Kevin fixed the problem with charging them up and they should be working tomorrow.

Anyways, I had absolutely nothing happen in my life today, but I did stumble across this on YouTube and had to post it.

I remember first seeing these Quizno "furballs" and laughing my head off. I mean, what are they? This is their actual ad campaign?

I watched this commercial tonight and laughed for about 5 minutes straight. If I smoked dope I might be dead right now.

Various Online Adventures

This is interesting. It's amazing how random my wanderings on the web can be. I never know where I'll end up.

I started on canoe.ca reading a review for The invasion.
http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Reviews/I/Invasion/2007/08/17/4425019-sun.html

I saw a mention of the director, so I went to the page for Oliver Hirschbiegel on imdb.com, the review mentioned his movie Das Experiment and so I ended up on the forum for Das Experiment. That led me to the real Stanford Experiment.

http://www.prisonexp.org/

This was a fascinating read. Very disturbing. I highly recommend everyone read it. I also really want to watch Das Experiment now.

Metacafe
http://www.metacafe.com

I love this site. I stumbled across it looking for origami instructions on yesterday. Anyways, I subscribed to KipKay, this guy is amazing. No wonder he's their top earner. I love his 12 volt battery hack he just put up today. I use these batteries all the time. The use? The laserpointer for playing with my cats. Well, they're actually not my cats. But I like to think of them as my cats. =)

The Beer Lesson

Copied from my CGA group on Facebook:
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The following is a way of explaining tax cuts in terms everyone can understand.

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100.
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that's what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until on day, the owner threw them a curve. "Because you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20."Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free.
But what about the other six men - the paying customers?
How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?'
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33.
But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.
So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before.
And the first four continued to drink for free.
But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
"I only got a dollar out of the $20,"declared the sixth man.
He pointed to the tenth man," but he got $10!"
"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!"
"That's true!!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!"
"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him.
But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important.
They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works.
The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction.
Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore.
In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
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I never thought of it quite that way before. I need to show this to my parents.

Kusudama

I learned how to make and completed my first Japanese Kusudama(trans. medicine ball) this weekend. This thing consists of 60 separate origami papers folded and glued together. I plan on publishing a picture of it but my camera batteries are dead. They'll be charged up by tomorrow though.

My Life Without Glasses

I had a follow up appointment at the laser eye surgery place on Friday. They said I am seeing 20/20 and almost to 20/15. I got 3 out of 5 for the 20/15 line chart. I regularly reach to take my glasses off at night, and think I have to put them on after my shower in the morning. The red spot on my eye is now reduced to a small crescent moon cradling my iris. I might take a picture of it tomorrow as well.

My Laser Eye Surgery Experience

Well, I finally did it. I got laser eye surgery. I finally made the leap... and it was great. This morning, I woke up and I could actually read the time on my alarm clock. Sometimes, it's the little things that mean the most.

Over the past week I've had dozens of requests to let people know how the experience goes.

I completely understand this.

When I decided I was going to do this back in April I kept asking questions of the two people I know who've already done it; my cousin, Shawn, and Kevin's Mom in Calgary. I wanted "the scoop", and to "know what I was getting into." Neither of them gave me specifics. All they said were things like, it was easy, and, there's no pain. These were not the answers I was looking for, but regardless they did put me at ease a little bit.

I decided to walk to the clinic to walk off some energy in the morning. I got there at 7:55 for my 8am appointment and found the clinic was locked up and the lights out. I hung around in the hallway and a few minutes later I heard someone get off the elevator. She was on a crutch that clicked with every step. Click-click, pause, click-click, pause. She came around the corner and slowly made her way down the hallway. She introduced herself to me and I to her. She was Dolores, she worked here. She would be doing my pre-op counselling today. She knodded to the crutch and explained she just got back from a two month break due to her leg injury. She had been given the door lock code by another employee but couldn't remember it. She tried about five different combinations but none of them worked. She tried ringing a doorbell I had not seen, but there was no answer. So we waited. Promptly at 8:01 we were let inside by a young woman holding a tray of cookies.

I sat in the entry waiting room for about half an hour, filled out some paperwork, disclaimer forms, etc. Full of terrifying stuff about side effects and permanent vision loss. There was also a binder full of surveys from past patients that I flipped through. They all rated their experience as 9/10 or 10/10 and had very promising feedback. It occurred to me that they just wouldn't put the bad responses in the binder. I then was taken into a room for another eye exam to ensure my rx has remained the same since April.

I was next brought to the second waiting room. The view from the 20th floor is breathtaking in this room. I waited some more, then I went in with my counsellor, Dolores. She gave me a fanny-pack full of eye drops and a sheet explaining how to take them. She got me to sign the release forms in front of her and then she acted as witness.

She then explained some things to expect in the procedure.

I should not be alarmed at the burning hair smell, that's just the laser cutting off excess tissue.

Don't be alarmed when your vision goes dark, that happens when they apply suction to your eye.

Do not be alarmed at the red dot that may appear on each eye, it's like a hickey on your eyeball from the suction.


This stuff, this is real helpful. No, seriously.


See the below picture? This only happened on one eye.



I paid her at this point. I gotta admit, it's quite exhilarating to be able to say, "I'll put it on debit," at this point. It promptly declined, and I then called the bank to raise my daily limit to allow the charge to go through.

Dolores asked me if I was nervous and I said yes, I was. She then asked if I had eaten breakfast and I told her no, I hadn't. She said sorry, but if I had eaten she could have given me Ativan to calm me down. I would be a raving drunk in the procedure if she gave me the pill. She said don't worry. There's nothing to be worried about.

She gave me a prescription for eyedrops, and I went down to Shopper's in the Square and gave it to the pharmacist. At this point I realized I was starving, so I walked to the A&W in the food court. The cashier only had one arm. I only mention this because I tried to be normal about it but I tried to stare at the "stump" a couple of times anyways. It wasn't that I had any mean feelings, I just wondered how it happened. Was she born that way? Did she get in a horrible car accident? Was it diabetes? Anyways, I ate my breakfast, picked up my eyedrops, took out money for a cab ride home, and went back to the clinic.

Now, I waited what felt like forever. The manager gave me a cup of green tea to help me relax. Everyone who worked there was super friendly. I think I'll send get them a card.

I talked with the other people in the waiting room at this point. There was Ellie, middle-aged with her own grown up daughter there to drive her home. There was Will, skinny, balding, hair cut real short. Also, Tom, somewhere in his 50's with grey hair. There was a woman with short curly hair reading a book, I forget her name. There was another blonde woman with hilites. There was the younger Tom, in his 40's, with brown hair and a moustache.

We joked about our fear of going blind, and other people's reactions when we told them what we were doing today.

Sometime around 10:00 one of the technicians asked me to sit by the operating room door, she put a cap over my hair and put the freezing drops in my eyes. Those burn a lot. I sat for maybe another 20 minutes. I could hear them testing, or calibrating, or (god forbid) fixing the machine on the other side of the door. I swear I heard a man curse.

Finally, the door opened and I went inside. I shook hands with Dr. Van der Zweep and felt re-assured. He told me the steps to the procedure and that he would explain what was going on as he did it. I also should mention he's kinda cute. Here's his page:

http://www.lasikmd.com/cedmonton/meet-your-doctor/our-surgeons/dr-john-van-der-zweep.en.html

I laid on the table. A female technician handed me two gel balls to hold in my hands and squeeze if I felt a need. He said to stare up at the blinking red light overhead and ignore the tiny green light blinking almost right behind it. He taped my eyelids back. He put in more freezing drops. He then taped my left eye shut. Then he inserted a speculum into my eye to keep my eyelids open. I never actually saw it. It did not hurt. But I did feel it touch my eyelids a tiny bit.

At this point, I'm not sure what he did since my eye was completely numb. But, it looked like he put a clear lense over my eye, then he said that I would feel some pressure as they applied the suction and my vision might go dark. I felt the pressure, and I do not know how to describe it. It was uncomfortable, but again, not painful. My vision went very dark, not black, but more like static on a television, only instead of all the white's and grey's, it was more dark grey's and black's flickering around. Then my vision slowly came back. It was still blurry and the red light instead of being all focused in one spot was now a huge unfocused red blur. Then there was the blurry green light way below it. I never asked why that was.

Next, he said the laser would start and make some loud noises and don't be alarmed. This is when I smelled the burning hair smell. It wasn't that bad, I was told the smell gets stronger as the day goes on. I was the first patient today. They do three runs with the laser and then they're done.

Now, he put the flap back down. and it looked like he was taking a tiny brush and running it down my eye. This is when I got the weirdest sensation. I realized I was watching this. I couldn't feel a thing. It was like TV, distant, removed, only this was my life, my eyesight. The sensation passed very quickly.

I might have missed a step or two somewhere in there.

Next step, everything in reverse. Take off the suction, take out the speculum, remove the tape from my eyelashes. Rewind.

Now the second eye. Damn. I forgot all about the second eye.

Everything went exactly the same for the second eye, except, right before the did the laser he said stop. I was alarmed at this point. He spoke to a girl beside him. He said he noticed the rx and wanted to change the numbers slightly. I asked what's wrong. He said to put the flap down at this point. I saw what can only be described as a clear lense being put over my field of sight.

He explained the rx written on the sheet is a touch too high in his opinion. If he takes off that much I might end up a touch far sighted in this eye. So, he was just taking it down a small notch.

We had to wait for the laser to warm up again. Someone put a tissue over my eye so all I can see is this tissue.

Anyways, the burning smell again, success, and again all the steps in reverse. He asked me to sit up. I was a bit shaky at this point. Everything was murky. Like I was underwater.

I went out into the waiting room. A technician came with me, told me to take my cap off, put my sunglasses on. She ran me through the eye drops and actually put them in my eyes for the first time.

I now had to sit in the waiting room for one hour before I could leave. The time was 10:45. Everybody asked me how it was, how was my eyesight. I told them. The manager came by and Ellie yelled that everybody wants drugs now. I told them it was pain, pain! I held my hands up and say no. I didn't say that. Everyone laughed. Tom is next, then Ellie, then Will.

After 30 minutes I put in my eyedrops right on schedule. After 1 hour I put in my eyedrops again. I was then taken into a room where they examined my eyes again and I was told everything was healing nicely. They called me a cab, I went home.

At this point the freezing drops had worn off and I was experiencing discomfort. It got worse over the next 2-3 hours. You know those headaches where your eyes just hurt? It was that kind of pain. Also throw in a bit of sand or an eyelash stuck in each eye, and extreme light sensitivity even with the dark sunglasses that block out all light.

I cannot rub my eyes. This was repeating in my head. It will mess up the flap if I rub my eyes. All I could do is put in my drops every 30 minutes. Fortunately I was allowed to take Advil so I took one after about 20 minutes of lying on my bed going crazy. I sat in the bathroom since that's the only room where there isn't a window and I could sit in complete darkness. Well, either that or the storage closet. I wasn't going to sit in the closet.

I never realized how hard it is to go 24 hours without watching television, going on a computer or reading. This are my three main activities in life. The solution I found was...hearing. The telephone. My MP3 player.

I laid in bed and listened to music. Kevin came home. I stayed in bed. I got up and talked to him. I called my Mom, I called my Aunt, I called Amber. I laid in bed and listened to music. Again.

I went back this morning and Dr. Van der Zweep said my eyes are doing good. My right eye has a bit of inflammation and I should take my Prednisolone drops every 2 hours instead of every 4 over the weekend.

Overall, a great experience. If anyone wants to get rid of glasses, I highly recommend this. I feel like there's something missing on my face but I'll get used to it.

Grey's Finale

I just finished watching the Grey's Anatomy season finale and I just don't know what to say. I have always been a huge fan of Christina and to see her ....like that....I broke down and cried. As she was listing off all the things missing of Burke's I realized she truly does love him with everything she is capable of.

I'm so drained right now. That show drives me nuts with all the self destructive tendencies of everyone. But that's the very reason I love it. It's a love/hate relationship. The most addicting kind. =)

That's all I got to say right now.

Mother's Day

Friday

I went to the mall with Amber in the afternoon. We were there for 2 hours and I only found 1 outfit. I'm so fussy. I need more work clothes. I think I'll go again this week.

In the evening we went to Kevin's monthly group astronomy meeting at the U of M. Normally I enjoy it, and I did enjoy the lectures up until about 8:30 when the lecture was on some pretty detailed observing tips for dim sky objects. I couldn't keep awake. I think everyone noticed me falling asleep in my chair. I enjoy the amateur lectures more. That stuff went way over my head.

Saturday

I went planting seeds at Kevin's parents garden on Saturday. It was fun. I planted lots of things: beans, romaine and leaf lettuce, carrots, peas, spinach, beets, strawberries, cantaloupe and I was going to plant potatoes and garlic but we forgot to bring those seeds. I can't wait until they start growing. I'm going to have to take pictures. Kevin's Dad insisted I have a couple glasses of his homemade red wine afterwards to celebrate the planting. Well, he didn't really have to twist my arm. I love that wine.

Sunday

Today we had a Mother's Day brunch with Kevin's family for his step-mom. Kevin and his brothers made waffles and whipped cream. It was delicious. My soon-to-be niece is getting quite mobile now. At 15 months she can walk now if you hold her hands over her head. I like this because it's my first real experience with a baby. I walked her around the house, and even picked her up today. I was so relieved! It was easier than I thought it would be. Also, I wasn't scared like I usually am to pick up or handle a baby.

Afterwards I went by myself to visit my parents. I bought my mom a really nice card that made her cry and hug me. =) I also bought her a nice assortment of roses in a small globe vase. I thought they were so beautiful in the store I had to buy them.

We had a nice casual dinner of caesar salad and chicken fingers. Then we had cheesecake with fresh strawberries for desert. M'mmm. I love strawberries.

This evening I also went swimming for the first time since last October. It was refreshing. I'm going to try and go at least 3x a week to get in shape and lose some weight.

Update

Wow! It's been a long time. I'm a big slacker.

So what has happened since last time? Well, I just finished watching Traveler. I just didn't turn the TV off after watching Grey's (amazing!) and started watching this show. It is frickin' amazing! I am a huge sucker for any show involving conspiracies, whether they be government related or not.

I got my exam mark today for my FA1 exam. 91.5%. Awesome. So they round my final grade off to 92%. I've also decided to drop Economics 1 over the summer session. I just have too many other things on my plate to have to worry about that course as well.

I'm getting laser eye surgery. I went for my consultation on April 20th. I am a candidate, no problems with my eyes. That consultation was crazy. I have never had people shine so many bright lights in my eyes, nor so many eyedrops, nor so many little probe thingie's poking my eyeball, in my life. I'm getting the Wavefront procedure done, it's on sale right now, instead of the regular $3500 it's on for $1990. I cannot wait! I've been wearing glasses since grade 5. This is going to be amazing! No more taking off my glasses in the rain, or for swimming, no more having to worry about buying expensive contact lenses that end up being uncomfortable after 2 hours and I have to take them out on break at work. No more waking up in the middle of the night, looking at my alarm clock and not being able to read the time.

I've decided I need to start exercising also. I am so out of shape it's pathetic. In Amber's apartment there's this 85 year old man who goes swimming every single day. His legs are like twigs and he needs a wheelchair to get around, but put him in that pool and he can go for half an hour. This guy is in better shape than me. Imagine how I feel.

Also, I got a 75 cent raise at work. That was cool. Unexpected. I love my job. It's the first job I've ever had where I don't hate it and wish the company would shut down so I could get laid off. Well, that actually did happen once, but I didn't mind that job. It was pretty slack, I gotta admit.

I hung out with Karen last Friday for the first time in like 9 months. That was horrible. It shouldn't be that tough to get together with a friend. We ate at Chamberlyn's. I've never been there before. I ordered the quesadilla. It was delicious. That was also the first time I parked in the Winnipeg Square parkade. That place is crazy. I got so lost looking for my car at the end of lunch. Then when I found my car, I couldn't find my way out of the parkade. Lol. It was strange for me because I have an excellent directional sense. It was strange being lost for once.

Anyways, I finished reading The Constant Gardener. Amazing book, I liked it more than the movie. Now I actually have to go and buy the movie. I swear, I want to punch corporate greed in the face. When I put down that book I wanted to go to Africa and fight the fight, join a cause, protest, petition. There is just so much injustice in this world I can't stand it.

I also hung out with Amber a lot this week. I'm going to miss her when she moves to Edmonton.

Well, I guess that's it for this update. I've gotta go to bed now. I was woken up at 3:30am by someone yelling "Whoooooooooo!" outside our apartment. I wanted to throw something at them. I didn't fall asleep until after 4:30, then I was up at 5:30. I dragged my ass out of bed, did everything so slow, then I had to run to the elevator, across the lobby, and go the bus stop.

Boring Weekend

Well, this past week was good. I picked up my tix to see Chuck Palahniuk on May 25th. I'm super excited about seeing him. I've been waiting for this since '99 and I first read Fight Club. The man is my inspiration to try and make my life more interesting.

Last night I watched Grey's Anatomy. Amazing. I don't know why George just doesn't leave Callie for Izzie. I mean, they're perfect together. I just about died with George's reaction to "the wife always knows." So angsty, I love it! It's like crack.

Last Saturday we went to Kevin's parents for his 36th B-Day celebration. It was nice. They made a salad just for Kevin. Spinach, walnuts and cranberries with raspberry-walnut dressing. It's both of our favourite salad. But Kevin's Dad is a bad influence. I was ready to leave at 10:30 when he's all "no, don't go! Have another glass!" So, anyways, at 2:30 we're trashed and talking to each other but apparently all holding our own conversations. Poor Kevin... he was the only sober one on his birthday! :( But the weirdest thing was my teeth have hurt in my jaw for the rest of this past week. I've had sore teeth after drinking before but this was ridiculous!

Also, I am loving this weather. It's beautiful June weather. Yesterday instead of transferring to my 2nd bus I just walked from Graham. I enjoyed it and it only took 20 minutes from getting off the bus to walking into the apartment. I think I'm going to do that for the rest of the summer... at least then I'll get some form of exercise.

I haven't studied all week for my stupid business law course. I need to do some cramming this weekend. That sucks. Will I never learn? I did this with my accounting course as well. I'm such a procrastinator.