So I finally finished up my last two papers yesterday! It feels so nice to be finished this term. I can't wait to get the spring and summer terms started and then over with as well. Hell I can't wait to get the next year over with!
So I go to work this morning and I am not even scheduled to work, hell I am not even on the schedule. I think that my dip shit of a boss got a bit confused, so now I have to get up in early in the morning, pow wow with the union rep and then talk to my boss. Yeah, this should be interesting!
Max is starting to wind down his time in Montreal. He is finishing up exams next week and then he's off to Toronto for 4 days. I think he is just trying to get away from me bugging him about little details of the wedding!
But I think that I am going to get back to my reading because if I have a week off, I will be able to get about 4 books read and I have one whole shelf of books just waiting to be read!
Sunday, April 24, 2005
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
One Down, Two To Go!
Well I wrote my final examination today for my stats class, I have no idea how I did and I am hoping that I passed because I don't want to have to take the course all over again. I still have two more papers to write for my Medical Sociology class, and I am getting on that as soon as I finish here. So this might be a long post because well I am not entirely keen on writing right now!
I can't wait to see what happens with my new job next month, but then again it is not as exciting as spending 11 days in Africa ( yes, I am just a bit jealous!).
Just got an e-mail from Max's older half sister Ulrika, she was giving me an update on Lilla Alina. She's almost two years old now, and she is mixing Finnish and Swedish words together in sentances. Just wait until she gets English into the mix!
An update on Max. He just happened to have a serious misfortunate incident with his razor the other day and had to shave all of his hair, so he is completely bald. I can't wait to see the pictures! I will try and get one up on the fotolog soon!
So I think instead of writing I am going to go to bed. Nothing like procrastination to get me in the mood for writing! One of these days I am going to rid myself of this horrible habit! Maybe! I think maybe I will put off this decision for a later time.
I can't wait to see what happens with my new job next month, but then again it is not as exciting as spending 11 days in Africa ( yes, I am just a bit jealous!).
Just got an e-mail from Max's older half sister Ulrika, she was giving me an update on Lilla Alina. She's almost two years old now, and she is mixing Finnish and Swedish words together in sentances. Just wait until she gets English into the mix!
An update on Max. He just happened to have a serious misfortunate incident with his razor the other day and had to shave all of his hair, so he is completely bald. I can't wait to see the pictures! I will try and get one up on the fotolog soon!
So I think instead of writing I am going to go to bed. Nothing like procrastination to get me in the mood for writing! One of these days I am going to rid myself of this horrible habit! Maybe! I think maybe I will put off this decision for a later time.
Saturday, April 09, 2005
So I've done it!!
I have decided to do it! I am going to drop yet another class. I am dropping my International Relations course because I well I am just too damn lazy right now to actually write the final paper and well hell if I am only two courses short of a minor in Psychology what the hell! I just have to figure out how in the hell I am going to pick up two more, it's not like my schedule is full or anything.
Thursday was my last day of classes for the term, and you know what it couldn't have come any slower!! Usually my winter terms go by so fast that you get to the end and think it was only a few weeks ago and I was just getting back from Christmas vacation. But anyways I did have a few drinks to celebrate, a few in Red Deer and a few in Sylvan Lake (damn it is expensive there!!) I did drive home but I had alot to eat and alot of water to drink before I even considered getting into my car, I think I was more tired than anything else because I was up late late late the night before working on a stats assignment and researching another paper!!
So other than that I still have a paper and a half left to write for my Medical Sociology class, and then the take-home final for that as well, and then I have my must have it done by monday morning paper or I die paper to write but that is tomorrow nights project and then I have my stats final and two computer modules to do and then I am done for what seems like a week and a half and then it starts up again. A course in Red Deer two days a week, a course in Calgary on Saturdays and then my two jobs. Yes I am a complete sucker for punishment, but I will make something like $8000 this summer to help supplement the cost of my very very expensive education, I don't even want to calculate how much I have spent in the last 7 years!!!
Anyways I found out that I could if I wanted to, I could buy a house in Saskatchewan in some little dirt water town for less than $10000! Hummmmmmmm, do I really want to cut myself off from the rest of civilization and live under a rock for the rest of my life??? I'll have to think about that one for a while.
God natt!!
Thursday was my last day of classes for the term, and you know what it couldn't have come any slower!! Usually my winter terms go by so fast that you get to the end and think it was only a few weeks ago and I was just getting back from Christmas vacation. But anyways I did have a few drinks to celebrate, a few in Red Deer and a few in Sylvan Lake (damn it is expensive there!!) I did drive home but I had alot to eat and alot of water to drink before I even considered getting into my car, I think I was more tired than anything else because I was up late late late the night before working on a stats assignment and researching another paper!!
So other than that I still have a paper and a half left to write for my Medical Sociology class, and then the take-home final for that as well, and then I have my must have it done by monday morning paper or I die paper to write but that is tomorrow nights project and then I have my stats final and two computer modules to do and then I am done for what seems like a week and a half and then it starts up again. A course in Red Deer two days a week, a course in Calgary on Saturdays and then my two jobs. Yes I am a complete sucker for punishment, but I will make something like $8000 this summer to help supplement the cost of my very very expensive education, I don't even want to calculate how much I have spent in the last 7 years!!!
Anyways I found out that I could if I wanted to, I could buy a house in Saskatchewan in some little dirt water town for less than $10000! Hummmmmmmm, do I really want to cut myself off from the rest of civilization and live under a rock for the rest of my life??? I'll have to think about that one for a while.
God natt!!
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
So much going on!
Well! The last week has made watching the news three hours a day a little interesting.
To start off, here in Canada we have a little something going on called the Gomery Inquiry. To make a complicated story as simple as possible (without going into details about Jean Cretien showing off his balls (GOLF BALLS!)) a few years ago the Liberal government funneled a whole wack load of money to some ad agencies in Quebec, not to mention the Liberal Party of Quebec, but then again we aren't supposed to know that with the publication ban and all. Needless to say, it just might end up that Canadians will be going back to the polls again! Elections here don't really raise much of a heated debate here, you got the red neck hillbillies from the west and a bunch of french speaking blokes who think that they are something very special.
The death of John Paul II was not really surprise, the poor soul was just too tired. I am amazed everytime there are pictures from the Vatican. They estimate something like 3 million will attend the funeral, wow. Now I am not a Catholic, heck I am one of those people that declares that the state and chruch should be separate, but you gotta commend the guy for what he has accomplished in this some 26 years in the papacy. For me religion, or as I say the belief in something (whatever it maybe) is a deeply personal thing and no one should influence the beliefs of another person, and I think that is why people like me are turned off by the idea of organized religion. Coming from an area in Canada that is sometimes referred to as the bible belt it is hard to get this idea into some people's head. I think what also is scary is some of the beliefs these contemporary christians have. One girl I know thinks that by kissing a guy on the lips or gosh even the cheek is giving herself away. I wonder how many more steps it would take for Canada and the US to become a theocracy (and yes I have been told that there are steps and I have heard that the US is on step 12 of 23!!). But getting back to the Pope, it will be interesting to see who they will select as the new Pope, afterall I am a sucker for tradition.
Well I am supposed to be in the process of writing a paper for my International Relations course, um yeah right, I think I would rather have a labotomy right now, I am starting to get a little tired of all this writing! I still have two papers to write for my Medical Sociology course and a paper for my Sociology of the Body course, and then there are the finals, stats and International Relations. Playing hookey sounds like music to my ears!!
Speaking of music to my ears!!! I got the new Kent CD last week in the mail (Tack Erland och Beata!!!). I have to admit I am disappointed, it feels as though this CD was just slapped together just for the sake of putting something out. It does have some musical merit, but it is not my most favorite CD of Kent's to date.
Work is still work, we are at least getting the surgical stuff that is a month old now, but I am only getting two days a week. I think that is because I just told my boss that I am not going to work there much for the summer! Oh well! I am getting excited about starting my new job in May. I am looking forward to spending time in an office environment.
Oh and to finish off my little ditty for tonight, a little story about Max and his trip to Boston. So he gets on a bus in Montreal heading down to the states. He gets to the border and gets off ( afterall you gotta love procedure!) and goes through the necessary paperwork, but alas his passport has been flagged by the American authorities!!!! In 1997, Max, with a Finnish passport(he now has a Swedish one), is on a trip to Niagra Falls and he decides that it would be cool to get some pictures from the other side of the falls. So after getting the right forms (he was presented with forms in Finnish but seems he doesn't know much in Finnish so they finally give him an English form!), he is allowed through, but the border guard at the time didn't tell him that his little green visitors card needs to be given to the Canadian guard on his way back to Canada. So... one would think that the next time Max goes to the States he would incurr a problem right, nope, he goes through another two times and nothing. Then flash forward to now, in the post 9/11 era, and he gets stopped so he is stuck there for 45 minutes while this all gets cleared up, what does the bus driver do, he leaves him. But according to Max, the border guard was pretty reasonable which is good because I have had the odd experience with all sorts of border guards and the Americans can be pretty nasty when they want to be. But Max had a good time, and I can't wait to get my postcard from Harvard!!
To start off, here in Canada we have a little something going on called the Gomery Inquiry. To make a complicated story as simple as possible (without going into details about Jean Cretien showing off his balls (GOLF BALLS!)) a few years ago the Liberal government funneled a whole wack load of money to some ad agencies in Quebec, not to mention the Liberal Party of Quebec, but then again we aren't supposed to know that with the publication ban and all. Needless to say, it just might end up that Canadians will be going back to the polls again! Elections here don't really raise much of a heated debate here, you got the red neck hillbillies from the west and a bunch of french speaking blokes who think that they are something very special.
The death of John Paul II was not really surprise, the poor soul was just too tired. I am amazed everytime there are pictures from the Vatican. They estimate something like 3 million will attend the funeral, wow. Now I am not a Catholic, heck I am one of those people that declares that the state and chruch should be separate, but you gotta commend the guy for what he has accomplished in this some 26 years in the papacy. For me religion, or as I say the belief in something (whatever it maybe) is a deeply personal thing and no one should influence the beliefs of another person, and I think that is why people like me are turned off by the idea of organized religion. Coming from an area in Canada that is sometimes referred to as the bible belt it is hard to get this idea into some people's head. I think what also is scary is some of the beliefs these contemporary christians have. One girl I know thinks that by kissing a guy on the lips or gosh even the cheek is giving herself away. I wonder how many more steps it would take for Canada and the US to become a theocracy (and yes I have been told that there are steps and I have heard that the US is on step 12 of 23!!). But getting back to the Pope, it will be interesting to see who they will select as the new Pope, afterall I am a sucker for tradition.
Well I am supposed to be in the process of writing a paper for my International Relations course, um yeah right, I think I would rather have a labotomy right now, I am starting to get a little tired of all this writing! I still have two papers to write for my Medical Sociology course and a paper for my Sociology of the Body course, and then there are the finals, stats and International Relations. Playing hookey sounds like music to my ears!!
Speaking of music to my ears!!! I got the new Kent CD last week in the mail (Tack Erland och Beata!!!). I have to admit I am disappointed, it feels as though this CD was just slapped together just for the sake of putting something out. It does have some musical merit, but it is not my most favorite CD of Kent's to date.
Work is still work, we are at least getting the surgical stuff that is a month old now, but I am only getting two days a week. I think that is because I just told my boss that I am not going to work there much for the summer! Oh well! I am getting excited about starting my new job in May. I am looking forward to spending time in an office environment.
Oh and to finish off my little ditty for tonight, a little story about Max and his trip to Boston. So he gets on a bus in Montreal heading down to the states. He gets to the border and gets off ( afterall you gotta love procedure!) and goes through the necessary paperwork, but alas his passport has been flagged by the American authorities!!!! In 1997, Max, with a Finnish passport(he now has a Swedish one), is on a trip to Niagra Falls and he decides that it would be cool to get some pictures from the other side of the falls. So after getting the right forms (he was presented with forms in Finnish but seems he doesn't know much in Finnish so they finally give him an English form!), he is allowed through, but the border guard at the time didn't tell him that his little green visitors card needs to be given to the Canadian guard on his way back to Canada. So... one would think that the next time Max goes to the States he would incurr a problem right, nope, he goes through another two times and nothing. Then flash forward to now, in the post 9/11 era, and he gets stopped so he is stuck there for 45 minutes while this all gets cleared up, what does the bus driver do, he leaves him. But according to Max, the border guard was pretty reasonable which is good because I have had the odd experience with all sorts of border guards and the Americans can be pretty nasty when they want to be. But Max had a good time, and I can't wait to get my postcard from Harvard!!
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