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!!