Posted 1 year, 8 months ago at 11:27 pm. 2 comments
The bussinessman - this student shows up late to most classes, he usually comes in wearing a rather classy suit. He’s of the really cool person variety, he probably knows his stuff, I don’t know. He usually leaves early and doesn’t takes notes when he’s there.
The sportsmen - there is definitely a distinct row of students in this class who comes from a variety of sports teams here. They always have their ballcaps on, or at least some piece of team paraphanelia. I barely ever see them to be quite honest, in fact, today at our midterm was definitely a first for many of them.
The consistents - there are some students in my class who I now know by face. I can bet money and be sure that they will be there every single class, everytime. They include a large variety of students, a mix of male and female, and an age range that starts somewhere in the 20’s and ends somewhere in the late 60’s, if I had to visually guess.
The girl who writes *everything* - I don’t really have to add too much, she really does! She starts writing the second our professor opens his mouth, a movie begins, a song starts playing, a discussion occurs and finishes however later she manages to catch up from what was said to what she managed to memorize and summarize in her mind. My notes for the entire class are 5 pages long, I’ve wasted 2 of those on doodles.
The lurkers - as of today have their own category, I thought I knew our class size, until I saw everyone who showed up to write this midterm. I think our class more then quadrupled as a result of this outing. It’s a good thing that when I finished the last answer I thought “I could totally do this course from the books.” One of which the bookstore finally got, and it was another $70 -_-”
The fucking annoying guy - I think it’s a miracle I haven’t given this guy the glare and told him to shut up yet. He asks those hella dumb questions that are just made to start an argument because his perfect opinion wasn’t the same. Today he actually had an outburst on two other guys who were supposedly talking too loud. To be fair I didn’t notice until he came in and they were sitting closer to me. He whispers to himself after disagreeing with the professor, but making all the motions of the words in an extremely exagerated manner with his mouth. He shakes his head openly and mumbles when disagreeing with anything happening at the time. He is so freaking annoying, and he’s there every class -_-”   Oops, almost forgot to mention, after his outburst he proceeded to eat some shelled nuts, which I could hear him breaking and chewing for the next 20 minutes, thanks for that awesome guy.
Posted 1 year, 8 months ago at 7:44 pm. 1 comment
Long story short, I now have one more in my “collection”. This just leaves way too many to name, but hey at least I got Guinness out of the way and that’s important enough to mention 
In a somewhat related event we saved probably close to $40 at McGinnis Frontrow yesterday thanks to their generous offer to not even bill us for some of the drinks. Being University students we didn’t really volunteer to do so, personally I just gave them a bigger tip!
You get my favourite, and one of only two paintings in the background, an empty, but still kinda cool looking box of chocolates and my living room table as a bonus in the background.
Posted 1 year, 8 months ago at 4:26 pm. 2 comments
I guess the non-techies amongst us will not really care about this one, but upgraded to Wordpress v2.1.2, interestingly enough this update doesn’t show up in the admin news section. Changed the theme, again. I really like these simplistic themes, I liked them before they hit off big in the Web 2.0 world. I’m in love with the Ruby syntax, I know I will have only working part time at my job in the summer, but hopefully by then I can maybe volunteer for some freelance web dev projects for them. Our Mobility Project is in some kind of uncertain unpowered flight, it hasn’t quite crashed, but it’s not really going too far forward without also going down. Ubuntu 7.04 Feiesty Fawn, Herd 5, was released earlier today. Now that I’ve quit a lot of games, and anything I’d care to play runs in Wine I’m seriously considering a month of Linux, just to see what I’d gain, what I’d lose and if I could get used to it.
Posted 1 year, 8 months ago at 4:13 pm. 0 comments
Yesterday the University closed early, by a whole hour for me really since we were almost done work, but there were a lot of happy people who had their midterms delayed until next week now, probably because it was also closed all day today. The cause, is pretty simple, ice pellets and snow falling from the clouds most of yesterday afternoon and some combination of rain and ice rain with strong winds for most of the night. I don’t really have much to add, have a few things on the go, doing some fun personal work at work on webserver setups that may actually find a use in a production environment for the university, yey! But I did snap these this afternoon just to give you some idea of what it was like for at least a while.
View out my front window.
Out the sidewindow.
Out of my room.
Strangely beatiful creation that I got a picture of when we were out for a random evening dinner to the Pita Factory, then we spent what must have been over and hour outside just making poses, taking pictures, and being childish.
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago at 10:04 am. 1 comment
When I was catching the Greyhound to London, there was a father with 3 kids at the bus stop. The kids weren’t younger then 7 and probably not older then 13. The father was smoking, then the oldest of the kids did the same. I was instantly reminded of how much I hate smoking.
When I was waiting for the city bus, I overheard a 10 minute conversation from 2 grade 9′ish guys about how one of them wanted to buy this ’sick’ hat for $20, and how he wanted to do it now, the other advised him to get the sweater first so that he’d have a ‘matching style’. I was amused through and through.
When I was getting onto that bus I was waiting for, I didn’t have exact change. I inquired if that was alright with the bus driver, sighing, this being downtown, he asked me well how short was I. I replied “I have $3″, his reply was “Well, of course that’s fine!”.
When I was just about ready to get off that bus, a group of 3 guys got on and had a conversation behind me. They were discussing how one of their friends got beat up by a group of others, and how someone didn’t have the “balls” to help out, only one of the participants of the conversation was there, he didn’t help out either.
The chinese place in the Westmount mall closed. That sucks. I almost got a Nintendo Wii at that mall, but I missed it by an hour or two. That sucks. I swear Allen said he wouldn’t be working all weekend, both him and Caprice did. That sucks.
I lost my phone when only travelling between 2 places in a house, conveniently I put it on silent only minutes before. Hours later we found the phone.
I’ve now seen Clerks II twice.
I find that I end up sending a lot of text messages to Sharon when she’s in Bowmanville and I’m in London. They’re always amusing and are definitely worth the time. This probably somehow ties in with me losing the phone.
I made nachos for breakfast and lunch on Sunday, they were well received
Cherish is ticklish, we know that now, Kendel also knows that getting kicked in the crotch is a distinct possibility while finding out the former fact. Thanks for taking one for the team!
More relationships are built on hate and prejudice then I could have ever imagined. I think I should patent this theory before Sharon tries to claim it as her own, kinda like with snuggets™
The 23 bus apparently no longer runs on Sundays.
As a result of that, I know that taking a cab costs exactly $10.35 more + tip then taking that bus.
The cab option leads to interesting conversations with a cab driver from Egypt. His friend also went to Waterloo, he started in ‘86 and graduated in ‘91, I no longer feel as old. The cab driver trully loves Russia/USSR and wants them to be back in power. He quite literally thanked me for all the help we’ve provided his country, the conversation we had was different and amusing.
The Greyound comes with a surprise, they get us an express bus, in addition to the 4-5 stop one. A girl, well not really, she was a bit older then me, sits next to me. She seems to be from the cooler crowd, I don’t think she responds to my ‘hi!’, she ends up sleeping on my shoulder. I don’t blame her, I was wearing my Wilson sweater and it’s absolutely *delicious* to the touch.
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago at 9:40 am. 0 comments
Just a small update on the Don selection process really. The good news is I got my 2nd round interview, it’s sometime in early March, I don’t really remember the exact date right now. Which should be alright, I’ll have some things to prove at that interview, but it should be alright. I, truthfully, love interviews, presentations, performances and on the spot answers. I guess there’s something carrying over from my veiled and mysterious artsy background, helped out by two years of Tech Theatre class and all the fun that involved. In short, it’s going to be sweet
That of course brings up the bitter part of my message. You know when you want to do something, and need that extra bit of inspiration to finally commit to the act, and that bit of inspiration comes from someone else? Ok, good, you do, don’t answer my rhetorical questions! Well, it really, really sucks when all is said and done and the person who gave you that extra nudge and inspiration isn’t in the running for that goal that you’ve set anymore. Yes, of course, I am still talking about the Don evaluations. And as I just discussed with Kristin, that part of it, really effing sucks 
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago at 12:10 am. 1 comment
I’ve been on a slight hiatus with any updates to this place. I’ve had a few ideas on what to write, but then when sitting down and getting down to it they just didn’t feel very inspired or interesting — even to me — and that would definitely lead to some boring reading. Like for example, just now, I totally got distracte with msn and trying to find a way to connect a Motorola RAZR to a computer to transfer some pictures. Since I’m talking about cell phones already, I’m still loving mine, and now Andrew has joined the Sony-Ericsson W810i club and all it’s awesomeness. Now, thanks to Andrew’s suggestion, I just have to spend $11 on mine to flash it to get rid of my only complaint with ringtones on this phone and add a whole bunch of extra cool and fun things to it, like way better menus and Zelda!
There’s been a slight good news, bad news momen with my don application. The good news is that they really want to give me the 2nd round interview and that was confirmed today when one of the RLCs wanted to talk to me for a moment. The bad news is for some reason they look at the marks for the last semester only, seeing as how in my last semester I was transferring faculties and definitely dropped some classes to save on time and money those marks are looking pretty bad from their point of view. So, printed off my entire transcript and going to grab my midterm marks from the two classes I have, on those I have a close to 80+ average, so hopefully that’ll resolve that problem.
I’m going to stop now, since I can’t think of anything good to add, I got a replacement for the air freshener in my room. Last time it was mango, this time around it’s some kind of pine/fresh smell, I think I liked the mango more, but I still have 2 more flavours to try before choosing the best one. Either way it’s a nice change from a generic room smell.
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago at 6:07 pm. 4 comments
Ok, so maybe in my school experience I didn’t really get a lot of picture books, but I did get to take art classes for at least 5 years and that was a lot of fun. It’s kinda weird, I only really remember 3 things I did in my arts classes. One was a drawing of a field with a single tree in full autumn bloom, the other was a clay bear with a white top and stripes and dots to make it more colourful and finally a musketeer on paper made out of different fabrics and other accessories that you could glue to paper and use. So, here we go, less writing more pictures, and a bunch since I finally brought my phone usb cord home with me to use it.
My ECON 211 notes, as you can plainly see I’m taking them very seriously
This is the tea I discovered as a present from RratedStar for letting him copy those awesome notes you see above. I’m still not sure if I really deserved it and it was amusing since I found it a few days later and was so excited and he told me he apparently let me know already when I was getting my binder back and I totally didn’t remember that.
This was the picture I took yesterday standing at the doors of the local Sobey’s. I didn’t think to take a picture of myself after walking there and going past Justin’s to wish him a Happy Birthday, but I was pretty much really beginning to resemble a snowman. Pretty sure I spent more time in the store getting all the snow off myself before it melted then I actually did buying anything.
On the way back from the LCBO on Friday. Before I even get to this I definitely walked down into some creeky with snow up to my knees carrying some shopping bags with tomatoes, peppers and cheese for the nachos and my backpack making some more sounds. What can I say, I was kinda joking around walking towards the downhill then Adam encouraged me : P It was really cold, but we spotted the ice rink in the field and had to check it out, this was what came after. A field of pure white and untouched snow is just too tempting: ‘Sh’ is for Sharon, ’squiggly wiggle’ is a heart, Adam pretty much spoiled the rest. Running through the snow was kinda tough writing all that out, so I definitely got to the end and just kinda fell back, it was really nice since it didn’t hurt at all!
From a while back, Yuek-Fen was feeling kinda down so Dave, Sharon and me ended up at East Side’s with her. We had to wait a really, really long time for our food, they got Dave the wrong order, most of our chicken was burnt and this is the free brownie we got at the end. After quickly taking care of the cherry and the whip cream we did the only thing we’ve ever done to brownies in the past 
That’s about it for pictures, I’ll probably write something else tonight or tommorow, on a totally different subject and sans any visuals (unless I get really creative). I for some reason get the feeling that maybe I should be apologizing to someone for something, but I haven’t figured out yet if I should be, for what, or how yet, so I guess that subject is up for some more thought time.
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago at 6:48 pm. 0 comments
I just wrote my first ECON 211 midterm earlier today, and while I may have been bragging about how badly I was going to kick this things ass for at least half of last week now that it’s finally happened it’s a spectacular feeling. I gotta be totally honest, for a lot of my previous midterms, even if I did well in comparison to the rest of the class it basically meant I was hopefully passing with a 65-70% mark. I’ve grown tired of those low average marks being the highs and constant bell curves and maybe just terrible classes like stats.
The point being is today I left the midterm and I don’t think short of a miracle of god I got anything less then 19/20 marks on it; by the way yeah that’s really weird, 20 questions that are all multipart and we only get a pass or fail on every one. I probably didn’t get the bonus question, but I’m almost as ready to say there was some sort of mistake in it too, since I vaguely remember optimization I’m pretty sure the solution shouldn’t revolve around imaginary numbers — I left my work and added the following comment: ‘I clearly didn’t eat nearly enough chocolates to solve this question : (’. Hopefully the questions protagonist Jimmy figures it out on his own
So, to you, the ECON 211 midterm I say you just got absolutely destroyed and now I’m going to go and enjoy my evening in a warm room, on a great couch and watching the long awaited return of some TV series like Prison Break, but who are we really kidding I’m here to see Heroes.
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago at 2:38 pm. 1 comment
Before Sharon has anymore chance to exploit this, and without her assistance on the extra keyboard characters, I’m going to admit now that while submitting my don application I may have misread the “tell us why” paragraph to say less then 1000 words and not less then 1000 characters, but my comment is that it was a pretty awesome one page cover letter that I ended up writing and it was fun =D
