I just got back from my night class and I’m forcing myself to stay awake. Must do readings for 8:30am class tomorrow. Body not pleased with that. Not only did I have a class tonight, but I also had to go to a Food Safety Training session run by two little old ladies for an event my house is running. I swear the older of the two should be in a movie. She stood up in front of us and read her cue cards in such a way that it truly could have been an info video from the 80s meant for seniors. ...

Last week I auditioned for the production of the Vagina Monologues at my school and I found out today that I didn’t get in the cast. I’m disappointed. It sucks because I thought the audition went really well. Oh well. My vagina will be quiet for now. Otherwise today was work filled. I stayed up to late last night and then had to drag myself out of bed for an eight-thirty class. This wouldn’t really matter if I were in a lecture of four hundred, but no, I’m in a seminar of nine. I spent...

So after a week sans blog, I’ve decided that since it’s twelve thirty on a Saturday and I can’t think of anything to do besides readings for next week, it’s about time for some blog. Phantom came to visit me yesterday afternoon through to this morning, which was awesome. I took him to this shop downtown where they sell an odd assortment of retro/used clothing, native crafts, and vinyl. We spent like an hour there so that he could go through as many records as possible. But I bought me a...

The lame content on the site will probably continue into tomorrow evening as I am incredibly busy and stressed. Bah. I'm trying to put together a seminar for tomorrow about Human Rights and Disability issues in Guelph, but it turns out that Guelph has some amazing programs set up for people with disabilities. The city even has it's own Disability Resource Coordinator and an Inclusion Coordinator. I feel like I'm looking for problems. Damn this city and it's awareness! Anyway, I've got so...

Since I finished my first semester of University I’ve been struggling with my own role in changing the world. In most of my classes last semester I felt like I was constantly bombarded with the message that I was part of the lucky (mostly white middle class) population that received higher education and because of that I was going to be in charge of continually exploiting the rest of the world. I finished my semester feeling rather bleak. It was though instead of professors inspiring us to m...

Apparently "unfocussing" isn't a word...

Happy Groundhog day yesterday! I hear tell that the Ground hog saw it’s shadow, which means six more weeks of Winter. I think. But I can’t remember what the other option is. Is six more weeks a good thing? It doesn’t sound so bad to me. I seem to remember as a child hoping that the Groundhog would see it’s shadow, but maybe that’s just because I think it’s sad when your shadow is missing. Though I do remember making brown construction paper cut-outs of Groundhogs in my kindergarten class ...

Mo’ Mogo Mogo! So satisfying. So very satisfying. I am so incredibly happy to have my Survivor back on the air! Man oh man is it good! It is just so damned nice not to have to learn new characters and such. I learned tonight that my love for Rudy, Richard, Big Tom and Lex are still going strong, and my hatred for Boston Rob is burning with a fiery passion. I’ll take other Rob any day. I’m not really feeling the women all that much so far. I was really sad to see Tina go. Bah, so sw...

For those interested, Superbowl comes through spell check to be changed to "Superb Owl"

I am so tired. Oh man. I have no idea why. I got nine hours of sleep last night, got up at noon, had brunch at one, tried to do work and just slept from 2:30pm to 4pm. Not good. I have a lot of reading to do today, and a response to write for tomorrow. Everything right now is being timed accordingly to the end of the Superbowl when precious precious Survivor AllStar is to begin. Mmmmm Survivor. I just have to get everything done by then and life will be fine. But to maintain my sanity I...

Last night for the banner we went with "Oy! Jewish Culture!" Which is far funnier when said with a Jewish New York accent. Then we also made a little 'why we chose Jewish food' banner which added to the hilarity, but wasn't offensive. I dunno. I'm just pleased that it's done!

Tonight is a sad sad night. I have just been informed of the untimely death of Gary the snail. Gary you will be missed. I will never forget the meticulous way in which you sucked the algae from the walls of our tank, and how your tiny red eyes would swivel about. Goodbye sweet Gary.

I tried to do work. I really did. But instead I ended up watching Shakespeare in Love. Oh that movie hurts. It’s so beautiful and reference filled! And lovey! Oh why isn’t Phantom here now! But alas he is not, and I await my pizza alone. I’m glad I spent my afternoon movie watching and crocheting (though I had to stop because I’m developing a crochet claw). Now that it’s out of my system though I can focus on the banner I have to make tonight for World on a Plate. The entire rez is c...

Apparently the president of our University has a mandate to keep the school open no matter how snowy and horrible it is. All of the city of Guelph was shut down today, all the elementary schools, the high schools, but not the University. That wouldn’t be so bad, except that Waterloo and Laurier were both closed today too! What the hell!

I'm taking a well deserved break from Spanish, as I've been at it for two and a half hours. It is break time. Today was sunny. And the sun lasted until after five thirty. And this made me more chipper than I had expected. It's like the magical sunshine spring teaser was what I needed to make it through the day smiling. Today in terms of classes it was a phoning-it-in kind of day as I just watched presentations. Otherwise I've been Spanishing it up old school, which is very necessary. ...