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!

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...

So today my goal was to finish reading Utopia. It didn't happen. I read forty pages, but it took me two hours because I kept falling asleep. (not enough sleep last night!) But that's okay because I'm a virile woman. ) After my readnap I went up to Jess and Tama's room where we laughed... a lot. So the afternoon wasn't a total waste. Anyway, there's a serious blog to come, but I just wanted to take some time to talk about titles. I like my titles. But apparently I've been confusing ...

I went to dance class by myself tonight because Jess and Tama had to grocery shop for world on a plate. Whatever. I almost didn’t go, but willpower prevailed and I braved the cold and the snow to make my way to modern jazz class. It was actually a lot of fun tonight. One of the girls in my acting class is also in the dance class so I stood with her and we identified the “sass cats” in our class. Oh there are many a sass cat. They can commonly be identified by bragging about how they are a...

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

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...

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. ...

Okay so here we go. I'm trying to introduce my blog without sounding like I'm unbelievably nervous that nothing I have to say will be remotely interesting or relevant. I'm attempting to be confident and exciting, but actually I'm sitting in my room crocheting and avoiding the cold outside. I don't know how this is all going to work out... Or whether I'll even have enough time to keep up with the fast paced world of blogging, but I'm about to try anyway. I wonder how long I'll do this withou...