Its been awhile...

Its been quite awhile since I posted anything other than odes to papers... that apparently didnt' go over too well.
Well... it it helps. I forgot about one! Okay, not exactly a paper, but its my outline, thesis and planned bibliography for my Irish paper due in February.
Its very difficult to look for books when you can't flip through the idexes... but whatever.
Anyways, nothing too exciting to share. Okay, where there are a few things, but I think I'd like to wait to see how they turn out.
Speaking of turning out.... my fudge didn't. Okay, actually it worked fine. But part of the recipe called for mixing icing sugar into the brownsugary mixture with the electric mixture... well.. I was using one of those nice non-stick pots - I don't have any others. Well..... the pot didn't take too well to the mixer... my fudge is full of little black flecks of telfon...
Yep... I cant' sell that... sooo.. I need to go buy a pot(partly as a replacement for the old one (who was actually quite new) that I ruined and cause I need one to remake fudge in)... I also need winter boots and I saw a nice pair at WalMart the other day... so I'm gonna go look at those.
Sooo... I've decided against Rome this year... I really can't afford it. I'd love to go, but I really can't this year. And its not like I won't have another chance. I can do Greece next year, so yeah... a little dissapointed but I'll get over it.
So we started making the Christmas wreaths last night. That was interesting. My hands are still black... well.. in some spots. I figure I'll just leave it, let the layers build up over the rest of the week.
Anyways, gotta do a couple things before I head intown... so later all!

Ode to the last paper of 2006

to you last paper I credit part of my insanity
you've been insteresting mind you
I think I've annoyed my roomate with your information
what with the crocodile dung and honey
you've made me glad I wasn't having sex in ancient greece
fifteen pages is much too long
but extensions are nice
have I mentioned you'll be my last paper of 2006
and you are due right now
and I'm not done
but that's okay
I've learnt alot
like if I sneeze alot after sex I won't get pregnant
luckily I'm not stupid and wont' actually trust that
I've discovered some new uses for olive oild and honey
the honey would be a bit sticky and messy if you ask me
but you aren't asking me
okay I will finish my last paper now
bye

Rain...

Why is it sooo rainy lately? This is really not November weather. Not that I mind that its not ridiculously cold yet. I'm not so fond of rain. I like it when I can stand outside and just look up at the sky and let it fall on me but I hate it when I'm on my way to class and my jeans are stuck to my legs. Its quite icky.
My building is great for doing laundry. There is never a wait. Its most wonderful.
I know there were other things I wanted to say... but I can't remember... so.... later.

I just remembered why it was that I avoid diary (except for my chocolate milk every once in awhile). I bought cheese. Smoked Gouda to be exact. Marie and I just to get it as a treat every once in awhile last year and I miss Marie so when I saw it, I decided I'd get it and enjoy some while pretending she was her - I have a vivid imagination - well... I was enjoying it. Until the lactose intolerance kicked in. Now I'm feeling pretty sick... and my stomach hurts. Alot. But I'll live. No more cheese for awhile though.

Okay.... so working on the paper and whole darn thing is about how some guy wants to sue a university president under a tort that doesn't apply to her cause she is a statutory official and not a public official and its all bout whether or not for the purpose of this lawsuit she should be considered a public official. My question is this... why don't they just make a new tort? One all about abuses of statutory power by statutory officials. Cause I'm sure it happens alot. And if there isn't one and a person has to go through all this to get some justice its just not fair. I'm pretty sure there are alot of other people in positions of administrative power who abuse their power and who aren't "public officials". Its not a solution to this case (especially since its already been resolved and decided upon) but just for future cases... so people don't have to go through all this hullabaloo again to get someone to decide that someone can be sued under this. And because I don't know anything about torts or the making/amending of them, I'm sure there is some big thing in the way of this every happening, or maybe there already is one, or maybe it'd just get too complicated cause a ridiculous amount of people would be claiming abuse of power in silly situations... but you could put some limits on it right...?
Anyways.. those are my thoughts.. now back to my paper...

Mid-Paper Post

Its a paper, its a paper, paper, paper!
And I'm blogging! But really, I had to tell you all how proud I am of me. I am almost finished a paper more than 48 hours before its due! This is a major accomplishment! Whoot!
So I'm sitting with my kitties on my lap (one is chewing on my knee), my music playing, my icy glass of coke on my desk, candle flickering of the wall and the scent of vanilla and coconut wafting through the air; writing my essay.
Its been a productive day, probably one of my better this semester. Unfortunately not one of my better emotionally but I think that's okay. The productiveness of it makes up for it.

Proof of the productiveness:
- I've emailed my prof bout my conflicts or lack thereof with my presentation partner
- I attempted to pick up my passport applicaton and make an appt to write my permit (apparently today was a holiday, but I wouldn't have known cause I still had classes)
- I bough enough groceries to last me two weeks for $11.23
- I made chowder for supper, and a few other nights in the future.
- I washed dishes (twice... I'd forgotten how clean and tidy I get when stressed)
- I read a few more pages of Timeaus... that play's gonna kill me.
- I sat in Second Cup for an hour or so and wrote the ouline to my paper in great detail.
- I have 3 pages of a 10 page paper done two days before it's due.
- I know now where to find a book I'm looking for at second hand bookstores, after an hour of searching, trust me, I won't forget.

Random thoughts/experiences/peeves:
- I'm not liking messenger right now... I added a couple new people and the new version will not allow me to talk to them and vice versa. It just say they are always offline when they really aren't and also vice versa. For awhile I had gone back to the older version out of frustration but then I though, well now maybe it'll let me, but no such luck. I'm frustrated. No one else seems to have this problem when adding new contacts.
- Citing stuff bugs me. I understand the logic behind it all, and its not just logic. Its right stuff. Like we should cite stuff, but does it have to be so complicated!?!
- Misunderstandings are awkward. And common with me.

Well.. I have a second icy glass of coke and some cheese so I'm gonna return to the land of paper-writing.

Oh me...

Soo... what I have done or gotten done this weekend? Not too much. Okay... well I've gotten some stuff done. I've cleaned. Several times actually. Been in one of those obsessive cleaning moods where nothing can be clean enough, the last couple days so that's kept me busy. I've done lots of reading for my philosophy paper and I have a vague idea of what I need to write. I started reading Timeaus. My gosh... plays should not contain geometrical diagrams and mathematical treatises as this one does. Luckily its short.
So, I tried to make my mom's really good brownies... I see now why I've never made em before. Everything was going well until the icing overflowed over the sides of the pan everywhere and the icing sugar didn't melt when I made the icing so its all crunchy and funny looking. Then I picked up the pan, just like 30 seconds out of the oven with my bare hands. And now I have several very burnt fingers.
Service Canada mailed me to tell me that I have 9 dollars and 17 cents in my Canada Pension. Whoot! I'll be able to buy a cake to celebrate the first day of retirement!
Anyways, gonna go do some more work, nurse the fingers and tidy the kitchen.

Admist my reseaching for Irish Studies Presentation on "Wee People" I came across this joke... it made me laugh so it should you too!

The Golfer & The Leprechaun
One fine day in Ireland, a guy is out golfing and gets up to the 16th hole. He tees up and cranks one. Unfortunately, it goes into the woods on the side of the fairway. He goes looking for his ball and comes across this little guy with this huge knot on his head, and the golf ball lying right beside him. "Goodness," says the golfer, and proceeds to revive the poor little guy. Upon awaking, the little guy says, "Well, you caught me fair and square. I am a leprechaun. I will grant you three wishes." The man says, "I can't take anything from you, I'm just glad I didn't hurt you too badly," and walks away. Watching the golfer depart, the leprechaun thinks, "Well, he was a nice enough guy, and he did catch me, so I have to do something for him. I'll give him the three things that I would want. I'll give him unlimited money, a great golf game, and a great love life." Well, a year goes past (as they often do in jokes like this) and the same golfer is out golfing on the same course at the 16th hole. He gets up and hits one into the same woods and goes off looking for his ball. When he finds the ball he sees the same little guy and asks how he is doing. The leprechaun says, "I'm fine, and might I ask how your golf game is?" The golfer says, "It's great! I hit under par every time." The leprechaun says, "I did that for you. And might I ask how your money is holding out?" The golfer says, "Well, now that you mention it, every time I put my hand in my pocket, I pull out a ten pound note." The leprechaun smiles and says, "I did that for you. And might I ask how your love life is?" The golfer looks at him a little shyly and says, "Well, I have a date maybe once or twice a week." The leprechaun is floored and stammers, "Only once or twice a week?!" The golfer, a little embarrassed, looks at him and says, "Well, that's not too bad for a Catholic priest in a small parish."

Recap of the week

Monday - Took Willow to the vet. I was right (I must savour these moments as they are few and far between). She had medicine. And she is doing much much better. I was only a few minutes late for Irish. Have realized a slight problem however in that my presentation partner seems ignorant to the fact that we have a presentation due in a couple weeks, nor does she reply to my emails regarding this presentation. This could be a problem.
Tuesday - Spent all day writing a 10 page paper that turned out to be only a 6.5 page paper. I thought I had a good handle on the short story I was writing on until the class discussion on it later that day when I realized I had no frickin' clue what was going on. Got my last women's studies test back. B+ Whoot! I was happy. As I should be. Had coffee with someone, went quite well, I think... don't really have much experience with this so I'm not completely sure. Habitat meetings were good. No one showed for the general meeting which was fine, at this point I was running on like 3 hours sleep in 4 days so I really didn't mind at all, nor did anyone else I don't think. Was going to wait around for the bus to head home afterwards but Dave and Aaron weren't going to allow it, so I went back to Kate and Aaron's with Dave and watched them play lego Starwars (I assume that had I had any previous knowlege of Starwars I would have understood the characters etc but it was fun anyways, quite amusing actually). Then we watched House. I have definetly seen better. I am actually quite disappointed. But otherwise I survived.
Wednesday - Got a few hours sleep. Was very happy. Officially registered for Rome!! Whoot! Gonna be spending May 8th to May 29th in Rome next year and I am quite excited. The class I''m going to be taking is called Rome; From Antiquity to the Modern Era. I don't know if anyone I know is going to be going so I'm a bit nervous bout it in that regard but it should be a good experience. Might be spending a few days in Dublin before hand, unsure bout that for now but we'll see. Went to the mall after realizing it was my mother's birthday next week and I had nothing for her. So I got a cute card, and a gift. I'll mail the card and give her the gift when I come home next weekend. Picked up a second litter box, and a few cat supplies. Had a hellish experience that I wish I hadn't survived. Got home, was in dire need of some comfort so conned Dave into coming over for a bit, ended up watching the next two episodes of Rome. There was much less sex in these ones which was nice in the company of Dave (I'm sure in my own company it would be just fine), however, not nearly enough blood and gore but I'm sure that'll come.
Thursday - Skipped my one class today to do work. No work happened. After the hellish experience of wednesday I was not interested in trying to contentrate on anything cause my mind was doing this horrrifying flashback thing that it does so yeah. Mary came over for supper and a movie and then Melissa came over for a movie and Grey's Anatomy.
Friday - All that turned into Cranium till 5am this morning. I am tired. I slept for a bit, till Pauline, Melissa and Mary left at 8, then I was up. Did some studying, just lazed around mostly. Then I got ready to go out, did a couple habitat errands, some library research and then spend the evening with an adorable 2 year old who loves me. I must admit it was a productive evening, I played with a cute baby for an hour, put him to bed, then studied the rest of the evening and made money.
Proposed plans for Saturday and Sunday- Clean my room, get some groceries with the babysitting money, get an outline done for the three papers I have due in the next month, catch up on Mythology readings, Read Plato's Timaeus, and go to the public library to get some info on Irish Mythology (as apparently someone else at the university is doing a similiar work, cause everything on it at the University library is taken out).
So now... since it is after 12 I shall begin the proposed plans, beginning with cleaning my room!

But I wasn't really wrong...
Willow has been off her special food for about a month or more now, also she has a bladder infection. Yes I was not wrong!
So its off to the vet this evening. Joy. Gonna pick up some flea and deworming meds too and make an appt for Jack.
I am okay with spending money on my animals. Cause I love Willow and I'm becoming quite attached to Jack. So yeah... it it means I don't get to buy a new book for a few weeks or a new pair of jeans next month thats okay.
Anyways, had to postpone my coffee appt with someone so I can work on my paper and take Willow to the vet so I might as well take advantage of my extra hour.

kitten troubles

*sigh*
So I thought that Willow's refusal to use the litter box earlier in the summer was a result of her medical problems at the time.. well apparently I was wrong (You'd be surprised how often that happens). So yeah.. it seems that not using the litter box is a result of another cat. Which means, yes we have a problem. I am not however going to give up without a really good fight. Sooo... what do you do you may ask? Well I won't yell... even when my new clean basket of clothes needs to be rewashed (yes.. disgusting I know).
See... Jack does this thing where he pounces Willow evertime she comes out of the litter box... soo.. we keep him far away whenver she's in there. I'm cleaning it several times a day in an effort to make it as desirable as possible and I'm gonna pick up a second one... that way its never "in use" when she needs to go, forcing her to go somewhere else.
Soo... I"ll let ya know how it goes, but for now there is a 10page paper due tomorrow calling on the rejection of the feminine and the author's interepreation of how sexuality is implied/defined in the short story "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe".
Tootles

Running Adventures

Ah Me... how do I do it?
So I went for a run earlier... well it turned out to be more of a walk... my lungs hate me.
Anyways, so I'm walking along when I came upon some guy raking a lawn, not so exciting no but I thought I knew him but he was still a distance away so I couldn't be sure and I don't really know a ton of people around here, so I figured it was unlikely, however, being the girl I am, I got a bit nervous walking by a guy who could possibly be wonderfully beautiful and take more than a second glance at me etc...
Anyhow, it turned out it was Jeff. From habitat. Not that that's a bad thing or anything or that the above nervousness doesn't apply cause this is me we are talking about, I get nervous around everyone.
Back to my story.. so I'm walking by, and sorta trying to look back inconspicuously to see if I know this person or if I should be smiling and looking less like the ridiculous runner I am, anyways... so yeah, its at this point that I realize its Jeff, meaning I can stop getting excited about getting a second glance or whatever and that's when I trip and fall.. if not for the tree to catch my fall I would have fallen flat on my face.
You know... I'm like one of those girls they make movies about. I'm the clumsy, nerdy, not so beautiful girl who everyone makes fun of and then all of a sudden she's beautiful and popular and the guy of her dreams falls for her. Unfortunately the beautiful, popular and the guy part haven't exactly happened.
But yeah..
Soo.. the runnign was nice.. I think if I'm gonna try and beat depression medfree I'm gonna need to do that more often, I do however need to get some warmer clothes... cause its frickin' cold out there! Anyways... books call... actually they're yelling. Loudly.

Quotations of the Day!

"Beware of the doctor who is always right, cause even House makes mistakes."
"What drugs will not cure, the knife will"
"Coffee's bad for you, though not nearly as bad as mercury."
"In antiquity, fat people were an oddity."
"If we could all just eat sugar and salt, we'd be ecstatic."
"Where's my soapbox?"
"Like when the Ancient Greeks had Canada Day, that's when they sat out on the green and had red meat, yes on Canada Day."
"Lobsters are bizzare little things."
"Goats are noble animals, what with the clothes..."
"And you typically can't always get what you need. So the Rolling Stones were wrong. Again."
"You all look pained... I could do the lecture in Hello Kitty language if you like... I hate that I children.."
"Do you know what's so special about barnacles? Male ones? They have the largest genitalia proportionate to body size of any animal. You should know that, cause you've always wondered. I know you have."
"What would we do without trade? This jacket's from the GAP... meaning it was made by a little girl working 14 hours a day for 10 cents in some hot, dry, desert country on the other side of the world."

Not so wonderful Wednesday

Ahh.. tylenol 3 how I love you.

Yes.. I finally went to the hospital. I'm happy! Still in pain but glad they could give me something that helps with the pain a bit more than what I was taking before. I also have the names of a couple chiropractors and masssage therapists with the recommendation to see someone in the next little while if the back isnt' feeling better.

Also called a counsellor today, have an appoitment next week. All my friends and acquantices will be happy to know they will no longer be privy to information regarding my feelings, problems, thoughts etc. Yes, I'm sure you all are whooping for joy now. I think its time for me to go back to old me. The me that no one ever knew what was up with, no one knew exactly how I felt or what I was dealing with inside and such. So yeah... probably silly but you know, I think people liked me better than, I think I was much easier to live with then.

But anyways...

Before I go off to reading for classes that I need to catch up... a cute cat picture. I found the cats like this when I woke up earlier. I got some giggles out of it, they are definetly adorable.