Argh! It's driving me nuts.
(crazy/silly Robinson kids)
Well week two is over and not much has changed. My schedule is very good except for one day, namely Wednesday.
Tutorial from 12 pm to 1 pm
Class from 4 to 5 pm
Tutorial from 8 to 9 pm <-- I only found out about this a couple days ago
Inefficiency at its best! Which means its the worst day for me! Taking into account that I have to commute at scheduled GO transit times which are an hour apart (as well me needing to get a ride to the GO station in the first place), I have to be up at 8 am and I get home at 10:30 pm. Bleh. Spending time at the library in between is pretty good still. Having spent a good deal of time in most/all of them now, I have to say the EJ Pratt at Vic is still one of the best ones to study at as well as best for computer/Internet access. Unfortunately, the 8-9 hours I have to kill is still too much even in such a nice resource centre.
I cast my vote for any candidate that will promise public student napping facilities...
Friday, September 12, 2003
Ubiquitous Friends
Four days and I think I've done a pretty good job at maintaining some level of social interaction. The best part is that most of it was not by choice, they were just random encounters. *shrug* At least it keeps up the facade... =p
Of Markham District people I've met (in the order I met them from Monday to Friday): RL (heard his voice before I saw him), WS, JL, CC, DR, RZ
RJ people: Fahad, CM, SWH, LW (he wants to go out with you btw, he's disappointed at his lack of companionship)
Not bad eh? Yes I'm pretty impressed too... yes... *sigh* No time for a life unforunately, time to hit the books! (or rather, time for the books to hit me - why did I take 5 reading intensive courses?)
I'm an artsie, I'm an artsie, I'm an artsie... drinking beer.
But I'd rather be an artsie, than a f--king engineer.
- Vic Frosh
Four days and I think I've done a pretty good job at maintaining some level of social interaction. The best part is that most of it was not by choice, they were just random encounters. *shrug* At least it keeps up the facade... =p
Of Markham District people I've met (in the order I met them from Monday to Friday): RL (heard his voice before I saw him), WS, JL, CC, DR, RZ
RJ people: Fahad, CM, SWH, LW (he wants to go out with you btw, he's disappointed at his lack of companionship)
Not bad eh? Yes I'm pretty impressed too... yes... *sigh* No time for a life unforunately, time to hit the books! (or rather, time for the books to hit me - why did I take 5 reading intensive courses?)
I'm an artsie, I'm an artsie, I'm an artsie... drinking beer.
But I'd rather be an artsie, than a f--king engineer.
- Vic Frosh
Monday, September 08, 2003
Day One
...and what a day it was. I woke up at 10:30 am, and kicked around in my bed until around 11:15 (there is only so many times you can hit the snooze button until you realise that you aren't going to fall back into the nice slumber that you were in). I stumbled my way around the house, eventually cleaning up and getting dressed. After a small breakfast/lunch, I went to my computer and sat down, reading the news and then watching anime. Killing time until about 12:15, I decided that I should probably try and test out this commute business in the event it took an excruciating long time. Naturally between the slight detour on the YRT Route #1 Yonge bus that I don't recall existing before and the ages it seemingly took for the subway train to finally leave Finch station it WAS an excruciating long time before I got on campus. At around 1:45 pm I finally found myself in front of Hart House, greeted by two old friends Sango and Ray. For a moment it seemed nothing had changed much and it felt like year one again as the Loud One started yelling out vulgar rude comments and Wayne and I pretended not to know him.
Eventually Ray left us to our lunch and went to class (surprised, eh?), eventually returning with a friend. Since we all needed to go there anyway, our little group of four left Hart House and headed off to the UT Bookstore to purchase overpriced academic reading material. As we walked across King's Circle (less than 2 minutes away from Hart House), I noticed a very young looking student walking nearby. Suggesting loudly that the boy looked like he was in grade 9, I suggested that it would be weird that a fair amount of the kids we'd see would be 17 or 18, some even 16. Somehow, this discussion was enough of a reason for Raymond to charge at the young freshman and, when only about a foot away, demand his age. Needless to say, Raymond's friend quickly joined Wayne and I in looking and walking in the opposite direction. Truly nothing has changed, a monster he remains.
Despite also being able to meet with my friends Sing and Boulder after class, I still felt that the day was a waste overall. ~3 hours of commute, ~$8 spent, much sweat and tiring boredom all for what? 1 hour of class? *sigh* It's evident that I'm going to have to have extra willpower on Mondays to keep me from slacking... there's gotta be a better way...
...and what a day it was. I woke up at 10:30 am, and kicked around in my bed until around 11:15 (there is only so many times you can hit the snooze button until you realise that you aren't going to fall back into the nice slumber that you were in). I stumbled my way around the house, eventually cleaning up and getting dressed. After a small breakfast/lunch, I went to my computer and sat down, reading the news and then watching anime. Killing time until about 12:15, I decided that I should probably try and test out this commute business in the event it took an excruciating long time. Naturally between the slight detour on the YRT Route #1 Yonge bus that I don't recall existing before and the ages it seemingly took for the subway train to finally leave Finch station it WAS an excruciating long time before I got on campus. At around 1:45 pm I finally found myself in front of Hart House, greeted by two old friends Sango and Ray. For a moment it seemed nothing had changed much and it felt like year one again as the Loud One started yelling out vulgar rude comments and Wayne and I pretended not to know him.
Eventually Ray left us to our lunch and went to class (surprised, eh?), eventually returning with a friend. Since we all needed to go there anyway, our little group of four left Hart House and headed off to the UT Bookstore to purchase overpriced academic reading material. As we walked across King's Circle (less than 2 minutes away from Hart House), I noticed a very young looking student walking nearby. Suggesting loudly that the boy looked like he was in grade 9, I suggested that it would be weird that a fair amount of the kids we'd see would be 17 or 18, some even 16. Somehow, this discussion was enough of a reason for Raymond to charge at the young freshman and, when only about a foot away, demand his age. Needless to say, Raymond's friend quickly joined Wayne and I in looking and walking in the opposite direction. Truly nothing has changed, a monster he remains.
Despite also being able to meet with my friends Sing and Boulder after class, I still felt that the day was a waste overall. ~3 hours of commute, ~$8 spent, much sweat and tiring boredom all for what? 1 hour of class? *sigh* It's evident that I'm going to have to have extra willpower on Mondays to keep me from slacking... there's gotta be a better way...
Back for 2nds
Well, looks like school starts later today. First class at 4pm... American Politics! Actually I have no idea how good the class is; its probably not that great, but hopefully it's an easy class? Yeah, right. Also I need to look into some fun clubs/outside school activities. I know I'll probably be trying for Dragonboat once again this year. Anyone have any other ideas?
Good luck with the whole bunch of you guys starting University this week (or those that have already started last week) and if you're at UT, I'd BETTER see you around sometime. I just hope I can deal with this whole commuting thing - I've heard many bad things about it (stress, fatigue, annoyance, frustration, etc.) On that note, let it be stated that blogging will also once again occur more regularly now that there will be more time for me to slack off in the campus libraries (being the kinda of geek that doesn't like leaving school that I am). And I'll say it once here: I apologize for the poor (quantity of) summer updates (one of which I still have yet to finish!) If there was a "god of laziness" (Procrastus?) then I'm definitely his number one follower. Not a good god to pray to for a good school year unfortunately...
Ending remark: the word "exuberant" has the word "ex uber" in it... I'm such a geek.
Well, looks like school starts later today. First class at 4pm... American Politics! Actually I have no idea how good the class is; its probably not that great, but hopefully it's an easy class? Yeah, right. Also I need to look into some fun clubs/outside school activities. I know I'll probably be trying for Dragonboat once again this year. Anyone have any other ideas?
Good luck with the whole bunch of you guys starting University this week (or those that have already started last week) and if you're at UT, I'd BETTER see you around sometime. I just hope I can deal with this whole commuting thing - I've heard many bad things about it (stress, fatigue, annoyance, frustration, etc.) On that note, let it be stated that blogging will also once again occur more regularly now that there will be more time for me to slack off in the campus libraries (being the kinda of geek that doesn't like leaving school that I am). And I'll say it once here: I apologize for the poor (quantity of) summer updates (one of which I still have yet to finish!) If there was a "god of laziness" (Procrastus?) then I'm definitely his number one follower. Not a good god to pray to for a good school year unfortunately...
Ending remark: the word "exuberant" has the word "ex uber" in it... I'm such a geek.
Tuesday, August 05, 2003
There and back again
Back from Ottawa! Man, what a fun trip. I have to say that its nice that although you spend a year apart from your friends some things are still remain the same. On Sunday morning at about 8:45 a.m., a group of my friends and I departed for Canada's Capital.
(blog interrupted due to laziness - not Barnahog)
Back from Ottawa! Man, what a fun trip. I have to say that its nice that although you spend a year apart from your friends some things are still remain the same. On Sunday morning at about 8:45 a.m., a group of my friends and I departed for Canada's Capital.
(blog interrupted due to laziness - not Barnahog)