Looking good, "G"
Well I blog here today as a happy G-class driver in Ontario. Yay for Morningside, little traffic, snow as an excuse to go really slowly and most importantly, the lack of need for me to demonstrate a parallel park. ^_^ Once again though (like on my G1 exit test) I was marked down for driving too slowly, and I still don't really know why. Am I supposed to remain EXACTLY at 60 km/h if that's the maximum? I assumed that 50-55 km/h would cut it; I was even going too fast through a school zone (I was at 40-45 km/h). Well I should stop complaining - I passed. It's a good thing I had some energy this time around (as opposed to the last time I took this test during finals last year - idiot). I had gone to sleep early the night before at around 9 pm, thinking that I could get up at 9 in the morning feeling refreshed. What happened instead? I woke up at 5 am and ended up playing Warcraft III for 2.5 hours... but like I said, I should stop complaining. =P
On the poor side of things though, because of the road examination, I was unable to attend my new British history course that I start this term. That's the SECOND one I've missed this week - after one week of school, I have yet to even know what my professor looks like. I don't think I've ever been so annoyed at having to miss class before. At least I've been told that the course content seems to be better (if you trust the likes of crazy slacker people like Bao).
Anyway as you can tell by the time I'm slowly reverting back to my horrible winter break sleeping habits... which must stop now. I'm out.
Tuesday, January 06, 2004
New Year, Same Courses
My first day back at U and so far so good. My schedule barely changed at all and might even be exactly the same depending on which tutorial I get for my new British History class. I've also resumed workout with Wilmer (I like alliteration although that has) a.k.a. Polish Combat Training after over a month away from it. Based on my pitiful performance today, I think I actually got weaker and lost what little I had gained during October and November. *sigh* I guess no one ever said it was easy... (aside: What song is that line from? It's so familiar but I just can't think of it - I hate it when this happens)
The commute today was fun! But I say that only because I still had the car... which I have to return tomorrow. At least I get to drive down to Fairview for one more day before the suckage of GO/TTC transit reenters my life. Speaking of suckage, I still have to write that NAMUN summary paper that I was supposed to do during the break. Damn the short-lived benefits of procrastination.
My first day back at U and so far so good. My schedule barely changed at all and might even be exactly the same depending on which tutorial I get for my new British History class. I've also resumed workout with Wilmer (I like alliteration although that has) a.k.a. Polish Combat Training after over a month away from it. Based on my pitiful performance today, I think I actually got weaker and lost what little I had gained during October and November. *sigh* I guess no one ever said it was easy... (aside: What song is that line from? It's so familiar but I just can't think of it - I hate it when this happens)
The commute today was fun! But I say that only because I still had the car... which I have to return tomorrow. At least I get to drive down to Fairview for one more day before the suckage of GO/TTC transit reenters my life. Speaking of suckage, I still have to write that NAMUN summary paper that I was supposed to do during the break. Damn the short-lived benefits of procrastination.
Friday, January 02, 2004
Testing testing... is this thing still on?
Hello? Yes, I think I should start getting out of my holiday/break mode and resuming my erratic blogging (as opposed to the NO blogging these past 30 days). So consider the end of my Christmas break from blogger.
I hope you all had a crazy Christmas and an awesome New Year's - Raymond probably got drunk somewhere in Toronto (and therefore fell asleep somewhere).
Anyway, aside from this day being exactly a month from my last post, it is also another special day.
Happy Birthday Joyce! ^__^
Hello? Yes, I think I should start getting out of my holiday/break mode and resuming my erratic blogging (as opposed to the NO blogging these past 30 days). So consider the end of my Christmas break from blogger.
I hope you all had a crazy Christmas and an awesome New Year's - Raymond probably got drunk somewhere in Toronto (and therefore fell asleep somewhere).
Anyway, aside from this day being exactly a month from my last post, it is also another special day.
Happy Birthday Joyce! ^__^
Tuesday, December 02, 2003
One down...
Getting to school has never been such a hassle, or ever cost so much. My mom woke me up telling me that if I wanted to go with her, I would have to go get ready immediately. I didn't have class until 11 so naturally at 7:50 I declined her ride. When I did get up an hour later and prepared to go catch the GO Bus to Union Station, I realised one thing as I was putting my shoes on - my car keys were not with me, and (after a frustrating search) nor were they in my house. Well eventually I only had one option. Costs for the day:
Taxi to a CIBC sort of close to a GO stop (for cab fare) - $8.00
Bus from nice off-duty GO driver to Mount Jot (GO station) - free
Bus from Mount Joy to Union Station - $4.10
Subway from Union to Campus - $1.90
Subway from Campus to Union - $1.90
Bus from Union to Centenniel (GO station) - $4.10
By the time I got down I had missed my 11:00 class but that was mostly because of the snowy road conditions making the entire trip 40 minutes longer than normal. Some of you would have probably said, "Just skip the day! It's not worth it." The fact was though that I had to go downtown because I had a test in the evening.
A test for which good preparation was made! And by good preparation I really mean that there was awful disruptive studying with this fellow (its true, as we hypothesized from last year, one cannot study with him around) and when he left there was pretty decent studying with the remaining 2 chumps. I hope I did well on that test; I'm not sure I got all the points down (had to write 3 essays). Onward and upward!
Getting to school has never been such a hassle, or ever cost so much. My mom woke me up telling me that if I wanted to go with her, I would have to go get ready immediately. I didn't have class until 11 so naturally at 7:50 I declined her ride. When I did get up an hour later and prepared to go catch the GO Bus to Union Station, I realised one thing as I was putting my shoes on - my car keys were not with me, and (after a frustrating search) nor were they in my house. Well eventually I only had one option. Costs for the day:
Taxi to a CIBC sort of close to a GO stop (for cab fare) - $8.00
Bus from nice off-duty GO driver to Mount Jot (GO station) - free
Bus from Mount Joy to Union Station - $4.10
Subway from Union to Campus - $1.90
Subway from Campus to Union - $1.90
Bus from Union to Centenniel (GO station) - $4.10
By the time I got down I had missed my 11:00 class but that was mostly because of the snowy road conditions making the entire trip 40 minutes longer than normal. Some of you would have probably said, "Just skip the day! It's not worth it." The fact was though that I had to go downtown because I had a test in the evening.
A test for which good preparation was made! And by good preparation I really mean that there was awful disruptive studying with this fellow (its true, as we hypothesized from last year, one cannot study with him around) and when he left there was pretty decent studying with the remaining 2 chumps. I hope I did well on that test; I'm not sure I got all the points down (had to write 3 essays). Onward and upward!
Monday, November 24, 2003
I can see the end, there's just no way to get there
Yay, as of now I have no more essays to write for 2003... 2 tests and an exam left over the next 2 weeks. ^.^ Hmm... I'm not sure whether I want time to hurry up or slow down. Argh!
Hmm... the only goal I have for this Christmas is to catch up on a lot of reading in this order:
Harry Potter series (1 book)
Star Wars: New Jedi Order series (5 or 6 books)
Stephen King Gunslinger series (2 books?)
Oh and there some NAMUN thingy I have to do, but I'll find out more about that later...
Man what am I doing thinking of vacation already? These are going to be a gruelling last 2 weeks. Oy.
Yay, as of now I have no more essays to write for 2003... 2 tests and an exam left over the next 2 weeks. ^.^ Hmm... I'm not sure whether I want time to hurry up or slow down. Argh!
Hmm... the only goal I have for this Christmas is to catch up on a lot of reading in this order:
Harry Potter series (1 book)
Star Wars: New Jedi Order series (5 or 6 books)
Stephen King Gunslinger series (2 books?)
Oh and there some NAMUN thingy I have to do, but I'll find out more about that later...
Man what am I doing thinking of vacation already? These are going to be a gruelling last 2 weeks. Oy.