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First day of the new semester and I'm still on break mode. That might be because I only have one class today. Advanced Creative Writing at 3:30 p.m., which, ironically, is the class that I am writing this blog for. I started it for Creative Writing last semester and decided to keep it going after that class ended in December so it'll be easy to get back into the writing-a-post-of-three-sentences-a-day mode, since I never really stopped writing on this blog. Now my dilemma is choosing a topic for my Adv. Creative Writing article that I will be excited to write about for the entire semester. I am initially thinking of doing nonfiction. I am more comfortable with that, especially if it's writing about a personal experience I have had. I've written three articles for Insight Magazine about experiences I have in my life that had a spiritual correlation, but I want to do something different for this article. I know that I write best when the story is something from a personal experience or at least something that I am familiar about (I guess most writers do, too), but I want to try writing something for a non-religious magazine. Maybe I should try a humour piece, but I'm not sure my life is that filled with humourous situations that readers who don't know me would find interesting. Oh well. I have a couple days to come up with something...

And now, I must tell you the devastating news. Team Canada got silver in the 2010 World Junior Championships. Tonight they played in the gold medal game against Team USA - a repeat of the New Year's Eve round robin game. I wanted to watch the game online on a stream from tsn.ca, but that didn't work since they only stream to Canadian IP addresses. Jonathan tried to help me find a Canadian proxy address (yeah that might be totally wrong since I know nothing about that kind of stuff) so we could trick TSN into thinking my computer was from Canada, but that didn't work out. So instead we read our Bible chapters for the day (Did I mention that we decided to read the Bible through in a year chronologically?) and then hung out as I kept refreshing the TSN game updates page. Team USA looked too strong and fast to be beaten, but Canada kept up pretty good. Then in the third period the U.S. was up by two goals with a score of 5-3, but right near the end of the period Canada tied it up at 5-5. Overtime was needed to decide a winner and the U.S. got a goal to win the gold. Oh well, Canada got silver, which isn't nearly as epic, but I thought that might happen. The U.S. team was super good this year. I don't really begrudge them winning the gold, although it did put a swift stop to Canada's WJC gold medal streak. They were trying for the record-breaking 6th consecutive gold medal, but I guess they'll just have to start a new streak next year.