Summer's coming

Spring is finally here and summer seems right on its heels.  Although I love the warm weather, it does cause a slight problem: clothing choice.  When the weather gets nice like this, I always have difficulty figuring out what to wear because, while it's rather warm outside, the classrooms inside are still as cold as Alaska in the dead of winter.  I'd love to wear something springish and cool so that when I'm walking around campus (which I did a bunch of yesterday) I don't swelter. But, in order to do that, I have to freeze in my classes.  It's quite a dilemma.

Nothing to say

My blog posts are getting boring.  But forgive me.  I'm in three W classes and two of them (plus the pointless SM class) have major writing assignments due before I can graduate.  I don't have time for extra words.

Only interesting thing I can think of: for about 40 minutes tonight I was the only person in the Accent office.  Emily (editor) and Katie were at their soccer game, Emily (photo editor) was finished her job for the evening and left, Matt left to change for his soccer game, and Adrienne and Stefan hadn't got out of classes yet.  Andrea also hadn't come by the office.  It was very different to be in there alone, but it was nice and quiet and gave me time to thing about and write my article.  At least that's one writing deadline that is finally over.  I did the main interview for that piece around the end of January and have been putting off writing the article until tonight.  I'm sure it could have been better, but oh well.  At least it's finally done.

Burritos

Mexi-bar is definitely my favourite cafeteria supper.  Most days I forget to call the cafe and find out the menu for the day, but today I remembered and it was mexi-bar.  Needless to say, I got pretty excited.  And I called at 11 a.m., which meant there was 6 hours to wait until I could stand in line for my burritos.  It was a long 6 hours but I managed to make it to the appointed hour.  Of course, when Jonathan and I actually got to the cafe there was a line, but finally I had my two burritos sitting on the table (well in the tray...not just right on the table) in front of me.  I ate both, plus some yogurt and actually wanted to go back for more.  Jonathan said my stomach would never fit anything else, so I bet him that I could eat another whole burrito.  He wisely declined the bet and, a few minutes later, I was glad; I was rather full.  Now, later in the evening and hungry again, I'm wishing I'd gotten two more in a take-out tray.  Seriously, burritos are sooo good.

Time without school

Sometimes I wonder what in the world will occupy my time when I'm done school.  I can't even imagine that scenario, although it's only five weeks away.  Hopefully I can hang on that long . . . I really would like to graduate.

Earth Hour

I achieved my Earth Day goal: to keep my lights off from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. I did this by hanging out at Danielle's house (come on, it still counts because MY lights were off...) and then going to the Gym-Master's homeshow. Watch this video to find out more about what other people and cities did tonight for Earth Hour.



Earth Hour's Web site can also give you more info.

Recital-dress shopping

Traditionally, my least favourite item of clothes to shop for has been dresses. (Well, that's not actually true...it's probably my second-least favourite). But today I agreed to go shopping with Bryn to look for recital dresses. I'm not that fond of shopping in general (unless it's for books), but I can get in the mood for it once in awhile. Today was one of those times. We found myriads of dresses, most of them not exactly the kind you would want to wear for a senior violin recital. We did have a fun time going through Dillard's and J.C. Penny's dress sections, picking several out, and trying them on though.
Here's the synopsis of our shopping trip. Actual items bought: two. Both were bought by Bryn and neither were dresses. But all in all, it was a fun afternoon and I decided that dress shopping is actually more fun than I previously thought. I might even try it again in the near future.

Also, this is worth watching. I really wish I'd known about it before my debate on Wednesday. It would have fit perfectly with my position.

Frustrated

I really want to go on a rant on here. But I don't think I will because I don't want certain people to see it and possibly not let me go overseas next year. I don't think that certain people will ever read this blog, but just to be on the safe side, I will refrain. Let's just say I am frustrated with a certain class that is zero credits, but that I am required to take. I know other people are as well. OK, rant over.

In other news, Hockey Canada posted a really great commercial on their Facebook page this afternoon. I saw the post and watched the video and fell in love. You can watch it here.

Celebratory meal

We had a lot to celebrate tonight so we went to the VM after orchestra and got two frozen pizzas for a celebratory meal. What were we celebrating, you ask? Well, first, Bryn did her senior recital jury and passed. She didn't have to play anything again for the professors and now just has to do her senior recital (April 13 for any of you who need convo credit or just want to come because you like classical music) to be able to graduate. Second, Jonathan did a test to challenge Discrete Math, which he needed to graduate. He said he felt it went well so we figured that was a good reason to celebrate.

And finally (and least importantly since it didn't impact whether I would graduate or not), I did my last debate for Mass Communication & Society. It was on digital strategies and my position was that the Internet and new media are debasing journalism. I half believe that stance and half don't, but apparently all the media world don't agree with that position because it was super hard to find any sources to back what I was supporting. In any case, I did find a few and I think I made a pretty good argument despite not having too many great sources. I did plan out a pretty great rebuttal and James, my opponent, played right into my hands on that one. I think my rebuttal was probably one of the strongest parts of my debate, so for that I'm pretty happy. Anyway, so now the only thing I have left to do in that class is my 10-12 page research paper. Man, I can't wait until graduation...