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Let’s see…

I got home yesterday around 1 PM, and felt like a vegetable for the rest of the day. That course kinda wiped me out. However, it didn’t wipe me out so much that we couldn’t go to the Rose & Crown with G&C. I could only manage one beer (and don’t even remember what it was), but the jambalaya nearly burned my mouth out. I basically croaked, “…water…” at the waitress, and when she brought them I swore my undying love for her. Or something like that.

Today we both realized that a) we don’t clean enough, b) the cats are slowly destroying the apartment, and c) the combination of those two things is causing us health problems. We’re always stuffed up, and the place just smells like…well, cat. All the time. So today we bought ourselves a kickass little vacuum cleaner, a small air purifier, a lint roller refill and some arm & hammer pet-vs-carpet stuff. Oh, and a pasta maker. It was an exciting day, truly. We’ve been cleaning like idiots (more Nellie than me; I’m still trying to catch up on my reading & blogging duties), and our hope is that we can just relax on the couch and watch an episode or two of our new Oz DVDs.

Yesterday and today felt like spring days, not early February days. The downside: both days saw smog alerts announced for southeastern Ontario. Seriously. Smog days, in the middle of winter. Shouldn’t that tell us something?

Tomorrow evening we have dinner at The Strip House with T-Bone. Poetic, no? Anyway, I’ll miss the Superbowl, but that’s never upset me much. I’m sure I’ll hear about whatever happens.

More catching up

I returned yesterday to find new goodies (some of which had been kindly collected by T-Bone):

  • The Hidden Cameras . Mississauga Goddam
  • Magneta Lane . The Constant Lover
  • Low . The Great Destroyer
  • Oz: Season 4
  • Troy
  • Shaun Of The Dead

I also have 3 Zip movies to watch (Dog Day Afternoon, Falling Angels, Nowhere In Africa), a whole week of The Daily Show and Shake Hands With The Devil, not to mention 3 magazines (Esquire, Spin, Vanity Fair), today’s Star, Eye and Now. Yeesh.

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Whew. I’m glad that’s over. We did the presentations this afternoon, and it went pretty well. 8 of us played some basketball after that, so now I feel great! All that remains now is…the exam. I plan to eat my pizza (Russ and I couldn’t bear the thought of any more cafeteria food), study for a couple of hours, hit the bar for a few drinks, then come back here and get my shit together so that I can take off out of here tomorrow in a right quick hurry.

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In the home stretch now. Finalizing the powerpoint file and document, getting ready to run through the presentation for the first time. By dinnertime tomorrow I’ll feel like I’m in the home stretch, even though I’ll still have the exam to study for. Not worried about that though.

Watch, now I’ll go and fail…

The Arcade Fire

Funeral is saving my sanity right now. Not enough sleep, too much writing about something I don’t know, too little space in rooms with too many people. Only this disc and my headphones are keeping me from going right ’round the bend. God bless those boys (and that girl).

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Oy. It’s 12:30, and I’ve just finished writing for the night. We started at 7 and went to 11:30 before I came back to my room and wrote for another hour. On Thursday we have to hand in a 10-12 page report and present a 20-minute synopsis of that report. Right now I’d say the powerpoint slides are about 70% done, the document is about 50% done and we haven’t even thought about how we’re going to present it. We have tomorrow evening to figure all that out.

Hooray, group assignments!!

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3 days down, 2 to go. Well, kinda. We’ll be working late again tonight, and I have the exam Friday morning, but that’ll only take a few hours and I’ll be home before noon, in time to relax and enjoy the weekend.

Not bad so far. Good group, relatively interesting class, having fun with the other class members. Will undoubtedly need drink(s) again tonight. Only regret is that I haven’t made it to the gym yet. I’m hoping to get down there tomorrow night or Thursday and shoot some hoop.

In other news, they keep making me think there’s actually hope.

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Hey, all right! It turns out that the rooms here now have net access, so I’m able to post and email like a normal human.

Day 1 was pretty good. This prof seems ok…funny, and seems intent on making HR (which has the potential to be very boring) fairly interesting. But we’ll see if I still feel this way on Wednesday or Thursday. Tonight will be light…a bit more posting, then dinner, then a few hours of group work, then some drinks, then some relaxation time.