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| I just ordered some stuff off of TigerDirect. I shall soon have USB2.0 and Firewire ports, thanks to a card that was on sale for $24.99. I also bought myself some cheapo speakers so I can listen to my music at the store and the lab. And a new cordless phone since mine is dead as a doornail. Now I just have to patiently wait untill a box arrives.. or more likely untill a piece of paper telling me where my box is arrives So it looks like I'll be going to Ottawa this weekend. I'm going to a Quesco or Cheese or whatever it's called meeting. It's a meeting for all of the Quebec Engineering schools, hosted by Outaouais this month. The EUS is paying for me to rent a car and for all my gas while I'm there, since I'll be saving them moolah by staying at my house in Orleans instead of at the hotel with everyone else. Hopefully we'll get to go skating on the canal :D | ||||||
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| I'm watching the OC from 2 weeks ago... holy terrible job at the dubbing over Peter Gallagher's voice. .... yes, I will do anythign to avoid homework. | ||||
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| So I'm back from QEC, the world's greatest drunken franco sausage fest. ahhh. My presentation went really well. I ended up being the last to go, which blew because I was so tired.. as were the judges, and the few teams who were nice enough to stick around. Between Isabel hitting on one of the judges and me getting drunk with the volunteer, we found out that there was a 4-way tie for 2nd place, and the judges had to pick a 2nd and 3rd to give prize money to/send to CEC in Calgary. We got cut - both McGill teams tied for 4th place. The only thing that bothers me, is that the guys who were given second were head and shoulders above everyone else. I found the winning presentation to be boring and very unclea, but hey .. I'm not a judge. the best part was we were the only people whose entire event happened on Friday, so everyone from our category was at the bar that night. It was awesome! The guys in our cateory were great, it was a great night. We're putting in a bid to host QEC next year. It's between us and Trois Rivieres. I really hope we get it ecause we will be able to make some really positive steps towards fixing the totally blatent bilingualism problem. I mean, I don't expect everyone one of the organizers and volunteers to speak English, but few of the documents were translated .. not even the problem description for the design teams. And for the ones that were translated.. there were HUGE discrepencies between the French and English versions. big bummer for us. Our team still did really well tho :D The dog next door is barking and howling. It's really annoying. I think I'm going to go shopping. | ||||
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| fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I need to get my act in gear. this presentation is on Friday, and I'll be in good shape i fI buckle down for a good 2-3 more hours. I wasted so much time today it's not even funny. That's the problem with committess you're on with your friends. You end up wasting tiem together and a quick&easy; task takes WAY too long. But now I'm home, few distractions, I just gotta finish the damn thing. I've been practicing my french intro all day, I'm going impress les judges I am... oohhhhh yes. Oh yeah, and I got fucked over by a quiz today ... apparently he gave some pressures in abs and some in gage. WHO THE FRICK DOES THAT?!? I didn't notice, and as such I did it wrong. booooooourns. It's such an easy class too, there was no reason for it. | ||||
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so I did it, and thought it was funny...
see, I was skiing, and didn't even notice, and almost severely injured myself. How long was it gone for anyways? are people really this addicted?? whatever. I was finally productive today, which has allowed for some of the panic attacks to stop. I tweaked my CACEE form to apply for a summer job with Imperial Oil, I started my QEC presentation research, and I worked on my Separations homework, only to go to class and realise that I kinda missed the boat on a few things. I also went to yoga and ran into Jenn Smith at the gym! that's THREE TIMES in ONE YEAR. We're going for a record here. so life is getting back into the ol'routine of pulling my hair out. I might be coming to Ottawa this weekend, it looks like Concrete Toboggan will keep Simon from leaving the city. | ||||||
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| I went on the Engineering Ski Trip to Mont Ste Anne this weekend. It was a lot of fun, there were many long, not too difficult trails that wind along the mountain. It was great and I really would like to go again this year. The only downside was there was a lot of ice. Stupid warm January :P some highlights of the trip: - learning to Ski again (this was my first time in 5 year) - getting to know Jess better - running into Doug McCarthy - running into a fence The fence story is a really funny one, but only if I tell it in person. Ask me about it next time you see me. On the bus ride home I finished readon A Complicated Kindness. It was really hyped right before Christmas because it won a bunch of awards inluding the Govenor General's award. I really enjoyed it and am kind of sad that it's over -- I don't wuite know yet how to describe the story but I really, really enjoyed it. I have to face reality soon. I hate reality. It means endless hours at school and no free time. My appartment is in a pretty terrible state. There's stuff everywhere and I need to do laundry and I don't think I ever finished unpacking after Christmas. I really should get on that. I also miss Simon like crazy. This long distance thing seems to be getting harder. Maybe it's because I see a light at the end of this four-month tunnel or maye it's because I'm depressed and i feel I really need a hug. | ||||||||||
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| I just finished the third season of Six Feet Under. It is an emotionally charged show but that season was extremely intense. I really think it's one of the best shows out there, it's so incredibly real. heh, funny thing is Kev and I kept joking about the show to keep our sanity. We were somewhat disappointed that there was no visible family drama at the funeral home. We kept likening ourselves and other people to the characters of the show (Lynn is definately Claire. Anyways, if you've never seen it you should definately rent it or download it. I really don't know if I've ever seen a better done show. | ||||
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| I have n motivation to do anything at all. I haven't finished unpacking my clothes yet, I just have my suitcase in the middle of my floor. I have to start researching for the presentation I would say I'd do for QEC. It won't be too hard for me to do I just have to get started and get into it... instead I just stare at my computer and wish I had just an ounce of motivation. I'm listening to this Tsunami memorial thing on CBC. It's a good idea but I don't want to listen to it. I haven't gotten up to switch the station so I'm just listening to the staticky music and Anthony Germaine talking over it. ugh. I realised I don't have any USB 2.0 ports on my computer. I need to get some. But then I think, well maybe I should get a firewire port, cuz I could use those for my iPod aswell... but USB can be used for more things. Is it overkill for my purposes to get both??? and then I thought about getting a USB dash, so I could have ports at the front of my case. That would be useful, and also kind of ugly. This is the kind of thing I waste hours on instead of doing the things I should be doing -- like work or unpacking or cleaning. On Thursday I went over to Jess's to install a DVD player in her computer. It was fun. I think it's funny how nervous I used to about opening a computer case and now I pop them open all the time to put stuff in, take stuff out, and play around. I like that I can do that :) I think that's what got me looking at componentst I could put into my computer. | ||||
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| so finally all my grades are back and all is good. I double-checked my project lab grade and whoooo boy yes I deserved that B-... I thought I rocked the final, but apparently a 55 is what I meant by "rocking" oh well, definately one of my better semesters. I'm feeling very out of it and depressed. I hate coming back to school in January... it's like I don't have enough break time and the two weeks is just a teaser and all I want to do is sleep some more. I think this semester my feelings are compounded by the fact that I know my project is going to be a bitch and I've realised that I'm letting school take up too much of my time and I'm becoming anti-social. I really need to spend my social time more wisely, and not just go to the engineering parties that I don't really enjoy all that much. I need to drink less too, not that drink all that often but when I do I drink too much and I don't really like myself when I do that. One kind of cool thing to look forward to this semester -- I only have 2 finals. One class has 3 class tests and you can do a final as a make up to any failed class tests, and my project class has a final presentation, no exam. Not too shabby. | ||||||
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| so I'm feeling quite accomplished. after several hours of wrestling with windows 98, I have set up file sharing and encryption (whoops, shoulda done that one a while ago) on my mom's network. Go me :D The only weird thing is my mom can view shared files, but my sister can't. 98 won't let her. Oh well, at least Lynn can easily load all her MP3s onto her iPod now :D | ||||
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| ok, so Lynn needs a laptop and we are currently online shopping for one. Her program gives her pretty specific details regarding what she should look for, but we're a little kerfuddled when it come to the video card. Does anyone out there know anything about video cards? like, what does it mean if the video memory is "shared" or not? is 64MB shared different from just 64MB? also... any tips on where/when to look for a laptop without getting screwed over.. like we thought now what with the boxing day and whatnot might be a good time. OH! also, I can stop whining now. I got an ipod. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!b | ||||
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| so I'm finally feeling christmassy. I've wrapped all my presents and put them under the tree. I gave Kevin his gift and he gave me mine (both books) and a significant portion of my family was over for dinner. Simon's parents are in the UK this Christmas, so he's spending Christmas morning at my house. I wrapped all of his presents individually so he'll have lots to open... well, enough to "keep up" at least. Tomorrow's going to be fun. We're making breakfast for my family :) Anyhoo, I hope you're all enjoying your break! | ||||||
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| so 2 marks back, and I am kind of confused by them. Both classes I went in feeling I had an A-range grade. One, I did not do well on the final AT ALL. I couldn't do either of the big 15-point question, and the final was worth 40%. I got an A-. The other, I felt I ROCKED the final, I knew how do to most of it, and it was only worth 26%. I got a B-. Strange. I guess in the end it all comes down to the curve. I probably did equally well in both classes, just in one I was with my dumb people class and in the other I was with all the smart people a year ahead of me. oh well, I still did rather well :) | ||||||
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| my pipes froze. ugh. I spent all day yesterday at home with my landlord trying to thaw them before they burst - to no avail. I went from no water in the kitchen to burst pipes and no water at all.... oh, and plumbers waking me up at 8:30 and trapsing through my cleaned apartment :( wanh. I still have two stores to get to, on opposite sides of the city. Then I get on the train and hope the tracks aren't too frozen and awaaaay I go. Back to home and my mom and Simon. dear lord I miss Simon. Shopping for gifts for him had made it worse. All I want to do right now is sit in his basement with the fire watching TV and drinking hot chocolate or egg nog or something equally tasty, half falling asleep on his shoulder. mmmmmm... nice. | ||||
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| done, and it sure was a doozy.. and by a doozy I mean SO EASY. I finished in an hour.. but since I'm opposed to leaving early I stayed for another hour.45minutes to check things over and mull over the multiple choice (which was by far the hardest part of the exam) yup yup, so I've got one A this semester in the bag, go me. Andrea just left for the airport :( I'm not going to see her for TWO WEEKS! I miss her already :( so like... what do I do now? Jimmy prolly just got in to town and is on his way to Hansel's house... it's -37C and I don't have bus fare... hm. I guess It's time to do some Christmas shopping :) | ||||
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| Last final today. By 12:00 it will be all over. It's freeze-your-ass-off cold today. -37C with windchill :-s getting school will not be fun.... | ||||
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| I'm tired and depressed and totally lacking motivation. I've had a couple of those "wtf am I doing, I can't be an engineer" moments. I need comfort. Major comfort. For me, this means food. This means delicious BBQ chicken and yummy potatoes that I shall pick up in 3.5 minutes. | ||||
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| Greatest ever ... Ryan (with his sexy shy intense look): I know somethign we can do that doesn't involve talking.... *change scenes* and they're playing VIDEO GAMES! awesome. yeah.. I should sleep. | ||||
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| I did fluids all day. ick. It got less and less productive as I went... but I knowm ystuff, with the exception on one chapter. All that's left is crib sheets and then I'm good to go. I went to see Cake last night - I'm so glad I did. It was a grrrrrrrrrreat show, with a really good, high-energy crowd (which I find rare here) I'm thinking of going to see Hawksley on Thursday after my P-Lab final. It would be cool if I had someone to go with, but I don't know too many people in to random concerts in the middle of finals. m'enh. I'll see how I feel after that icky final :P | ||||||
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| WOW I've done so many fluids problems today I think my brains are about to explode out my EARS! I guess that means it's time to take a break and go see Cake at the metropolis :) YAY! | ||||||
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