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So. This is winter. Or whatever you can call it. Exams. Studying. My life consists of getting up, eating, going to the library, getting lunch, going back to the library, get dinner, go to the library and then maybe go to the pool and go to sleep. Repeat cycle. Wrote my first exam today. It was ok. Psych. Hopefully it went ok, seeing as its worth 50% of my mark. Joyous wonderful. Last weekend Katy came down from Ottawa and spent the weekend with me. It was cool, and we had lots of fun. Its nice to have a change of people once in a while. From here anyways. We also did secret santa on monday with my floor. I had my friend Hayley, so I made her an Engineer Survival Kit which she loved. What did I get? Nothing. Neither did my friend. Go figure. Those who put the most into things get the least out. People shouldn't participate in SS if they arent going to buy their person a gift. Lame. As for my plans for my Bday. I'm going to eat breakky alone, cause everyone sleeps all the time. (especially my roomie, dont get me started on that one) and then give blood and then study and maybe in the evening go out with friends, if they aren't too busy studying. As for exams, I have 3 left: Bio - 8th
Chem -12th
Health - 15th
Not looking forward to chem or bio, but Health should be pretty easy.

Some Stuff.

1. November 25th - Hawksley Workman Concert in Lonon (STUNNING!)
2. November 28th - Hawksley Workman Concert in Toronto (ON FIRE!)
3. December 1st - Kitchener City Council Meeting (all ROW / WLU swimmers filled the chamber to discuss the pool closure)
4. December 1st - McMullan's after the meeting (Keith B.: "I'm going to drown my sorrows in ale.")
5. December 2nd - Meeting w/ Max Blouw (President of WLU)

The pool is closing December 31st for sure. No hope of extending the deadling 45 more days to finish our season. We will be training at Waterloo and in Guelph. In other news, two more goddamn weeks of this hell and I can sleep for three days straight at home. Oh, also, the p-rents get to meet Tom on December 17th (they're picking me up / we're all going for dinner). Good times. Exam Schedule:

1. Dec. 4 - Developmental Psych @ 9:00am
2. Dec. 6 - English and Lit Tradition I @ 2:00pm
3. Dec. 8 - Reading Culture Paper Due
4. Dec. 12 - Children's Literature @ 9:00am
5. Dec. 17 - Intro to Cognitive Psych @ 2:00pm

Also good times. At least they're spread out, but I just can't wait to be done.

Excitement! and Anticipation!

1. 29 days until Christmas break! (And I get to see all of you again!)
2. My dad got bored the other day and got satellite. Timeshifting networks and GolTV are my new drugs. Because, you know, I did drugs before.
3. 2 midterms left! (I'll stop with the exclamation marks now.)
4. MY SISTER BOUGHT ME THIS HAT.

EDIT: I FORGOT! BLACK FRIDAY IN FIVE DAYS!!!!!!!!

our usual saturday afternoon converstation

daphne says (4:23 PM):

there you go

David. says (4:24 PM):

how do you do that

daphne says (4:24 PM):

magic

David. says (4:24 PM):

thanks

daphne says (4:24 PM):

the invite button

emslyy [beautifully tragic] says (4:24 PM):

wow

David. says (4:26 PM):

what should i get mum for xmas

emslyy [beautifully tragic] says (4:26 PM):

i have no idea

daphne says (4:26 PM):

something expensive

emslyy [beautifully tragic] says (4:27 PM):

diamonds

David. says (4:27 PM):

i thought maybe a weight watchers membership

daphne says (4:27 PM):

ruuuuuude

emslyy [beautifully tragic] says (4:27 PM):

hahahahah that is terrible

David. says (4:27 PM):

i tried diamonds once and she hated it

daphne says (4:28 PM):

whn?

daphne says (4:28 PM):

*when?

David. says (4:28 PM):

lng ago

emslyy [beautifully tragic] says (4:28 PM):

fake diamonds so that the thought is there and then when she never wears them or says she hates them the joke's on her

daphne says (4:29 PM):

she TOLD me when you were asking to get her a new ring for your anniversary that she wouldnt mind a new one but that it was "too difficult"

David. says (4:29 PM):

emily you are truly my daughter

emslyy [beautifully tragic] says (4:29 PM):

i knew you were thinking it

daphne says (4:29 PM):

she wants one that is a band with a few small diamonds instead of one 

David. says (4:30 PM):

how do you know

daphne says (4:30 PM):

because she told me...and she also said that it was too difficult cause its hard to find one she likes...but you should at least show her some and if she likes one then you can get it

David. says (4:31 PM):

soon i will be able to aford anything and mum will like me because i have a plan

daphne says (4:32 PM):

and what is that plan?

David. says (4:33 PM):

im glad you asked im going to go to somalia and become a pirate, one big tanker should set me up for life

emslyy [beautifully tragic] says (4:34 PM):

and how did you devise such a clever plan?

David. says (4:34 PM):

watching the news

daphne says (4:35 PM):

you are so unbelievably weird

emslyy [beautifully tragic] says (4:35 PM):

are you going to grow a beard like jack sparrow?

David. says (4:35 PM):

how about coming along, i think adam is coming

emslyy [beautifully tragic] says (4:35 PM):

ok im in

emslyy [beautifully tragic] says (4:36 PM):

it sounds flawless i dont see what could possibly go wrong

daphne says (4:36 PM):

i think i will pass on this

David. says (4:36 PM):

my beard is already better than jack sparrow and i already have a pirate ship

daphne says (4:39 PM):

oh really

David. says (4:39 PM):

wildwing

daphne says (4:40 PM):

yep, that will last a long time

emslyy [beautifully tragic] says (4:40 PM):

with 3 people living in it and being shot at yes it definitely will

my family in a nutshell. oh dear god.

Pool Closure

Yep. You read it right. Yesterday afternoon my life was turned upside down. (To explain, due to the posibility of public viewing, I will use abbreviations). Our pool is closing. Technically it's unofficial until tonight when DCoach actually has the meeting and hears it...but after our meet he basically said it doesn't look good. So. Let me explain why this ruins everything. I will try and be brief, but I'm not sure I'll do a good job because I'm a LITTLE fired up. Ok. So. This all started in:

• July. We heard during the summer that the pool was closing. We freaked out, but calmed down when we found out that we had pool time booked at The Math School Down the Street. This was not ideal, of course, but hey we could swim. Then we found out, 'ohhh heeeyy it's open until December 31st!!' We said, 'fuck yeah!', cancelled our time at The Math School Down the Street and were very happy.
• November. We find out it's closing. Now we are devastated. "A, what about The Math School Down the Street pool time?" For the purposes of this possibly public blog entry, I shall call a man C, and my coach D. C wanted Ds job. C is notorious for going in to city clubs, overtraining athletes, burning them out before they reach full potential, and then moving on to new cities, overtaking other coaches, and doing the same thing. Now, of course RSwimming (the club D coaches) said, 'um C you're an idiot, we know what you do, Ds been coaching forever, get the eff out of here.' C gets pretty pissed. Decides to start his own club, who train at The Math School Down the Street. He says, anything that D does cannot be done with my club in this pool. So. We severed ties with TMSDTS in July, C overbooked his TMSDTS pool time, and now Our School cannot train there. RSwimming has alternate pool times, but Our School does not. So C sits back and laughs, because he has successfully cut Ds salary in half (if Our School Varsity does not continue. And it does not look good).
• Three Years Ago: Our School had the money needed to repair the pool and spent it on football. Our School could have switched the lighting in the pool to more energy-efficient bulbs, which would have saved the money needed to repair the pool.
• Long Term Plans: There are none. However, there is something called 'lease-to-own'. This is where Our School says, 'prior to the leaks / repairs needed, we were willing to put up X amount of dollars to run the pool. Hey private contractors, build us a pool for that X amount of dollars!' Yes, it costs more in the long run. However, it isn't just Varsity and RSwimming that uses that pool. It is a community pool, and is never empty unless it is closed. Plus, with our economy as it is, that really is the only way to build anything. Basically it works like a mortgage.
• Final Points: There have been whisperings of building a satellite campus / building bigger residences to up Our School's numbers. My response: If you can put up money to build a satellite campus, why the eff can't you fix the pool? Also: I turned down 5 other school BECAUSE Our School is small. I don't fucking want a satellite campus, nor does over half of Our School, probably 99.95% of us. Also: Of those 5 schools, I had scholarships to 3, and 2 were getting a new pool facility. Also: How would it feel to be one of THREE schools in all of Ontario to not have a pool? We would be likened to Nippissing, OCAD, and Algoma. Where the fuck is Algoma? Oh yes, that's right, no one knows because no one goes there, therefore it doesn't need a goddamn pool. And, "OMMMGGG NO WWAYY Ontario School of Art and Design doesn't have a pool? I NEVER would have guessed!" Nippissing surprises me. Also: Windsor and Ryerson have pools and no team. Um. Yeah. Let's not get started on that.

Ok that's enough. Basically we find out what it means in terms of our Varsity program tomorrow at 5pm. We have a meeting with the Athletic Director, and we officially hear the news, good or bad, tomorrow morning at practice. I am by no means the best swimmer in the world, nor on the team. But I will not have my swimming career cut short. I don't know what that means for next year. If there is no team, I move schools. Let's hope it doesn't come to that.

Novemburrr (but not really cause its not that cold as of late)

Welll. I dunno. Last weekend I went to New Jersey for a regatta and it was totally worth it. Like our team got second place and we had a chance for first but me and my skipper had a reeeaaallly bad race (17th amongst many of our first place finishes, but I must say it was not completely our fault), kinda because the other boat got stuck on our boat and any chance we had of catching up to the boats in front of us dissappeared like cookies in a room full of fat kids. Anyhoo. It was good and I pretty much didn't have to spend any money on food for the whole weekend, which left me some to spend at duty free, aka why is alcohol so cheap when its at duty free? Who knows, but its good that way. Which I guess leads to this weekend. (During the week I did nothing cause I have almost no work and now no sailing, which means I have way too much time on my hands and nothing to do during that time.) This weekend. Oh man. Friday night was the ushe, drink, go out whatevs. Some guys were playing century club, which means that they have to take a shot of beer every minute for 100 minutes. Its an engineer thing cause then they get a badge to put on their ridiculous leather jackets. Last night, uh people started playing flipcup at 4:30, maybe 5:00 in the afternoon. Yeah ridics. The guy took off his cupboard door and was using that on top of two chairs as the flipcup table, which a) got covered! in beer, b) had a great wall of china constructed down the middle of it using beer cans (it was 2 wide and 2 high and ran the entire length of the table, and a third layer was under construction, also the table was like 6 feet long) and c)got pulled down by the guy whos door it was because he was too drunk and always does stupid shit / makes an ass out of himself when he gets drunk. Then later (like 10?) we went out, couldn't get into Legendz cause its lame in the first place and last week or so they got busted by the cops for having minors in there, so now they double piece everyone, which I dont have. So no go. Meh. Well we decided to go home after that I guess and we did nothing and I went to sleep. Now, tonight. I know bad news. Why you ask? Sailing social. They are always bad news. This is aided by the fact that it is on a SUNDAY NIGHT. Always on the most inconvenient nights. BUt worth it all the same. We'll see. I may or may not be going to my morning classes tomorrow. P.S. Did everyone get the secret santa thing I gto my friend to send out??

what happens in chemistry...

well not actual chemistry work!! (ok except that mandy is a huge loser and decided to start coming to this class so she could learn?!)
Any ways.... mandy wanted to make sure you guys knew who she was lol. so as you can tell she might have a very low IQ...
hehe and shes a bit weird.
(Mandy: but nothing compared to you!)  
okee thats all for now hehehe...
(Mandy: At least wish them a merry christmas!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! =D

Halloween!

Ok so I will write a bunch more later but I am lazy so for now PICTURES! (also I did emslys hair and it was awesome and you all better love it)

ok well I will add more later maybe.. because there are more from Alison's camera...

ALSO: 1 month 'til ma birthday (and steph's of course)

Actually...

To be honest Priss, I have nothing to say about that post! Except that you're not dumb, school blows, and just get done what you can! Trust me, I was in the exact same boat, and I know how much it blows. And if you can't study something, you can't study something. Simple as that. And if it makes you feel better, I have seven papers due this month! Yaayyyy!!!!!! :P Ok so, results of my swim meet. I did very very well for myself. I didn't make all of my meet goals, but I got PBs (personal bests) in nearly everything. As follows:

• 4 x 200 Free Relay (2.24.40 - PB by 5 Seconds)
• 50 Back (33.33 - PB)
• 200 Back (2.35.00 - PB but I can do better)
• 4 x 50 Medley Relay (33.74 - Backstroke)
• 100 Free (1.05.50 - 40 miliseconds off my PB)
• 100 Back (1.11.20 - PB)
• 4 x 50 Free Relay (30.00 - PB, and so FUCKING close to breaking 30!! ARGH)

So my main point of frustration is the 50 Free. My coach didn't come with us (he had Tom come instead because Dean was busy with something), anyway, Tom was like, 'I COULD say you swam a 29.99, ...but I won't." I was like fuuuccckkk. SO CLOSE! I'll do it at the next meet = Divisionals = Two Weeks Away!!! I'm most proud of the 200 Free - I fucking hate that event, and yet I got a PB by 5 seconds. How does that happen you ask? Well I really can't tell you. I swam it a different way, and apparently it paid off! My meet goal was a 1.10 in the 100 Back...so close. It was still a PB though, so that's ok!! Also, I think my body is succumbing to a cold. I am not pleased about this; I haven't been sick ONCE yet, all year. FML. Anyhoo. Halloween Stories....GO!

... GET OFF THE INTERWEBNETS AND GO STUDY. GAWWRRGGHH.

The title pretty much sums it all up. Lucky for me it's a SUNDAY. Some infotainment for you:

• I feel a bit like crying when I think about the upcoming week. I know I promise I wasn't going to complain about school this semester... but I have my Vector Calculus midterm, Mechanics of Deformable Bodies I midterm, and Computer Aided Analysis II midterm on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday respectively. Because I'm stupid, studying for these three is much like banging your head against a metal wall (yes, the wall MUST be metal). It's incredibly painful, and generally fruitless. I spent about four (sporadic) hours studying the Taylor Series yesterday and all I have to show for it is the ability to solve an approximation incorrectly past the first iteration. Whatever, I'm fully switching into midwifery. Thoughts on this?
  
  
• Creeping around our blog results in the following: I have noticed that in September we had 26 entries. This is excellentastic. However, in October we had only 13 entries. Now, being the amazing math student that I obviously am, *secretly whips out calculator and pecks at it very slowly* that is TWICE as many entries in September as in October. I blame Emily and her grand total of like one post. Let's pick it up.
  
  
• I'm obsessed with the X Factor. For those of you who don't know what that is (i.e. ... all of you), it's basically a kind of American-Idol-ish show in the UK (everything in the UK is better) and Simon Fuller is definitely one of the judges. And Cheryl Cole (i.e. wife of Major Jerkface Cashley Cole and amazingly horrific singer in Girls Aloud, a less talented and less campy version of the Spice Girls) is definitely another one of the judges. And Danni Minogue (i.e. Kylie Minogue's sister) is definitely one of the other judges. And Louis Walsch (i.e. WESTLIFE'S MANAGER EEEE!) is definitely the other judge. Anyways, it's like American Idol except better because instead of just people bands and groups and stuff can also enter and you know who was an X Factor winner awhile ago? Leona Lewis, you know, who sang Bleeding Love? It's also better because it ends right before Christmas and then the winner releases a song and everyone waits to see if it wins the UK Christmas number one cause that's like a huge deal and it's always like OMG WHO IS GOING TO WINNIT WE DON'T KNOW (and one year Bob the Builder definitely beat Westlife). Anyways, so yes, it's a very excellent show and I wish that it came on the teletube here so I wouldn't have to watch it on Youtube. And people would know what I was talking about when I talk about it. If you want to hear a very excellent singer you should YouTube Diana Vickers. She does funny things with her hands when she sings and uptalks the lyrics weirdly but she's good anyways.
  
  
• I'm going to sit here patiently and wait for Amy to make a post making fun of me for this post. I don't just expect it, I anticipate it. Don't disappoint me, Hucal.