I have just created another blog.
Funny story.
My best friend, who is basically my sister, emailed me to tell me that she switched her blogger blog to a tumblr blog, and told me to check her new blog out.
So I did.
And it looked fantastic.
I went to leave a comment on her new blog, but being as it's me, and I'm also technologically inept I ended up creating a blog by accident. Then, since I had it I decided to customize it. Then I wrote a post because hey you can't just have an empty blog.
Now, I have 2 blogs. I haven't decided quite yet if I'll switch On Route over to tumblr or if tumblr will be just there, but as soon as I do decide I'll post it here.
The URL for my new blog is: http://cait22.tumblr.com/
Go check it out when you get a chance.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Eleanor
Today, my housemate and I were cooking dinner when we had a slight mishap. Butter was spilled on the element and also got into the element. We didn't think about it really and just assumed that it would burn off.
BIG mistake.
The element after a moment or two, catches fire. So we take the pot off of the element and there's this nice little flame coming out of our element. The two of us stare at it for a moment and ask each other:
...crap...what do we do...?
Then, with a flash of insight I remember the movie Gone in 60 Seconds.
How does this relate you ask?
Well, in the movie the younger brother of the main character sets a frying pan/element on fire, and the older brother grabs baking soda and dumps it all over the flame.
Thus, I start scrambling for baking soda in the kitchen while the fire burns merrily on.
After a few seconds I find the baking soda and give it to my housemate.
She asks the most important question: will this work?
I reply, "I'm not sure, I saw it in a movie."
So, she grabs a little bit, and tosses it onto the element and the fire immediately goes out.
Lessons of the evening:
1. You can learn things from movies
2. Baking soda is fantastic for putting out kitchen fires. (Remember that one).
BIG mistake.
The element after a moment or two, catches fire. So we take the pot off of the element and there's this nice little flame coming out of our element. The two of us stare at it for a moment and ask each other:
...crap...what do we do...?
Then, with a flash of insight I remember the movie Gone in 60 Seconds.
How does this relate you ask?
Well, in the movie the younger brother of the main character sets a frying pan/element on fire, and the older brother grabs baking soda and dumps it all over the flame.
Thus, I start scrambling for baking soda in the kitchen while the fire burns merrily on.
After a few seconds I find the baking soda and give it to my housemate.
She asks the most important question: will this work?
I reply, "I'm not sure, I saw it in a movie."
So, she grabs a little bit, and tosses it onto the element and the fire immediately goes out.
Lessons of the evening:
1. You can learn things from movies
2. Baking soda is fantastic for putting out kitchen fires. (Remember that one).
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Oh to be Single
I am a single 23 year-old woman and normally I have no problem being single, or being me, but currently, I am watching Bridget Jones Diary and I'm struck by how in society it is not ok to be single. Or maybe struck by how much people don't want to be single.
The entire movie - and lets face it every other chick flick out there in the world, is about NOT being alone, about FINDING your ONE true love, and about living happily ever after.
Don't get me wrong, I am not one of those bitter women who have given up on men and have resigned to being a spinster, hating young couples for the rest of my life. I definitely believe in true love, soul mates, and happily ever after. The problem I have is that society has made it out to be that if you're not dating someone, married etc then in some aspect you're a failure - ESPECIALLY if you're a woman.
Why is that?
Shouldn't the main focus of your life be you?
I realize that sounds entirely selfish, but I mean, this is your life, why should people spend it worried about being single instead of doing something awesome with themselves.
I feel like if we all spent less time worried about catching a man (or woman) and more time thinking about ourselves and the world, then the rest will fall into place because by being you, you're putting yourself out there for the world to see, and if you're out there being you instead of sitting in your apt drinking wine and watching tv, your soul mate is going to have an easier time finding you. Don't you agree?
I just think that being single and catching a man (or woman) shouldn't be our number one goal, and shouldn't be our prime focus.
What are you doing for you?
The entire movie - and lets face it every other chick flick out there in the world, is about NOT being alone, about FINDING your ONE true love, and about living happily ever after.
Don't get me wrong, I am not one of those bitter women who have given up on men and have resigned to being a spinster, hating young couples for the rest of my life. I definitely believe in true love, soul mates, and happily ever after. The problem I have is that society has made it out to be that if you're not dating someone, married etc then in some aspect you're a failure - ESPECIALLY if you're a woman.
Why is that?
Shouldn't the main focus of your life be you?
I realize that sounds entirely selfish, but I mean, this is your life, why should people spend it worried about being single instead of doing something awesome with themselves.
I feel like if we all spent less time worried about catching a man (or woman) and more time thinking about ourselves and the world, then the rest will fall into place because by being you, you're putting yourself out there for the world to see, and if you're out there being you instead of sitting in your apt drinking wine and watching tv, your soul mate is going to have an easier time finding you. Don't you agree?
I just think that being single and catching a man (or woman) shouldn't be our number one goal, and shouldn't be our prime focus.
What are you doing for you?
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
The Cliched Year of Discovery
I have always had a plan.
Whether it was in grade school when I wanted to be a doctor, in high school when I wanted to be a professor, in university when I (thought) I wanted to be a teacher, I have always had a plan. The plan may change frequently, but a plan has always existed. I always had a direction I wanted to take and the ambition, drive and follow through to get there.
A problem has arisen however.
I don't want to be a doctor, a professor or a teacher.
What do I want to do? or be?
No idea.
For the FIRST time in my LIFE I don't know what I want to do. I don't have a plan. I don't know which direction to head in and because of that I now have no ambition or drive to get there (wherever there may be).
This is a problem.
Thus, begins my cliched year of discovery. I am taking the year to just work and figure out/sort out what I want to do.
So far I am learning all sorts of new things - budgeting being the big one so far.
Stayed tuned. The year is definitely going to be interesting.
Whether it was in grade school when I wanted to be a doctor, in high school when I wanted to be a professor, in university when I (thought) I wanted to be a teacher, I have always had a plan. The plan may change frequently, but a plan has always existed. I always had a direction I wanted to take and the ambition, drive and follow through to get there.
A problem has arisen however.
I don't want to be a doctor, a professor or a teacher.
What do I want to do? or be?
No idea.
For the FIRST time in my LIFE I don't know what I want to do. I don't have a plan. I don't know which direction to head in and because of that I now have no ambition or drive to get there (wherever there may be).
This is a problem.
Thus, begins my cliched year of discovery. I am taking the year to just work and figure out/sort out what I want to do.
So far I am learning all sorts of new things - budgeting being the big one so far.
Stayed tuned. The year is definitely going to be interesting.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
The Adventure Begins
Crazyness. Slight Mayhem. Ordered Chaos.
That has been the last 48 hours of my life - well the lives of 5 people actually, since I now have 4 new housemates.
It really all fully and completely started on Wednesday at 2:12 pm. 2:12 is the time that I finished teacher's college. Who was excited? Actually...I still am excited that I'm done. But, Wednesday 2:12 was the time that one thing ended and another began.
When I got home on Wednesday I celebrated with some friends because hey, I just finished teacher's college. I am a teacher. I am responsible for teaching new generations of children. What did we do to celebrate? Watch game 7 of the Montreal and Washington hockey game. It was so awesome when Montreal trounced them.
Thursday, was the day of mad packing because I was moving. I was tripping over boxes, the apt was a mess, my previous housemate was moving out as well, it was crazy. By the time that Thursday night rolled around I was packed, and the apt was mostly cleaned.
Friday was Go Time. I woke up around 7 am I was finished cleaning the apt by 10 am.
Major Problem: I had to be out of my apt by 2 pm on Friday but we didn't get the moving truck until 6 pm Friday.
Solution: My new housemates have 2 vans between them and to everyone's surprise everything I own fit into the 2 vans.
We started moving into our new apt around 2:30 on Friday. By 6 pm we were back at 2 of my new housemate's old apt moving all of their furniture into the moving van that we now had.
New problem with the moving van: There was confusion regarding it so we could only have the moving van until 10:30 am - we are currently living on top of a hardware store and so the store wasn't opened until 9 am and they have an elevator that we were going to use for the big furniture.
Solution: Load the truck at night with everyone's stuff. Saturday morning get to the apt early and just unload it onto the loading bay so we can return the truck.
The last piece of our stuff got up to the apt around 3 pm on Saturday - just before it started to POUR rain.
We are now all moved in :)
The next step for us is to CLEAN because the last people who lived in our apt were apparently allergic to everything related to a cleaning product. Currently, one of the bathrooms is clean, and part of the kitchen.
Our landlord is also bringing in a guy to clean the carpets in 3 of our rooms on Monday so we can't get fully set up in those 3 rooms (one of which is my bedroom) until post Monday.
So, there is a slight amount of Mayhem kicking around our apt. Soon though, soon though we will be completely settled.
That has been the last 48 hours of my life - well the lives of 5 people actually, since I now have 4 new housemates.
It really all fully and completely started on Wednesday at 2:12 pm. 2:12 is the time that I finished teacher's college. Who was excited? Actually...I still am excited that I'm done. But, Wednesday 2:12 was the time that one thing ended and another began.
When I got home on Wednesday I celebrated with some friends because hey, I just finished teacher's college. I am a teacher. I am responsible for teaching new generations of children. What did we do to celebrate? Watch game 7 of the Montreal and Washington hockey game. It was so awesome when Montreal trounced them.
Thursday, was the day of mad packing because I was moving. I was tripping over boxes, the apt was a mess, my previous housemate was moving out as well, it was crazy. By the time that Thursday night rolled around I was packed, and the apt was mostly cleaned.
Friday was Go Time. I woke up around 7 am I was finished cleaning the apt by 10 am.
Major Problem: I had to be out of my apt by 2 pm on Friday but we didn't get the moving truck until 6 pm Friday.
Solution: My new housemates have 2 vans between them and to everyone's surprise everything I own fit into the 2 vans.
We started moving into our new apt around 2:30 on Friday. By 6 pm we were back at 2 of my new housemate's old apt moving all of their furniture into the moving van that we now had.
New problem with the moving van: There was confusion regarding it so we could only have the moving van until 10:30 am - we are currently living on top of a hardware store and so the store wasn't opened until 9 am and they have an elevator that we were going to use for the big furniture.
Solution: Load the truck at night with everyone's stuff. Saturday morning get to the apt early and just unload it onto the loading bay so we can return the truck.
The last piece of our stuff got up to the apt around 3 pm on Saturday - just before it started to POUR rain.
We are now all moved in :)
The next step for us is to CLEAN because the last people who lived in our apt were apparently allergic to everything related to a cleaning product. Currently, one of the bathrooms is clean, and part of the kitchen.
Our landlord is also bringing in a guy to clean the carpets in 3 of our rooms on Monday so we can't get fully set up in those 3 rooms (one of which is my bedroom) until post Monday.
So, there is a slight amount of Mayhem kicking around our apt. Soon though, soon though we will be completely settled.
Monday, April 19, 2010
way too early
It is currently 8:53 am on Monday April 19th 2010.
I have been up since 6:15 am, and I have completed everything on my to-do list for the day except for ONE thing.
Impressive no?
Anyway, the last thing on my to-do list for the day is to finish 2/3rds of this assignment that I have to do for teacher's college. It's due in a little over a week. It's a BRUTAL assignment. The fastest I've heard it being done so far is in 9 hours.
This is a soul-sucking, destroy your week (let alone your day), make you hate your life, will look back on this 30 years from now and make you shudder type of assignment.
AND I DON'T WANNA DO IT!!!
There are 9 questions to the assignment. Each answer has to be a page to a page and a half long. The assignment is on the philosophy of education. I am currently on the second question, and I want to bang my head repeatedly off my desk.
The point of this blog post is to:
a) make you pity me
b) procrastinate
c) rage against the stupidity of this assignment
It's also not helping that it is ONLY 9:01 am. I mean I have the whole day for this right?
I have been up since 6:15 am, and I have completed everything on my to-do list for the day except for ONE thing.
Impressive no?
Anyway, the last thing on my to-do list for the day is to finish 2/3rds of this assignment that I have to do for teacher's college. It's due in a little over a week. It's a BRUTAL assignment. The fastest I've heard it being done so far is in 9 hours.
This is a soul-sucking, destroy your week (let alone your day), make you hate your life, will look back on this 30 years from now and make you shudder type of assignment.
AND I DON'T WANNA DO IT!!!
There are 9 questions to the assignment. Each answer has to be a page to a page and a half long. The assignment is on the philosophy of education. I am currently on the second question, and I want to bang my head repeatedly off my desk.
The point of this blog post is to:
a) make you pity me
b) procrastinate
c) rage against the stupidity of this assignment
It's also not helping that it is ONLY 9:01 am. I mean I have the whole day for this right?
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Boxes
I collected my first boxes today.
I am moving in 3 weeks.
It's starting to feel real.
It felt more real after I also dove into the depths of my closet and came out with a garbage bag full of clothes that I am giving away.
My closet is clean and emptier.
Packing has begun.
I am moving in 3 weeks.
It's starting to feel real.
It felt more real after I also dove into the depths of my closet and came out with a garbage bag full of clothes that I am giving away.
My closet is clean and emptier.
Packing has begun.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Move Bitch
PET PEEVE: People who DO NOT MOVE OVER when you're walking towards them on the sidewalk.
How hard is it to move over to the right? When you see me walking towards you, can you not move your ass on over so instead of taking the WHOLE sidewalk, you, I dunno leave me a quarter - what the hell, let's be wild and say HALF of the sidewalk?!
Also, this doesn't just count only for you, it's you and all of your friends who look disdainfully at someone when they try to walk by you on the sidewalk and you guys don't move over.
Hello, 1 of me, 3 of you. Who's taking up more space here? Is it REALLY that difficult to move over? Who the hell made you guys lords of the concrete?
Society needs an education on manners. Decent human beings don't force people into on-coming traffic because they can't find it in themselves to move over on the sidewalk.
Move. The. Fuck. Over.
How hard is it to move over to the right? When you see me walking towards you, can you not move your ass on over so instead of taking the WHOLE sidewalk, you, I dunno leave me a quarter - what the hell, let's be wild and say HALF of the sidewalk?!
Also, this doesn't just count only for you, it's you and all of your friends who look disdainfully at someone when they try to walk by you on the sidewalk and you guys don't move over.
Hello, 1 of me, 3 of you. Who's taking up more space here? Is it REALLY that difficult to move over? Who the hell made you guys lords of the concrete?
Society needs an education on manners. Decent human beings don't force people into on-coming traffic because they can't find it in themselves to move over on the sidewalk.
Move. The. Fuck. Over.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
the time has come
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax
Of cabbages and kings
And why the sea is boiling hot
And whether pigs have wings"
-The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll
1. I love this poem, and this is my favourite stanza in it
2. I am also totally and completely enjoying my 4th and final practicum. I'm working with kids who have been suspended and expelled from school.
3. The gaping holes in my mouth are healing quite decently.
4. Since last night I've been feeling quite shitty so I hope that a good night sleep tonight will make me feel loads better tomorrow.
5. I just finished reading a book called The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde. It's part of a series and the first one is called The Eyre Affair. They're quite entertaining.
6. I just started reading Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, which I feel is very much along the same lines as Waiting for Godot in the sense that it's an absurdist play. It's interesting so far though.
7. I actually have a ton of books to read right now. On my birthday as a gift to myself I bought 5.5 books. The .5 was a tiny pocket Robert Munsch book called I Have To Go. My favourite Robert Munsch book however is The Paper Bag Princess. I also have two books out from the library...
8. I slightly dislike facebook.
9. I had Starbucks with a couple of friends tonight. It was really good to see them and catch up. We decided that this summer we are going to start a book club. The first book that we're going to be reading is Three Cups of Tea because we all want to read it but we haven't had time to yet.
10. This is the second time that I'm writing out this post because the blog went weird and it posted but the post didn't actually show up. Copying and pasting didn't work either. If it doesn't work this time I will not be impressed what so ever.
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax
Of cabbages and kings
And why the sea is boiling hot
And whether pigs have wings"
-The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll
1. I love this poem, and this is my favourite stanza in it
2. I am also totally and completely enjoying my 4th and final practicum. I'm working with kids who have been suspended and expelled from school.
3. The gaping holes in my mouth are healing quite decently.
4. Since last night I've been feeling quite shitty so I hope that a good night sleep tonight will make me feel loads better tomorrow.
5. I just finished reading a book called The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde. It's part of a series and the first one is called The Eyre Affair. They're quite entertaining.
6. I just started reading Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, which I feel is very much along the same lines as Waiting for Godot in the sense that it's an absurdist play. It's interesting so far though.
7. I actually have a ton of books to read right now. On my birthday as a gift to myself I bought 5.5 books. The .5 was a tiny pocket Robert Munsch book called I Have To Go. My favourite Robert Munsch book however is The Paper Bag Princess. I also have two books out from the library...
8. I slightly dislike facebook.
9. I had Starbucks with a couple of friends tonight. It was really good to see them and catch up. We decided that this summer we are going to start a book club. The first book that we're going to be reading is Three Cups of Tea because we all want to read it but we haven't had time to yet.
10. This is the second time that I'm writing out this post because the blog went weird and it posted but the post didn't actually show up. Copying and pasting didn't work either. If it doesn't work this time I will not be impressed what so ever.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
a strange lull
This week was slightly crazy.
On Monday I got my G2 in Kingston and then by Monday night I was in Toronto.
On Tuesday I got my wisdom teeth out (what a joy that was).
On Wednesday I recooperated.
On Thursday I wrote part of a paper that's due this Monday.
On Friday I finished my paper and hung out with my family.
On Saturday I hustled to get everything ready to come back to Kingston and now here I am.
I have nothing to do until I go to work tomorrow night, and for the first time in about a month I don't have anything to prepare for for Monday and I don't have anything to stress out about or worry about. And it's WEIRD.
I don't know what to do with myself.
On Monday I got my G2 in Kingston and then by Monday night I was in Toronto.
On Tuesday I got my wisdom teeth out (what a joy that was).
On Wednesday I recooperated.
On Thursday I wrote part of a paper that's due this Monday.
On Friday I finished my paper and hung out with my family.
On Saturday I hustled to get everything ready to come back to Kingston and now here I am.
I have nothing to do until I go to work tomorrow night, and for the first time in about a month I don't have anything to prepare for for Monday and I don't have anything to stress out about or worry about. And it's WEIRD.
I don't know what to do with myself.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
removing wisdom
On Tuesday I got my wisdom teeth removed. All 4 of them. And they didn't render me unconscious.
I am not a dentist person. You might even go so far as to say that I have an irrational fear and hatred of the dentist. However, I needed to get my wisdom teeth removed because they weren't doing so good, would end up hurting me eventually, and to top it all off once I'm out of school I'm not covered by my parents insurance so I would have to pay.
All of these reasons led me to the oral surgeon on Tuesday.
They were originally going to knock me out for it all, however I was so stuffed up in my nose when I went that they didn't think that it would be a good idea to knock me out. They heavily sedated me instead. Yeah, I felt no pain but I still heard and felt them yanking out my bottom right wisdom tooth. It is a NASTY sound and feeling I tell you.
Today is now Thursday. I took pain killers the first day but haven't since. And I have virtually no swelling. So I realize that I shouldn't complain. I have been living on meal replacement drinks, jello, yogurt and pudding though. I haven't had tea since Monday. And I just overall feel like crap.
What am I up to today? Well besides attempting to ingest these antibiotics I have to take 4 times a day, I am writing a paper today that is due Monday (my birthday).
This week has just been inducted into the top 5 worst weeks of life.
I am not a dentist person. You might even go so far as to say that I have an irrational fear and hatred of the dentist. However, I needed to get my wisdom teeth removed because they weren't doing so good, would end up hurting me eventually, and to top it all off once I'm out of school I'm not covered by my parents insurance so I would have to pay.
All of these reasons led me to the oral surgeon on Tuesday.
They were originally going to knock me out for it all, however I was so stuffed up in my nose when I went that they didn't think that it would be a good idea to knock me out. They heavily sedated me instead. Yeah, I felt no pain but I still heard and felt them yanking out my bottom right wisdom tooth. It is a NASTY sound and feeling I tell you.
Today is now Thursday. I took pain killers the first day but haven't since. And I have virtually no swelling. So I realize that I shouldn't complain. I have been living on meal replacement drinks, jello, yogurt and pudding though. I haven't had tea since Monday. And I just overall feel like crap.
What am I up to today? Well besides attempting to ingest these antibiotics I have to take 4 times a day, I am writing a paper today that is due Monday (my birthday).
This week has just been inducted into the top 5 worst weeks of life.
Friday, March 12, 2010
With tea in hand, she sat and watched the rain.
It gravitated down the window panes and made puddles on the lawn.
It bounced around on windshields, and sloshed down drainpipes.
It was Spring rain.
Over ambitious. Over excited.
It wanted to clean. Clean everything.
It washed away the memories of winter,
of snowmen on the lawn, and forts and snowball fights.
It washed away the aching cold, the deep darkness,
the frosty mornings, and the bitter wind.
Like a washerwoman it scrubbed everything,
from the squirrels, to the roads, to the inch worms underground.
It was time to begin again.
A brand new start.
A fresh clean start.
With tea in hand, she sat and watched the rain.
It gravitated down the window panes and made puddles on the lawn.
It bounced around on windshields, and sloshed down drainpipes.
It was Spring rain.
Over ambitious. Over excited.
It wanted to clean. Clean everything.
It washed away the memories of winter,
of snowmen on the lawn, and forts and snowball fights.
It washed away the aching cold, the deep darkness,
the frosty mornings, and the bitter wind.
Like a washerwoman it scrubbed everything,
from the squirrels, to the roads, to the inch worms underground.
It was time to begin again.
A brand new start.
A fresh clean start.
With tea in hand, she sat and watched the rain.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
the dreaming twitch
I don't know if this happens to you, but when I dream (which isn't too often) and I fall, or I hit a body part off of something, I usually jerk awake because that limb or whatever twitches (or slightly more than twitches) in the real world.
Does that ever happen to you?
Last night this happened to me again. First in a dream I hit my leg off of something, so I jerked awake as my right leg twitched.
I cursed slightly and then I settled back down to go to sleep.
Well, less than 5 minutes later something happened in a dream I don't remember because the next thing I know I'm awake, I have the tingly sensation that you get when you nail, or are about to nail, your head off something in a dream AND my head twitched.
It felt like my brain had moved around in my skull. It slightly freaked me out. Actually, I'm still slightly freaked out about the whole thing. I mean what if my brain really did slush around up there?
Does anything weird happen to you when you dream? Do you dream? If you do, do you dream in colour or black and white?
Does that ever happen to you?
Last night this happened to me again. First in a dream I hit my leg off of something, so I jerked awake as my right leg twitched.
I cursed slightly and then I settled back down to go to sleep.
Well, less than 5 minutes later something happened in a dream I don't remember because the next thing I know I'm awake, I have the tingly sensation that you get when you nail, or are about to nail, your head off something in a dream AND my head twitched.
It felt like my brain had moved around in my skull. It slightly freaked me out. Actually, I'm still slightly freaked out about the whole thing. I mean what if my brain really did slush around up there?
Does anything weird happen to you when you dream? Do you dream? If you do, do you dream in colour or black and white?
Monday, January 18, 2010
epic boredom
Today and tomorrow there are special program days at teacher's college.
Today was terrible.
Incredibly boring.
To stave of boredom I wrote a children's story about a little raindrop, who didn't want to be a raindrop anymore because it was boring. So he tell's his mum this, and she points out to him all the amazing things that only a raindrop can do. It ends with the little raindrop realizing that being a raindrop is a pretty awesome adventure.
Maybe tomorrow I'll write about a cat. Ooo...or a hedgehog. I really like hedgehogs.
Today was terrible.
Incredibly boring.
To stave of boredom I wrote a children's story about a little raindrop, who didn't want to be a raindrop anymore because it was boring. So he tell's his mum this, and she points out to him all the amazing things that only a raindrop can do. It ends with the little raindrop realizing that being a raindrop is a pretty awesome adventure.
Maybe tomorrow I'll write about a cat. Ooo...or a hedgehog. I really like hedgehogs.
Friday, January 15, 2010
welcome to life
I can't decide if I'm sick or not.
I feel like crap currently, which is making me believe that I am and every now and again I get hot and then I get cold, which also weighs in on the sick category, but I mean maybe I feel crappy because my allergies are bad today and I'm tired, and maybe I'm hot and cold because it's me and I'm strange. If I was older I could blame menopause for the body temperature and sleep deprivation for everything else.
Anyway, I'm sitting in bed and drinking juice.
I really should work on this presentation that i have in a week but you know why I don't want to work on it now? Cause I have a week. That's me. Procrastination is my middle name.
The thing that is irritating me today (so far anyway) is that I'm in this group for my curriculum English class and we have this assignment to do (obviously) and it's been really hard to get all of the group together. So my group and I are emailing each other back and forth and then one of the girls sends out this bitchy little email about how she doesn't have time to sort out who can meet when because she has all these other assignments due etc etc and that let's just pick a date and if some people can't come too bad.
Umm...HELLO? Welcome to life, and welcome to teacher's college. We're all sitting in the same damn boat as her but do you see us sending bitchy little emails. No. (I just write bitchy little blog posts). I want to tell her to stop being such a wiener and to suck it up. But I think I might tell her AFTER the assignment is done. I feel like that's a better mark survival approach.
I'm tired of teacher's college I have to say.
And I'm tired of this headache that I have.
I'm going to go and watch an episode of How I Met Your Mother.
I feel like crap currently, which is making me believe that I am and every now and again I get hot and then I get cold, which also weighs in on the sick category, but I mean maybe I feel crappy because my allergies are bad today and I'm tired, and maybe I'm hot and cold because it's me and I'm strange. If I was older I could blame menopause for the body temperature and sleep deprivation for everything else.
Anyway, I'm sitting in bed and drinking juice.
I really should work on this presentation that i have in a week but you know why I don't want to work on it now? Cause I have a week. That's me. Procrastination is my middle name.
The thing that is irritating me today (so far anyway) is that I'm in this group for my curriculum English class and we have this assignment to do (obviously) and it's been really hard to get all of the group together. So my group and I are emailing each other back and forth and then one of the girls sends out this bitchy little email about how she doesn't have time to sort out who can meet when because she has all these other assignments due etc etc and that let's just pick a date and if some people can't come too bad.
Umm...HELLO? Welcome to life, and welcome to teacher's college. We're all sitting in the same damn boat as her but do you see us sending bitchy little emails. No. (I just write bitchy little blog posts). I want to tell her to stop being such a wiener and to suck it up. But I think I might tell her AFTER the assignment is done. I feel like that's a better mark survival approach.
I'm tired of teacher's college I have to say.
And I'm tired of this headache that I have.
I'm going to go and watch an episode of How I Met Your Mother.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
a bone to pick
In one of my classes today we had a guest speaker come in from Kingston's Children's Aid Society.
It was a fantastic class, and the speaker really knew what he was talking about and what we as soon to be teachers should look out for etc etc. Fantastic knowledge and he answered all of the questions that we threw at him.
One thing however disturbed me about the discussion.
The guest speaker commented on the lack of aid that there is for young adults 16-17 years old. You see, apparently, if you're under 16 then childrens aid can help you, but over 16 they're not allowed. And since you're not an adult until you're 18, you also can't get aid from the provincial government (you're not an adult yet so you don't get government financial aid - like welfare). You're in fact screwed if you're 16-17 years old and have a home that is unsafe for you. No one can OFFICIALLY help you.
You know what Childrens Aid calls those years? The black hole.
They can't help you, and there's no other official government system that is set up to help you either.
I heard this and just sat there in shock. There is no provinical government aid or system set up to help people who are 16-17 years old and living in an unsafe home.
There is something COMPLETELY wrong with that, and it's totally unacceptable.
Something needs to be done.
It was a fantastic class, and the speaker really knew what he was talking about and what we as soon to be teachers should look out for etc etc. Fantastic knowledge and he answered all of the questions that we threw at him.
One thing however disturbed me about the discussion.
The guest speaker commented on the lack of aid that there is for young adults 16-17 years old. You see, apparently, if you're under 16 then childrens aid can help you, but over 16 they're not allowed. And since you're not an adult until you're 18, you also can't get aid from the provincial government (you're not an adult yet so you don't get government financial aid - like welfare). You're in fact screwed if you're 16-17 years old and have a home that is unsafe for you. No one can OFFICIALLY help you.
You know what Childrens Aid calls those years? The black hole.
They can't help you, and there's no other official government system that is set up to help you either.
I heard this and just sat there in shock. There is no provinical government aid or system set up to help people who are 16-17 years old and living in an unsafe home.
There is something COMPLETELY wrong with that, and it's totally unacceptable.
Something needs to be done.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
question posed to the universe:
If the dream is to become a book editor how on earth do I go about doing that?
Monday, January 4, 2010
just so you know
OK
I need to tell this to the world. It's bragging I realize, but I just need to say it:
Until February I have NO CLASS on Monday's. That's right. Bupkiss on the class.
I've never not had class on a certain day. I have to say that it feels pretty spectacular.
I need to tell this to the world. It's bragging I realize, but I just need to say it:
Until February I have NO CLASS on Monday's. That's right. Bupkiss on the class.
I've never not had class on a certain day. I have to say that it feels pretty spectacular.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
new year resolutions
I'm sure that I'm like everyone else when it comes to the new years resolutions: I suck at them.
I make a couple each Jan. and then by the end of Jan or the beginning of Feb I've totally blown them or am incredibly close to it.
New Years Resolutions are thus not for the faint hearted.
Since however, I am not good with the whole idea of failing (at anything), I am once again making the attempt at the new year resolutions.
My New Year Resolutions for 2010 are, therefore, as follows:
1a) Write more (more than I have been)
1b) Post at least once a week
2) Read my Bible more (more than I have been)
3) Sort out my priorities, pick a direction to take and then follow it.
4) Try Yoga.
Do me a favor. At the end of Jan/beginning of Feb ask me how the New Years resolutions are coming, and then tell me to get my behind in gear and keep going.
Should I get snappy with you, tell me to shut up and to stop being a wimp.
I make a couple each Jan. and then by the end of Jan or the beginning of Feb I've totally blown them or am incredibly close to it.
New Years Resolutions are thus not for the faint hearted.
Since however, I am not good with the whole idea of failing (at anything), I am once again making the attempt at the new year resolutions.
My New Year Resolutions for 2010 are, therefore, as follows:
1a) Write more (more than I have been)
1b) Post at least once a week
2) Read my Bible more (more than I have been)
3) Sort out my priorities, pick a direction to take and then follow it.
4) Try Yoga.
Do me a favor. At the end of Jan/beginning of Feb ask me how the New Years resolutions are coming, and then tell me to get my behind in gear and keep going.
Should I get snappy with you, tell me to shut up and to stop being a wimp.
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