Saturday, October 09, 2004
Thursday- Ceramic petrology lab at 9am. It's so confusing and I had no idea what the heck I was looking at. Luckily, my class consists of 7-8 people and my prof is hilarious (I had him last year for another class), so I just made it loud and clear whenever I didn't get something. I'm finding myself very forward in my classes of late. Now I can identify quartz, limestone, and crystalline calcite in a thin section of pottery...I had a neat fossilized shell in mine!! I felt like Data in Star Trek, "computer, increase magnification-"Okay I'm going to stop while I'm ahead.
Apparently he changed our lecture from Fridays to Thursdays at 12-1pm and at the ROM instead of Bancroft. Ahrgh, he is always changing our lab and lecture times haha. This is final though. So I had a quick lunch and walked over to the ROM with my friend in the class. Class was good, we basically just reviewed identifying minerals by him having his microscope hooked up to a fancy computer screen.
Neron was at doggy daycare (yayy!) so I ....can't remember what I did in between that and my next class at 2pm, Prehistory of the Near East-which was a good lecture. I participated in a discussion about the issues of identifying whether hominids were hunting or scavenging at a site. I am not very good at speaking and getting thoughts out of my head in a linear fashion--it's really difficult for me, you have no idea. But, I'm really working on it and forcing myself to participate even when I say the wrong things. I have to practice or I'll never improve. I think I said something at least once that was backwards to what I actually meant. :s oye. At least I'm getting better at it!
Friday- worked out, cleaned our place, packed my bags, the dog went to doggydaycare, had Middle Egyptian class, picked up some of my GRE books and a book about making it into top graduate schools (a really good read, It's nice to know that i'm doing the things right and my goals are for the right reasons-and plus good tips too), from the public library. Supper and then picked up the dog and my sister came and drove us back to the hometown for Thanksgiving Weekend. I'm really paranoid and scared of driving in cars. So many stupid people on the road. I hate it. We got back safely though and my poor dog was so confused. I brought him to the dog daycare 2 days in a row to try and tire him out....being that we didn't get home until about Midnight and he still had to greet my family's Saint Bernard....
My brother was a bit of an ass about it-he is really arrogant sometimes. Teenagers...My dad was really calm about it and helped me get them settled with each other in a relaxed manner and I really appreciated that. I stayed relaxed about it too. Getting stressed out just doesn't help anything and they WILL settle down, it just takes some work. I had to keep Neron on his leash for about 20 minutes and just sit on the floor of the living room with him while he and Brett checked each other out and such. They wanted to play and tussle but that was an absolute no because my mom was aslep. Aha, I bought 2 rawhide chew bones at the pet store before I came home. I gave them each one and they were occupied and quiet for the night. Yayy! I got Neron up to my room after I talked with my dad. Bah money and finances and stuff going on, not good. I'm glad I have a good job this year to help out. Neron wouldn't chill out. But that is how they react to a new environment. They wander around panting nonstop. Luckily he tired out enough that he fell asleep on my bed and we got some rest. I didn't even hear Brett come upstairs to whine outside my door. I was pretty tired. 2am is way too late for me. But my sister shooed him off downstairs though.
Today, I got up at 8:30--I know eh? I didn't even take a rest during the day like I usually do. weird. I immediatly took the dogs for a walk. I kept Neron on his leash. It's just a problem because Brett is recovering from a torn ligament in his leg so he is not allowed to run and play/wrestle. Frig. I knew some people were annoyed that I have my dog down at our house but whatever. I knew they would be fine and they were. I let Neron off the leash eventually (big huge open park at the back of my house's backyard...nobody usually there) and it was as I thought. They weren't even interested in each other. They did their own thing. Sometimes Brett goes up to Neron and entices him-and then Neron starts his growl&play routine and I have to pull him away and say no...and I feel bad because it's Brett's fault! He was telling Neron he wanted to play but Brett doesn't understand that. He is such a weird BoBo of a dog. He just likes to sniff and bug Neron like that, he doesn't actually want to wrestle. Plus he can't. Anyway....they are really great now. They have calmed down and lie around the house together and they don't try to play/wrestle. They did play tug-a-war with one of Brett's toys though. That was hilarious.
I went for a 15 min run outside--chilly wind! and did dancing practice and some weights and then did homework -some Middle Egyptian and Hebrew review..20 minutes of GRE studying...and read some of my Excavation manual book. I took Neron for a walk down the street on leash in the afternoon and took them both again after dinner of Subway.
I told my mum the whole Prof & Harvard story and I thought she would be excited because she always talked about going to a bigwig school and becoming a tenure prof or something..but she wasn't...in fact she had something negative to say about it as usual. Like what if my degree won't be recognised here or something that made absolutely no sense, like that. wtf. Honestly. She *always* has something negative to say about everything I say! And they wonder why I don't generally like talking to my mum! At least at the end of the conversation she said to go for it and that be nice if it worked out.
yeesh.
Anyway, I went out to see some old friends tonight. My one friend that lives down the road picked me up-wow her driving skills scared me-and we went to one girls' house and I had a nice time chatting with 8 or 9 or so friends, some that I hadn't seen since I left highschool. It was weird. It felt like I had never left. It wasn't weird or anything to be there talking with them again. Time seems to go so fast that you don't even feel the distance that has been created. sigh.
They were going to go to the Puck Around pub and I wanted to go with them-i'm sure I would have seen more people--but I had no ride home if I did. So before they left I got a ride home with my sister who was picking my brother up from work around 11:30pm. It was better than nothing, anyway!!!
Had a snack and tea and now I'm going to bed.
Tomorrow is my thanksgiving day dinner at my nana's.
I wanted to go shopping with Rob today, too bad I didn't have time--and the fact that I don't want to leave Neron here alone like that. I left for only a few hours to go to this little social and my dad said that he was staring out the window and looking for me the entire time. Poor guy. He is so confused. I think he is afraid that I'm going to leave and abandon him here. and now he follows me everywhere-worse than before! haha. So cute. Anyway, me and Rob used to have good times here in Sarnia hehe we'd go shopping for things we needed and went to Timmy's to have long discussions about things. Tomorrow is a Timmy's night with me, Rob, and our old friends.
aanyway..........goodnight!
Apparently he changed our lecture from Fridays to Thursdays at 12-1pm and at the ROM instead of Bancroft. Ahrgh, he is always changing our lab and lecture times haha. This is final though. So I had a quick lunch and walked over to the ROM with my friend in the class. Class was good, we basically just reviewed identifying minerals by him having his microscope hooked up to a fancy computer screen.
Neron was at doggy daycare (yayy!) so I ....can't remember what I did in between that and my next class at 2pm, Prehistory of the Near East-which was a good lecture. I participated in a discussion about the issues of identifying whether hominids were hunting or scavenging at a site. I am not very good at speaking and getting thoughts out of my head in a linear fashion--it's really difficult for me, you have no idea. But, I'm really working on it and forcing myself to participate even when I say the wrong things. I have to practice or I'll never improve. I think I said something at least once that was backwards to what I actually meant. :s oye. At least I'm getting better at it!
Friday- worked out, cleaned our place, packed my bags, the dog went to doggydaycare, had Middle Egyptian class, picked up some of my GRE books and a book about making it into top graduate schools (a really good read, It's nice to know that i'm doing the things right and my goals are for the right reasons-and plus good tips too), from the public library. Supper and then picked up the dog and my sister came and drove us back to the hometown for Thanksgiving Weekend. I'm really paranoid and scared of driving in cars. So many stupid people on the road. I hate it. We got back safely though and my poor dog was so confused. I brought him to the dog daycare 2 days in a row to try and tire him out....being that we didn't get home until about Midnight and he still had to greet my family's Saint Bernard....
My brother was a bit of an ass about it-he is really arrogant sometimes. Teenagers...My dad was really calm about it and helped me get them settled with each other in a relaxed manner and I really appreciated that. I stayed relaxed about it too. Getting stressed out just doesn't help anything and they WILL settle down, it just takes some work. I had to keep Neron on his leash for about 20 minutes and just sit on the floor of the living room with him while he and Brett checked each other out and such. They wanted to play and tussle but that was an absolute no because my mom was aslep. Aha, I bought 2 rawhide chew bones at the pet store before I came home. I gave them each one and they were occupied and quiet for the night. Yayy! I got Neron up to my room after I talked with my dad. Bah money and finances and stuff going on, not good. I'm glad I have a good job this year to help out. Neron wouldn't chill out. But that is how they react to a new environment. They wander around panting nonstop. Luckily he tired out enough that he fell asleep on my bed and we got some rest. I didn't even hear Brett come upstairs to whine outside my door. I was pretty tired. 2am is way too late for me. But my sister shooed him off downstairs though.
Today, I got up at 8:30--I know eh? I didn't even take a rest during the day like I usually do. weird. I immediatly took the dogs for a walk. I kept Neron on his leash. It's just a problem because Brett is recovering from a torn ligament in his leg so he is not allowed to run and play/wrestle. Frig. I knew some people were annoyed that I have my dog down at our house but whatever. I knew they would be fine and they were. I let Neron off the leash eventually (big huge open park at the back of my house's backyard...nobody usually there) and it was as I thought. They weren't even interested in each other. They did their own thing. Sometimes Brett goes up to Neron and entices him-and then Neron starts his growl&play routine and I have to pull him away and say no...and I feel bad because it's Brett's fault! He was telling Neron he wanted to play but Brett doesn't understand that. He is such a weird BoBo of a dog. He just likes to sniff and bug Neron like that, he doesn't actually want to wrestle. Plus he can't. Anyway....they are really great now. They have calmed down and lie around the house together and they don't try to play/wrestle. They did play tug-a-war with one of Brett's toys though. That was hilarious.
I went for a 15 min run outside--chilly wind! and did dancing practice and some weights and then did homework -some Middle Egyptian and Hebrew review..20 minutes of GRE studying...and read some of my Excavation manual book. I took Neron for a walk down the street on leash in the afternoon and took them both again after dinner of Subway.
I told my mum the whole Prof & Harvard story and I thought she would be excited because she always talked about going to a bigwig school and becoming a tenure prof or something..but she wasn't...in fact she had something negative to say about it as usual. Like what if my degree won't be recognised here or something that made absolutely no sense, like that. wtf. Honestly. She *always* has something negative to say about everything I say! And they wonder why I don't generally like talking to my mum! At least at the end of the conversation she said to go for it and that be nice if it worked out.
yeesh.
Anyway, I went out to see some old friends tonight. My one friend that lives down the road picked me up-wow her driving skills scared me-and we went to one girls' house and I had a nice time chatting with 8 or 9 or so friends, some that I hadn't seen since I left highschool. It was weird. It felt like I had never left. It wasn't weird or anything to be there talking with them again. Time seems to go so fast that you don't even feel the distance that has been created. sigh.
They were going to go to the Puck Around pub and I wanted to go with them-i'm sure I would have seen more people--but I had no ride home if I did. So before they left I got a ride home with my sister who was picking my brother up from work around 11:30pm. It was better than nothing, anyway!!!
Had a snack and tea and now I'm going to bed.
Tomorrow is my thanksgiving day dinner at my nana's.
I wanted to go shopping with Rob today, too bad I didn't have time--and the fact that I don't want to leave Neron here alone like that. I left for only a few hours to go to this little social and my dad said that he was staring out the window and looking for me the entire time. Poor guy. He is so confused. I think he is afraid that I'm going to leave and abandon him here. and now he follows me everywhere-worse than before! haha. So cute. Anyway, me and Rob used to have good times here in Sarnia hehe we'd go shopping for things we needed and went to Timmy's to have long discussions about things. Tomorrow is a Timmy's night with me, Rob, and our old friends.
aanyway..........goodnight!
