Slowly, but surely. April 30, 2007

This post is being written to waste time before bed just incase Brotherhood 2.0 (John) makes his post in the time I write this.  I’m addicted. Its ok.  I’m admitting it.

Ok, it is Monday night.  The weekend went by, rather fast and in a somewhat unexciting fashion.   I did actually make it out to a club for some dancin’ – but the lookin’s were slim.  However, I was in fine shape by the end of the night (it was end of term party). Whoo!

I’ve now completed 14.5/30 hrs that were scheduled for last week (ending Sunday).  I technically have another 20 for this week.  I realize that I can only really complete, at most, 5 hrs a day b/c its just too damn monotonous.  That said, I have 35.5 hrs remaining on my contract.  *sigh*.

Tomorrow is sorta back to a ‘normal’ day as I have day plans.  There is a seminar at 3pm on marine protected areas and biodiversity conservation.  So, I would LOVE to get my 5 hrs of work time in before then.  I also need to do mailing and banking.  I have temp plans for wings with a friend.  AND, I need to start moving my crap out to my cousins place.  Tomorrow will be busy.

It will be my last night at the apartment, as well.

That said, maybe I should make a gameplan for tomorrow.  Yep, I said.  I’m a list person. Frightfully so. Brilliant minds need paper organization.  I’d use my pda (is that the right term? looks odd), but its charging right now. 

Also, this is night one of sleeping experiment.  At 9pm I went for a brisk (it was rainy) 15 min walk about the block, followed by water and then at 10:50 I took a sleeping pill.  I’m trying to force a routine on myself.  I’ve only 14 days until I start fishing and I need to transition towards a 9pm to 4pm sleeping pattern.  However, this moving around and traveling over the next 2 weeks is NOT going to help me.

It happened again April 28, 2007

Its been another day done, and I’ve only amassed 8 hrs of 30 for my goal of research work this week.  Not cool.  No motivation.  No ambition.  8 hrs, with 5.5 of those hours happening on Tuesday.   Thus, I sucked at working for the last 3 days.  However, it seems I don’t suck when it comes to spending money.   This is an unsustainable situation, as most of my life is when it comes to money.

Also.  its 12:30 am and I’m awake.  And sitting in front of the computer.  I am now successfully hooked on the Brotherhood 2.0 (thanks, Monkey).  And I am caught up to the current date.  I’ve tried to go to sleep early tonight..  like 8pm.  But maybe that was too early.  B/c all that happened was that I had a cat/power nap and then have been up since 10.  Shit.

Considering that I will soon be doing research on lobster, and having to be awake and chipper at 4am – I do not see how this schedule of mine is going to help the situation. Nor do I see how I’m going ot get out of it.   Sher-Bear suggested I go for a walk about 8pm to tire myself out.   Well, I did go for a 2.5 hr stroll downtown this afternoon, and it seemed to have worked, but just worked too early.

Tomorrow I must email my boss and tell him I did more hours than I really did.  Then I must actually do alot of hours.  Tomorrow is also the class end of term party, that I’m feeling rather indifferent about.  Its suppose to start at 6:30 ish for a bbq/potluck..  but I’d rather not go that early.   I’m still thinking about this.

And I still need to figure out how/what I’m going to do about next week.  I have a meeting scheduled with my advisors and I feel like I should be more prepared for when I meet them to make it really worth while.  I also need to get a hold of my cousin so I can throw my belongings in to her garage while I’m here for the following week as my bed can’t simply stay in the back of my truck.  Its a nice bed, it will get stolen, or rained on. Whichever comes first. 

I realize right now, that I’m going to end this blog, and jump into bed and pick up the book I’m reading.  And that I’m going to read for a while, and then I will take 2 hrs to get to sleep and then I will be cranky that I woke up too late tomorrow and the vicious cycle repeats itself for another day.   But its 12:38 right now, and I’m really not tired… nor do I actually want to do work right now.

The apt is a mess and one remaining roommate who has been awol for the last week still hasnt moved out.  Which, does not make sense.  Why not move out and be done with it rather than waiting til the last minute – especially since I could have been cleaning.  Arse.

Ok.  I’m going to try this bed/sleep thing now.

Happy One Year Blogiversary to Meeee!!! April 27, 2007

Yay! I did it!  I made it for the year!

While nothing major happened with writing this blog,  it did allow me to share my creative side of cooking and (some) knitting.  More importantly, it allowed me to bitch without directly aiming it at anyone, so it was more humourous.  lol.  Or so I think.

While the makeover was a couple of weeks early,  this will probably be the look of the blog for the new year.  And I suggest that for however long I do this, I will have a new design for every year.

 Well, thats it for today.  Just a short blog to celebrate.   I’ve errands to do and work hours to put in. (Which have become increassingly harder to put in.) 

A lot about nothing… April 26, 2007

is the title of this post, and I will not disappoint.

I just had a weird supper.  I was trying to be clever and use up items that I have lying around – so I cooked up some bacon, used the last of my whole wheat/soy spaghetti… and then I thought ” oh, I’ll make a homemade alfredo”.

So I tossed in my parm cheese, butter and cream.  Only to realize too late, that it was whipping cream and not ‘normal’ cream.  So then it was too thick.  I don’t have milk, but I do have yogurt, so then I tossed in a couple of spoon fulls of vanilla yogurt.  It was interesting.  Not bad.. but not something I’ll make on purpose again.  Worth a laugh.

I can’t go home this sunday to the island due to schedule conflicts with profs and meetings etc.  So I need to crash at my cousins probably until Thurs or so.

But, I do have a confirmed internship this summer.  And, also a part time job through the summer with my old boss.  I’m quite happy about these things.  I’m also able to do an independent study on lobster for/with my dad.   Summer is lookin’ up. 

Oh! And, The White Stripes AND Aerosmith are coming to the island this summer. WhOoo!

2/3’s Master… April 24, 2007

Today I finished my last paper for this semester.  And after all the huffin’ and puffin’ to write 5 papers in the month of April while juggling 15 hrs of pt/work…  the passing in of the paper was really anti-climatic (haha, Monkey – striking resemblance to my lovelife).

And so, I went out on this beautiful day in Hali and bought some capris and a cute top to celebrate the warm weather and being done – only to realize two things.  1) No matter how worn in my Birks are – every spring they eat tender winterized feetsies  (and this was only a 15 min walk to campus) and; 2) warm in Hali doesnt necessarily mean warm at the beach 20 mins outside the city. 

I then went to supper with the girls tonight and had Indian.  Meh, $25 bucks for “ok, but I’ve had better (possibly my own)” curries.  The naan was awesome though.

Anyhow, its now almost 2 am.  I fell asleep watching a movie and MW/SM’s tonight, and once I got home at just close 11am, I jumped into bed and read a bit of a new book.  I think that was my problem.  I read.  And thus, became awake again.   And here I sit, writing a blog that I was going to write sometime today