Weather Depressed...

I think this weather recently has me even more SAD affected than when I lived in Van-city. At least in Van by this time it was nice and warm, and the rain was past its worst. This morning on my run is was -10 with the windchill and we are supposed to have snow this afternoon. Mother Nature, why are you doing this to me?????

I just want it to be sunny and no wind with morning lows of 5 and highs of 15.

Oh, and amazing race talk - how annoying are Ray and Deena? I want them gone, Ray is a jackass and Deena is whiny and annoying.

Nada..

zilch, zero. The number of interesting things to happen in the last 24 hours.

I did get out my bike though for the first time since november (?) so that was nice... oh yeah, and I hate the Canadian Revenue Agency website. I spent an hour yesterday trying to NETFILE my taxes, only to find out that I can't because of my CPP (surviving children's benefit), so I wasted an hour of my time. Why don't they just list that in there 10 page list of people who can't file on line, grrrr... Also, does anyone know if I have to put my carrying over tuition onto my tax sheet? I didn't realize I had any until last night...

Dull Weekend...

Friday night EK and her mum came down to my apartment and we watched The Incredibles, Saturday I slept for a long time, did my taxes and watched the bourne supremacy (Matt Damon is a god.) and then on Sunday I read, did laundry watched Vanity Fair and went for my long run. What an exciting life I lead. I want it to be nice out already.

Random Rant - kbum, you'll like this...

So we just went to the 4th year project presentations... one group (M was their supervisor) was doing ground water column experiments of bacteria removal. So they had their experiment set up. they did their columns horizontally to "mimic groundwater flow" so guess what people? the best way to mimic gw flow is with an upflow column. In research you ALWAYS use upflow, it is pretty basic. You get a constant head situation and ensure that the column is fully saturated due to the effects of gravity. Read a paper (any paper) on column experiments. It is going to be upflow.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.... that is what you get when a DW person supervises a GW group.

La La La...

Nothing new... clinic last night was okay... run this morning too... I <3 fortran, but that is it...

Oh, and I told the supervisor that I'm not going to be done 774 until mid summer... don't think he was too happy about that...

Random Thoughts on a Soon to be Spring Thursday

1) Happy St. Patrick's Day

2) Last night I was watching some celebrity gossip show (had no energy to do anything) and they were talking about how short celebrity's are. out of the like 20 they mentioned only Clint Eastwood was taller than 6', and the tallest female they mentioned was Anna Nicole Smith who is 5'8, 5'9 when you consider her poofy hair. I couldn't believe that! mind you, there are a number of tall ones they didn't mention like Will Smith and Nicole Kidman. But small list - Jackie Chan, Sly Stalone, Ben Stiller (yeah, yeah yeah, we knew them) - how bout Elton John? (aparently stands at 5'3.5) which is shorter than Drew Barymore who is 5'4. The average "tall" height for a female in Hollywood - 5'5. yep, crazy eh?

3) My cold may almost be over? I actually woke up on my own at 7 hours of sleep this morning and half an hour before my alarm went off. I'm taking this as a good sign.

4) The high for today is +1 :D It hasn't been above 0 here since the beginning of February :)

5) Survivor last night - meh. I dislike James and want him gone... Ibrehem and bobby john are nice eye candy though :)

That is the end of my disjointed thoughts.

Cold - no better, no worse

Except, I guess it has moved into my head a bit. I woke up with a bit of a headache. I'm going to take today completely off anything physical... I originally wanted to go to the gym for "easy" weights and an easy run, I guess that will have to wait till friday ??

Yesterday afternoon, I went home to do my marking, and as I was afraid, it is taking alot longer than I had hoped for. I've spent probably 5 hours on it already and I'm only half way done. Bob wanted me to mark harder on this one so it means a lot more work for me... hopefully I'll be able to get one more done before I have to give my tutorial at 10:30.

Other than the bane of being sick, nothing else to really report... except according to Burger, MK is likely dating someone right now. meh. Anyone know of any outdoorsy single guys in the w/loo area???

Cough getting worse... I think the cough medacine will be brought out soon...

Long title! yep, my chest is officially congested, luckily my head isn't stuffed up as well. Yesterday's long run went okay (12km) but by the end I was definitely ready to stop, I don't think my body liked me too well. Last night I had the intentions of starting my marking, but I just had NO energy left after the run. I ended up going to bed at 10 and sleeping right through to 7 (well, with the exception of being woken up by Jenny at 5:30 for a cuddle).

So today is at school in the am to volunteer for campus day. I get to show grade 12 students our ghetto pilot treatment plant that is missing lots of parts. I volunteered thinking I was helping out one of the grad students, turns out I'm saving the butt of the prof that I loathe. In the pm, I'm going home and marking, I have 6 30 page reports :( hopefully I can get them finished before tomorrow!

So AL from the GVRD (like the name dude) wants details... if you look at my blogs from last week, we were supposed to go dancing/pubbing on friday. The guy I had a crush on in the fall was going to be there, and I didn't know how I was going to feel... ie. still attracted to him or not. So the verdict is, he is still really cute, but I don't think I still have a crush on him. If he asked me on a date, I would probably say yes, but nothing I would actively persue. MK is another guy from our basket ball team in the fall, also a good friend of my friend burger and her boyfriend. He is pretty quiet, and harder to get to know, I think that he is maybe a little shy? Anyways, he is also a really nice guy and I think that we may have a lot in common. I wouldn't mind getting to know him better, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm ready or willing to make a move.

I haven't done anything since thursday...

and I feel like a huge bum. Well, no excersize anyways. I decided to take friday and saturday off for all-out sickness protection, and took sunday off so I could do my long run with EK today, but when I woke up this morning I was the worst I have been so far. I'm hacking up a real storm and it isn't plesent.

So as burger said, G's shower went well yesterday, it was nice to get together like that. Burger did a great job of organizing and had a yummy potato salad too. Other than that and friday night I didn't do anything this weekend. Just relaxed and had some down time. (I needed it, I've been go-go-go since early in the semester so it was nice to have some me time.

Today on tap is 10:30 pick up memos to start marking, 2:30 presentation, and later long run. Hopefully it goes okay, 12km. Also want to talk to the supervisor when he gets in about the possibility of TA'ing 321 for him this summer... and maybe about taking time off in August/September to visit my sis in Africa. I feel bad talking to him about it already after just getting back from a weeks vacation...

*Yawn*

So yesterday we went to Mussellinis (formerly Paddy's for the loo-ites) instead of dancing or the Jane Bond. It was a pretty good time. This morning it was up to take Jenny to the vet's. Sounds like she has a blocked tear duct that may be the result of her earlier troubles. We are back to giving her the drops I was giving her before, but I now know a way to give them to her without her squirming away.

******** Warning, the following is completely speculation and I'm basically just thinking out loud, don't take this as being absolutely positively how I currently feel *********

After last night (and I guess yesterday at lunch), I've been wondering if maybe I've had it backwards all along. Backwards? you say? yes, literally backwards. What if KM really isn't a good match for me, and MK is? I think that I probably have more in common with MK, even though he is from a big city, I think he is a lot more outdoorsy (a very important trait for me) than KM (who is from a smaller town). Hmmm.... They are both really nice guys. Physically I would say KM is better looking, but really that only matters before you get to know someone.

okay end of speculation. I'll stop freaking out burger now ;)