Weekend...

Nothing super exciting. My shins started hurting on Friday but I ran anyways on Saturday - not the smartest idea. I was feeling kind of crippled the rest of the day, but felt okay on sunday? weird I know. I ended up getting stuff to wrap my arches on Monday for my long run, 15 k! worked out okay!

*Yawn*

Yep, I'm tired... because of survivor moving nights (NCAA b-ball) Americas next top model was on at 10:00... too late for me! but I stayed up to watch it and was out of bed this morning at 5:55, which isn't enough sleep for my tired body. I need a solid 7.5 hours every night.

A few peices of good news last night
1) I'm getting even more money back from my taxes since I neglected my "unused tuition credits"
2) My sister's offer on their house went through this is it. http://www.mls.ca/PropertyDetails.aspx?vd=&SearchURL=%3fMode%3d5%26id%3d50258&Mode=5&PropertyID=3330091
3) My internet is working again! wahoo! I don't know for how long though.

Also got some bad news though, seems my 15 year old cousin is thinking of moving out of their house in O-town and going to live on her own in Toronto. What????? I'm trying to talk some sense into her, I told her that if she ever feels she needs a place to stay that she can always come to Waterloo for a few days/weeks but that moving out on her own at her age is WAY too young, I can see it all going wrong and her becoming a prostitute to pay for her many drug addictions (she has none right now, I'm just speculating.) Good news though is that their family is coming to our house for easter, so I'm going to try and talk some sense into her, any suggestions anyone?!? please?!

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.