Procrastination to the Max!!!

20 days later and i'm finally updating this thing! it's just that my life isn't all that exciting anymore to warrent updating on a regular basis, like i did whilst in England.
But here i am, at work on my break trying to avoid reading a blurb about Postmodern Literature for a french essay that i have to write today! yah its going to be a very long day!
So, what have i been up to recently...
School is almost over, only a week and a half to go. I have two papers to have finnished before then. First the afore mentioned french essay, due wednesday, and then my dreaded Transportation and the Developing World paper. That one is going to have to be 15 pages long and i've only got a week and a half to write it! i'm screwed.
HuGSS finally has some money! We applied for funding from the Student groups association and were awarded $200! so now we are able to get the ball rolling on some of the activities we've been wanting to do. Firstly is our field trip to an Edmonton city planning office on the 7th of December. Its going to be the Human Geography day, because the executive are going to go for a curry lunch prior to going on the tour, then we're going to meet up with the rest of the group to do the tour and then finally that evening we are going to have our christmas social. I'm excited.
I'm finally going to go to the mountains. for those of you who don't know the story, i've been wanting to go for a trip to the rocky mountains for a couple of years now and have not been able to get my act together to make it happen. but on Dec 8th the family is going on a trip to Banff for the weekend. i'm actually kind of excited about it. It'll be an awesome way to take a break after this next week of essay writing.
Last weekend was my 23rd birthday. I'm now, with no shadow of a doubt, old. well not a young adult anymore. you see you can still get away with playing the immature card even at 22 years, cause its a nice round number and not too far removed from the teens. but 23, when you hit 23 you are a full blown adult. there is no turning back now. most people are graduated university by this time (though i'm still not...), they've got bills and responsibility. its a transition year thats for sure. i guess i'll just have to accept it.
I'm going to try and post some photos later, definitly within the next 20 days thats for sure. just some from my b-day party and possibly from the Christmas social.
we'll postmoderity awaits. Procrastinating must end!

ps. my stupid blog is still set to england time, i really don't know how to change it back.

You Wasted Life, Why Wouldn't You Waste Death

Its been quite a while since i last updated this thing, i figured that i'd do it now considering that i've got 1/2 an hour to kill and i'm really sick and tired about reading how Singapore is trying to reduce vehicle emmissions and pollution through the use of various economic policies.

Two weekends ago i went out with my friend Erin and a couple of her friends to the Bear's (a local radio station) Oktober frest. We had a great time, though it took us forever to get there (though the journey was fun, for some of us). There was authentic German saussage, lots of beer and a very old German drinking song that i had only ever heard my aunt sing when she gets drunk, it was quite a suprise to learn it wasn't jsut gibbersih after all. Plus lots of Polka music. They even played Roll Out The Barrell, it was exciting. We all got drunk really fast, and were pretty much polka'd out by midnight. Plus i had to work the next morning at 7am so i wasn't in the mood to stay out too late. However, i didn't actually get to sleep until 4am, so i only really got 2 hours of sleep that night.
That same evening, sunday after Oktober fest, was my Gran's 90th birthday supper. After work, i had to rush home to get changed into my suit and then head out with the family to La Ronde, the revolving resturant in Edmonton. It was a very posh place to eat. but we had a good meal, and even though i was too tired to make conversation a good time was had by all.

Last Saturday was my first day off in almost a month! It was nice to be able to sleep in again and actually have time to get down to my homework, even though i didn't really. Then that evening i had made plans with Jarret and Jill to meet up with them and hang out for a while. Unfortunately i got called into work for sunday so it wasn't a late evening, but still good to see them. Ever since they moved out communication has kind of dwindled, because they have to pay for their phones now. Needless to say it was nice to get a change to visit with them again.

So this week...i'm super busy trying to get all of my research for this term project done. The paper isn't due until the 6th of December and the presentation isn't due for another 2 weeks, but i really want to be done, well the rough draft of my paper at the very least, by the time i have to do my presentation. so time to stop slacking and actually get to work! Which means this entry has come to a close.

I'm going to try and post some photos of Oktober fest and maybe some others when i get them loaded onto my computer soon, so stay tuned for that.