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I got back into Ottawa on Sunday, and it feels so weird to be living here again- even though I was only gone for two weeks! It's really ( snowy and slippery ) out.

Second semester started today. Sam and I had Philosophy (Great Philosophical Questions) at 8:30 this morning, which was different. Last semester my earliest class was at 11:30 so today, of course, I ended up sleeping in and then rushing to get ready. Luckily the building we had to get to is only five minutes from my residence (I miss Christmas break...all I did was sleep!)
The professor for that class looks like he's my age...I thought he was a very, very young TA when I first saw him. He seemed so nervous in class today, but he does seem really nice. I think it will be an interesting course.

I'm a little homesick again but, ultimately, I'm happy to be back at school. I didn't think I'd like university as much as I do! I like having classes (most of the time)- I was going crazy over the break when I had nothing to do. (Let's wait a few weeks and see if I retract this entire statement!)

Happy belated 2010, by the way!

MERRY CHRISTMAS! :)

I hope you're all having a wonderful holiday! 

Adrianna and I spent eight hours at the library the other day studying for Criminology. It's open 24/7 during exam time and I live right across the street from it...I'm pretty happy with that set-up. We made up acronyms to help us remember the types of white-collar crime (GOCO!), the types of enterprise crime (COW!) and Hirschi's theory of social bonds (ABCI!). Unfortunately only COW and ABCI were on the exam...GOCO was the most fun to say (plus we'd studied the most about white-collar crime). Hopefully the exam went well. I kept getting two specific theories mixed up with two specific theories from Media Studies, which is insane because they're nowhere near similar, and they're not even in the same subject area! We also discovered that Harry Potter is relevant to everything, including Criminology (I should have known this).

Now I've got to go review Dr Faustus for tomorrow. Have a good week, all.

I'm really amazed at how fast this semester has gone! It honestly feels like we just moved in last week. I've really gotten used to everything around here (how you have to turn our shower faucet to 'cold' to get hot water; the grumbly noises our fridge is definitely not supposed to be making; the loud and mysterious beer-drinking, beer-pong playing people who live above us...) and, though I've loved being home, both times I've gone back to Cobourg I've felt a little out of place.

Hello hello!

These last few weeks at school have been particularly insane. Luckily now, midterms are over and all I have due is a term paper (...which I should maybe be working on now).

Nicole and Helen came up to Ottawa from home on Halloween, and we had a pretty good time! We went to Casino du Lac Leamy (in Quebec) on Friday- Sam won a ridiculous amount of times while won $0.15 (which I then gambled away). We also saw a rather intoxicated young man from Carleton University running up and down the road in front of the casino barely wearing pants. He was escorted away by four security guards. It was a very interesting night.

On Halloween, we went to Le Bop, a club in Hull. I was a pirate! Helen was Batman Woman (NOT Batgirl, not Batwoman, not Batman. BATMAN WOMAN), Nicole was Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Sam was a bunny (not a Playboy bunny, a regular bunny) and Whitney was classy in her 'old man sweater' and painted-on facial hair (I do believe she called her costume the 'GQ MOTHERFUCKER').

I've got to run to class (Criminology! Four to seven!) but I hope you're all doing well. :)

Sam and I were watching Hoarders. At commercial break, the new Volvo commercial came on.
 

...Starring Edward Cullen.

My reaction was something between shock and 'Bahahaha'. The What Drives Edward website is here. Augh.

In attempt to delete a secondary Livejournal today, I deleted THIS journal. I changed what user I was working as and everything. >:(
 

Luckily everything seems okay. Thank god for the undelete button.

Today is day three of the four day weekend I have this week (I don't have classes on Thursdays, and Friday was uOttawa Day...which we got off) and, though I do like to sleep, I feel really lazy and unproductive. I would rather have gone to class, actually! =P I'm finished 2/3 midterms and one paper, so the workload isn't too bad yet...I have my Criminology midterm on Friday which, we have been warned, will be kind of massive, so I am a little nervous!
 

We got our winter exam schedules earlier this week: I have exams December 9, 11, 12, 15...and 22. Sam and Whitney are done theirs earlier than I am, so I will be here alone for a week or so...I am kind of bummed. I guess I can get lots of studying done uninterrupted, though :)

Also: my floor is insane. I am a little afraid of them. They still don't quite know we exist, what with us being at the end of the hall and all, so whenever one of them drunkenly wanders past and sees our room, it's like they've made an Earth-shattering discovery. It's pretty entertaining, actually.

I am going to go and try to do something productive. Maybe I will have interesting things to talk about soon. I hope you guys are all doing well! :)

 ETA: I'm sure some of you guys have seen this story already, but I had to post it here because it made me mad:

"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."

ALL I WANT TO DO IS GO TO BED!!!!!

I feel like I have been awake forever D:

Well, I've been living at university in my dorm/apartment thing for about a month now (as of two days ago, I think!). We have the suite style (two bedrooms, little kitchenette, bathroom) and so far, things have been good living in residence. We believe that the majority of the people on our floor are second year, though, and they all know each other already D:

Our apartment is still taking a bit of getting used to, I have to say. Every time something goes wrong we attribute it to a ghost, which is probably not the most logical thing to do (our building is only four or five years old, too, and as far as I found through Google, nothing has happened here. =P Yeah...we were scared enough to Google). Today smoke was coming into my room through the vent (which would be keeping my room warm if the heat were on. We still only have air conditioning)- I thought it was Sam, so I knocked on her door and asked her to cover her vent so it wouldn't keep coming into my room. She was sleeping, therefore...not smoking anything. My entire room smelled like marijuana. I think I'm going to blame that on our loud-upstairs-night-owl-neighbours, though. :)

I've been meeting people through classes, though: Adrianna in Criminology, Pascale in Reasoning & Critical Thinking, Tori in Spanish Culture...Not a whole lot of people, I guess. There is also a girl in my Literature and Composition class that goes everywhere barefoot. She sits next to me in class and is pretty nice, but I don't know how she does it. It poured rain today, there is mud everywhere, and the temperature hardly got over thirteen degrees celsius. I don't know whether to be impressed or concerned, honestly.

Speaking of Lit and Comp, my professor is awesome (though he reminds me a little of Tobias on Arrested Development in some aspects). I really look forward to going to that class. There's only forty two people,  so it's much easier to actually hear the discussion and participate in it (not that I have...yet. Heh).

The thing I am most excited about is coming home!!!! It's a little after 2 AM here, which means it is technically Thursday- so I come home tomorrow, on Friday! Sam's aunt and uncle are driving in to get us, and my parents are driving us back Monday morning, after Thanksgiving. I'm really happy to get back to Cobourg (...surprise)! I think this is the longest I've ever gone without seeing my family and, while it kind of sucks, I think I've gotten used to living kind of on my own.

Thursday is Sleep Day (no classes for me!) so I'm going to go get a head start. I will see all you Cobourg/Northumberland County people this weekend.

Tonight I am in a terrible mood, so I am staying in my room so I don't bitch at everyone, but I feel like even more of a bitch for being antisocial and grumpy and stuff.

>:(

 I hate how I keep letting one little thing ruin my entire day. Saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing isn't the end of the world; someone disliking me isn't the end of the world. I keep telling myself this, over and over, but it doesn't seem to change anything.

Ok, so Sam and I are maybe 60% (Sam says we should go with 75%) that our dorm apartment room thing is haunted or some shit- which I know sounds ridiculous, but honestly, we're a little freaked out D: I think it's just that we've only been here for a week and a half and we're not used to the setting and our surroundings but...in case I am killed by the ghost of a terrifying, sleep-deprived Civil Engineering student, you heard it here first.

In other news, I woke up this morning sick. I am running a fever and sound like Darth Vader when I talk (not all cool-like, more evil-like). I've been wandering around from class to class looking dazed and trying not to infect people. I want some soup.

I'm going to go to sleep for a bit, then to my residence floor meeting. Night.

Went to work, attempted to pack, ate cake, still not done packing.
I'm supposed to be moving out tomorrow morning at 10.

Today was not a very good day. :|

Stephenie Meyer was accused of plagiarizing another author's work in Breaking Dawn.

...So there is, potentially, another book out there that is JUST. LIKE. BREAKING. DAWN.

No thank you.

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