10.14.05
Posted in university, random at 4:12 am by juliebug
Well, it’s going to take a little bit of time for me to get used to this whole blog thing again. I’d pretty much forgotten entirely that I even still have a blog again. The only reason I remembered is that it’s raining outside right now, at nearly 4am, and I thought, “Hey, it’d be nice to have a blog again, just so I can write about the rain.”
And then I said to myself, “Self, you DO have a blog again!”
So here I am. And I am quite amused by myself.
As to the rain, it’s gentle, it’s comforting and it makes me so very happy to be sitting indoors, where it’s nice and warm, with just one lamp on in my living room, with a blanket on my lap, while all that’s going on out there.
School is going well. Halfway through the semester, practically, and I’ve had to turn in very little work, which is always a bonus, particularly as I have very little work to hand in for this whole semester. I get an essay assigned tomorrow, and I have a short assignment in SPSS for next Thursday, plus I have to write a parody or satire of my favourite or least-favourite song for Monday… and, yeah, I just had an Italian test and handed in an Italian composition.
Hm. When you put it all together like that, along with the prose poem and univocal lipogram I had to do, maybe it is a fair bit of work to hand in. I’m woefully behind on my readings, of course, but I feel like I don’t get a lot out of the lectures when I’ve done the readings, and that I don’t get a lot out of the readings (particularly for Social Theory) when I haven’t heard the lectures yet.
Upcoming plans include:
- a pumpkin carving party at J’s on Saturday night, apparently
- seeing my best friend at some point in the next few days, when she’ll be up from the US
- doing homework
- helping others with SPSS homework
- playing computer games when I should be doing homework
- preparing for NaNoWriMo
- cheering for the Habs, with their 4-1 record thus far
Did I mention that I got my driver’s license back in March? It was a snowy, snowy day and they actually CLOSED the license bureau for road tests about 20 minutes after I finished. I passed on the first try. Just FYI, it is not easy to parallel park in 15cm of snow.
On that note, I’m going to watch Smallville (the shame, the shame!) and then go to bed.
I really do need to post more often.
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10.07.05
Posted in university, television at 5:41 am by juliebug
So it’s 5:25am as I begin to write this. What am I doing? Burning some CDs to get some free space on my HD. What should I be doing? Reading for Contemporary Sociological Theory, which is my only class tomorrow, and begins really early — at 2:45pm. ;)
Well, that’s my earliest class of the semester! My other classes are at 4:15pm and at 6pm!
Basically, I should have showered and gone to bed by now, and I really should have done my reading on Talcott Parsons. But I haven’t done any of those. I spent tonight watching TV. Alias and Smallville, actually, although it took me, oh, THREE HOURS to get through my tape of Alias. Distractions in the form of hockey (hockey! You’re back! I LOVE YOU!), phone calls, random airings of Sex and the City and an explanation as to what webhosting is and why one must usually pay for such things all interfered with watching Alias.
Still, it was a lovely evening. Hell, my whole day was great except for a nagging headache. I woke up past 1, I skimmed my Research Design & Analysis readings, I talked on the phone, found out P got a new job (and I am very psyched for her!), caught my bus, went to class… okay, so I got lost on the 11th floor looking for a specific lab. I wound up in the Economics department instead of the Sociology department, but I got there eventually! And then, as we’re all sitting there, trying to use SPSS (a big ol’ stats program), like, 80% of the licenses on the computers had expired. I could NOT suppress a laugh, and pulled out my laptop and opened up SPSS. I’ve been using SPSS all summer for my Research Methods class. All those hours of inputting data and playing with it actually paid off.
Anyways, the teacher told us to all group together with the 20% of the computers that had a valid SPSS license, but since I had a working copy, I called my friend J over and this guy B, this guy M-A and some other dude (whose name I have totally spaced on) all came over. And we all KNOW SPSS, so the teacher was explaining how to run descriptive stats and stuff and we’re like “yeah, yeah, we know”. Meanwhile, this guy D and and girl M realized I had a working copy and inquired as to how to get their home copies to continue working. I sense I may become popular in this class. ;)
Got home, saw the end of the third period between the Habs and the Rangers and am annoyed by the Rangers’ 3rd goal, but hey, Ryder scored in OT to give the Habs a 2-0 record thus far this season and it was his third goal in two games and his second game-winner. I am rather thrilled. :)
Then J and I eventually got through Alias, and she was even able to catch her bus home ’cause the nice bus driver realized she wanted on the bus and stopped just AFTER the stop to let her run across to get on.
And what the hell have I done in the nearly six hours since she went home? Honestly, I don’t know. Watched Smallville. That didn’t take six hours. <scratches head> Where DOES the time go? Honestly!
On that note, I should go back to CD burning for a bit and maybe I’ll get some reading done while things burn.
(Aren’t you thrilled I’m blogging again? I know you are. ;))
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10.06.05
Posted in at 3:28 pm by juliebug
The blog, she is back.
Will make it pretty later on.
Yay WordPress and yay hosting for the year for $23 US.
Quick update on my life in the year (?! Holy crap.) that I’ve done nothing with this domain:
- I’m still in university and kicking some serious ass. I just finished a summer semester filled with Research Methods and got myself an A. :D This semester consists of Research Design & Analysis, Contemporary Sociological Theory, Intermediate Italian I and The Creative Process (an English Gen-Ed class). And you know what? I’m actually enjoying them all. It’s shocking!
- I am still watching way too much television. Lost and Alias top the charts of my interest right now, but that is not all I watch, not by a long shot. ;)
- November is less than a month away and I am going to participate in NaNoWriMo for the fourth straight year. 2002 got me 14,000 words, 2003 got me 50,000 and 2004 saw me end with 30,000. Which isn’t bad, considering I had midterms all throughout November. This year, no midterms. Just a few papers. Whee!
- I don’t chat very much these days. Which is scary. GoodChatting.com is still around, and so’s the IRC server, but my main computer these days is a laptop and I’m bringing it to school and coffee shops and that’s just not condusive to sitting in IRC all day. That said, I will be chatting more frequently in November during NaNo.
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So what am I doing with my time? School. Some TV. Hanging out with friends. Despite the fact that some of my closest friends aren’t living in Montreal anymore, I’ve got a pretty decent group of friends here. Some are new, some aren’t, some are renewed friendships. I’m spending a lot more time with people face-to-face than through my computer, which is part of the reason it’s taken so long for me to put something back up here.
Fall is upon us, although you’d never know it. It’s like, 30 degrees out and the leaves are still green.
And I have some reading to do for my Research Design & Analysis class, so I’m gonna go take care of that.
I’ve missed this place. I promise to post again soon. :)
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