Friday, January 30, 2004
finally.
all right, you fruitcakes! I’m super behind so here we go… loads to catch up on, so I’ll have to stick to it! a)weekend skiing b)monday c)tuesday d)wednesday e)thursday and maybe f,g,h… maybe not! :)
a) we left on thursday and were set to go at 4pm from the auchon. we left at 7pm. I love groups! anyway, we finally got going and then realized that we were going to need passports for driving through Switzerland… of course, some were not in possession so at that point, we divided up and 2 cars kept on while 2 cars went back. we kept going and drove…. and drove…. I was happy as a clam since we were listening to my cd’s (can you really beat ‘save ferris’ and the ‘police’ on a road trip??) mark contributed by keeping Nicole and I amused with a random game where we had to guess what happened. that must have killed at least an hour! but, it was fun and we finally arrived in the town where we were staying. it only took us another half hour to find the place but hey, it’s france. no matter that they gave us the wrong highway number or anything….
the chalet was freakin’ awesome! (and REALLY cold.) and we ate dinner at like 2 or 4am but no matter. not much sleep happened that night since we all got rowdy and munir went crazy –nothing unusual actually.
friday we rolled out a bit late but made it up for ½ day of skiing. it was gorgeous!!! the sun was out, the snow was fab-I was in heaven! really, the feeling of being away from all the concrete buildings and amongst pine trees again makes me feel so fiendishly happy. yay! loads of people were just boarding/skiing for the first time so we chilled with them for awhile and tried to impart any helpful knowledge… it probably didn’t help much though. before the lifts closed, mark and I busted off to a random lift where there wasn’t a line and we had a super great last run (!) until we got pummeled by the stupid snow-blowing machines at the end… dinner was great on friday night and mostly people just chilled after a hard day on the slopes.
saturday I got up bright and early, not particularly because I wanted to, but because I wanted to get a full day on the slopes and didn’t want to get left behind. we got there after only minor difficulties (gooooo ruey!) and had a perfectly lovely day. it wasn’t as sunny but the conditions were still good even if the light was a bit flat. there was a world freestyle competition going on so we caught the finals at 13:00 while we ate some food-seriously freakin’ awesome! I am a total skier at heart, but there is nothing better to watch than the fluidity of a good boarder-sweet! we had a bunch of good runs after that as well so, all in all, is was a good weekend of skiing. I am spoiled though because although the conditions were good, you just can’t beat the Rockies (esp Canada’s) as far as runs go. oh well-it was def better than some I’ve endured!
saturday night we were all tired but had a great meal of turkey curry. I went to bed early and Kelly and I were so tired that we kept saying random things and laughing ridiculously at them (no ruey, we weren’t talking about you!). since we had taken our gear back on saturday night, I was looking forward to sleeping in and enjoying sunday morning…. except that I woke up so ill that I wanted to die. my stomach was super unhappy and I really didn’t think that I was going to make it. we finally managed to get packed and cleaned up a bit before heading out at 13:00. then we went to Geneva, Switzerland because… we could! it was so lovely and there were like 3 H&M stores but it was sunday… so sad. anyway, it was a great weekend and thanks to everyone who put so much effort into making it all happen (cheers Nicole!).
b) monday: well, monday was a day… that I don’t remember… I think that I was still not feeling well and it was snowing all day-argh! I needed food and I wanted to exercise but none of those happened because it was snowing and I was tired!
c) tuesday: yep, it snowed more. don’t get me wrong, I like snow. that is, I like it when I can sit in front of the fireplace and read! don’t like when I have to go out in it… but we had this conference on military space issues going on at school so I pretty much ditched lectures to attend. it was interesting to hear what professionals think on these topics… then, I went home and fell asleep at 19:00 cause I was tired.
d) wednesday: more snow! can you believe it?! sheesh, I am so done with this snow stuff. if I can’t ski in it, then just go away! more military space conference, a random workshop that was not so useful and then dinner at brooke’s. dinner was great! I actually didn’t want to go (duh, it was snowing outside), but I sucked it up and went and had a really super time. it was great to see everyone (nick, beth, tyler, Nicole, chris, dinesh, mark, brooke) in a relaxed atmosphere. brooke, dinesh and I ended up having a ‘real’ conversation and that was the best part of the evening. such opportunities do not arise nearly as often as they should so I am always so thankful for them whenever they present themselves. thanks guys-you honestly made the difference in my week!
the scariest part of wednesday was when I went home after dinner… it was about 0:30 and snowing (!) and no one was about at all. so, I am almost to my street and this car starts pacing me… with 2 guys in it… and they were like 4 inches away from me-rar! I never looked at them but they just kept talking and stuff and adjusting their speed to my gait. it was seriously like one of those nightmares you have… fortunately, I was finally able to get to the other side of the street with my house and my key actually worked in the lock (unlike the nightmare…). whew-scary.
e) thursday: school was… well, it was school. currently, I am trying to switch TP’s so I didn’t know what meeting to go to. after chatting with one of my lovely professors, I decided not to go to any! (this will be another whole blog later…) at least I was able to get a run in during the afternoon (and caught a fantastic sunset!) so that was the highlight of my day.
so, there is a (brief) run-down of my week. other than being atypically exhausted for no apparent reason, it was a normal week and I happy to be at the weekend. in fact, I know I have missed stuff so it will be included in the next few postings… I hope all is well and I promise to get back to emailing soon (this weekend!).
xoxo.m
a) we left on thursday and were set to go at 4pm from the auchon. we left at 7pm. I love groups! anyway, we finally got going and then realized that we were going to need passports for driving through Switzerland… of course, some were not in possession so at that point, we divided up and 2 cars kept on while 2 cars went back. we kept going and drove…. and drove…. I was happy as a clam since we were listening to my cd’s (can you really beat ‘save ferris’ and the ‘police’ on a road trip??) mark contributed by keeping Nicole and I amused with a random game where we had to guess what happened. that must have killed at least an hour! but, it was fun and we finally arrived in the town where we were staying. it only took us another half hour to find the place but hey, it’s france. no matter that they gave us the wrong highway number or anything….
the chalet was freakin’ awesome! (and REALLY cold.) and we ate dinner at like 2 or 4am but no matter. not much sleep happened that night since we all got rowdy and munir went crazy –nothing unusual actually.
friday we rolled out a bit late but made it up for ½ day of skiing. it was gorgeous!!! the sun was out, the snow was fab-I was in heaven! really, the feeling of being away from all the concrete buildings and amongst pine trees again makes me feel so fiendishly happy. yay! loads of people were just boarding/skiing for the first time so we chilled with them for awhile and tried to impart any helpful knowledge… it probably didn’t help much though. before the lifts closed, mark and I busted off to a random lift where there wasn’t a line and we had a super great last run (!) until we got pummeled by the stupid snow-blowing machines at the end… dinner was great on friday night and mostly people just chilled after a hard day on the slopes.
saturday I got up bright and early, not particularly because I wanted to, but because I wanted to get a full day on the slopes and didn’t want to get left behind. we got there after only minor difficulties (gooooo ruey!) and had a perfectly lovely day. it wasn’t as sunny but the conditions were still good even if the light was a bit flat. there was a world freestyle competition going on so we caught the finals at 13:00 while we ate some food-seriously freakin’ awesome! I am a total skier at heart, but there is nothing better to watch than the fluidity of a good boarder-sweet! we had a bunch of good runs after that as well so, all in all, is was a good weekend of skiing. I am spoiled though because although the conditions were good, you just can’t beat the Rockies (esp Canada’s) as far as runs go. oh well-it was def better than some I’ve endured!
saturday night we were all tired but had a great meal of turkey curry. I went to bed early and Kelly and I were so tired that we kept saying random things and laughing ridiculously at them (no ruey, we weren’t talking about you!). since we had taken our gear back on saturday night, I was looking forward to sleeping in and enjoying sunday morning…. except that I woke up so ill that I wanted to die. my stomach was super unhappy and I really didn’t think that I was going to make it. we finally managed to get packed and cleaned up a bit before heading out at 13:00. then we went to Geneva, Switzerland because… we could! it was so lovely and there were like 3 H&M stores but it was sunday… so sad. anyway, it was a great weekend and thanks to everyone who put so much effort into making it all happen (cheers Nicole!).
b) monday: well, monday was a day… that I don’t remember… I think that I was still not feeling well and it was snowing all day-argh! I needed food and I wanted to exercise but none of those happened because it was snowing and I was tired!
c) tuesday: yep, it snowed more. don’t get me wrong, I like snow. that is, I like it when I can sit in front of the fireplace and read! don’t like when I have to go out in it… but we had this conference on military space issues going on at school so I pretty much ditched lectures to attend. it was interesting to hear what professionals think on these topics… then, I went home and fell asleep at 19:00 cause I was tired.
d) wednesday: more snow! can you believe it?! sheesh, I am so done with this snow stuff. if I can’t ski in it, then just go away! more military space conference, a random workshop that was not so useful and then dinner at brooke’s. dinner was great! I actually didn’t want to go (duh, it was snowing outside), but I sucked it up and went and had a really super time. it was great to see everyone (nick, beth, tyler, Nicole, chris, dinesh, mark, brooke) in a relaxed atmosphere. brooke, dinesh and I ended up having a ‘real’ conversation and that was the best part of the evening. such opportunities do not arise nearly as often as they should so I am always so thankful for them whenever they present themselves. thanks guys-you honestly made the difference in my week!
the scariest part of wednesday was when I went home after dinner… it was about 0:30 and snowing (!) and no one was about at all. so, I am almost to my street and this car starts pacing me… with 2 guys in it… and they were like 4 inches away from me-rar! I never looked at them but they just kept talking and stuff and adjusting their speed to my gait. it was seriously like one of those nightmares you have… fortunately, I was finally able to get to the other side of the street with my house and my key actually worked in the lock (unlike the nightmare…). whew-scary.
e) thursday: school was… well, it was school. currently, I am trying to switch TP’s so I didn’t know what meeting to go to. after chatting with one of my lovely professors, I decided not to go to any! (this will be another whole blog later…) at least I was able to get a run in during the afternoon (and caught a fantastic sunset!) so that was the highlight of my day.
so, there is a (brief) run-down of my week. other than being atypically exhausted for no apparent reason, it was a normal week and I happy to be at the weekend. in fact, I know I have missed stuff so it will be included in the next few postings… I hope all is well and I promise to get back to emailing soon (this weekend!).
xoxo.m
Sunday, January 25, 2004
(no subject) !
yo yo! home again…. we had a fab trip to the alps and I’ll recollect it in its entirety tomorrow when I have more time (most likely during lecture)! today was a bit rough but I am so lucky to have such good friends here at isu –big ‘yay’ for everyone that mades me smile today. thanks :)
I was reflecting quite a bit on a thought that I was sharing with my friend cari earlier in the weekend…. she was telling me that when some aspects of our lives seem to be going really well, others are spectacularly falling apart and that it is virtually impossible for all things to be going well all at once. i happen to believe that even though some things may not be “feeling” as if they are going so well, they really are. in order for growth to occur, we must endure pain and discomfort as they are the necessary catalysts for change. i guess the athlete in me will always believe in the ‘no pain, no gain’ attitude. today i couldn’t put on the ‘brave’ face that i like to show to the world and it was probably due to a couple of things: a) i woke up feeling so nauseous and b) i was ridiculously tired for some reason. whenever i am not feeling physically well, my emotions sorta go along for the ride, which is prob not so bad. plus, road trips always provide a good opportunity for introspection.
what really grabbed my attention during my mental wanderings was the fragility of the human ego. we all have so many insecurities attributable to a multitude of circumstances of which we could never guess just by glancing at the ‘masks’ that we wear. masks are not a bad thing-they provide a necessary means of protection of the self against those who are insincere. however, this does become a barrier in the truest sense at times because isolation (at least for me) is much more desirable than revealing my weaknesses. fortunately, whenever i feel like i cannot possible bear anymore and that i will surely perish, I am delivered from my suffering. but, for everything that has happened, i am thankful for the chance that i have to learn and grow in ways that i could have never predicted. and the pain that i feel today will be the cornerstone of who i will be in the future. for this, i am grateful because it presents me with the ability to further refine who i am and how i relate to others. unfortunately, it doesn’t change the fact that it feels like my guts have been ripped out, twisted around, and shoved back in. oh well. back to the drawing board.
sorry for randomness.
sleepy now... night, night.
luvs.m
I was reflecting quite a bit on a thought that I was sharing with my friend cari earlier in the weekend…. she was telling me that when some aspects of our lives seem to be going really well, others are spectacularly falling apart and that it is virtually impossible for all things to be going well all at once. i happen to believe that even though some things may not be “feeling” as if they are going so well, they really are. in order for growth to occur, we must endure pain and discomfort as they are the necessary catalysts for change. i guess the athlete in me will always believe in the ‘no pain, no gain’ attitude. today i couldn’t put on the ‘brave’ face that i like to show to the world and it was probably due to a couple of things: a) i woke up feeling so nauseous and b) i was ridiculously tired for some reason. whenever i am not feeling physically well, my emotions sorta go along for the ride, which is prob not so bad. plus, road trips always provide a good opportunity for introspection.
what really grabbed my attention during my mental wanderings was the fragility of the human ego. we all have so many insecurities attributable to a multitude of circumstances of which we could never guess just by glancing at the ‘masks’ that we wear. masks are not a bad thing-they provide a necessary means of protection of the self against those who are insincere. however, this does become a barrier in the truest sense at times because isolation (at least for me) is much more desirable than revealing my weaknesses. fortunately, whenever i feel like i cannot possible bear anymore and that i will surely perish, I am delivered from my suffering. but, for everything that has happened, i am thankful for the chance that i have to learn and grow in ways that i could have never predicted. and the pain that i feel today will be the cornerstone of who i will be in the future. for this, i am grateful because it presents me with the ability to further refine who i am and how i relate to others. unfortunately, it doesn’t change the fact that it feels like my guts have been ripped out, twisted around, and shoved back in. oh well. back to the drawing board.
sorry for randomness.
sleepy now... night, night.
luvs.m
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
lego-mania
we had our robotics competition today and it was a tough field… but, we won! i am happy to report that i did, uhhh, well i guess i was the supervisor? or something (?!) for our team. not really, actually-that was just what i told dr. hill when he stopped by to chat while i was trying to glue myself to the heater. in fact, i have no idea how our robot worked other than there was a really long computer program associated with it and that it was sponsored by coca-cola and mcdonald’s. excellent.
tonight we had our second cultural night and it featured our asian classmates. we had presentations from india, singapore, japan and china-they were all great! singapore is def on my list of places to visit as well as india-how awesome would that be??
we have an it workshop tomorrow-i really hope that it is interesting. after that, we are leaving for an extended weekend of skiing! woohoo! like previously stated, i am stoked but i guess that means i should pack… oh, packing is so not fun.
i am so tired right now that i had better sign off. and cold-i think i have been really cold for like 3 days straight now. i couldn’t believe how cold it was this evening-brrrr! i had to wear my blanket home from school and fortunately there wasn’t anyone on the tram to make fun of me… except my excellent classmates-thanks guys. love you too.
luvulots.m
tonight we had our second cultural night and it featured our asian classmates. we had presentations from india, singapore, japan and china-they were all great! singapore is def on my list of places to visit as well as india-how awesome would that be??
we have an it workshop tomorrow-i really hope that it is interesting. after that, we are leaving for an extended weekend of skiing! woohoo! like previously stated, i am stoked but i guess that means i should pack… oh, packing is so not fun.
i am so tired right now that i had better sign off. and cold-i think i have been really cold for like 3 days straight now. i couldn’t believe how cold it was this evening-brrrr! i had to wear my blanket home from school and fortunately there wasn’t anyone on the tram to make fun of me… except my excellent classmates-thanks guys. love you too.
luvulots.m
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
'time management' (!)
tuesday, what can you say about tuesday? well, lots actually! started off with 2 lectures from tolyarenko on the technical aspects of military space. it wasn’t so bad except that we were in the boeing auditorium and it was FREEZING in there. after that, we had a briefing on our robotics assignment from dr. hill. huh, i think that was the point at which the entire day went downhill in a most spectacular fashion.
see, our schedule (which is like gospel around here) had nothing slated for this afternoon and our team project had scheduled a late lunch meeting. however, dr. hill proceeded to inform us that the entire afternoon was dedicated to this assignment and although they wanted us to do good work on it, they didn’t want us staying up all night to finish it-are you kidding me?! haha. seriously ridiculous!!!! the discourse i could launch into about ‘time management’ is amusing but it was even funnier because i do believe that one of the profs (after we complained rather loudly and pointedly) said that, in fact, it is all about time management. hmph! they better watch out on that point… it’s gonna smack them in the face very soon since their skills are apparently 159% worse than ours in this area. and, after running an hour over the schedule last night, this little assignment pretty much caused a mutiny.
we ended up still having our tp meeting which was okay. john farrow seemed to think that we were trying to get out of work since we had a meeting today instead of on friday, of which the entire day is devoted to tp. (what’s this i hear about a ski trip??). right. so, i told him that, in fact, we had scheduled the meeting to be the entire afternoon but due to the lovely oversight of our faculty, we now had a project to start and complete and that if he REALLY wanted to talk about ‘time management’, then i was all for it… well, he didn’t. too bad though-our faculty must think that we are so lazy or something to be so not understanding. lame. after our meeting was over, i left because i had mad errands to run and do before everything closed. i guess i got half of them done which is better than i hoped for.
i just got an email from Fabio saying that the name of our robotics team is ‘we want all blondes’ –hmmmm. sounds interesting? yea, almost! i feel so feisty today. must be because i missed my workout this morning (again) –i am so lazy. i better do it tomorrow. at least the week is half over-i abs can’t wait to go skiing! i just want to be totally exhausted and skiing is always an excellent venue for achieving coveted state. plus, i love road trips and it’s been awhile since i’ve been on one so it will be fun-yay! see, i am not in a bad mood-isu is just so stupid sometimes and i have to let everyone else see how crazy it is. cheers mates and i hope everything is splendid in your neck of the woods.
how about that iowa caucus? who woulda thought….
luvs.m
see, our schedule (which is like gospel around here) had nothing slated for this afternoon and our team project had scheduled a late lunch meeting. however, dr. hill proceeded to inform us that the entire afternoon was dedicated to this assignment and although they wanted us to do good work on it, they didn’t want us staying up all night to finish it-are you kidding me?! haha. seriously ridiculous!!!! the discourse i could launch into about ‘time management’ is amusing but it was even funnier because i do believe that one of the profs (after we complained rather loudly and pointedly) said that, in fact, it is all about time management. hmph! they better watch out on that point… it’s gonna smack them in the face very soon since their skills are apparently 159% worse than ours in this area. and, after running an hour over the schedule last night, this little assignment pretty much caused a mutiny.
we ended up still having our tp meeting which was okay. john farrow seemed to think that we were trying to get out of work since we had a meeting today instead of on friday, of which the entire day is devoted to tp. (what’s this i hear about a ski trip??). right. so, i told him that, in fact, we had scheduled the meeting to be the entire afternoon but due to the lovely oversight of our faculty, we now had a project to start and complete and that if he REALLY wanted to talk about ‘time management’, then i was all for it… well, he didn’t. too bad though-our faculty must think that we are so lazy or something to be so not understanding. lame. after our meeting was over, i left because i had mad errands to run and do before everything closed. i guess i got half of them done which is better than i hoped for.
i just got an email from Fabio saying that the name of our robotics team is ‘we want all blondes’ –hmmmm. sounds interesting? yea, almost! i feel so feisty today. must be because i missed my workout this morning (again) –i am so lazy. i better do it tomorrow. at least the week is half over-i abs can’t wait to go skiing! i just want to be totally exhausted and skiing is always an excellent venue for achieving coveted state. plus, i love road trips and it’s been awhile since i’ve been on one so it will be fun-yay! see, i am not in a bad mood-isu is just so stupid sometimes and i have to let everyone else see how crazy it is. cheers mates and i hope everything is splendid in your neck of the woods.
how about that iowa caucus? who woulda thought….
luvs.m
Monday, January 19, 2004
morbid monday.
today was a bit of an odd start to the week. it was kinda cool cause we didn’t officially have lecture until 11:15, but we were supposed to be at school at normal time to work on our microgravity assignments. obviously, less than half of the class actually showed up but at least our group got most of it sorted. we are going to study hurricanes/vortices in a microgravity environment. kinda cool actually. after we worked on that for a bit, we had a lecture on…. well, that is an excellent question. ummmm, it was on…. legal provisions of something or other maybe? in fact, i don’t think it was that exactly, but something along those line perhaps? i was obviously sleeping!
after lunch we had this workshop on how to deal with the media after a disaster. it was pretty neat but i was a bit preoccupied so i must admit that it didn’t have my full attention.
you want to hear something terrible? apparently the 7 astronauts onboard the Challenger shuttle that blew up did not all die immediately. i guess 3 of them were still alive when they hit the water… what sort of hell is that? i honestly can’t imagine anything worse. in fact, that is a recurring nightmare of mine that usually wakes me up around 2:37 in the morning and then keeps me up the rest of the night. right, i do have an overactive imagination but that is just freaky.
so the second part of my morbid monday is attributed to the fact that apparently my paternal grandma has only 3 months to live. hmmmm, somehow this vital statistic was left out of the conversation that i had on saturday with my da. i found this out via random email to my mum during the last half of the wonderful workshop. what the hell! i just can’t believe that this was somehow not mentioned to me before now.
after that i told my mum that they (my lovely rents) better not die and that they can’t ever give me something ridiculous like 3 months. she said that was okay cause she was just gonna go nutty and then she wouldn’t know that she was not feeling well. i told her that that was cool cause then i would feed her creamed corn and soup and she wouldn’t be able to complain if it was lumpy or had too much cilantro in it. haha-she said she was looking forward to it. dude, my mum seriously rocks-what a fab conversation!
it was snowing this evening and the workshop ran over by an hour (time management?) so i just went directly to the auchon before going home to drop off my laptop. it sucked. i was soooo cold and tired and hungry and i had this amazing idea to buy one of the rotisserie chickens…. i swear i did this all the time in my undergrad years…. so i was merrily sitting in my kitchen looking at this chicken and was completely repulsed by it. it was then that i remembered that i always had staten chop up the stupid thing cause i just can’t do it! i dug in a little but had to stop and take a break so i wouldn’t puke or something… needless to say, it was a fruitless endeavor. i really wonder why i am not a vegetarian and i seriously considered it tonight. however, a girl’s gotta eat something and given that my options are already limited, it would be almost suicide to limit them further… anyway, i am not sure that i will be eating chicken for a while…. or beef for that matter since i was reading this book over the holiday and it was really disgusting. yep, my stomach is churning now.
okay, other than that, the day is almost over and i am still freezing and i hope tomorrow is warmer than today. thank goodness i didn’t make it up for my run this morning-i would have turned into a perfectly posed ice statuette somewhere along the canal…
stay warms and lots of luvs!
xoxo.m
after lunch we had this workshop on how to deal with the media after a disaster. it was pretty neat but i was a bit preoccupied so i must admit that it didn’t have my full attention.
you want to hear something terrible? apparently the 7 astronauts onboard the Challenger shuttle that blew up did not all die immediately. i guess 3 of them were still alive when they hit the water… what sort of hell is that? i honestly can’t imagine anything worse. in fact, that is a recurring nightmare of mine that usually wakes me up around 2:37 in the morning and then keeps me up the rest of the night. right, i do have an overactive imagination but that is just freaky.
so the second part of my morbid monday is attributed to the fact that apparently my paternal grandma has only 3 months to live. hmmmm, somehow this vital statistic was left out of the conversation that i had on saturday with my da. i found this out via random email to my mum during the last half of the wonderful workshop. what the hell! i just can’t believe that this was somehow not mentioned to me before now.
after that i told my mum that they (my lovely rents) better not die and that they can’t ever give me something ridiculous like 3 months. she said that was okay cause she was just gonna go nutty and then she wouldn’t know that she was not feeling well. i told her that that was cool cause then i would feed her creamed corn and soup and she wouldn’t be able to complain if it was lumpy or had too much cilantro in it. haha-she said she was looking forward to it. dude, my mum seriously rocks-what a fab conversation!
it was snowing this evening and the workshop ran over by an hour (time management?) so i just went directly to the auchon before going home to drop off my laptop. it sucked. i was soooo cold and tired and hungry and i had this amazing idea to buy one of the rotisserie chickens…. i swear i did this all the time in my undergrad years…. so i was merrily sitting in my kitchen looking at this chicken and was completely repulsed by it. it was then that i remembered that i always had staten chop up the stupid thing cause i just can’t do it! i dug in a little but had to stop and take a break so i wouldn’t puke or something… needless to say, it was a fruitless endeavor. i really wonder why i am not a vegetarian and i seriously considered it tonight. however, a girl’s gotta eat something and given that my options are already limited, it would be almost suicide to limit them further… anyway, i am not sure that i will be eating chicken for a while…. or beef for that matter since i was reading this book over the holiday and it was really disgusting. yep, my stomach is churning now.
okay, other than that, the day is almost over and i am still freezing and i hope tomorrow is warmer than today. thank goodness i didn’t make it up for my run this morning-i would have turned into a perfectly posed ice statuette somewhere along the canal…
stay warms and lots of luvs!
xoxo.m
Sunday, January 18, 2004
right.
another weekend almost over.... dude! let’s see what's happened since thursday...
friday was pretty good. we had 2 more lectures on advanced propulsion systems and then a discussion on all that has been covered in the last two days. they were asking us questions but i kept not understanding/hearing the question which made me feel so stupid until i discovered that no one else had any idea what the questions were either. i was actually trying to get some work done on my computer too so i was a bit preoccupied.
after classes i went back to the hospital to try to get my blood test results. of course they were not ready so i had to wait a bit and go back again but that’s okay i guess. i didn’t care about missing the student council meeting but i was a little bummed to miss the US consulate discuss bush’s moon plan. oh well. fortunately, the blood tests turned out to be pretty informative. white rice and potatoes have temporarily been added to the ‘forbidden’ list. c’est la vie.
junior wanted a bit of a dinner on friday night so miguel, erling and munir came over for a great singaporean meal. loads of food (i was full just looking at it all) was quickly and happily consumed by the four (growing?) boys. my meal was tasty as well even though they didn’t believe me-too bad for them. anyway, we headed over to the will/fabio/beth party next door after dinner. it was super(!) fun. as usual, it was great to see everyone is such good spirits-a nice end to the week. i guess lots of people left around midnight to get the tram but the rest of us stayed for a couple more hours. it was great to chat with some people that i haven’t had much chance to get to know before. good times!
saturday and sunday were both a bit lazy for me. i did manage to go out for a run on saturday and went to bhavini’s for curry. just for the record, i don’t even like curry but this was amazing! i’m gonna get the recipe cause this was abs fantastic-go bhavs! we all meant to go see ‘lost in translation’ after dinne, but i wasn’t feeling so super so i went home. i am still determined to see the movie sometime soon because it is supposed to be brilliant.
i had a good chat with my parents on saturday as well. feels like ages since i’ve talked to them so it was great to catch up. actually, i haven’t spoken with my da for quite a while since he was unexpectedly held up in texas last week. unfortunately, my grandma was really sick and he had to get her squared away, which took a bit longer than anticipated. fortunately, they’ve got it mostly worked out now and it looks like her situation is not so dire as initially thought.
man, you should check out my peers’ blogs-they are way better at staying up-to-date than i am! so sad... i wish i had their diligence! well, i will keep trying....
lotsofluvsandhugsandkisses.m
friday was pretty good. we had 2 more lectures on advanced propulsion systems and then a discussion on all that has been covered in the last two days. they were asking us questions but i kept not understanding/hearing the question which made me feel so stupid until i discovered that no one else had any idea what the questions were either. i was actually trying to get some work done on my computer too so i was a bit preoccupied.
after classes i went back to the hospital to try to get my blood test results. of course they were not ready so i had to wait a bit and go back again but that’s okay i guess. i didn’t care about missing the student council meeting but i was a little bummed to miss the US consulate discuss bush’s moon plan. oh well. fortunately, the blood tests turned out to be pretty informative. white rice and potatoes have temporarily been added to the ‘forbidden’ list. c’est la vie.
junior wanted a bit of a dinner on friday night so miguel, erling and munir came over for a great singaporean meal. loads of food (i was full just looking at it all) was quickly and happily consumed by the four (growing?) boys. my meal was tasty as well even though they didn’t believe me-too bad for them. anyway, we headed over to the will/fabio/beth party next door after dinner. it was super(!) fun. as usual, it was great to see everyone is such good spirits-a nice end to the week. i guess lots of people left around midnight to get the tram but the rest of us stayed for a couple more hours. it was great to chat with some people that i haven’t had much chance to get to know before. good times!
saturday and sunday were both a bit lazy for me. i did manage to go out for a run on saturday and went to bhavini’s for curry. just for the record, i don’t even like curry but this was amazing! i’m gonna get the recipe cause this was abs fantastic-go bhavs! we all meant to go see ‘lost in translation’ after dinne, but i wasn’t feeling so super so i went home. i am still determined to see the movie sometime soon because it is supposed to be brilliant.
i had a good chat with my parents on saturday as well. feels like ages since i’ve talked to them so it was great to catch up. actually, i haven’t spoken with my da for quite a while since he was unexpectedly held up in texas last week. unfortunately, my grandma was really sick and he had to get her squared away, which took a bit longer than anticipated. fortunately, they’ve got it mostly worked out now and it looks like her situation is not so dire as initially thought.
man, you should check out my peers’ blogs-they are way better at staying up-to-date than i am! so sad... i wish i had their diligence! well, i will keep trying....
lotsofluvsandhugsandkisses.m
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Thursday, January 15, 2004
thursay already! oops, it's almost over...
the coolest thing is that now when I log onto my computer away from school, the button on the start key shows ‘empty’-gotta love isu!!! apart from being thoroughly irritated with our virtual network, school is going pretty well. super busy of course which is why I haven’t written since Monday. here’s the recap:
Monday: I don’t remember-hopefully I already wrote about it. oh yea, presentations on our remote sensing assignment. not great, but done. oh happy day.
Tuesday: uh, more lectures on technical stuff. a guy from nasa was here and he was funny. fortunately. it kept me awake (!) and was interesting to boot. I was supposed to go to anne’s for Norwegian food but I didn’t. I was so tired and just feeling completely asocial so I decided not to submit anyone else to it. good decision I think.
Wednesday: lots more lectures from the nasa guy which were still entertaining and some legal lecture from some lady. I could look up their names but, uh, I’m not sure where the lecture notes are right now. we got our tp and exam marks back as well and both were much higher than I expected! woohoo! honestly, I was just wanting to pass the exam since I was out for 3 weeks last module and never quite got the lecture notes. it was an excellent day! we also had a tp meeting that went surprisingly well. I got (?) to facilitate this one but it was easy cause no one was out of control. kinda too bad though-I was looking forward to laying the smack down.
we went to see ‘the last samurai’ in the evening and, surprisingly, it was pretty good. of course, I didn’t watch half of it (oh, the violence-it was making my stomach hurt so much!) and I cried through the other half (I think brooke was worried…), but that is normal for me. of course, anyone who knows is laughing especially if they have endured movie-watching with me previously. I am a nerd, I am okay with this.
Thursday: 3 lectures of advanced propulsion systems or something to this effect. in fact, have NO idea what happened and have already enlisted the brilliance of michael klicker to help me. def good move. IM’d kelly through most of the classes in order to stay awake and we def had some, uh, interesting conversations! hehe-scandalous. wasn’t feeling very well so I went home at lunch since we only had the exam de-briefing this afternoon. another good move on my part cause I called the dr (well, I REALLY wasn’t feeling so good) and so I went in for some blood tests. will find out tomorrow what they have to say… I am so sick of this crap!!! but, will/beth/fabio are having a party tomorrow night so that should be fun. my classmates rock! I’m supposed to be cleaning my room too but… it is not my forte. maybe later since I did get a 3 hour nap in earlier.
Friday: not there yet… hopefully an update before Monday!
anyway, that’s how it goes. well, mostly anyway. it’s been raining a lot here which I like. and this morning was lovely-lots of dark, heavy clouds and a slight wind… I decided to walk to school just to enjoy it. I’m not sure that I can get used to seeing the sun in the winter…
luvulots!m
Monday: I don’t remember-hopefully I already wrote about it. oh yea, presentations on our remote sensing assignment. not great, but done. oh happy day.
Tuesday: uh, more lectures on technical stuff. a guy from nasa was here and he was funny. fortunately. it kept me awake (!) and was interesting to boot. I was supposed to go to anne’s for Norwegian food but I didn’t. I was so tired and just feeling completely asocial so I decided not to submit anyone else to it. good decision I think.
Wednesday: lots more lectures from the nasa guy which were still entertaining and some legal lecture from some lady. I could look up their names but, uh, I’m not sure where the lecture notes are right now. we got our tp and exam marks back as well and both were much higher than I expected! woohoo! honestly, I was just wanting to pass the exam since I was out for 3 weeks last module and never quite got the lecture notes. it was an excellent day! we also had a tp meeting that went surprisingly well. I got (?) to facilitate this one but it was easy cause no one was out of control. kinda too bad though-I was looking forward to laying the smack down.
we went to see ‘the last samurai’ in the evening and, surprisingly, it was pretty good. of course, I didn’t watch half of it (oh, the violence-it was making my stomach hurt so much!) and I cried through the other half (I think brooke was worried…), but that is normal for me. of course, anyone who knows is laughing especially if they have endured movie-watching with me previously. I am a nerd, I am okay with this.
Thursday: 3 lectures of advanced propulsion systems or something to this effect. in fact, have NO idea what happened and have already enlisted the brilliance of michael klicker to help me. def good move. IM’d kelly through most of the classes in order to stay awake and we def had some, uh, interesting conversations! hehe-scandalous. wasn’t feeling very well so I went home at lunch since we only had the exam de-briefing this afternoon. another good move on my part cause I called the dr (well, I REALLY wasn’t feeling so good) and so I went in for some blood tests. will find out tomorrow what they have to say… I am so sick of this crap!!! but, will/beth/fabio are having a party tomorrow night so that should be fun. my classmates rock! I’m supposed to be cleaning my room too but… it is not my forte. maybe later since I did get a 3 hour nap in earlier.
Friday: not there yet… hopefully an update before Monday!
anyway, that’s how it goes. well, mostly anyway. it’s been raining a lot here which I like. and this morning was lovely-lots of dark, heavy clouds and a slight wind… I decided to walk to school just to enjoy it. I’m not sure that I can get used to seeing the sun in the winter…
luvulots!m
Monday, January 12, 2004
happy 27th jason!
bon jour! hi-de-ho! how is everyone doing ? okay, i know-i have been a bit of a slacker so i will try to catch y’all up…
back at school. it started last Tuesday and module 3 is in full swing. we have a project to present today (which I am obviously working VERY efficiently on…) and then the rest of the week is dedicated to lectures. we have split into the two tracks a)technical and b)business. I am doing the technical stream and I think it will be okay. we had 2 days of workshops at SERTIT last week and I enjoyed them-I think that I am probably the only one who did but that’s okay. then we had awesome lectures from vern singhroy (go Canada!) who was faculty here in 1999. good stuff.
my exercise plan for the new year was implemented nicely and I am happy to report that I made it out to run before class everyday last week-I even made it this morning even though I woke up 10 minutes late. my next goal is to go swimming twice a week-I am dying without my daily dose of chlorine! must remedy the situation.
my new housemate, junior, is awesome! he’s from Singapore and he cooked dinner every night last week-ahhh, lovely. I am def not complaining about this. and he is so social-we had gilbert over one night and Miguel over another night. I haven’t had much of a chance to get to know these guys but the are really freakin awesome and I am happy to have had the opportunity. once again, I am so impressed with my classmates-they rock! and gilbert is academic extraordinaire…
so Saturday bhavini’s best mate came for a visit, which, obviously, means that we had to go out. we started at the irish times and loads of classmates showed up. good times! I haven’t seen anybody since the exam so it was awesome to chill with everyone. big smiles…
it was stormy last night and I thoroughly enjoyed it. loads of rain and thunder and lightning-very good Sunday night. I even managed to sorta pick-up my room. at least, I can now get from the door to my bed without stepping on anything! ha!
i am feeling loads better than a week ago-very handy. I am happy to have a regular schedule again and I promise that I will not eat any food that I have not seem prepared myself!
all for now. going to serina’s for din din tonight so that will be good. perhaps more later…
luv-luv.m
back at school. it started last Tuesday and module 3 is in full swing. we have a project to present today (which I am obviously working VERY efficiently on…) and then the rest of the week is dedicated to lectures. we have split into the two tracks a)technical and b)business. I am doing the technical stream and I think it will be okay. we had 2 days of workshops at SERTIT last week and I enjoyed them-I think that I am probably the only one who did but that’s okay. then we had awesome lectures from vern singhroy (go Canada!) who was faculty here in 1999. good stuff.
my exercise plan for the new year was implemented nicely and I am happy to report that I made it out to run before class everyday last week-I even made it this morning even though I woke up 10 minutes late. my next goal is to go swimming twice a week-I am dying without my daily dose of chlorine! must remedy the situation.
my new housemate, junior, is awesome! he’s from Singapore and he cooked dinner every night last week-ahhh, lovely. I am def not complaining about this. and he is so social-we had gilbert over one night and Miguel over another night. I haven’t had much of a chance to get to know these guys but the are really freakin awesome and I am happy to have had the opportunity. once again, I am so impressed with my classmates-they rock! and gilbert is academic extraordinaire…
so Saturday bhavini’s best mate came for a visit, which, obviously, means that we had to go out. we started at the irish times and loads of classmates showed up. good times! I haven’t seen anybody since the exam so it was awesome to chill with everyone. big smiles…
it was stormy last night and I thoroughly enjoyed it. loads of rain and thunder and lightning-very good Sunday night. I even managed to sorta pick-up my room. at least, I can now get from the door to my bed without stepping on anything! ha!
i am feeling loads better than a week ago-very handy. I am happy to have a regular schedule again and I promise that I will not eat any food that I have not seem prepared myself!
all for now. going to serina’s for din din tonight so that will be good. perhaps more later…
luv-luv.m
