i never seem to update anymore. guess my life is boring.

i made dinner tonight, for the first time in a couple of months. couple of chicken breasts, a can of diced tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, some rice...chicken with tomato sauce and rice with garlic butter. it was yummy.

one of vicki's friends was visiting this weekend, so we went out on friday. that was fun, seeing as i haven't been out in a while. and i got to sleep in pretty much all weekend. woo. it's going to make it hard to get up for class this week, though...oh well.

and it turns out that queen's won the ontario university athletics championship yesterday, so there was a lot of partying going on last night. yay football.

coming up on the last few weeks of class. so that'll be fun. i have to start work on my final paper for 321, so i'll be picking up books tomorrow. but my topic is interesting, and hopefully fun to write about. i got some good results from my five-page paper, so we'll se how this one goes.

i entered some of my photos in a couple of online contests. i've been fiddling around with my photo-editing software, and i turned out some pretty good stuff. so we'll see if anyone likes them.

i hate having to work midnights on mondays...arrg.

ok, we're gonna play a game.  pick one of the following animals:

1.) ant
2.) rhino
3.) platypus
4.) gila monster

got it?  ok, now pick a number between 1 and 8

ok?  now pick a second one.

cool?  now pick a third one.

ok, now take that third number and read the corresponding haiku below.

1.) The sweet life can be
     The most restrictive in truth.
     Best to avoid it.

2.) Milk is vital now.
     Calcium makes strong bones.
     You will need those soon.

3.) When in Rome, you see,
      Italian is quite useful.
      Invest in classes. 

4.) Being understood
     Will be more difficult if
     You are not psychic.

5.) Without seeming too
     Forward, make a decision
     Regarding that person.

6.) If under duress
     Remember: though your hands are
     Tied, your legs are free.

7.) If you find yourself,
     Please contact the media.
     They've missed you lately.

8.) Realizing that
     Nothing lasts is the first step
     Toward permanence.

whee.  i survived my two midnight shifts in a row.  but tonight i'm going to sleep.  woot.

owls are awesome.

grr, i still need to finish my paper for 321.  luckily, i talked to prof. bevan about it this afternoon, and he said so far it sounded like exactly what he was looking for, so yay!  and i got all my greek composition exercises done, and some of the errors i made in my first pass i caught myself, so apparently i'm getting better at greek.  woo.

i'm going to be making about 700 dollars for these past two weeks of work.  wheee.  and becasue i worked over thanksgiving (theoretically) i stand a btter chance of getting all the time i want off over christmas.  so cross your fingers and knock on wood...

speaking of christmas, the registrar needs to get their act together.  they said they were posting the december exam schedule this past weekend, and they did, but it's totally not complete.  i have three classes that i know for a fact have final exams that don't turn up on the schedule when i type them in.  and the only class under greek is called "grek 200", but since there is no such class, i don't know what they could possibly mean.  and the only class under philosophy is called "phil 112", but i know from our syllabus that we're supposed to have an exam in phil 158.  so i don't know what kind of stuff they thought they were doing at the registrar.  maybe they're just dumb.

anyway.  button goes to the vet tomorrow to get his rabies shot.  woot, no rabies.  and while i'm there i have to ask the vet about transporting him around.  so he can come home for christmas and not have to stay all alone in kingston.

vicki and i had leftover thanksgiving food tonight for dinner.  so it was like second thanksgiving.  so i got thanksgiving too.  yay!

whew.  have i mentioned how much i hate tuesday/wednesday/thursday yet?  i can't function that early...

ugh.  life is tiring.  i have to write a 5 page paper and finish my greek composition exercises.  woo.  and more than anything i want a nice long sleep.  i hate having 8:30 classes.  though getting woken up by a kitten-style face wash isn't so bad.  even when i know it's only so he can get his breakfast.

whew.  have i had a whirlwind weekend.  first of all, it was just about the best weekend ever.  mostly because i got to spend it with my dad, but also because i got to do two fully awesome things in one weekend.

we had tickets to go see bruce at giants stadium (the old, one, since they're about to blow it up and start using the new one, so these are the last concerts at the old stadium), but since we were down there, we thought we should try to get tickets to see a steady rain (which is a play that was originally produced at dramatists, and is now playing on broadway starring hugh jackman and daniel craig), and we did.  wheee!


(seriously, this play is amazing.  you should all go see it multiple times, even though the tickets are $130 a pop.)


(i'm so pretty.  though it seemed like i had to walk all over manhattan in those heels.  that's public transit for you...)

so that was friday night.  and then we went in to the met saturday morning/afternoon.


(me on the steps of the met.)


(the classical statuary gallery, which you may remember from my new york trip last year...)


(and the arms and armor gallery, because this is me we're talking about...)

and then, we got to see bruce live at the meadowlands.  which was awesome.


(whoo!  rock!)


(some of these may look a little blurry, but keep in mind that i'm taking them from the middle of the 300 level of an 80,000 seat football stadium...)


(whoo, rock!)






(soooo many fans...)




(the man himself)


(more rocking out)

(the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, earth-shocking, hard-rocking, booty-shaking, love-making, viagra-taking, history-making, legendary E! STREET! BAND! *fireworks* (no, seriously, they actually let off fireworks.)

so, yeah.  best weekend ever.  i'm so glad i got to go on that trip.  whoo.  even though i had to come back and go almost straight to work...oh boy.

ow.  owowow.  my arms and back are completely shot.  vicki and i went climbing tonight, and i was trying to do hard walls (so i get buff arms), which i now regret.  i can already tell how sore i'm going to be tomorrow.  owieowie.

the due date for my philosophy assignment got pushed back a week.  not that i needed it, but it's still nice.  we're still working on vocabulary in that class, like "claim" and "value judgement" and "premise".  it's not so much a philosophy class as an english class (learning to write and argue effectively), the philosophical element, i think, comes from arguing about arguing.

i should probably start to work on my short essay for late antiquity.  we have to pick a bit from one of the primary source readings and write about it's importance.  at the very least i should look through the sourcebook and find interesting passages.

we were talking in latin yesterday about the aeneid and fate and stuff.  and we came up with the idea of an aeneid/terminator crossover, which we decided would be the best movie ever.  juno sends killer robots back in time to stop aeneas from founding rome.  starring christan bale and judi dench.  i wish i had photshop, purely so i could make that poster...

and now for something completely different...














(from xkcd.com)
 

sorry, i've been too busy to post lately, what with all the working and the homework and the class and stuff.  and sleeping.  i like sleeping.  a lot...

anyway.

ugh, i hate having 8:30 classes!  especially 3 in a row...unfair.

took button to the vet for a checkup/shot today.  turns out she is actually a he.  who knew?  the pet store told us he was female.  they lied.

and he's developed a new favorite game called "enthusiatically chewing on whichever appendage happens to be closest to my mouth".  which isn't so much fun for the owner of the appendage...oh well.  he's still my baby button...corny and schmoopy as that sounds.

mmmm...i have to go to bed.  must be smart and effective tomorrow...

whew.  i survived the day, 8:30 class and all.  my greek prof (who's also my prof for late antiquity), is really young for a classics prof.  like really young.  like he can't be older than his late 30s.  yeah.  i think i'm going to like both of his classes, though.  in late antiquity we were talking about why the roman empire "declined" in the 4th and 5th centuries, and how it's impossible to bring it down to one single cause or reason.  cuz it is.  and my french teacher is chinese.  weird?

i had a lot of homework today.  parsing over forty greek verbs?  not cool, prof. bevan, not cool.  scansion homework for latin?  not cool, prof. cummings.  four chapters of reading?  not cool, philosphy prof (i forgot your name, cuz i was kind of sleep deprived in your class.)  anyway.

i got really cold today.  when i left the house it was nice and sunny, but when i left my first class, it was cloudy and cold and i had to rush from building to building because i didn't have a sweater.  i'm taking a sweater tomorrow.

we met the downstairs neighbors this evening after we got back from dinner (vicki and i both have meal plans so we went to the caf.  ban righ is totally made over like whoa.)  they're nice, and they also have cats, so we can have kitty playdates.  whoo!

so i have another 8:30 tomorrow.  tuesday, wednesday and thursday mornings will not be fun this year...