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Back in the Land of the Living
Posted Apr 20, 2008
Hello all my dear friends!!
I’m sorry to have left you for so long but I’m back now. Things just got a little crazy and I hardly had any time to R&R. We had an exchange student from England, I was writing final essays and doing final exams and any spare time went to watching the Men’s World Curling Championship.
The exchange student was great. He was amiable and we all played a lot of board games which was fun and a good break from all my studying. When he first came we went to see Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Patience.” I absolutely loved it!!! Turns out K hates operas and my Dad and brother both fell asleep!!! Oh well, although I did feel bad as everyone went because I wanted to see it.
It feels good to have all my final exams and final essays done. The hardest exam I had was on late Victorian fiction and it was the one I thought was going to be easiest. My history exam on Frederick II was the one I thought was going to be hardest was easiest! Isn’t that just the way? Open book exams are the work of the devil. I always think they’re going to be easy because you have your books and your notes with you but for some reason it’s much more difficult.
I got an A+ on my essay on Major Barbara and feel ticked pink about that
Canada won the curling championship with Scotland coming second place. The games were great, I wish I’d got to watch more of them. For the most part I just had them on in the background while I was studying.
Today though I’m actually getting to see the game. I was up this morning at 5am to catch the second to last game of the Canadian curling season.
Now that I’m done school I’ll soon be looking for a job but first I’m going to Kelowna on Wednesday. My Dad has to go then to do my Grandma’s taxes and he’s waited for me so I can go with him. I’m both looking forward to and dreading this visit. I’m excited because it means I’ll get to see Aunt M as well as my beloved cousin A (what do you call your Dad’s cousins daughter? Is she a cousin?). On the other hand I’ll be visiting my Mum’s Mum which is difficult as we never get on and to make things more complicated her other granddaughter, my cousin J will be there and she wants to spend time with me. Please everyone keep your fingers crossed that she can be got off the topic of her ex-boyfriend and all the sexy men that go to her school.
On May 6th I’ll be heading off to Disneyland with my family. It should be good, I haven’t been in years and when we used to go I loved it. We’ll see how it all turns out but I think I’ll have fun.
Well that’s all the news from me. It’s good to be back with you all! 
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Bad News
Posted Mar 27, 2008
Right well it started out like a good day. Its definitely gone down hill. I was having a lovely time, blissfully unaware going through school enjoying my day. When I got home my Mum told me that her Mum has breast cancer. Once again I thought it was something that would happen to other peoples families and not my own. I think the worst part of it is that I don’t actually like her Mum and I feel bad about that. She’s hardly ever said anything to me. I guess I just feel bad that I don’t feel bad, and oddly enough I regret not having a better relationship with her. That said I feel bad for my Mum, she’s absolutely devoted to her mother.
The good news is it's fairly early and is likely still operable.
It would all be fine if my Mum hadn’t pointed out that I have an increased risk of breast cancer now. Yep, that definitely shot my day. So now I’ve gone from being rather cheerful to feeling quite mopey. I think I’ll just slouch around the house now.
My love to all of you
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Latest reply: Mar 27, 2008
Nasty Surprise (Part II)
Posted Feb 5, 2008
Will you believe me if I tell you I was rear ended again today? I know it sounds crazy… or maybe like I’m jinxed 
My Dad picked me up from school today and we were on our way home. I was just telling him about my day and we came to an intersection. We were turning right but were stopped to let the traffic go through. As we were stopped there someone hit us from behind!!!! 
Thank goodness I wasn’t driving this time! Still, it was a shock. It felt the same to me as the last time I was hit. This time though the damage was worse. Our back bumper is all scraped up and its cracked and popped out of place. The man that hit us was very sweet, and he was so grateful that we weren’t mad at him! I don’t know how anyone could be when he was so sorry. We all got out of the car and my Dad called the police
We got not just one but two police cars with flashy lights Very exciting. One of them left though and the other one took forever to fill out his little form. I had to give them my divers licence but I’m not really sure why, I suppose just for the record. I wish the police were more chatty. It would make them seem less officious. Perhaps I’m just used to meeting them in an unofficial capacity and so they seem more officious when they’re not joking around.
We stood around outside waiting and it was freezing out!!!
Lots of small talk and not much to do. I was rather ignored but I suppose that was understandable. I sent a text to Jerms but then my cell phone died. It was raining slightly, more misting really. I thought several times about returning to the car to read Sherlock Holmes (I’m reading it for one of my English Classes Is that great or what!?). I would have felt silly though, so I didn’t.
My Mum has booked a physiotherapist appointment for both me and my Dad. I don’t really want to go but I suppose its a good idea. I’ve never gone to a physiotherapist before so I feel rather nervous.
Makes me feel like hiding
I was going to do my history reading for this week but now I don’t think I will. I’m just going to take it easy today
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Nasty Surprise
Posted Jan 23, 2008
I had a nasty shock this morning.
I was driving into school and quite enjoying myself. At about 9:50 I was stopped at a set of traffic lights and happily singing away to my music (Morrissey at the time). All of a sudden there was a bang/crash sort of noise and my head went forward and then slammed back into the headrest I was so surprised it took me a second to realise what had happened. Could have been an alien landing 
or anything as far as I was concerned. I realised that I'd been rear-ended. I didn't know what to do! It was the first time anything like that had ever happened to me.
I saw the other person was getting out of their truck so I got out of my car and we took a look. It really looks like nothing at all. As we were talking a nice man driving past stopped to ask if I needed any help but I just said that no, it was fine. Looking back on it now I would have liked to have thanked him. It was very nice of him to stop but I was feeling too shakey and confused at the time.
I thought I was putting a good face on, but perhaps not. The person that hit me kept asking if I was all right.
I persuaded him to pull off into a nearby parking lot so we could exchange information, which we did. Then he went off to work and I called my dad . Just as I was telling him about it my cell phone ran out of money!! I had to drive to the mall to find a pay phone!!!
By the time I got to school I was ten minutes late for my first class and still feeling rather shakey so I decided to skip it and instead I sat in the hallway outside my next class and enjoyed the sunshine and read a dull English book.
I feel much better now and am relaxing on the couch and watching "Murder Ahoy."
I'm glad it turned out all right. I'm extremely glad it wasn't my fault!!
It's good to be home and not driving a car at the moment
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Latest reply: Jan 23, 2008
Crisis
Posted Jan 4, 2008
I woke up this morning and nothing felt at all unusual. I was sure it was going to be a perfectly normal day. How wrong I was! I feel I've approached a crisis at school. I've been happily cruising along majoring in psychology for the last two and a half years and I've suddenly realised I hate it So far I have taken six psychology courses and I've only really enjoyed one of them. I've just calculated it and realised that I have six more to do. I'm only half done!!
In September of 2006 I thought about changing my major to English I foolishly decided to stick with Psychology
I think I felt like I would be a quitter
I heard about people changing their majors several times but was sure that wasn't for me. Last semester I really started to realise that I didn't like psychology but I felt I'd come so far I didn't want to change now. Almost by accident I took a medieval studies course and loved it and the professor. Now I'm taking one of his history courses
This whole thing really started for me this afternoon at about 11:30. I was sitting in my new psychology class (health psychology, I have no idea why I picked that one) and I slowly started to hate the professor. I think she thought she was being funny but she was driving me crazy
She ranted about people who spelled things wrong and things like that. I think I prefer someone friendly who doesn't maliciously make fun of other peoples accidental errors
So as I say there all I could do was content myself with looking rather irritated, not that it did much to help my mood. She also went over time which is annoying if you have a class right after, which I did.
My next class was the history course I'm taking with my favourite professor
I was sitting there and all of a sudden it hit me that I could take more of his courses if I wasn't doing psychology. I admit the idea had occurred to me before... but I had dismissed it. I was still feeling loyal to psychology
My dad had suggested to me that if I was so interested in medieval studies perhaps I should major in it but my response was "Don't tempt me!!" I think perhaps, for whatever reason, I had suddenly given myself permission to think about it.
As I continued to sit there I suddenly realised that I would be so much happier if I wasn't taking psychology. It wasn't an epiphany... It was more a sudden realisation that if I gave myself permission I could be doing something more fun. I wanted to immediately run out of the room and drop all my psychology courses
Of course I didn't. I don't want to do anything rash, I've got to think about it first
So here I am trying to figure out what on earth to do. Just the thought of doing more psychology courses makes me feel crabby. I stuck it out all last semester thinking to myself that perhaps I was just having a bad semester... but it doesn't seem to me to be getting any better
I think I'm going to go make myself something to eat now. Then I'll look at what I would have to do to major in history. The thing is that right now would be an idea time to switch. We've only had two days of school and those don't really count as it was all only going over the course outline and most people didn't show up because they wanted a longer Christmas vacation
So I could very easily switch classes now. Also my apointment to declare my major isn't until the 16th. There's still time to save myself!!!
Any suggestions would be extremely welcome.
Thanks all for listening. I feel much better for having talked about it
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