The Canadian Christmas

Well, it seems as though I should do something Canadian as I'll be going to New Zealand so soon! (Feb 10!) I've done le ski nordique, and will have to do le tobogganing, and le ski alpain soon. It'll be fantastic and these holdiays have been great so far.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

As stolen from Rabe who stole it from Mare, who stole it from Willis who was is original...

A is for Age: 19. My lab crew has decided that I'm an "innovative kid".
B is for beer of choice: clearly its TNT... or 8K brew... actually Corona
C is for career: N/A
D is for your dog's name: No dog... but I've named the cows we experimented on!
E is for essential item you use everyday: so much soap!
F is for favorite song at the moment: definitely have about 30 favourite songs so will go with Keith Urban "Somebody like you"
G is for favorite game: game eh? Ho-DOWN!
H is for home town: Wazzupinthefortsideyo?
I is for instruments you play: Piano, oboe, guitar, recorder, french horn, and my voice!
J is for favorite juice: orange and lemonaid
K is for whose ass you'd like to kick: my own
L is for last hug?: my MOM!
M is for marriage: Well if I was one of the grad students in my lab i'd have a profile up on some matromonial website... maybe I should look into that.
N is for name of your last ex: oh this is complicated
O is for overnight hospital stays: none I remember
P is for phobias: SO much sadness!
Q is for quotation: "Live to the point of tears" Camus
S is for status: alive?
T is for time you wake up: 7 am weekdays, 7 am weekends I love my life and all the studying that goes along with this blasted exam. eff!
U is for underwear: underwear is so overrated. I don't understand why we don't just all go commando! Off topic, I am wearing Sponge-BOB underwear!
V is for vegetables you love:almost all!
W is for worst habit: i definitely exaggerate about 200 times a day.
X is for x-rays you've had: i've had my extremedies, but then when I was little and sick they made me drink radioactive barium and exrayed my entire digestive tract to check for leaky gut! But I don't have a leaky gut... which is so much good news.
Y is for yummy food you make: i can't cook
Z is for zodiac: Saggitarius... I'm bringing sexy back.

I got lost!

And I lost my way in life, particularly from this dumb blog. But here we go again. As I sit here in beautiful Oliver, BC (!!!!!!) with Hayley encouraging me on I once again find a lack of important things to write about.

Let me at least tell you all what I did today. Hayley and I got up, made some damn good French toast and then went out hiking the Golden Mile Trail just up the mountain of Tinhorn Creek Winery (which is up the mountain from Hayley's orchard). So we started off with probably too much enthusiasm as we decided that "real" hiking is for wimps, and thus decided to free-style some cliffs and rock formations. We went south first and saw some really good views of Osoyoos (and the USA). We then decided to go past this old mill and over the creek and finally began the Golden Mile Trail. It should be noted that the trial was not one mile, but 10km and this was after doing a few hours of freestyling. It was a fantastic trip, and Hayley pulled out all the tour guide (her summer job) info and we both felt intelligent after taking biol 208, that's right Bill Tonn! Both of us had severe attacks of ADD resulting in her chasing various Ents for her 400-Ent class and me trying to take pictures of us looking like we were jumping off of cliffs (inspired by Eric). There were some pretty good ones in the end, thank god for the digital camera.

This morning started off well with a good hour of Organic Chemistry. The MCAT is now LESS THAN 3 WEEKS AWAY. Which is causing me undue stress, and I'm about to go into Beckie-is-stressed mode. But not yet. When it does happen everyone will know.

And now Hayley is back and we're going to do some more slave labour and then go minigolfing down in Osoyoos. I really cannot complain, plus I've got some mean tanlines now! Somehow I can already feel that the lab is going to hurt a lot on Wednesday.

I'm out!

Sitting here, nothing going on. Just thought I'd update because I hadn't in a while. Anything new? To be quite honest, not at all. Same old- not getting enough sleep for various reasons, homework is intense, although I'm enjoying all of my classes except for physics. Laptop boy has a name and a girlfriend, so that's that. Genetics boy, who I'm actually friends with in triathalon club is introverted to the same extent that I am extroverted. Then there are preppy immunology boys #1,2, and 3 but I don't know anything about them yet, except that they are very metro and quite possibly have more hair supplies than I do.

To be quite honest, I'm not this ditzy, nor do my thoughts centre on matters of such little importance. But it is amusing.

I'm a TF for Orientation 2006 and we went to camp last weekend which was teh amazing. haha that's the first time I've ever written teh on purpose. It sould be a fantastic time!

Running makes me high!

I don't think I've felt this way in a long time... at least since Tuesday... wait yesterday! But its great!

I Love Running! and Swimming! and Biking!

AKA. I love triathalon club.

And I'd like to close by thanking my good friends, the endorphins. You make life worth living.

Back again, and back at it.

Christmas break was great! Amoung other things, my family went skiing at Sunshine which was fantastic. Rabe and I found lots and lots of powder by skiing almost out of bounds.

This term my classes are turning out to be hottastic if I do say so myself. Of them, IMIN 200 is apparently the most related to my degree. Wait! It is my degree in a 200 level class. Our prof doesn't understand technology especially microphones, computers, and powerpoints. This has proven to be a slight problem since his lecturing style requires a subtle combination of all three. Physics is my arch-nemesis again and fluids, fields, and radiation, may just cause me to increase the dose on my anti-ulcer medication. (no joke). Genetics 270 is taught by the squeeky-est prof I've ever had. She's really good until her voice suddenly jumps three octaves. Psyco is obviously dumbed down science for soc/anthro students hehe...(I'm not complaining). And then my personal favourite: the "dramatic readings" my Ecology prof does as he tries to imitate an Oxford accent (he's from Boston).

More fun, I've officially joined the Triathalon Club and they are HARDCORE! Its so much fun, and the people are all really nice. But there is the gleam- I've seen it before. Its the x-country hardcore gleam when they think about running all the way to Jasper Ave. and back in 45 minutes (9km?) Mind you its got about 4 massive hills spanning the deep deep river valley. They get the gleam in their eyes, and it goes with the gleam radiating off their tight running pants with the relflective material. And then I show up with sweats. I continue to impress.

On another note, Mare and I have decided to start a Radical political party with an extreme agenda. More on this later. We plan to have a Chancellor and have divided up the ministries what we are more than confident will be an able cabinet. Too much time, not enough to do... wait. I'm supposed to be going on 3 pub crawls and 3 parties tonight (slightly overbooked), but I'm sick and now heading to bed with my Harry Potter.

After I'm done with Harry Potter I plan to read:

• Plague wars. by Mangold
• The man who mistook his wife for a hat. by Oliver Sacks.

What? You're calling me a nerd? Well you said it, not me!

Goodnight!

I know a classy girl.

She studied like crazy for all her exams. She wrote Biology 201: Eukaryotic Cell Biology today. Finishing about 30 minutes early, she took out her "water" bottle and was drunk by the time she handed in the test 20 minutes later.

The amount of stress I've delt with has been completely ridiculous. Hopefully the cycle of drugging myself asleep and awake every day can now stop. I hate relying on chemicals to live my life.

I'm so excited for Christmas!

Keep a watch out for the 22nd. Possibly Rabe and I will pull off something fun ala last year but even better!