Hey, I went down to that career resource centre today to ask about careers that will be available with a BA, majoring in either Sociology or Criminology, but the hours are from 8:15am-12pm, and 1pm-4:30pm. I got there at 12:20pm so I didn't want to hang out there with nothing to do, so I came home. I'll go down tomorrow after my first class ends at 11:20am, then I'll still have 40minutes to talk to the "counseller" type person. I was just talking to mom and she said that she might bring the puppy up for me this Saturday-Thursday, I have to go ask Pat though, I don't think it would be a problem.Pat enjoys the puppy also. Mom said she was going to make an appointment for Cizmo at the groomers soon and get the guy to put little pink bows in her fir. She bought these bows while she was in New York. I would like my puppy to come and visit. I would have to study, but it is only for my Deviance class, which isn't the toughest class in the world. I hope my social work proff gives us a good review for the exam, she is very unprepared to teach the class. Then I have my deviance class in the afternoon, 2:30pm-3:50pm, but he always lets us go at 3:40, if not earlier. Tomorrow Sam and I are having roast beef for super, I think it will be very good, and we've got all the vege's to go with it. Today for lunch I made a great salad and we had bacon wrapped chicken pieces, which also were very good. Oh and I had some baby carrots, I've decided to eat healthier. I looked up online about acne and eating habits and realized that I don't drink enough water, and probably don't get enough fruits and veges. So I am now committed to drinking more water, less coffee, and more fruits and veges. I already feel good about this new resolution of mine. Anyway I'm going to go get something to eat for supper and work on some stuff......write later....

Hey, I went to see my academic advisor today, she was actually helpful. She's not my real advisor, just filling i for maternity leave. She was very helpful. I told her that I have decided not to become a social worker, and that I was going to take a major in sociology, but professor Clow (my soc teacher last year and this year) had made me rethink that. He is a very angry man, and doesn't sound to happy. He is bitter, yes bitter is a great word to describe him. Anyway she said that I shouldn't allow ine proff to change my mind completely, and then I told her about my second interest , criminology. I told her that I was thinking about leaving university because I didn't know what jobs would be available to me after I graduated. So she told me about a career centre at the alumni building. Why my othere advisor had never told me about this is beyond me, but I think that will be very helpful in deciding what I want to do. I think that I will stay and finish out a degree though, I don't want to be a "drop out", for lack of a better term. I was going to call and tell mom about my new decision, but then I remembered she is in New York, I hope she's having fun, I had a blast when I was there. Tonight I am going to the winter formal thingy, I think that should be pretty fun. Write later......

Hey this week is super stress free compared to last week. I don't have anything due until after xmas, well actually I am rewriting an essay, everyone in my literature class is. I have an appointment with him tomorrow, co it will be due on December 2nd, but it's just a rewrite, so that'll be nothing. He gave most people in the class a C+, but I got a B. So, hopefully if I rewrite it I can bring it up to an A.I already know where I can make some changes, but I think I'll wait and get his ideas first. I went to see Bridget Jones last night with Jackie and Anne, and Annes friend, but I forget her name. Anne will be taking her second semester at a University in Texas that is somehow connected to St. Thomas. My stupid Social Work proff, made us do these presentations, 5 minutes is supoposed to be the limit. There are still a bunch of people who need to do theirs and ones who just didn't show up the days they were supposed to do theirs, and she's lettting them do it over. She's not the brightest woman in the world. She doesn't seem to realize that these people may have missed presenting their newspaper article on Nov7th, and then when they are allowed to do it, because of not showing up, the articles are from november 10th. They just didn't have it done in the first place!!! Stupid Woman!!! There are only 3 classes left, and all we're going to do in them is listen to stupid presentations, and people ramble on for 15minutes, the limit is 5, does she tell them, nope!! This means there will probably be absolutly no exam review, not that there was one for the midterm, but nothing for the final. We are the guinea pig class, this is her first time teaching it and she's going to correct the mistakes she made in this class in her next one. Tomorrow evening Sam, Jackie, Shannon, 2 guys, and myself are going to see great big sea, and it is Jackie's 20 birthday. We are then going out to Dolans, a bar here. On Friday we are going to the Christmas formal, and then out I think. So it's been a nice week. And I only have 3 exams to write. December 8, 9, and 14. Then we're done until January 3rd. Anyway gotta run and go to the mall to buy Sam a pair of pants he had seen for xmas and buy more coffee. write later....

Hey, I am going to kinda rethink the whole not coming back thing. I still don't think a BA is worth it, but I'll reconsider. I'm going to make an appointment with a woman who helped me out at the beginning of the year, she was helpful, my academic advisor is a complete moron, so hopefully I can make an appointment with this other woman, I know which office is hers, so I'll just go to the student affairs office, and point at her door, and say I want to make an appointment with the lady that's in there. Hopefully that will work. I don't know, I'm just not very happy at school anymore. I do pretty well in my classes, but I'm not very happy. Anyway gotta finish my deviance essay, I'm doing it on prostitution in Canada. It's coming along pretty good, but it has to be longer.Write later.

hey, I just had my sociology test, it's worth 25% of our final grade!! This is a full year class. He gave us 10 essay questions on Monday to prepare for today. He picked 2 of the 5 in one section and and 2 of the 5 in the other. We were allowed a piece of paper with some notes on it as a memory aid. He didn't pick any of the ones that I thought he would and had worked hard on, he picked the 4 most unobvious ones for him. He's a Marxist, we all are made very aware of that ALL the time. I prepared th marx and liberal question very well, ya think he asked it, nope!! He's so strange. All he does in class is bad mouth the text book, the authors are liberals, and do half assed lectures, with little blurbs and impressions of star trek characters!! I probably got a B, but with him you never know, he's such a strange marker. But I'm not going to worry about it. I've decided not to come back to St Thomas next year. The only reason that I came here was for their bachelor of social work program, now that I don't want to be a social worker and it's super hard to get into the 3rd and 4th years, I think I'll take a year off or go to Community College in SJ. Cause I have completly lost my ambittion to study this crap. I have come to the realization that a BA is a complete waste of time, and I just keep thinking that every time I'm writing an essay or doing a test. I've already paid my tuition, so I'm going to finish out the year, and I'll still have 2 years of university on my resume, but this isn't what I want anymore. i only have a few more classes left until exams. I'll figure some stuff out over the xmas break. There are lots of things I can do. This is just a waste of money, I'll spend it better elsewhere. Anyway I only have one class left and then I'm going home and napping, I was up until 1am writing essays and doing more of those questions, and writing my the notes that we were allowed. AHH, I can't wait til my nap. Hopefully Elaine will be able to give me a lift home. She actually was driving by this morning while I was walking to school and stopped and drove me the rest of the way. She's a nice lady, she's in my social work class, my deviance class, and my literature class, 3 out of 4. I think I slept funny, ny shoulders are acheing pretty bad, I'll take an advil when I get home, before my glorious NAP!! Woohoo for naps!

My weekend at home was very nice, but went way to fast. The puppy was great. I slepe on this inflatablt pool thingy and put couch cushions on the floor beside it. The puppy slept right next to me on the cushions. It wasn't super comfy though. Hopefully Rich will put up the day bed for me at xmas time. I just looked up my exam schedule, and i have an exam December 8th, 9th, and 10th, and one on the 14th. I think it will be alright though. You not supposed to have more than 1 exam in a 24hour period, but I'll make due, I don't want to stay and write it at the end. I am so stressed, my Sociology proff handed an essay back today, it was from the very beginning of the year, before we were supposed to read anything, and I asked him about it, aboutWhat is your understanding of Atlantic Canda? I wrote it, without doing any reading or research, because I asked him what he wanted, and he said I want to know what you know-or think you know. So I just wrote it on what I thought I knew, we had done some class questions, just to get the ideas out there. I got a C!! A fucking C, on a paper that I thought was pretty good, cause he didn't want any research done. He's nuts!!! Does he understand how wacked out he is. It's an opinion type essay, people should have at least gotten a B!!!Anyway gotta go write my literature essay.....grr...

Hey, Sam did get hired on the spot. He worked all weekend. I had a nice weekend at home, it went by really fast though. I went to the west side medical clinic, I had a bladder infection, so the guy gave me a three day prescription. He asked me about my health plan, and I told him that my dad was a boilermaker and I paid upfront for prescriptions and then got my money back a year later. He laughed and just gave me 3 sample ones. I had to sleep on a blown up thingy for the pool, it was just long enough, but wasn't very comfy. I put some couch cushcions on the floor beside the inflatable thing, in case I rolled over, and the puppy slept right beside me. She's such a great little dog. I have so much to do though, I did get some reading done while I was at home. I have a test on Wuthering heights tomorrow. I found a good summary and analysis of it, I already read it in high school and just need to be reminded of the general things. I have to write a literature essay this week to, I have no idea what I'm going to write it on. I figure something out. Anywhoo gotta get to wrok and read that summary.....

Hey!! I am going to Saint John tonight, my bus leaves at 5:40pm and I arrive insj at 7:40pm I think. Then I am going to the Howard Johnson to meet mom, she's doing something for mary kay. Then I'll have ALL weekend to do nothing, or maybe lots of stuff, who knows? It is great! Sam's job hunt is going well, he's had some interviews already, he went to the regent mall and got interviewed on the spot for one of those kiosk things. Then the hilltop called him and he has an interview there at 2pm.We are going to get going soon, I'm going to go pay the electric bill. Hopefully they hire him on the spot, then he'll have something to do this weekend while I'm gone.Anyway gotta go.....

I got my computer back yesterday. Scott was able to retrieve everything!! Even the stuff I had saved in my documents. He even gave me a windows XP disk professional. That is what was on my computer, but we couldn't find our copy, so he just gave me one. And he didn't charge me anything! I didn't have to pay a dime to have it fixed, well Sam and I gave mom 20$ for gas. She really is a great mom, she had other stuff to do than drive up here and get my computer, but she still came up and got it for me. I'm going home in 3 days! I don't have a bed any longer, so I'll be sleeping on the couch, hopefully Rich will blow up the air mattress for me though, cause the couch is a little short for me. I'm going to take Friday off, and stay home all weekend. Then I have a test on Wuthering Heights on Monday, I hate that stupid book, I'm not reading it again, I just looked up summaries for it and found a really good web page, it has chapter summaries and the analysis' of them. I did get alot of work done on my social wlefare essay last night, I'm going to finish that up today and work on my Deviance one tomorrow. I was so nieve!! I never even thought about prostitutes being in Fredericton, or smaller cities like this, but I looked escorts up in the phone book here and there are 6 different agencies here, all ensure discretion. Anyway I'm going to go make some lunch, mom bought us some food, and I made some home made bread. It really turned out good for my first time. I made this from scratch!! I'm very proud of myself. Anywhoo gotta go do some work before Sam gets home, I don't know where he is, hmm....

Hey! I came home yesterday to find out that Sam had deleted some dll files. These are files you need to run your computer at all. So I callled mom, she told me to call scott, the guy who had built it, and ask him how to fix it. So I did and we tried a couple of things over the phone that he talked me through, then he told me that I would have to bring it in to him to fix. So, I called mom and she drove up and got the computer, she brought Gizmo up for the night. This was why I hadn't given Sam administrative powers, so things like this wouldn't happen. I've told him multiple times to stay out of my computer, but he's always in there "looking around", and this is what happens! He just doesn't listent o me sometimes. Thank god it was fixable. I'm taking his administrative staus away as soon as I get my computer back. I was so freaked out, all there was was a blue screen!! And I had just got home from my social work class, I had gotten my midterm back, I got a B-. And my feet were wet, the water from the street had seeped through my sneakers, and then he tells me this.I was not impressed. At least Scott can fix t in a day and mom is willing to drive it back up to me. Sam went to sj to see his parents. The puppy is at Pat's apartment right now, I didn't want to leave her by herself and Pat likes her.I only have one more class, literature and it's only 50 minutes. I'll ask the lady I know if she could give me a lift home after class, it's all rainy out. I wore my boots today, so my feet aren't wet, just cold. Anyway I'm going to go grab a coffee before class, it starts in a bout 20mins.....

Hey people I had my Deviance midterm today, I think that I did pretty well. Probably a B+, hopefully better though, I just don't want to jinx it. Halloween was fun, Jackie, Sam and I went o a party at one of Jackie's friends houses, well it was a friend of a friend, cause the first friend ended up being sick, so he didn't go, so we showed up at this random persons party. We had fun though. I was the good witch, jackie the wicked one, and Sam the tin man. We all looked very good I thought. There is a picture that one of the Darren, a guy that we know, took, of me with my drink in my hand smiling about something, and eating a chocolate timbit. It was great they had three different boxes of timbits there. I had a whole wack of mini donuts, they were great. I have to start working on some of my essays, my literature one got moved from November 8th to November 15th. Which is helpful for some, but not very much to me, cause I'm coming home for Rememberance day weekend. I'm skipping classes on Friday. One of my proffs I think is considering cancelling the class because he realizes no one is showing up, or at least very few. By the way, thanks for all of the recent comments, it's nice to see, keep it up! Anywhoo I gotta go start working on those essays. Write Later