Hello all!! So...I registered myself for an information session that the Public Service Commission was having at STU on Tuesday. I got up, went to my class in the morning, came home showered and fixed my hair and makeup and put on the new suit that I bought. I was very excited to find out about some of the possible job opportunities for upcoming graduates. I even took a cab over so that my hair wouldn't get wrecked. I got there early, so I went and double checked what room it was supposed to be in online. At 3:45pm I showed up and there was a sign, and the sign said that, due to illness the info session had been cancelled!! They didn't post it online, which would've helped me, cause I checked it a wack of times throughout the day. I was so pissed off!! Maybe I would like to work for the public service, they can be irresponsible and cancel things on a whim!! But I guess I won't know now!! grr.....stupid public service representative! And by the time I got out of there and got home, I had already missed my bus to work, and had called them and told them I couldn't come in, but would make my hours up on Friday. I figured going to this info thing would be well worth having to work Friday. I have a wack of stuff that I've gotta do too. We used to be able to read at work in between calls, but they cracked down on that and now we're not allowed. We don't have classes on Friday, because the university likes to make up holidays, Chancellors day. Yesterday I conducted an interview and I've gotta transcribe that on Friday before I work. Sam and I went out to lunch yesterday and bought a new microwave. It's a little smaller than our last one, but it has all the same buttons that we like (popcorn, baked potatoe, auto defrost, etc). It's gotten really cold in Fredericton the last week or two. I've been bundling up like crazy. I've been wearing long johns, a pair of thick cotton pants and then my regular jeans or pants. I went to class today and my professor asked how many of us had read an article that she had told us to, not many people raised their hand, when she asked how many hadn't about 3/4 of the class raised their hand. She punished us by making us write a 6 page essay about it for Monday. So I'm in the middle of that now, but wanted to take a break, so I thought I'd post. I got Sue's belated birthday card today! I was very excited to see that it had arrived, she told me awhile ago that she had bought one, didn't have my address, forgot to mail it, etc. So I got it today and she bought me a belated birthday card since she had forgotten for so many days. She had attached $20!! Thanks Sue!! That is totally gonna be my coffee money for this week. Well I better get back to my crim thing...... :(

Hello All!! I have been so unbelievably lazy this weekend (well, in reference to school work). Yesterday I cleaned like crazy and the apartment is looking nice again. I actually did get alittle bit of school work done (about 10 mins ago). I wrote my research guide for my interview. My advanced research methods class, is just a repeat of last term, except this time we are going to do 2 interviews. Half of the class took the first part of research methods with another proff and learned fuck all, so the people who had Professor Clarke last term (I did) just get a refresher in stuff we've already learned. This term we 're just reading a different book. Last term it was "dealing crack", which has a pretty seelf-explanatory title, and this term the book is called "tearoom trade". I haven't read it yet, but I'm pretty sure it's about homosexual acts in public settings. She has us read the most bizarre books. Oh well the dealing crack book was really interesting, maybe this one will be too. Sam gets off at 3pm, I'm gonna meet him, and we're going to go buy a new microwave. I was using the microwave the other day and it shot a bolt of electricity from one side to the other. I didn't know what was going on, so I unplugged it and put it in the garbage. I wasn't messing around with that, it sounded and looked like it was going to blow up. Gotta go make some lunch, write later :)

I had a Birthday Weekend!! Sam did stuff for me the whole weekend long!! On friday I was watching Oprah and she was interviewing the little actress from the movie Akeelah and the Bee. She was impressed with the movie and said that it was a movie everyone should watch. So, I mentioned to Sam that it sounded like a good movie. He rented it for me and we snuggled on the couch and watched it together. It was a nice movie. We were all out of milk and the stores were closed, but I mentioned that I had a really bad craving for a big glass of milk. I intended to buy some milk on Saturday when I went to work, but forgot all about it. He got off work early and came home with a long stem rose for me and a one litre of chocolate milk, just for me!! He's so freaking thoughtful!! Saturday he also brought home 3 six packs of blueberry ale. One for me, one for him, and one for us to share. There are still over 2 six packs left. Sunday he took me out to Smitty's for dinner, we both had steak and bacon wrapped scallops. I also had a coffee and Baileys with whipped cream and a cherry. Then we went to the movie "Freedom writers" with Hilary Swank. We both really enjoyed the movie. It was performed well and had a good story (based on a true story). Then on Monday, my actual birthday. I have classes all day. So I came home at 5pm and he had supper ready for me. We had picked a some stuff up at M&M meats. We had cannelloni and stuffed chicken breasts. It was very good. I got an email from Gill wishing me a happy b-day, a Post from Lisa wishing me a good birthday, Susan called me yesterday, but it was to late to call her back when I got home (10pm), mom wished me well, and Pat even got me a nice card and a little jewellery box from the clair de lune place. This has been one of the best birhtdays yet!! :) With all that happening all weekend, I've been pretty slack about doing my crim theory assignment (due Wednesday). I better go do that now, cause I also work tonight. Have a great day!! :)

I woke up to alot of snow this morning! I checked the cancellations and it turns out that my advanced research methods class was cancelled, my other one (sociology of religion) hasn't been cancelled yet (its from 1:30-2:20pm), but I'm not going even if it isn't cancelled, no one will be there anyway. I am so happy that I don't have to work on Friday's any more, it is really nice. I work tomorrow, but it's a day shift and I'm done by 6pm so I don't mind. I finished my research question last night and I only have to write a short essay thing for my Crim theory class this weekend. I looked on the message board the other day to see when that RCMP thing is ( I think it's in March), but someone took it down. So, I asked the help desk, and the girl gave me a snotty look and told me she didn't know. She was in my adult courts class last year and she always acted really bitchy to me. I don't know why I don't even know her and she doesn't know me, but she had an attitude ever since I met her. Oh well, I don't want to associate with snobby people like her anyway!!:) I'm just gonna relax today and do nothing!! It'll be great. Gizmo and I will cuddle on the couch and watch T.V, that's it...and maybe I'll play some games on the computer while Sam is at work and not glued to it. Oh...I almost forgot. He came home yesterday and asked me if I needed the computer next Saturday, I said 'well, probably some time during the day, why? He then goes on to tell me that he has been invited to a "lamb" party. Get this, a bunch of Warcraft players all bring their computers to someones house, sit around playing, but not really talking to one another. Just in the same room!! He wanted to lug my desk top computer over to someones house, just to play his game!! How freaking stupid of an idea is that? I mean really...the things people come up with these days! His friend has an extra computer he can use I guess, so I'll get the computer for the whole day. Which will be quite the switch. I'm gonna go play a game....write later :)

This week started out well enough. It snowed Sunday evening, so there was about a foot of snow when I woke up on Monday morning. I got up, went to two classes, had my break, went to my third one and came home fro dinner. Luckily Sam had dinner ready for me as soon as I got home (shortly after fivepm). It was snowing out quite a bit and I was not looking forward to walking to school for my night class (7pm-10pm), so I kept checking to see if she had cancelled it. She hadn't and I trudged through the snow to get there. Falling twice, I caught myself with my hand the second time, but it still wasn't pleasant. My school has a thing called "safe wheels" for students who have evening classes. It runs from 9:30pm-11pm. It is always late and you end up waiting for it if your class ends any time around 9pm. I was going to take it home, b/c my class didn't end until 10pm. BUT, my proff decided to have a 2 hour class instead of a 3 hour one, and we were done by 9pm. So, I ended up trudging home as well, although I didn't fall this time. :) Sam's expansion pack for the world of warcraft game came out last night at 12am, so he went to go get one (he had his reserved). He didn't get home until after 2am, he said there was a huge line up. I fell asleep shortly after I heard him come in, but he has a cold and is really congested. So, when he did come to bed he kept waking me up with his ridiculously loud snoring. So, I have one class today, rolled out of bed, seen that she hadn't cancelled it, but I still went back to bed. I have read the chapter and she makes her overhead notes directly from the text. I don't think I'll miss much. I have a friend in the class, who I'm sure she will let me get the notes from her anyway. I work tonight, but I'm not dreading it like I usually do. I always dread going to work, get there and don't mind it to much, and leave feeling fine. I don't know why I always think "oh....I have to work today...ugh..." cause it is never as bad as I anticipate it will be. My supervisors are all really nice, and we just got new leads.I have a a reasearch question due on Friday that I still have four articles to read for. I'll have to finish that on Wednesday, cause I work on Thurday evening. I also have an assignment due next Wednesday for my crim theory class, but it's not to long. This semester doesn't seem to be to bad (so far). I'm going to print those articles off and read them......write later

I have not been feeling very good for the past week. Well....actually I didn't feel good last Thursday, felt worse on Friday, a little better on Saturday and almost better by Sunday. Sam on the other hand started feeling sick on Saturday, worse by Sunday....and by Monday we both didn't feel very good. Tuesday I really didn't feel well and Sam had kept me up all night snoring, so I was very tired. Yesterday we both felt alittle better, and today we feel alittle better than yesterday, but still not 100%. What a week!! I went and photocopied my gender studies book yesterday after supper and got it bound and everything for 16$. To buy it at the bookstore I would have to pay $100 plus tax. I photocopied the 6th edition, and she wanted us to buy the 7th, but the chapters are all titled the same and it's written and published by the same authors and company, so I don't think it'll be a problem. I work tonight, but it's going to be relatively new leads. So, we will be calling people for the first time. It makes it alot easier to sell to people whom the company hasn't bugged the fu*k out of. I don't have to work tomorrow or this weekend, so I'll be able to do all of the assignments that are due next week. I think I have 2 or 3 things due next week.Gizmo and Snowball are doing great!! Snowball isn't scared of Gizmo at all. If Gizmo is sniffing and/or licking her to much she'll pounce at her and scare Gizmo alittle. It's kinda funny. I am so cold. I've got my long johns on, my jeans, two pairs of socks, a t shirt and my big fuzzy white sweater, but I am just freezing. It's really cold in Fredericton today. I turned up the heat, but I think it's partly because I'm not feeling well. I wasn't feeling good on Tuesday, and Sam brought me home some soup and a half a mini pizza. I think I'll go make a cup of tea.....

Well school doesn't seem like it will be to bad this semester. My classes seem to be fairly interesting. My advanced research methods will be alot more work than last semester though. I have 4 classes on Mondays. I have one from 12:30-1:20pm, another from 1:30-2:20pm, a break, another from 3:30-4:50pm and one from 7-10pm. It is my busiest day. My text books shouldn't be to expensive this semester either. I'm going to buy one for 10$ today. My sociology of religion proff ordered the wrong text and now we have to wait for it to come in, if it takes to long she'll just photocopy it for us. I hope it takes to long. I still have yet to find out what the texts are for my two evening classes, but I'm hoping they won't be to much. I've gotta find out how to change my password for the ads forum, I don't remember what it is, so I can't even post to sell my old texts. Anyway gotta run, write later :)

We had a very nice New Years, we went over to Luke and Tina's apartment for awhile and drank. They had invited some other people over as well and it was nice. They don't have cable, so Sam ans I came over to our apartment and watched the last three minutes of 2006 count down. We kissed and toasted some white wine at the stroke of midnight, it was awesome! I had my first class of second semester today. It was an intro to gerontology class. It doesn't sound to difficult. We have to do an interview for this class as well, which is good, now that I own a recorder. Tomorrow I have advanced qualitative research methods and a sociology of religion class. Sam and I went to see the pursuit of happyness on Tuesday. It was great. Will Smith and his son did a phenomenal job. Sam and I also bought some new Valences for the livingroom. We took down the beige curtains that we had up there and the blinds. It looks much nicer. Now we just have to buy a new table cloth for the little table (the current one is light pink and no longer goes with the livingroom). Jackie and I also went to the Giant Tiger in Oromoncto yesterday. I got a snazzy looking brown blazer for 15$. I wore it today in fact. I've been talking to Pat about moving. Apparently our lease "rolls over" every year, whether we actually sign a new one or not. So ours is from September to September. If we want to move in May we need to give our notice at the beginning of February and find a subletter for May-August (we would still be responsible for the rent if they didn't pay or whatever), or get someone who will take over a full year lease from May-May. This might be more trouble than it's worth. There are a bunch of apartments down the street that are month to month leases, so I don't think it would be to hard to get one for September. Well...I'm gonna go make a coffee....write later...:0)