It is so frustrating trying to do research on religion!! I told my professor today that I was going to do my final research paper on Evangelical Christians. Well to my surprise, where I know very little about religion, the word Christian means everthing pretty well, roman catholic, right wing christians, protestant, salvation army, and many more that I stopped reading after awhile. I just wanted a simple religion to research, one that would have information that said "this religion believes this." That's it, but the religion is slightly different for each kind I guess, and Christian I might just leave alone and try something else. any suggestions? I also have a wack of other stuff to do over the March break...grr....stupid professors. I'm not doing anything else tonight though. My advanced research methods class is cancelled on Friday, but I still have that religion class. I was thinking of not going, but I think I need to ask her what she wants and how she wants us to do the research paper. It's supposed to snow alittle on Friday, so Mom might wait until Saturday to come get us (Gizmo and I). I am so thankful to be graduating soon. I'm sick and tired of writing research papers and doing presentations and going to class and taking notes....It'll be nice when it's all done. I'm really tired lately too, I don't know why, I go to bed at a decent hour (well by 1am usually), and I roll over and still hit my snooze button. Hmph!! OH!!! Hey Sue, did you want to go out with Mom and I Saturday to a movie? It would be great to see you while I'm in Saint John. Anyway I'm going to make a cup of tea and snuggle on the couch with Gizmo! Write later...

I went into work last night and I was put on 5 different campaigns by the end of the night, two of them I had no training in (well unless you count the 5mins last night). I was on LEC, NLQCB, and VOL!! I always sell LEC, NLQCB is similar, but alittle bit different script, VOL is verizon online and I had never sold it before. I was talking to Jamie and Greg and they were talking about renting a car and going home for March Break. I decided that it sounded good and booked some time off to come to Saint John. This way I get 2 Saturday's in a row off, this one and next! Sorry about the uninteresting content of my posts Sue. :) School is going well, it's alot of information though. OH!! Have you ever heard of "Tearoom" activity?? No?? Neither had I, well tearoom activity is men going to public restrooms (usually in public parks, off highways, etc) and getting blow jobs and sexual favours from other men. There are 4 kinds of men that do this. Trade-who are usually married, middle class men, some with kids, ambisexuals-higher paid men, some married, pay off police, gay-openly homosexual and don't care about being caught and the closet queens-fear stigma and are not very social. I have an online test Monday, which is not good for me. Even though we don't have to go to class (12:30-1:20), I have class from 1:30-2:20, a little break, another class from 3:30-4:50pm and one more from 7-9:50pm. This test will take approximately 2 hours to complete. We have from 12:30pm Monday until 12:30pm Tuesday. Tuesday I have class from 10-11:20am. I am going to be so busy I will hardly have time to write this test!!! AND then I have to study for my crim theory midterm (wednesday)!! I have no idea when I'm going to have time, I work Tuesday ....hphm!! But then I'll get a break, during which I have to research a religion for my soc of religion class. Jackie called me this afternoon and she invited me to accompany her to Waltmart. We hadn't seen each other in awhile, it was nice to hang out. :) There was a demonstration at Walmart of the Sharpest Knife ever. Jackie and I watched the demonstration. the woman cut through a tomato, bread, the stell head of a hammer, wood, and then sliced a tomato again to show that the hammer steel hadn't dulled the blade. If you bought one from her tonight you got two knives, a paring knife, scissors, two juicer things, and another knife for $28.95, Jackie and I went halfers and each got a couple things for $15. WellI'm going to go make something to eat....write later...:)

Hello All! I worked last night, and it turned out that there is no script at all for the new MTS campaign. AND my supervisor put me in the bundke campaign to sell tv and internet bundles together, my first night!! When I was trained a week before (briefly) they told me I would be selling TV services. Which is alot easier, because the people generally already have phone and internet services and can get a discount. A nice selling perk. With the bundle plan there are no perks. Luckily I sat down next to a woman about my age, and she seen had been selling MTS for a couple of months. She seen that I was ridiculously confused and asked her supervisor (Chris-met him during my training-he was nice) if I could buddy jack with her. So, I got to actually listen to her make calls for an hour. I also asked him if I could sell LEC for awhile, and he let me, so I got a break from MTS. I went back into it for the last half an hour, which wasn't bad. I'm not looking forward to work on Saturday, except we'll get $15 for showing up, which will be nice. Tonight I'm going to finish my CRIM theory II assignment. It shouldn't take long I already worked on it awhile. I'm gonna go make something to eat...:)

Tuesday, February 13th, was Sam and mine 6th anniversary. Holy cow, 6 years together!! It was great!! I had class in the morning, it was a review for our midterm today (which got postponed until Tuesday b/c the university is closed until 12pm b/c of the snow). I came home and got Sam out of bed. He took a shower and got dressed and I offered to treat us to a late breakfast. We went to Mikes, but they had finished serving breakfast by the time we had arrived, so we finished our coffee (which Sams boss gave us free for our anniversary) and went over to the Hilltop (they serve breakfast until 4pm). We came home and had some coffees and Kamora and just hung out for awhile, which was nice, cause we hardly ever just hang out anymore. Later on we took a cab to Swiss Chalet and Sam treated us to dinner. From there we went to the regent mall, we had won something from the red cross lottery (we bought tickets a long time ago). Turned out we had won a nice pair of binoculars. We were going to see a movie, but the line was really long when we got there, so we decided to go over to Chapters and look at the books and stop at Star Bucks. We both got caramel macchiatto's. I love those things. Then we went down to Walmart, so I could pick the dog up some food. We got home alittle after 8pm and decided to get a movie at Blockbuster. We got the movie "Man about Town", it was a comedy with Ben Affleck. We enjoyed that. Wednesday he had to work all day, but that's o.k cause we had already celebrated. He came home and surprised me with a funny card and a long stem red rose!! I hadn't expected anything, cause Valentines day isn't as important as the day before. I work tonight, but I'm on a brand new campaign. They switched me on last Thursday. I will now be selling cable, and internet to people in Canada. For the company MTS. My supervisor said she wanted to give me a shot at this campaign, b/c there are tons of incentives. On Saturday, if I go in and work my whole shift, I'll get an extra $15! For every sale that you make in the campaign, you make $5-$10. Then there are money prizes for top sales in the cable, internet, and combo divisions. I'll still call on LEC until 6pm. I buddy jacked with someone on Thursday. Canadians are alot more polite than people from the States. Although the guy said it was frustrating some times. In the states they just hang up on you, but in Canada they listen to your whole script, tell you they are not interested and hang up. I think I'll take the puppy out for a walk, it's not snowing or raining right now and the temperature is pretty good. Gotta go....write later....:)

I've been feeling a little bit better recently, yesterday and today. I'm still stuffed up alittle, but not half as bad as I was last week. I've been taking some flu medicine and it seems to be helping out alot. I have class later on this morning. It's a gerontology class, so we had an assignment to write about a day in our life at the age of 70 and all the things that would have contributed to that day. It was a difficult thing to do. I don't even know what I'm going to be doing next year, let alone when I'm 70!! It's done and I think I did what she wanted. I had something due yesterday on my religion class, and I have my interview due tomorrow. I work tonight, but I don't have to work this Saturday, so I have all weekend to work on stuff. I hope Sam works a long shift on Saturday so that I can actually use the computer. Although he is pretty good about letting me have it when it's for school. He gets up early in the morning to play it too. He stays up and plays it right until 1am and then is out here first thing in the morning!!Gizmo and teh bunny are getting along well enough. Gizmo is alittle jealous when I go over and pat the bunny, she whines and snorks!! She's such a funny little dog. Well I'm going to go get ready for class....:)

I wen to work yesterday and was feeling like crap, but I can't afford to take two shifts off, and I had planned to go in today to make up my hours for Tuesday's shift. For my advanced research methods class, we have to conduct an interview AND record it, so that we can transcribe the thing Verbatim. So I conducted my interview on Tuesday since that thing was cancelled. I got half way throught the transcription process on yesterday before work. This afternoon I sat down to finish it and for whatever ridiculous reason the thing had no volume and I couldn' hear anything. The tape was playing, but something happened to the volume. So I went and tried to record something new, on a new tape, and it would no longer record, I changed the batteries twice, and then I cried. I was so upset. I was half way done, only need the stupid recorder for one more interview, and then it's useless to me. I called Jackie to see if she had a little tape recorder that I could borrow, just to finish my transcription. She didn't, but offeredto walk to Walmart with me to see if we could get a new one for a decent price. We went over and the cheapest one was $40! It works awesome and the sound is great, but I'll never use it again after this second interview. What a huge waste of cash, although I might just return the thing after I'm done my second interview, Walmart will take anything back, I've got the receipt. I got done and my interview is 21 pages. I'm do stuffed up and congested. I also have to write two more papers tomorrow and Sunday, oh...no wait....more than that cause I've got stuff to do for my developmental issues class. I'm going to go make myself a cup of neo citron and snuggle with the puppy..Write later
P.S: are you doing anything exciting for your birthday mom? :)