mmmm.,,cheese

I get all my protein from cheese and peanut butter.

I feel a tad weak.

But I am holding strong on the vegetarianism thing.

I have also become friends with people in the chemistry department. It is a very odd experience for me. I had kinda given up hope on ever finding friends in my faculty and was happy to stay friends with one or two people I met randomly, Natalie and her friends, and the non-academic folks I know (as well as having the high school crew as my base) but then I suddenly found myself enjoying some of their company and finding school related conversation interesting.

trouble.

we even joke in chemistry terms ... like "nothing is forbidden in an excited state"

losers. all of us.

anyway, they are all much smarter than the stunningly inept (in academia) people I meet in my economics class. damn. those guys are stupid.

For a school with one of the highest entering GPAs we manage to have a large number of really dense people.

but I am ranting.

We already know how much I think about the fact that I probably should have gone to UofT, but I usually forget it when I think about how much I am doing here. But a teacher today asked me why I didn't go to a harder school and compared UVic to a college. I can only assume it was because he was an economics teacher. Rather, I have to assume it was because he was an economics teacher.

i can't cut dance music

i think i am a vegetarian.

well, a environmentalarian ... I only eat the environment.

no, the idea is that I am saddened by the environmental degradation directly caused by cow, pig, chicken farming. Seriously. It is awful. Actually eating animals. Not such a problem.

Someone throws some venison on my plate and it will be in my belly.

but no more farmed meat. can't possibly justify it any more.

god, I hope someone gives me venison.

Natalie and I want to try Hufu, the human tofu substitute. Well, I do. And I will.

back in the game

okay,

been a while. but these things happen. they sure do.

I have begun to naturally flock to places where people congregate, in a seemingly social manner. It is semi-enjoyable. I remember my old social self. On the other hand, my preoccupation with acedemia is having a noticable effect on my gpa. If I keep this up I might just get into the University of Manitoba.

I really have become a good student but I have also become boring. Part of the boring-ness must necessarily rest on the lack of funds (I chose not to work this semester) but mainly it is from the work ethic.

And all the volunteering. Paige, who I haven't seen in a while, chastised me for my pro bono work but I am enjoying it. Working weekly with learning disabled kids through the Students For Literacy program (and trying to expand the program to focus more on adults), the UVSS, the senate, the Environmental Responsibilty club. I am a joiner. yay.

I am trying to get on a University steering committee to increase the reputation of the university amongst business leaders, high school counselors and others who feel the need to rate universities (note: just checked the Macleans Magazine - UVic is up to #2 in comprehensive universities - take that Guelph and SFU!). Anyway, it is in my best interest to make UVic number 1. Then I get to tell prospective grad schools that I am matriculated from the prestigious University of Victoria. Now, I assume, they still consider it a party school with couch riding surf-kids (which is not too far off the mark). There are a lot of surf-kids here. Lazy bastards.

gotta go study now.

damn surf-kids