Wow, today was a good day class wise (except for missing the first while two writing a 1 page mini-paper that ended up being 1250 words). The philosophy classes in particulay got me thinking. There are so many papers I'd like to write (you know, if I weren't lazy and unmotivated ( Read more... )

Well, we got phone back the same day I posted last (though it took lots of calling Bell and a repairman coming twice). Turned out another Bell employee had been to the house earlier in the week and done something to the junction box in the basement that resulted in one of our lines wires being broken. It's fixed and looks like we won't owe ( Read more... )

I checked the University of Guelph's homepage today on the off chance that they might have put something up about the Guelph city workers strike (they hadn't) and discovered that the University is closed today due to poor weather conditions! I feel much better about not having done the essay I had due today (though in all fairness, the Prof did ( Read more... )

Got home yesterday to discover the apartment empty and the phone dead... it's a bit of a disconcerting (and annoying) situation to come home to. Still don't know why the phone doesn't work, but Bell's apparently coming today to fix it. Oh, and it seems there's some sort of transit strike going on in Guelph (so it takes forever to get to school) ( Read more... )

My Philosophy of the Mind prof is great; in the first class he spent about half an hour on an example involving poking people with a poker (to generate the mental event of pain), getting more and more flustered as it went on. He almost immediately got embarrassed and apologised for the odd and slightly disturbing example, yet kept finding himself ( Read more... )

Somdays, I really am proud to be Canadian.

Well, after a long and depressing night of watching election coverage (and getting comfortingly sloshed on wine) it looks like we'll have a minority Conservative government. I wouldn't mind this too much if at least the conservatives and NDP combined had enough seats for the NDP to hold a spot of power; unfortunately it no longer looks like this ( Read more... )

I don't get it; I go from loving my classes and wanting to kick myself for not applying to grad school one minute, to not wanting to be here and finding any excuse I can not to do work (hence this post) the next. Apparently I can't even decide on what it is I'm dissatisfiedabout ( Read more... )

It's freezing-raining (is that right?) here in Guelph and the entire paved central walkway has become completely slick with black ice. I'm amazed I haven't seen anyone fall on their asses yet.

I've been tagged twice now, so I guess it's time I do this:

Remembrance Meme:

Think of 5 songs that remind you of someone. Then post the song, band/singer, who it reminds you of and why. It can be any song and any person. Then tag five people.

Garbage - Cup of Coffee & My Ruin - Horrible Pain (Within My Heart)Both of these songs remind me of ( Read more... )