I have yet to succeed in telling my parents that I'm taking a year off, and I have a sense of impending doom about it. I came back from this awesome camping trip today to find that the shit hath hitteth the fan, as they say. *sigh* I had eight new voicemails when I re-entered the rogers service area, and each one was pretty much the polar opposite ( Read more... )

Anybody want to go to Dancing with the Stars with me tonight? I probably should have thought of this earlier ( Read more... )

I went out to the acreage this morning to take some pictures with the new lens. It's quite an adjustment to have to stabilize the camera sooooo completely in order to get a sharp picture, but I'm pleased to discover that it is possible! These are all taken at 500mm. I was noodling with settings and didn't have very much time, so none of the ( Read more... )

Okay, I got a lens! There's a 7 day return period so after I take it out and shoot with it I can change my mind but I think I'll be happy with my choice ( Read more... )

Y'all should check out my talented friend Kelly's film at: http://www.cbc.ca/exposure/node/827 and then vote for it ( Read more... )

... shaved someone else's armpits. This is a deceptively difficult task, especially when the target is less than agreeable to the whole process ( Read more... )

Extraction of wisdom teeth went alright. True to my nature, I fainted (briefly) afterwards, and then nearly fainted several times again throughout the rest of the day, whenever I tried to stand up for more than a minute or so ( Read more... )

The upside to waking up stupidly early to finish studying for an exam is that you get to see the sunrise. :)

Two finals down, two to go. Today's final was hard, and I don't think I did too well. I think I actually knew the material pretty well, but wrote badly. I just... didn't care. I'm so ready to be done this semester. So, so ready ( Read more... )

Remind me again how I got stuck doing the hydrogeology part of our EIA project? I've taken neither hydrology nor geology, and I'm royally screwed. Crap.