Back in Montreal; one closing ceremonies and a red-eye flight later...

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Still a bit tired. When I got to Toronto I was zoning out every few seconds. But such are red-eyes-I actually think I'm getting used to them a little.

Anyways, first off BIG WELCOME to those of you who added me (and I added back) at hetalia_sports. Seriously, best discussion ever. (I want that last half's hour of my life back.) I do hope this is the start of a

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[lovelylurker]

Hey! New friend here.

So are you moving or something? :o

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Selling family's house--I live across the country in Quebec while my dad is recovering from a car accident from a few years ago in a retirement home. (He's pretty good now, but even if he were 110% I don't think a 2-floor home w/basement would be good for him and he seems to agree) Essentially vacant house is vacant. XD;

[akillarian]

I'll recommend napping at campus. If I nap at home, I'll likely to just turn off my alarm when it rings and goes straight back to sleep. If I'm at campus, well I'm already there might as well go to class.

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And I should've done that because when I woke up, I had already missed a class! When I was in Ottawa for university, I would do that.

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Actually, I might make a habit of this; I wake up on school days at 7:45am to make sure the youngest son of the family upstairs (I live in a rented basement suite in a house) is either finishing his breakfast or reading or ready and waiting for his bus. Usually after I go right back to bed then wake up again later for my afternoon courses 10x more exhausted so I might try just getting ready after and going to campus and clunking down in the library or something. :)

[lovelylurker]

I always feel so awkward sleeping in the library. It's like everyone is staring at you. oAo

But my undergrad had these marvelous giant overstuffed leather arm chairs and all you'd have to do is push two together and you suddenly had the most comfortable bed on campus (the dorm room mattresses were rock hard).

Good luck selling the house! Moving sucks.

Hard.

[xx_hail]

Allô, stalked friended you from that awesome discussion!

Now I feel a little out of place speaking, as I'm pretty young and have yet to even make any decisions about universities, but I just moved, so I can sympathize.

Good luck selling, really! It went fine for us, we just had to label our boxes and stay on top of our packing. Also, just because you can fit a lot of stuff into one box doesn't mean that's the most efficient way to pack, aha.

I really wish to visit Québec again some day; I just moved out of the only school in town that offered French immersion and now I'm starting to wish I'd somehow stuck with it. What college/university do you happen to attend?

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Ooops, didn't realize I hadn't answered this :(

Thanks! I'm hearing stories that the market's this or that but lately it seems houses are selling fast so hopefully that's a good sign (and I have to hurry before the Bank of Canada raises interest rates 8[ )

You should come! Wonderful place.

I'm in Montreal right now at Concordia University :) (Are you preparing to go to university right now?)

Good luck selling, really! It went fine for us, we just had to label our boxes and stay on top of our packing. Also, just because you can fit a lot of stuff into one box doesn't mean that's the most efficient way to pack, aha.
Lol, yeah, same here. Good thing is we can keep some things around (like some books on the shelves, stuff on computer desks, furniture etc.) but when the house is sold it'll be like "I go skeddaddle across country nao." and pack everything else.

[xx_hail]

It only took our tiny, two-decades-old house in small-town Saskatchewan maybe six weeks to sell, so despite inflation stuff's still selling here.

I'd love to come back to Québec for university, if not go with my crazy ideas and study in Europe. I wouldn't say I'm preparing for university, but I already know I'm on the medical path and I know which electives to take for my next three years of school. I was looking into McGill, the medicine faculty there has a good reputation (as far as I know).

Man, it's tough to keep going back and forth across the country, especially a large one like Canada :( You're got my respect for being able to put up with that!