Winnie-ah!

friedfish

The rules are simple. Just play the game.
You complicate it with your thoughts. You're all over the place.
Just play the game.

Things to look forward to:

• Thanksgiving weekend! I must see you. Let's go to Starbucks.
  
• Jay Chou concert! Dec 18, Toronto!
  
• Cancun with my famjam, Carmen+Bonnie's famjam, and some other famjam from NYC that I will meet. Flight departs on December 24th and I come back on the 30th.

Them: (trying to feed me the last four years of their social life)
Me: (when I could finally get a word in) You sure talk about yourself a lot.
Them: I don't really have anything else to talk about.
Me: You could try listening.
Them: ...Oh. Okay. You go.
Me: ...Nevermind.

There's a certain advantage in knowing so much about others while they hardly know you. There are aspects of myself that I can't explain to others, anyway. I can't make them understand all at once. What am I supposed to do? Show them a video clip of us sprinting to a math test?

The people here are different from people I've been around before, but we get along. They make me laugh. Still, I am looking forward to going home and seeing people who understand me. I miss having people who know me.

I have to wake up and get out of this sluggish mood I've been stuck in. Where's my ambition? What, burnt out at 18? That's ridiculous. This is just the beginning. I need to show 'em what I'm made out of.

friedfish

Unfortunately, I will not be able to come to Waterloo this weekend due to some Windsor guests. I'll push it back to October or November.

I really wish I could be there, though.

I miss you guys.

friedfish

So here I am in London, Perth Hall, 2 North ... the quiet floor. It's been pretty nice. It feels like I've been here for a long time, but then at the same time, it doesn't feel like I've been here very long at all. The only constant thing is that I miss you guys.

But I have a frosh story to tell!

On the last dance of frosh week, we were outside in the field as usual ... and they had these beach volleyballs up in the air. I wandered away from my group for a second (I forget what I was doing), and there was this big (muscular and tall) guy next to me who tried to smash a volleyball.

WELL, he MISSED the volleyball and clubbed me in the head instead with his fist. He landed a shot on my right temple.

It hurt. A lot.

I actually blacked out. Just for a couple seconds, though. And then I fell towards the ground and the guy ran away. Luckily, at this point, my group saw that I was gone and they picked me up off the ground. I was super dizzy and I sat down for about 10 minutes to rest. Things felt okay, so I got up to dance for another 10 minutes, but I totally couldn't handle it. So I was led back to the edge of the field, where I lied down, closed my eyes, and rested.

The embarassing part was when I was being shaken awake by the first aid team, and they checked my pulse/blood pressure/temperature/neck/pupils twice. They told me to go to the hospital but there was no way I was going to be carried out on a stretcher in front of the entire crowd. So I stayed put with some sophs, and one of them was nice enough to carry me back to the res later. Luckily, the bruise was small and I was perfectly fine after 13 hours of sleep.

The day prior to this, we had a carnival in the field too, and I nearly cried because of the ferris wheel. It didn't look so high up on the ground, and I forgot how scared I was of heights. I was dizzy from that, too. So for two days in a row, half the sophs thought I was hammered while I stumbled/was carried back to my res.

So that was frosh week.

Classes started last Thursday and there's been a lot of new material to learn. I made my first balance sheet and statement of earnings yesterday for business class. I like my economics prof and I nearly fell asleep in comp sci yesterday. It's a little strange not seeing any chem/bio.

There's also a lot of walking to do here, which I'm not very used to. Having a car is such a luxury.

People have been nice, and there are a whole bunch of asians on my floor.

The food is so-so, but I've got a rice-cooker.

In any case, I'm going to Toronto this Friday and then to the 'loo for the weekend of the 27th. Montreal will have to wait.

So tempted to nap, but so much to do! Updates later.

friedfish

I passed my G test! No more road tests for me! Well, not until I'm 80.

Sweet.

friedfish

50% off VIA Rail travel!

You must travel by Oct 31 2008, but at least there's a Thanksgiving weekend in there. You have to order with a Visa card, and the 50% is off the regular fare, not student price.

Too bad I got this two hours after I bought my Greyhound ticket for Wednesday. Bummer.

P.S. What's a better alternative to the Swiffer Vac? Something portable and decent enough to vacuum residence carpet floors.