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Feb 11.04 The atmosphere was electric as reading week was fast approaching. That plus, the fact that the physics test was over and it was Trischuk's last day as our prof was a bad combination to start with. Mix it all together and you get three servings of fun in physics class that doesn't come from the lecture material, or the lame demonstrations. The first was the demonstration camera which happened to be pointed at Trischuk's crotchal area for most of the lecture. Which, in convocation hall, means that it is displayed before one thousand people like an Imax movie. The second event started when I was bored and started watching people in class. I was currently watching a guy who always comes in late. Today, he and a friend were laughing and pointing at some kids a few rows down. Yes, we do that all the time, but at least we make an effort to be discrete. Anyway, I must have blinked because the guy had disappeared and the girl was gone too. Seconds later, I see them up in the first level balcony through a doorway, looking for seats, it seemed. They wandered off. Some time later, my eyes are wandering again when there's a burst of laughter throughout the crowd. Up on one of the side screens, there's a silhouette of a couple getting it on, doggy style. I'm not sure if Trischuk noticed, but I felt sorry for him as I laughed. Through a doorframe I see the guy and the girl I'd been watching run off, also laughing. I guess they'd been planning it the whole time. The third event by comparison was rather tame, involving Trischuk uttering a non-scientific word for a scatalogical substance. Oh well -- the groundhog may have predicted more long weeks of winter, but when UT students see shadow puppets in convocation hall, you know reading week is pretty close. --------------- Feb 10.04 After the morning class, I was, mostly out of politeness, invited to eat lunch with the new chem crew minus the introducer. I struggled to think up a good reason why I couldn't (does studying for today's physics test count?) so I accepted. We walked in the snow to a sushi place where, I can now proudly say, I ordered my first sushi meal, all by myself, with no help from others. It was kind of weird at first but a lot of fun getting to know some new people for a change. We got to the next class late and had to take seats in the very back, but it turned out that they were the best seats in the house, where you can see the whole board and prop your feet up and talk without anyone caring. The physics test felt way too easy for comfort. But even by the time I was writing, I was still buoyed by the break from routine earlier in the day, and the combination of adrenaline and moderate apoxia that had resulted from having to climb four flights of stairs to reach my test room. I'd say overall that went well. --------------- Feb 09.04 Missed chemistry in the morning, so tried to attend the other section's class a few hours later. Except I didn't exactly know where it was. I went to the Northrop Frye building and stupidly climbed three flights of stairs in 30 seconds, then took the elevator down. Except, it took probably 10 minutes to reach the ground floor again. Whilst trapped in the elevator, I started reading the capacity sign, and noticed that someone had even written "SLOW" next to the word elevator. If only I had seen that first. When I found the lecture hall, it was filled with old people. So the whole excursion was a waste of about forty-five minutes, aside from the fact that I learned not to take the elevator in that building. To this day I still don't know if there ever was a chemistry lecture at that space-time location. On a positive note, I got away with using an expired coupon at McDonald's. I'm not sure if they noticed (I didn't even notice until after having made the purchase). End result: free food, happy customer. Watched a weird Spanish movie. It was a whodunit, but more like a whodunitwithwho. --------------- Feb 08.04 Aside from the sudden guilty realization that I hadn't watered my cactus for over a month, nothing was up today. --------------- Feb 07.04 Had the first social contact in a long long time. Watched a crappy movie and had a crappily good time. --------------- Feb 06.04 Drew lots and lots of cladograms in the biology lab. I have to say that was the most boring thing I've ever done in that lab, but it beats chemistry or physics any day. Got free soup outside of Robarts. While it was tasty, it certainly wasn't "hot and hearty" as the people explicitly claimed. And it tasted a little like soap. (Ed.: Or am I just making up that memory because "soup" looks like "soap" in the notes?) Had a disturbing dream involving death and a little girl named Breanna (think the Ring and you've got her). --------------- Feb 05.04 Ed.: "inneapds" "deep impact" "happy anvil" What the hell does this all mean? Someone please tell me. Ed.: Pieced it together finally. See below as if this never happened. Today I sat in on a second-year class for fun, to scout and stalk one of my favourite profs of the year, Andy Dicks. It took me about a half hour to find the classroom, since, stupidly, the numbers inside the building go around and apparently jump to the building beside it without warning. When I finally found the room, I took at seat in the back corner so I wouldn't bother anyone. Plus I was intimidated by all the old second-year people who were probably all in their early twenties. The classroom filled up beyond seating capacity, and I was just enjoying the lecture, taking pictures and audio/video with my camera (actually it was dead quiet so I ended up not taking any stills after the lecture started). Anyway, great fun, am definitely looking forward to chem 247 next year! Later: cut my hair in preparation for reading week. Had a dream where some gigantic meteorites were crashing down into earth, and for some reason, the safe place to go was Minneapolis. But it was relocated in the Northwest. Ed.: Still don't know what "happy anvil" means. --------------- Feb 04.04 blank. --------------- Feb 03.04 Saw a chicken wandering around the Chinese temple on the bus ride to school. For a brief moment I had the sudden wish that I could be that chicken. Then it occurred to me that it was probably going to get killed and eaten. Still. Ate at the St.Mike's cafeteria after class, which was pretty cool. The food wasn't amazing but it was good bang for the buck. Ed.: The above phrase is there because the notes say "chicken" and "buck", and I can't imagine why I would have written 'buck'. What other kinds of chicken are there? It was raining so much I half expected to see someone loading up an ark. It was difficult to cross the road because of the gigantic shin-deep lakes at every street corner, and slush on either side of it. It didn't take very long outside before I was thoroughly soaked and chilled. There was a chemistry test today so I went to my room early to study, and to my surprise I found a few friends. I kicked off my shoes to let them dry out a bit (as well as my socks) and plodded around the dim, moist, and muggy room for the remainder of the day. Ed.: This fateful day started what would become a habit of taking my shoes off every chance I got for the remainder of the school year. It's a refreshing, liberating feeling to lounge around with your shoes off in a public place -- I suggest you all try it sometime. Read God Bless you, Dr. Kevorkian (also Vonnegut) all in one sitting on the way home after the test. It was a short book, and sweet. --------------- Feb 02.04 Had my first lecture taught by a woman today, as it was Cyr's first day as our biology prof, filling the big shoes of Prof. Agrawal. Good thing she wears some pretty hefty boots herself. They kind of resemble those of the horse-riding persuasion. Interesting note: Cyr is a graduate of McGill. Finished reading Slapstick by Vonnegut ... which was good at some points but mostly just outlandish. Dropped by the band and stayed for the two hours just to deliver a message. And to put off studying for tomorrow's chemistry test, possibly. When I got home, I unwrapped my textbook, five months after buying it in late August. In my own defence, I was trying to preserve the "refundable within 7 days of purchase if in original shrinkwrap". --------------- Feb 01.04 Nothing special about today, except that after turning the lights out, without letting my eyes adjust, I figured I was close enough to my bed to flop forward on to it. My esimate was a bit off though, and I ended up winding myself on the edge of the bed and slamming my knees into the floor. Good night. --------------- |