February 23, 2004.

Well, the first day back after the reading week was seriously tiring. I got to school half asleep and didn't seem to wake up for my midterm either considering the stupidest things I spent all my time on. Ah well, it's done and over with.

Today actually is two dates at once... One is my 3 year and 2 months anniversary with Daly, of which I haven't forgotten and congratulated him for surviving my reign for so long this morning. The other is a sort of celebrated "men's day" in Russia. Officially, it's a day to honor the soldiers and such, but really it became a day when women give presents to men, whereas March 8th (International Women Day) is has a reversed custom to it. I think this year my parents actually forgot about the day and no one brought it up, though usually mom and I make dad a present. I remembered this morning, but on the way back was way too dead to come up with anything, so I just let it slide... Ah well

I did find something that makes me feel better after a long day... I took a long hot shower after I got home and then drank a cup of hot chocolate and that totally took the stress away. Most of the remaining time, I spent finishing up the novel I started yesterday: The Vor Game by Louis McMaster Bujold. Like the rest of her books I have read so far, this one is excellent. It is one of those books that are just impossible to stop reading... I totally loved it. It's a sci-fi with excellent characters and lots of political intrigues, but what I love the most is the use of irony throughout the novel... It's subtle, but not so subtle at the same time, irony within irony... I don't even have words for it, it just puts me into sheer rapture... Basically, I recommend... Not necessarily this book, which is sort of a middle of the series though self-contained. But actually I am pretty sure that with any book by Bujold you can't go wrong. Read it! I am going to sleep though... So long!

February 22, 2004.

These last days of the reading week are not bad at all I realize. I managed to do quite a bit of work today and yesterday and hopefully will finish a good chunk of the remaining work tomorrow, so that the week will become bearable.

On Friday, I have discovered that The Spark has placed a new test online: OkCupid that is something like one of those matchmaking tests, but at the end it gives you your personality type, which I found often not all that far off from I would expect it to be. My type was "The Maid of Honor" and there's how they describe me:

Appreciated for your kindness and envied for all your experience, you are The Maid of Honor.

To be honest I might notice that I am probably not considered the "perfect catch" by most people and so far has not found myself followed by a horde of lovers in quest of my heart, but I have to say that the last paragraph unfortunately pinpointed me. Indecision is something I have with a lot to spare... The examples of it are countless and I am pretty sure that anyone who knows me can come up with some themselves.

Another interesting thing was to get some of my friends to take the test and so I found that Ainsley is a Sonnet (Deliberate Gentle Love Dreamer) and Patrick is a Slow Dancer (Deliberate Gentle Love Dreamer) and according to this thing they are compatible. So yay for them since I found their descriptions fairly true too.

I was surprised to see that both Victor and Nelson were the Backrubbers (Deliberate Gentle Sex Dreamers) description for which did not seem to match my idea of either of them. Well, I am not believing this test too much, but discovering things like that is fun :)

Another funny thing was that Daly came out as the False Messiah (Deliberate Brutal Love Master) and my profile said that I should avoid that kind at all cost. Well, that's not gonna happen! Other people I know who took the test are Mike who is the Slow Dancer and Julius who is the Mixed Messenger. Hehe, this test does come out with some interesting things.

February 19, 2004.

Well, my great adventures in Ottawa are over and I am back to good old 'sauga. I am feeling kinda sad now that the whole thing is over and I am pretty sure nothing interesting is going to happen till the end of the reading week now. Probably for good since I need to make a lot of psychology notes in the next couple of days. Well, it's been only about 12 hours since I left Ottawa, but I already miss Daly... :(

Nothing much is happening at home, so I found everything unchanged when I came back. Doing something unusual for the reading week was nice, but now it's back to the routine. Well, the nice part is that I am back to having all my meals cooked for me. I am a failure at cooking I might add and it really bothers me that someday I must do all the cooking by myself... I better get a high paying job and eat out all the time... I found I rarely want to bother cooking... and housekeeping is not much better. Well, one more career option discarded.

I just realized I have nothing much to say... just feeling kinda down tonight... maybe I should get some rest... Good night.

February 17, 2004.

Great things happen when you are stuck in Ottawa with nothing to do during the day! For example, the fact that I actually got to changing this site's design... For better or for worse... Also, I actually managed to study for all three midterms I am going to have next week. Of course I am far from done studying and don't know half the stuff I should, but this is definitely a progress.

I've been in Ottawa for the last four days and I like it pretty well here. On Valentine's day, Daly and I visited the Parlament buildings that were having an open house back then and it was pretty cool. Too bad I didn't meet any politicians, I could tell them what I think about them (not much). Then we had a quiet selebration for St. Valentine's back at Daly's place.

On Sunday we went to a restaurant for lunch and then later at night we created a drinking game based on Trivial Pursuit. Didn't know that Trivial Pursuit can be a drinking game? Well, it can... It's a pretty good one too... Lots of fun :)

Not a whole lot happened afterwards since Daly has to work most of the day and I just stay home, but we still have time together in the evening. I am not quite sure when exactly I am coming back, but it's probably gonna be in the next two days. Back to good old 'sauga... I am gonna miss Daly there though.

Well, this is about it... Don't forget me over the reading week, ppl... Au revoir.

February 9, 2004.

Phew, my CS assignment is finally done. Now, that was a big pain in the ass to do this whole card simulation! I spend the whole weekend figuring out how to do all sort of stuff and rewriting the code over and over until my program at least resembles something neat. Well, considering that apparently half the people in the class won't even finish the assignment I can hope for a decent mark. *fingers crossed*.

This week is pretty tiring for me. First it was this assignment and now I also have math problem set and CSC 165 assignment due on Thursday as well. I am too tired to them right now, I guess I'll have to try to get as much done as possible tomorrow.

The reading week is almost here though. It's gonna be just great! I am leaving on friday and going to Ottawa to spend most of the week with Daly there. It's just in time too! St. Valentine's is on 14th and I am gonna spend it with Daly. Triple YAY.

February 3, 2004.

I am feeling so sleepy right now, but I haven't written for awhile, so I guess I'll add another entry. Damned commuting that makes me wake up at seven just to get in time for 10 o'clock classes. Grrr.

Well, Daly left last Tuesday and now he is working for Bell. It sucks not being able to see him more often, but we talk on the phone on MSN and that already makes it better. I am planning a trip to Ottawa during the reading week and I've already got my ISIC card to receive a discount on a Greyhound bus.

I also found myself a tutoring job. I found a post on the cdf.general newsgroup that someone named Sarah is looking for a CSC108 tutor and I figured I could do that kind of job for sure. I won't earn much through that job, but it feels nice to have some income instead of spending and spending and spending OSAP money... Now I am going to be tutoring her once a week and that should be easy enough for me and she seems to get things quickly enough, so it's all good.

I went for my dentist appointment yesterday just to find out that they charged me over $600 just for one filling and a cleaning. What a rip off!! The doctor took $100 for just "examining pain" which he did very little of... The school insurance doesn't cover everything either, so I had to pay around $160 of the difference, which didn't make me very very happy. Now I am going to be trying to find another dentist who won't charge quite so much money for things like that.

I am getting very annoyed at "long-distance" everything... My relationship is long-distance, my school is commuting, I am not able to get out anywhere in the evenings because there is no way to get back home late. It gets pretty frustrating. I had to miss the whole get together at Patrick's house because of that and I was looking forward to it. Oh yeah, all my friends are long-distance too! I mean I can't even call some of them without a long distance charge. If it wasn't for internet I would prolly hate my life. That's why I gotta win those $32million from Super 7 this week. I'd get a big house downtown (Hmm, wonder if they'd sell HH to me?) and the get myself and all my commuter friends to live there. It would be the best thing ever!

Yeah, wishful thinking. Dreams... Well, maybe I should have a dream about that tonight... In any case, my fingers are slipping of the keyboard. Good night.