June 30, 2004.

Well another month is over and not a whole lot of change in my life if you dismiss the fact that I am dreadfully old now. I've been off work for quite a few days because of the whole birthday thing, but now I am back and work was actually rather good today. I guess I am just familiar with the whole thing and the time goes by fast and at the end I will get a nice paycheque (Yep, here is uncovered the real source of motivation).

Yesterday I met some prospective UofT students on the bus home from downtown. Apparently they will be commuting the way I did last year... I don't feel so lonely now! Hehe... I just wish I would graduate from the whole commuting thing... I am so tired of it... In fact, I am just feeling sad tonight, so everything seems worse than it is and I should stop complaining before the readership of my blog goes from 2 persons to zero.

In fact, I should be rather happy tonight. I just watched Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights and it was actually really good! I enjoyed watching some serious dancing there... The movie was really fun, so yeah, recommended for anyone who is not totally immune to the lure of dancing.

I have also posted some of my birthday pictures on the Pictures page, so anyone who's interested can check it out... My birthday was good :) My parents insist that Aurelia's present was the best of them all ;). Getting a present in the mail was certainly exciting too! Here's an excerpt:

Spurger(n.) - One who in answer to the question "How are you?" actually tells you.

I don't feel I have much more to say, so I won't say anything. Oh Yasumi Nasai...

June 25, 2004.

I am finally 19! YaY! This was certainly long overdue :) I really like my birthdays! Today I've got woken up by a call from my cousin which was actually rather nice because I haven't heard from her in a long while. She sounds a lot older now (she is 14 now and the last time I saw her she was 8!) and it was nice to be talking to her. I also talked to my grandmother last night who has decided that Patrick is my boyfriend *rolls eyes*. I've also got a really nice call from the neighbours we lived next to in Russia and she told me all the latest news from there.

Then I had my birthday party in the Erindale park that is close to my house. I am personally very satisfied with it even though we didn't do anything that is over top fun or something, but it was all friendly faces and comfortable and nice. I really really really enjoyed it. I actually feel that was one of the best birthday parties for me since my 14th one or so. It was long overdue!

Not only I had lots of fun today, yesterday was a great day too. I went to Scarborough to participate in Patrick's surprise birthday party and that was definitely a hit! I got to meet lots of Patrick's friends from all over and I must say I have to approve his choice of friends ;). His mom was a really nice lady too who was very different than I have imagined especially considering her being a minister and all that! There we mostly talked and played games all night long. I've participated in a round of monopoly and a couple rounds of Clue. It was all very good!

This evening I had my own private birthday celebration at home with my parents, which also went well and in addition I have a full vase of red carnations in my room which look awesome! A great day for me!

I'd like to thank everyone who made this day special for me. Thanks guys!

June 22, 2004.

The forecast for my birthday has been changed to rain! *Screams in frustration*

June 15, 2004.

I hope you check your e-mail people because I have sent out my birthday party invitations and I hope everyone's got them. If you didn't but want to come then just send me a message. I am sure it's just a delivery problem *looks away*. Anyways, now I am kinda excited about having a birthday party because I didn't have a real one since my sixteenth birthday and I am hoping this will go better though I don't know why I would think that... Maybe I should just get everyone drunk and then I won't have to worry about entertaining since then everyone can just entertain themselves with the bottle. Ahhh, that a good idea, but a mean and expensive one, so I guess I'll be looking for other.

I have made a new record as "The longest shift I've ever worked" which was 9.5 hours on Monday. I blame my long shifts on liberals... But at least I get money, so that's the good thing here and I need all the money I can get. Just thinking about paying next year's university bills is giving me a headache. University education should be free... Yeah! But what can I do other than whine about it in the blog? Not much. Hence I whine in the blog.

I visited Apple at her new apartment today. It was a really nice one. She lives there with two other girls and we all had a nice lunch and a chat today. Apparently international students' tuition fee has a 20% increase this year, which is pretty crazy considering their fees are already about 3 times more than ours. OUCH. I am glad I am a Canadian citizen.

I should really get out and do some aerobics or some other sporty activity sometime. I can really use it considering the amounts of food I've been eating up lately and a sad lack of excercise I am getting from sitting either in my chair at home or sitting in an office all day long. So yeah, if there are any volunteers to work out with me, I'll appreciate that. Really.

I suddenly don't feel like saying anything else about anything. So if you want to know something then just MSN me...

June 9, 2004.

Well, as you might have noticed I just made a new web-site design. It's not any better than the previous one, but too bad I am too unartistic and uncreative and downright unskilled to come up with something better today. As long as the text is readable I feel it's all good.

I had my algebra midterm yesterday and I realized that I made the dumbest mistake during the midterm. I solved the question correctly and then I just decided not to believe my solution and change it to something that I came up with out of nowhere. I don't like that. Ah well, at least I liked the multiple choice part of the midterm since it was rather easy. Hopefully I will still get a good mark on it.

I don't really have much to blog about right now, so I guess this is it for today.

June 5, 2004.

Ah, blogging in the middle of the night is always so much more fun. My creative genius must be waking up whenever the logical part of the brain shuts down. Say around midnight or so. I'd say that at least 80% of all the blog entries I have ever written, were written at night before going to bed or before staying up some more :).

I had a really full, fun, and sleepless week. Last week I worked every day from Friday to Monday, which usually results in no real sleep because I can't bring myself to go to bed early and then I have to wake up late. On Tuesday, I went to UofT and had my first algebra quiz which was actually ridiculously easy. All we had to do for that was to solve one simple system of equations. Then 10 minutes after I got home from University I was already leaving to go to Waterloo. Then shrimp-full days in Waterloo followed with late nights up and waking up early to go to classes with Daly. It was really nice despite a certain lack of sleep. I envy Daly his Algebra prof. Mine really really really sucks. But then I was not particularly impressed by his calc prof, so I guess there are good and bad profs everywhere. First night in Waterloo we went to play pool and I actually managed to beat Daly 3 games out 5 and thus win an ice cream from him, which was something we were betting at. I have to say thanks to my lucky charm Angela who made me win just by being around.

Talking about pool, I have to say that my skill gets rather erratic. Sometimes I can make some really good shots and sometimes I miss something very very straightforward. As Angela and Lady Luck both abandoned me I have started to lose at pool to Daly and his friend Lindsey whom we were playing with. Still playing pool was lots of fun and I was doing that up to the point where I had to leave. Another highlight of my stay in Waterloo was the amount of shrimp Daly and I have consumed. It started on Tuesday night by eating up Shrimp Wontons that Daly's mother left him with and then went on to consuming four boxes of shrimp bought in Lawblaws. Shrimp and Ice Cream... Ah heaven.

I have met a few new people on this trip. One of them was Lindsey who seemed like a rather nice girl. Another person was Kirk's girlfriend Jeannine (Kirk being one of Daly's roommates) whom I had a nice chat with while Daly and Kirk were both in their respective classes. I might note we both finished the ice cream Daly bought. YAY to eating ice cream. We have also managed to get up another Daly's friend, Sam, in the middle of the night because neither of us realized that we are knocking on her door at midnight and were totally surprised to find her in pajamas and sleepy. That was done to ensure the correctness of Daly's calc assignment which we were both working on. So bad of us.

I returned home on Thursday using for the first time the Greyhound bus to get home, which was a rather roundabout trip though not as expensive as I have feared. The Greyhound ticket cost me only $13, but unfortunately brought me only to Union station and thus I had to spend an extra hour getting home from TO. Well at least I had a comfy ride, which I admit I pretty much slept through.

So then for the last two days I was back to working and I am rather tired now. We have so many patients these days especially on Saturdays that I am getting rather dead by the end of the day. Today a really cute guy came to do an eye exam with us. I was filling in his chart when I found a funny thing: he had an exactly same birthdate as myself (June 25, 1985). I found it a rather interesting coincidence since so far I have not met anyone with exactly my birthdate. Did I mention he was rather cute? Ah well, Mrs. Wu did not let me do pre-testing on him, so I didn't get to tell him about the coincidence. Dammit :).

I can't believe I am already going to have an algebra midterm next week. I mean I barely feel like I am in school at all. This one course thing works rather well for me because I don't have to spend that much time on it and I will still get an important credit for myself. Actually I should probably be spending more time on the course because I became rather relaxed about it and I should really know better than getting relaxed about algebra since by no accounts it is an easy course. I am planning to devote tomorrow to doing some excercises in preparation for the midterm on Tuesday.

I like my work, but I am starting to get annoyed about all the things it gets in the way of. On Friday, Aurelia was performing (singing) in Lambton house and I was really looking forward to listening to her sing and to seeing all the HH friends again, but I couldn't make it because of work. Instead of letting me off, Mrs. Wu told me to stay and close the place and went home herself. Not only I couldn't leave early but I actually had to leave 15 minutes late because a contact lens patient has shown up and he took his time deciding what he wanted with Wing. The funny thing was that this patient actually called us and left a message on the answering machine before coming. Well, I did not notice the message initially, but I was checking messages already after he came. So I gave him a call on his cellphone to answer the question he asked in the answering machine message at the same time that he was in the next room! Of course I did not know it was him since I can't really put the name and the face together myself. I found it rather funny even though I was deadly tired by the time I was going to home last night.

Wow, this blog entry ended up being rather long. I guess my creative genius has been working full force, but I gotta let it rest now. I also feel I rather jumped subjects, but then I've just been typing away as things were coming in my mind, so I feel it's been a true blogging experience. Well, good night my friends, enemies, and secret stalkers that are reading this. Oh yeah, I've also been meaning to mention that I was reading YoYo's blog that Patrick has so nicely provided a link to and I rather liked his idea of frightening people into commenting on his blog. I could use some commenting action here at least just to know I am not a schitzophrenic with all my friends being just people in my mind. Ok. This is really it for now. Arividerci.