since i feel like a ton of bricks has been lifted from my shoulders, i think i should post. i've been too bogged down the past few weeks to really say much. not that there's much to say. plus, i've written a rather large paper for english in the past 24 hours, so a little writing on here is nothing.
speaking of that paper, i'm rather shocked. i should have written it weeks ago. it was my big assignment for english 101, a research paper worth 20% of my final mark. it was due one week ago, in fact, but i chose to hand it in late. in our class you have up to a week to hand it in, but you have to take a 10% penalty off the mark of the paper. well, i took the 10% penalty, and i'm sure it'll hurt. 10% off a paper worth 20% of my final mark equals 2% of my final mark lost (yeah, ouchies). :( now that i think about it, the last paper i handed in was late, but i really couldn't help it last time. this time was more procrastination than anything. procrastination at its finest, really. i waited until last night at 8:00pm to even start. well, that's a lie. i had done most of my research already, collected several articles together, wrote a brief outline, and even several topic sentences for paragraphs. it was mostly a game of "fill-in-the-paragraph" (creatively x_x) and "which source is best?" but in the end it worked out pretty good. it was 1500 words (i've had to write more, but i'm just not used to it in the least) with a maximum of 2000. i wrote 1800, and i didn't even mean to. kind of like what i'm doing now. i meant to make this paragraph about five sentences long, but it's now 19, including this one. i guess that means i should shut up now (20!).
today was the day i found out how to register for next year. it's so different here. i would have totally been registered by now in lethbridge. i checked u of a's bear tracks registration thing and looks like people are registering there too. what's up, macewan? geez! get with it. registration opens on the third at 12:01am. i'll definitely be staying up. i normally stay up past that anyway. i really want to get into the classes i want this year. i was given the registration schedule today, and i already have my fall and winter classes planned. i'm happy to report that we've got second year japanese courses, so i won't have to go to U of A for open studies after all. :D which is good for me, really. cheaper and more convenient. i just hope they'll let me go into it without having to take the first year ones. i'll go see an academic advisor, or something.
lalala, what else about school. oh yeah, my winter semester. you'd think that taking four courses per semester would leave me with a lot of options, but it really hasn't. i'm having a rather difficult time with my winter 2007 semester. most of my required stuff will be done, and my options are rather limited. i'll be taking a japanese and biology course for sure, but if i stick with four courses per semester, what else should i pick? i'm thinking EDIT (education technology or something weird like that) but i think i have my computing requirement (by taking programming at U of L). if that doesn't count, i guess i'll take EDIT. yay, i get to learn how to make a powerpoint presentation. -_- but what else? i could take astronomy of stars and galaxies, but that looks horribly mathematic. i have the high school prereqs, but i need easier courses. :( i could take organic chem, but that'd be a million times harder. or i could not take anything and have a really easy semester. :D three courses… woo! :D i think i might do that.
OKAY ALREADY, enough about school. geez. work! :D my boss retired last week. o_O she's only like… in her early 40s? something like that. i'm so sad! ;_; she was so nice! ;_; best boss there ever was. ;_; right now i'm bossless. x_x i don't know who's taking over. no one does. this is really weird. @_@ PARTY TIME!! >D FOOD FIGHT!! *gets pelted in the head with a flaxseed bagel* x_x
saturday was my zoology field trip to drumheller's royal tyrell museum. americans, click here. it really is one of the top dinosaur museums in the world. i love how they laid everything out by era and period, from pre-cambrian to present day. it was really great. i've only been there once when i was young and could barely remember anything. i filled my camera's 256MB flash card. x_x so many pictures of bones. X_X we went to reptile world (pretty much a small zoo of living reptiles and amphibians ranging from the poisonous dart frog to the black mamba to an alligator (can't remember what kind). @_@ sooo many pictures of them too. X_X i took some videos of them feeding. >_> the alligator wouldn't eat for an audience though, no matter how many times they poked it with a rake. @_@ and two diamondback rattlesnakes faught over a dead mouse, even though they gave them two. O_o gotta love animals.
crap. i need to do my tax stuff. @_@ and i still haven't got my ralphbucks. maybe i should call someone about that? X_X it's probably too late. oh well.
running out of stuff to post about. i could go on and on about maplestory, but i won't. i'll save that for later. it's so speshul that it needs its own post.
i lost the cord that connects my camera to my computer. :( i need to buy one of those connector thingies that connects my memory card to my computer now. suckysucky. i also need to buy next month's bus pass. suckysucky. i wanted to pay mr. visa off, but that'll have to wait until next month. maybe if i get all my stuff paid off by the time my tax return comes (assuming i get one instead of owing, which i seriously doubt) i might be able to use that money on an ipod. :D yayyyyy. :D
oh, you poor people with sites that are down. :( let's all switch to something other than cyberpixels, ok? seriously. enough is enough. i have a nice place i'm going to switch to when i have the time to transfer hundreds of MB of data, along with databases, and such. which… actually could be done this week before thursday. hmmm. nah, i'll procrastinate. i like doing that.
OH NOEZ. i just remembered that i have to do a music assignment that's due in a week. i have to see a concert. of some kind. @_@ and do a report on it. NOOO, why does this always happen to me? ;_;
note to self: blog about anime. lots of anime stuff to blog about. gotta do that in the future sometime. i keep forgetting.
ending this post now. it's long enough, don't you think?
