my presence online might be a little bit sparse over the next week or so. not that i've been around lately, but i guess if you see me online at all between now and next weekend, you have my permission to inflict pain upon me. :(

i have three projects due next week, two of which are some form of oral presentation. the 20 minute one is worrying me a little. the japanese skit shouldn't be too bad. 4 minutes. just have to memorize, that's all. x_x i wrote the script last night for my group and, well, it might be nice and perfect, but it's really long. it's four pages, typed. not double spaced. and that has to be memorized by wednesday? yeah, not happening. it's probably way too long, so we'll cut some stuff.

i was supposed to work tomorrow at 5:00am, but i asked for it off for the sake of my grades. x_x

speaking of "grades", i should really be calling them "marks", shouldn't i? i nearly did, but i've noticed that i'm censoring my dialect on here as much as i can, and it's mostly subconscious. i thoroughly read this article on wikipedia yesterday (i don't care if it's factually disputed or not). it's about canadian english, and there are lots of extra things you can read as well. i found it interesting in the same way i find online tests interesting. they tell you what you already know, and somehow that's just plain cool. and you can't help but tell everyone you know about it. so, yeah. i found the spelling and vocabulary sections particularly interesting. i notice that i use defense more than defence. i'm going to have to break that habit.

finally, a secret santa update. i have all nine people's info, so i finished my secret santa program on my calculator and ran it. let me just say that it's going to be really interesting this year. :D at least i think so. i'll send out everyone's info once i get confirmation on kley's address, and stuff. she still has to reply to me on facebook. x_x

you know what? if someone was going to organize it this year, i'm glad it's me. :D everyone came to me last year for suggestions and they told me who they had, so secret santa wasn't such a secret for me. >_> if i'll end up being the man with the info, might as well organize it, right? :D only sucky thing is i know who has me. :(

one quick question before i end this thing, what was the limit we had last year? o_o i forget. was it $20? $15? $10? @_@ i totally forget. if anyone wants it to be any different than what it was, let me know also.