AlterFocus365

Day 133: October 11, 2012 

No tutorial this morning. Bused up. SO MUCH FUN. OMG YAY. Also free pancake breakfast after my lab. Health Science midterm. Andddd I don’t thin I went to my night class today actually. Yep. Probably not. 

Day 132: October 10, 2012

Mom decided to save me from the buses today (at least one way) and drove me to school. First day of real SFU fog, and it’s just super pretty. 

Then ventured into the science buildings and found this lovely place to sit and texted Mark a story/studied. 

Then wrote my Arch midterm. yay!

Day 131: October 9, 2012

Car is still not working, so I took the bus to school. My first bus came 20minutes late, and yet I still got to school more than 15 minutes earlier than when google said I would. What.

Had my first Tuesday class, then wrote my first midterm. Which was pretty easy. Afterward I thought of a way better way I could have formatted the essay, but oh well. 

Then I had a four hour long break, so I grabbed me some Timmy’s then hung out in Rotunda for four hours and had a really, ridiculously, productive study session.  

Night class. And then met up with my partner for my assignment and ohmygosh, I think it might be the most frustrating thing ever. But rule to not talk particularly bad about people on here because that’s mean, so I won’t. Then busses home! Yay! Sucks. Gross. Ugh. Busses. I got sort of claustrophobic and didn’t know where the bus I was on was going and got really disoriented and had a tiny bit of a panic attack. Definitely aggravated by stress of not knowing what’s up with my car and midterms. Anyway, ended up having to walk home a good chunk of it, but it was pretty and so didn’t really matter. 

Day 130: October 8, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving!

My Thanksgiving was actually sort of sad and lonely. I woke up and when I was looking for food, I really wanted corn.  So I ended up making a sort of omelet that was like 70% corn, 15% ham, 10% egg, and 5% cheese. Yes. Real food, okay? 

Then I was supposed to go to a darkroom meeting, but I couldn’t get into my car. Which was stressful. The clickers weren’t working and my locks are broken and ugh. 

Then I spent most of the day home alone with the fluffers studying, and mom and Pat eventually got back where they had ten million other things to do and stuff and ugh. (They got new batteries for the clickers and woooo still not working).

Whatever.

Eventually we had a lovely dinner together and watched The Amazing Race and it was okay. 

Day 127: October 5, 2012

Today was another “Let’s get shit done!” days. Finally painted my closet. Then this is also a before picture of my dresser, because I painted that too. I really don’t remember what else I did. 

Hung out with the cat for awhile probably. My gosh, isn’t he just the most adorable?  

Day 126: October 4, 2012

My tutorial this morning was sort of useless, like ten minutes long so I watched convocation for a bit. Then my lab was also super short. Then on my long ass Thursday break I couldn’t get a textbook to continue reading so I just hung out with Aidan for a bit in some obscure corner of the education building until lecture. Did that. Then had the most ridiculous couldn’t-find-food panic problem ever. Ugh. Tim Horton’s debit wasn’t working, so that resulted in multiple lines and moving about until they decided to let people know. Then I went to the food court, which was all closed. So I was going to just sit down for awhile, but I was really really hungry. So I went back to Timmy’s and it was working, and oh, great success. So yeah. Whatever studying I did on break and then class and then home. 

Day 125: October 3, 2012

More productivity! I was going to take the bus to school, but couldn’ decide when to leave and it basically just turned into a massive clusterfuck of confusion before school so I just decided to drive. Had to get gas. I cried. 

No, seriously.

Then class. Then I sat in the basement of the library and read HSCI for like three hours. 

Also it’s convocation right now, which happens in, surprise surprise, Convocation Mall at my school. Which is this big open air concept, so they actually hand out blankets to people when we come to watch and I just think it’s really funny. 
 

Day 123: October 1, 2012

Happy spooky month! I have realized since moving back “home” that I have a serious tea problem.

Besides that, today was ridiculously productive. I got everything on my list done except painting the closet. Including running the cardboard to the dump (which was really busy and it looked like someone had a Christmas tree made out of shingles), doing some much needed banking, studying, returning stuff to Ikea and even more. Winner. 

Day 122: September 30, 2012

Happy last day of September! Also happy third of the way through the 365 to me! (Momentous pictures, eh) That’s actually crazy it’s been a third of a year though. I’d really like to say it’s gone by so fast, but the amount of memories I have created and all the ups and downs make it impossible. It has gone by too fast, but I mean, June feels like it was forever ago. 

I am really happy that I decided to do this though, this way definitely the best summer of my life. I feel like I am in such a completely different place than I was a year ago, and even a little bit since April, and you know what? I like being here better. So I am really looking forward to what the next eight months have to bring. 

In other news, I was supposed to paint my closet so I finished painting the kitchen, the wall beside the kitchen, then a wall in the living room, then the wall beside the washroom, then the majority of the front hall instead. And did some homework and basically everything but paint my closet. So it goes though!  

Day 121: September 29, 2012

So I had a morning where I decided to be less stressed, and for some reason making lists in markers always helps. I just really like writing with whiteboard markers, I guess. So I stole my mom’s whiteboard and then did that. 

Then met up with Aidan at the mall, where we adventured to find some water, and actually made it to the port part of Port Moody. 

So we hung out on the pier and talked for awhile, then walked around the park, then walked along the “seaside” trail and sat on a nice bench for awhile. So pretty out there. And chatted. And then I wouldn’t commit to doing anything, so we just sort of made our way back to the mall, where I forced Aidan to eat and not buy me anything. Then while waiting for his parentals to come find him, we walked around there a bit. 

Ended up going into this Christmas shop that had the most ridiculous merchandise and the stupidest not Christmas related ornaments ever. 

Day 119: September 27, 2012

That is the line-up I get stuck in if I arrive ten minutes later than normal (If I’m lucky, almost as likely I don’t get a spot in that lot and have to pay $10 more and miss out on sleeping in). 

That and then talked to both Alix and dad before class for a bit. Then I was feeling so stressed out that I felt physically sick and it was horrible. 

Then I went to my tutorial where we had a heated debate about the role schools play in societal indoctrination and then one in media bias and effectivity. 

And then we wandered outside for two hours for my lab. And by wandered I mean made 8m transects and then identified and counted the species that lay along that transect. 

But that inspired me to go for a jog on the numerous hiking trails around my school instead of just working out at the gym. So did that. Wayyyyyyy more challenging than I was expecting. Like 25% gradient challenging. Ridiculously beautiful though. Definitely worth it. Exhausting. 

That was an hour or something, then I went and got a gym towel to add to my tiny, pathetic towel and had a shower. 

Then I met up with Aidan for a bit, and by that I mean I disregarded where he was and went to the koi pond in my usual Thursday fashion and he met me there for twenty minutes. 

Then class which was long and Mark was texting me with the clear purpose of being distracting. But I was okay with it. 

Then I went to Subway, and stopped at the gym to get my stuff to take it home and wash it. 

Then, after much walking, found a spot to sit and eat. Internet wasn’t working on my computer, so I watched Dr. Horrible, and then went to my class. Where the sick came back!

My head hurt so bad (I thought eating would fix it) and my stomach hurt and I couldn’t pay attention so I just went home and made tea and chatted with Mark because he makes me feel better and I like him.