All this before 9:30am

Well, this morning as I sat in my completely confusing and mind exploding Economics lecture, I looked up at the wall amidst a mid-frustration stretch (you know the kind...) and saw a little bug just chilling on the wall.  It was cool.  He was just there, soaking in some free information.  Way to go little bug man.

After class, I walked out into the early morning fresh air and looked around.  The sun was shining, the leaves are turning and I literally stopped in my tracks to really appreciate the picturesque view of the red and yellow rolling hills beyond the campus church towers.  It was really breathtaking.  

This thought was immediately interrupted by a white guy, in a yellow polo shirt with the collar popped, calling his blonde girlfriend his "shorty".

it's probably just PMS...

Here's a thing.  

Guys who wear plaid pajama pants to school.  And Adidas shower sandals.  Really?  Not just five minutes to put on some damn jeans?  You couldn't make the effort today, huh?  Not even a little bit...

Here's a thing.

White girls who give dreadlocks a bad name.  Myself included.  What are you trying to prove?  White girl.

Here's a thing.

Coughing in the middle of your professor's sentence.  Right at the most important point.  How about this.  Hold it in?  Hold your damn cough in.  I can't hear what's being said.

Here's a thing.

I can't stand it when people talk to me while I'm trying to learn something in class.  I don't care about the party you went to on the weekend, or how much you don't understand.  Maybe you would understand if you just shut up and listened to the lesson?  

Here's a thing.

Lousy internet connection.

It's probably just PMS...

old man

You know that commercial where the little old lady is walking down the street talking to herself and everyone thinks she's crazy, but as it turns out, she's just having a nice chat on a Bluetooth earpiece?

Well, I just saw that happen in real life.  But with an old man.

"Everything fails on me.  Cameras, printers, photocopiers, god damn scanners..."

It cheered me up to know that he also has difficulties with technology.

the ways not to study:

this is a following list of things that I have been distracted with while studying today:

-perezhilton.com

-the door creaking open and closed because of the draft

-birds flying outside my window

-the sun shining in from my window

-a mirror

-my phone (when there were no text messages or incoming phone calls)

-flickr.com

-a picture of Che Guevara

-saying Che Guevera in the proper pronunciation

-my roommate's pet finch

-cleaning my room

-another mirror

-reorganizing my desk

-laundry

-eating a kit kat, while leaning back in my bed thinking to myself how i do deserve a break

-wondering why that guy from art turned out to be such a creep

-thinking about how happy i am when i look like a homeless orphan

-missing toronto

-plucking my eyebrows

-cleaning the bathroom

-stretching out my sore back

-writing this blog entry

twice in one day?

This is what happened to me today.  Twice.

1.)  A girl I'd never seen before asked me if she'd missed anything important in Political Science.  I hesitated because I didn't quite understand her at first and then I realized she must have meant did she miss anything important in Political Science today.  I said no.  Because she hadn't.

2.)  A girl asked me if I was in Spanish 101 and I said yes.  Then she said she thought I looked familiar.  I've never seen her in my life.  And she lives in the basement apartment in my house.  

I can only think that I should be more aware of my surroundings.  Why else wouldn't I recognize these people who recognize me?

Also, as I was discussing with a fellow student, how I lived off campus because I was too old to live in residence, he said, "Don't worry.  I just turned 19 and my friend is 20."  There was a pause and I said, "I'm 25."  He nearly toppled over, and then hiding his laughter said, "Wow.  Good for you.  Good for you, that's awesome."  It was the highlight of my day.

a few things i've noticed...

1.  This is a town of runners.  No matter what day it is, no matter what time it is, no matter what the weather, there will always be a runner that you almost bump into on your way to anywhere in this town.

2.  I have alot of knots in my hair, according to the nice gentleman in line behind me today that gave me some spare change when I was a few cents short for my purchase.

3.  Guys still ask girls to watch them at practice... and girls still go...

4.  Societies night can be compared to both Halloween or a shopping spree.  People give me free candy while I shop for new friends.

5.  When you forget to eat for the entire day, you can easily eat a whole ready-to-bake pizza to yourself.

you get in trouble for that?

Last night, for the first time since I moved here, I went out.  Two of the greatest things happened:

1.  I met a girl not only from Toronto, but from Queen and Lansdowne, literally a block away from me.  We were so pleased to have found eachother.  We reminisced about Parkdale, Bacchus and Mother India rotis, and how no one seems to understand our sudden urges to cook and eat curry.

2.  We decided to run the new football field.  So we jumped the fence, ran the distance, did a cartwheel and got stopped by security.  Apparently they look down on that sort of thing.  They took our names and student numbers down.  Oops.

a run in with an ex

Ex Professor that is...

On my way home today, I bumped into the Professor of the Irish Gaelic course I just dropped last night.  I told him I dropped the class and he didn't really know what to say about that.  Then I proceeded to inform him that it was because I was taking Spanish and two languages was going to be too tough and that I needed Spanish for a job and hopefully I could take Gaelic again in a year or two.  All the while he was slowly backing away from me, smiling and nodding.  I then hesitated and said  "It has nothing to do with you as a person.  I just wanted to tell you that."  

Awkward meter:  Medium to High.

hello, i'm billy madison.

If you don't know who Billy Madison is, then you probably won't understand the joke.  Billy Madison is a character in a movie who goes back to school in his mid-twenties.  Much like myself.  Except, he starts back in Grade One and I'm starting back in first year University.  

Still, the joke is, just as Billy was the oldest in his classes, so am I (with the exception of a woman taking an interest course).  Now, I'm no stranger to going back to school, in fact I've gone back to school about 3 times already.  I've only finished one of those times.  But I had something else going for me those times... my age.  I was at just the "right" age to go back to school... between 19 and 22.  I was young, carefree, living at home and plenty irresponsible.  

Fast forward to now, when at 25, I've taken a big step and shifted my life back into student mode after almost 4 years of doing not that much with my life.  Admittedly, 25 is still young.  I realize this.  But for first year University students these days, the average age seems to be 18 .  So see, I've fallen off this scale a few years ago.  

So not only have I uprooted my life and moved across the country to a small town with a population of a little over 4000 where I don't know anyone, but I feel that draining self conscious feeling of "I'm so old" whenever I bump into what looks like a 13 year old.  This happens on a daily basis.

But enough of this sob story, because this isn't a sob story.  It's actually quite an amusing situation I've voluntarily placed myself in.  I want to share this social experiment with whoever would enjoy to follow.  

I'll leave off with a few things I've noticed/done/seen/heard/avoided/wanted/etc. from the last week... just to get the ball rolling.

1.  I avoided shaking hands with the president of the school and was given a dirty look by the "Spirit Squad" when I said I was "skipping Frosh Week so I don't need a bracelet, thanks".

2.  I avoided Frosh week like the plague.

3.  I heard some girls complaining about the Freshman 15 as they chugged 1.5L's of Pepsi.

4.  This school is huge on athletics.  You can take gym class for University credit.

5.  I get lost on campus every day.

6.  I've talked to 2 people in my classes.  One girl in Irish Gaelic (which I've dropped), and one woman in Spanish (who is 40 and drives me nuts).

7.  Drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes by yourself every day is not as fun as I make it out to be.

8.  I usually pretend I'm deep into an important text message to avoid eye contact with other students.

9.  Pretty much 90% of the students live in Residence so they all already know eachother.

10.  The jocks are the cool kids and us cool kids are the losers.  Like in 80's teen classics.