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.