"So of course I miss you, and I miss you bad"

Oh what a set of lyrics to be listening to. It's not my fault...it's a good song! "The Whitest Boy Alive" (thanks Jer).


It's been over a week at Waterloo now. My roommates are starting to notice my 'tendencies'. Hahaha.

eg. How I eat all the time, how I make random sound effects

Things are going well though. I really like my roommates and even though they're friends from first year, I don't think it'll be a problem. I haven't really felt uncomfortable yet.

But maybe that's just because I have no social boundaries. Hahaha.

I am off to the 'Loo January 2nd. 0700 - bright and early.

I'll be living at Mackenzie King Village - message me if you want my personal contact info for Waterloo.

Thursday has a high of 0 degrees Celsius.

Holy crap I'm so excited! This means that the frost on the inside of my windows will melt and I won't have to blindly change lanes and hope that nobody is in my blind shoulder now!

I got a total of 8 credits transferred from Univerity of Calgary to University of Waterloo. How nice that they looked into my courses themselves and figured out the transfers. Poor Misha - he submitted course descriptions for potential transfer for every course he's ever taken at the UC. I feel so lazy...all my work was cut out for me. Maybe it's different for every department? Who knows.

What's weird is that I got 16 courses transferred to Waterloo...but I've only ever taken 11 and I'm currently taking 3. That's still 2 short but hey, I'm not complaining. I have a whole bunch of geography courses as transfers...a lot. Which means less work for me in geography so I'm not complaining.



It's weird. Part of the reason why I wanted to transfer universities was because I was really unhappy at the University of Calgary (don't get me wrong, I also wanted to transfer because they have co-op and a more concentrated program there for planning). But this semester I've been having a lot of fun. Maybe it's because I'm taking less courses so I have more time to myself. Likely it's because I've become friends with some great people this year and I've met some really great people as well.

But I'm still excited. For once I am so excited for the Christmas holidays (ok. I was excited when I went to Hong Kong Christmas 2004 as well) to come up because that means all of my out-of-town friends will be returning, and I'll get to see everybody before I leave.


It will really suck not having a car in Waterloo however. Oh well. I guess I'll get used to it.

It's official. I'm in.


It's weird because I was really excited to go to Waterloo, and I still am. But now there is a sense of melancholy as I know that I'll be leaving everybody in 1.5 months and will not see people for a full year unless they come to visit me in Toronto.


I feel sort of surreal right now...

Sushi night is a comin' this Saturday. Latin Lover said he'll be there. We'll see if he is one of those people who actually keeps to their word, unlike some flakier friends of mine.

As will a large number of Asians. I realized after sending out invitiations just how many Asian friends I really do have. I'll always remember what a shock it was to me in my first year of university just how many Asians there were. This of course was after 12 years of usually being 1 of 4 Asians in my grade.


My uterus hurts like hell. Sometimes I really hate being a female. But then I remember how awkward it would be to run with a penis. I guess it's not more awkward than it is to run with breasts. But since I have mosquito bites I don't really run into that problem of running-with-breasts-awkwardness. It's really just the running part I have a problem with.



South Africa passed legislation to legalize same-sex marriage. As happy as I am that they did that, I can't help but be surprised. South Africa of all places? But the motives are good - to really turn over a new leaf from South African history, the current government wants to make sure that no group is marginalized. Funny how a country with a history as appalling as apartheid would legalize same-sex marriage before a country like the US, which boasts freedom and democracy.


I am alone for 2 weeks as my parents are in Hong Kong...and well, everybody knows that my sister lives in Japan now. It'll be good training for when I leave for Waterloo in January. I was looking at residence costs and my god it's expensive! My dad wants me to take out a student loan because he can afford to subsidize me only a little.

I wonder if it would be cheaper to live off campus...??

75% on my geospatial methods course? Not bad for a midterm I really started studying for (because surfing the internet with the notes open on my screen does not constitute as studying) the morning before the exam.


My procrastination has gotten out of hand this year. I've never been this bad...even in Carroll! What's going on?

I got an email today from Waterloo's Residence and Housing that says:

"Congratulations on your acceptance to study at the University of Waterloo (UW). UW is a great place to live and learn and we look forward to having you join our community...Once again, congratulations on your acceptance to UW! We hope to see you living with us for the Winter 2007 term!"

Does this mean I'm in? I don't know because I haven't received any sort of confirmation email from Waterloo's admission board. That and I have my fun filled 'problem' with the UC registrar where they didn't send my transcript to Waterloo even though I requested it over a month ago. So I put forward another request this past Wednesday but it doesn't make sense that Waterloo would get the transcript THAT fact.

Unless they faxed it or something. I don't know. So I'm really confused as to whether or not I've been accepted.


OY VAY

I need Chad VanGaalen's "Skelliconnections". How could I have not gotten it when it as soon as it came out?!?!




I'm in love. (I'm always in love...that's my problem). Okay. Sleep now. It's 1:41am and I meet with my learner at 9:00am.

So a couple of gal-friends and I got together yesterday to discuss a situation that we all have in common. The lack of a boyfriend, relationship, or male attention in general.

The four of us, we're not so atrociously hideous that we'll turn people into stone and we're fairly bright gals. I don't want to sound high on myself, because really, if I have anything but too high of a self-esteem.

We came to the conclusion last Friday during our Saw 3 outing that we have too strong of personalities. And so Isabel made the group

Hot Chicks with Strong Personalities who Can't Find a BF
http://ucalgary.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2217391103


Go in and prove us wrong. At this rate I'm convinced that all men want are dumb, meek and doting girlfriends who have little personality or opinions. I think I've got more feminist and bias views than the other girls and this is probably in part of me taking that urban gender course right now (yes, they off this stuff in urban studies. It's actually really interesting) and watching friends go through some less than gratifying relationships where they ended up getting their hearts broken because they weren't willing to become Suzy Homemaker.

So...it's open for discussion for guys and gals alike. I'd love to get some male feedback.

So far the only male feedback I have is Paul, the violin teacher from work, who tells me that men do want a girl with a personality. But that I need to put myself out there. Translation - I need to be more flirty and overt. He actually told me that being friendly isn't enough.

I refuse however, to become THAT flirty girl who gets guys solely because she dumbs herself down.


So...go join the discussion and solve our mystery. I'm 19 years old and have never been in a relationship. You tell me what I'm doing wrong.