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Today feels like a Friday. My Wednesdays always feel like Fridays because of the way our schedule is set up, but today feels especially end-of-week-ish because it’s sunny and I’m home early and I don’t have any homework and we’re going out to have a BBQ and see a band tonight. Nice.

The band is Current Swell, who I have never heard of before. But he (they?) seem(s) to sound very Jack Johnson-esque.

Maybe I’ll be able to test out my camera a bit tonight. Better than just taking pictures of myself with the fish-eye setting. VERY FLATTERING.

Two more midterms done. Both went pretty well.

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I think my allergies are over. I did not have any symptoms for the last three days. Woohoo! Maybe I’ll have the same issues next year but at least now I know what to do (DRUGS!!).

I water marbled my nails last night while watching Jaws with Scott. I like the patterns I made but I think the colours are ugmo. I didn’t get to use the colours I wanted because all of my cheapo nail polish has become quite globby. Globular. Glob-tastic. It’s over a year old now, I guess that’s what you get for $2/bottle.

I’ll probably remove it pretty soon. Long weekend coming up so maybe I’ll try again then. Can I thin nail polish? They’re pretty much garbage at this point so I might as well try.

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The other night we were having veggie burgers for dinner (the Costco ones are SOOO GOOD!!, even for non-vegetarians) but around 5:00 PM Scott realized we had no buns. Instead of going back out to buy some, he decided it would be easier to just make them from scratch! I’m not sure I quite follow his logic, but he likes making bread, and they turned out quite nice.

Yesterday was a big day.

1. I found out that I am going to be doing my summer placement at Vancouver General Hospital. VGH was my second choice, so this is pretty good news. It’s not too hard to get there from our house, it has the latest early start, and it’s a big busy hospital where I should get to see a lot of variety. I’m pleased.

2. Almost all of my classmates went out for a sushi lunch after school. We went to Sushi Garden, near Lougheed Mall. I had an Alaska roll, a yam roll, and a tuna roll. The Alaska roll was very delicious (it is apparently their speciality) and the other two were fine, but not great. It was cheap though and overall seemed like a good place. I’ve been told there is another one right near our house, so maybe I will try it out again sometime.

3. Scott and I went to the Aussie pub last night to go watch some footy. It’s the very first round of the season and Melbourne (my team) was playing Brisbane (Scott’s team) so of course we wanted to see the game. Unfortunately my Demons got beat pretty bad.

4. I bought my new camera!! I got the Canon SX260 HS. I haven’t used it too much yet but so far it seems very nice and fast and smart. I am looking forward to using it in the future. Now I need to go somewhere where I want to take a lot of pictures! This probably means leaving the apartment…

Well that’s pretty much all the fun stuff I have to say at the moment. I have A LOT of school work to do this weekend so I’ll just be here at my desk for the majority of today and tomorrow. Bummer.

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I’ve got a few new pictures from our skeleton weekend at Whistler Sliding Centre a few weeks ago. Tink was there for the whole session taking pictures so we all got a few new ones of ourselves from different vantage points than what we can do on our own, which is pretty neat.


This picture shows Maple Leaf start. That’s our coach in the red jacket. You can see the launching board  on the ground that we put our sleds on to get ready to slide (then he pushes us off by our feet). To the right of the picture is a shipping container that we can stand in to keep a little warmer while waiting.


Me carrying my sled over to the launching board and getting myself mentally prepared.

Ready to go, just waiting for the all-clear from the people up in the box. At this point I would just be exhaling deeply to relax my whole upper body.

A nice shot of the Whistler sliding track.

Happy after another skeleton run!

Can’t wait till next year.

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Scott and I went to see the Hunger Games movie last night. I was pretty excited for it but I think I forgot about all the things I really didn’t like about the books. The movie was OK, but not great, in my opinion. I really could not care less about the whole love triangle thing. Some parts were sooo corny! The whole theatre cracked up a few times, like every time the camera was on Gale. Ha. Also they didn’t talk about food enough.

This review basically says all the things I would like to say but better: http://winebibber.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/can-we-talk-about-the-hunger-games-movie-edition/ It even includes a picture of ROCK-PEETA which was pretty much the best part of the whole movie.

And this article was kind of interesting too: http://io9.com/5896475/everything-the-hunger-games-movie-left-out

Today was pretty miserable with allergies, but I’ve had another little breakthrough and am feeling better at the moment. If I walk around pinching my nose with my fingers until I can’t hold any longer it really clears things right up!! Apparently it has something to do with CO2 build up and vasodilation. http://www.normalbreathing.com/art-stuffy-nose-clear.php