Il neige! Il neige!

It's SNOWING!

Admittedly it's been claiming it would for the past two weeks, but now it's genuinely snowing and actually settling. The world is turning white and it's rather wonderful.

I hadn't realised quite how long it's been since I updated this (ten days? I lost count...) but I spent the last week melting my brain writing essays. I got them all done and handed in on time (one of them was even early! I don't think I've ever handed an essay in early...) and I got one of them back already! B+ (pretty good, considering I wrote it in about two and a half hours).

Managed to slip on the ice and land on my arse in a puddle yesterday morning, which is always fun. Had to walk all the way back to rez with soaked jeans. Thank god for the radiator!

My room is pretty dim at the moment. The bulb is wearing out and we can't find the RA to get a new one. I'm sure he's around somewhere, but this is a uni and it's Saturday. It's quite possible he's still asleep. I'll hopefully get that sorted today, anyway.

Think I'm getting somewhere with where I'm staying for Xmas. Planning on subletting a friend of a friend's place for a couple of weeks, and then off I go to Montreal to meet up with ma mere et ma soeur!

I have some hairdye now, and we're planning on doing my hair sometime this weekend - my roots look terrible! There really weren't that many decent reds to choose from. They all seem pretty dull and bland, but whatever; I have a colour and soon the blonde will be gone once more. I also got some boots while we were at the mall. They have fluff on them. And good grips etc... They're both pretty and practical, and ever so toasty warm for my toesies.

I keep running out of things to say, so i'm going to go and try to read the Bacchae for classics on Tuesday.

That was unbelievably painful

I just had my Classics final.

Oh. My. God.

That was the most painful exam I have ever had to do. I thought I'd learned quite a bit in that class, but the questions he'd given to us were terrible. They could have been answered in less than a paragraph. Which is all well and good, only an essay is significantly more than a paragraph. My first answer was two pages. Just. I was struggling to get that much down. The second one was a page. One page! I have never written an answer that short, but I wrote everything I could think of that was relevant, and I was struggling to get that much down. In the end I just got up and left.

I hope I haven't failed.

Anyway.

I didn't actually eat lunch today, and I've skipped two of my classes (too busy revising for that damned exam) so I'm kind of hungry, but it suddenly hit me that I hadn't updated this in forever, so here I am now. I'll go eat when I'm finished. I hope there's something good tonight, week one menu tends to be pretty well rubbish.

Went into Lennoxvegas for lunch on Saturday, given that it was brunch and breakfast had been terrible, and we found a little cafe that was fairly dead. It was literally the two of us, the owner and his friend (who is clearly always in there). It was nice though, small menu, nice decor and opera playing (we think it was Italian, it did get discussed). We had a rather nice half hour or so just sitting in there talking with them and eating bagels with (real!) cream cheese. It was a great change from Dewies, and they clearly don't get students in there very often.

I haven't done much of anything, recently. I got my first essay of the month in, my second essay got rescheduled for the same day as my third essay, so I now have three essays in the same week and two on the same day, which I'm really not looking forward to.

I need to dye my hair again - the roots are getting fairly bad again. I don't know how I'm going to accomplish it though, given that I'm in halls with no detachable showerheads, but I suppose I'll work out a way. Or get the hairdye and go to a hairdressers and get them to do it for me. Lazy option, but I don't know. I'm half considering shaving my head, but I think I'd probably regret it if I did, and anyway; I don't think I want to be blonde again, which I would be if I shaved it all off... It's just annoying me and I'm bored of it.

I think I might get another piercing if I can find somewhere nearby that does them. I think a friend of a friend lives in Sherbrooke and will know of somewhere.

Is all this a sign that I'm unbelievably bored and restless at the moment? I think I might take the weekend and go to the mall or something - I need to escape for a while.

This is the month of essays

I have four essays due this month. I dislike this. I made a start on the first one earlier and got halfway through the introduction before realising that while I know what I want to talk about in a general sense, I haven't actually worked out what my thesis is and what I actually want my arguments to conclude. I've emailed my prof though, so hopefully she'll get back to me with some ideas.

This is why I start essays late; because I generally get halfway through my arguments before I realise what I'm actually arguing and can write my thesis statement.

I also have a headache, which isn't helping much. We're sitting in Dewie's drinking coffee and munching, which is more interesting than my room, but I don't have my (epically huge) text book with me to look at the sections I want to talk about. I've made a start at least...

The snow is now gone. It didn't stick around for very long and it's warmed up a little bit (it's not quite so bitterly freezing right now, although it is raining). My little forecast gadget is predicting flurries on Sunday, so we'll see what happens. I want more coffee...

Mmmm. Coffee is good. I think it might actually be helping with the headache... Admittedly the first mug didn't do anything.

I'm so not getting anything done, but there's coffee and company and therefore the situation is a win.

Happy Halloweekend!

I hadn't realised it had been ten days since my last update, so I figure I'm probably overdue.

I have finished my midterms, and just had a panic attack thinking the next essay was due in four days. It isn't. It's not due until Nov 23rd. This is very good news. I did wonder why nobody had mentioned it at all, but now I can be calm and not have to stress about it. To be honest I would be perfectly capable of doing it, but I don't really want that sprung on me that suddenly. The only reason I got thrown was because she was away for a couple of classes and the schedule got shifted. The original syllabus said the 4th, but the sheet she gave us a couple of classes ago says it's the 23rd. Stupid schedule changes scaring me...

Panic over. Breathe.

I do have two essays due that week though, so I'm guessing I'll need to be a little further ahead of schedule than usual. That's perfectly fine. It's far enough away that I don't need to get worked up about it.

We had the first proper snow last night. There's only an inch or so on the ground, but it settled, and that's the main thing. It's not even November yet! Admittedly it gets significantly colder here than it does back home, so it's perfectly reasonable for it to be snowing at the end of October. It's 0 degrees at the moment, but it was about -1 overnight. It's not actually feeling too cold out there, but the wind has dropped from the past couple of days.

Tonight is the final night of the BU Halloweekend. Last night was pretty noisy, but hopefully it will be quieter today. I won't be doing anything even if people are out celebrating again. I'd rather stay inside where it's warm and reasonably quiet.

We watched Jaws on Friday for Film Adaptation class. It's hilarious. It's not in any way scary. It's actually probably the best film we've studied in that class so far. The rest have all been pretty bad (even if they are apparently classics). I think this is the last one we're studying, though, so at least we're doing one good film. I can't believe I've never seen it before.

I think I'll stop writing this and warm up a bit.

I should be taking notes right now

I may be sitting in class playing with the internet...

I am also half paying attention to the prof, but he's not telling us anything new (not just because he's talking Greek myth). This class is only interesting because we're studying mythology. Without that I think I'd be even more bored out of my mind than I already am. He's moved on from the Iliad to Hesiod, which is more about the birth of the gods and stuff, as opposed to Homer which is all about Achilles' anger and the interference of the gods in mortal lives - see? I have learnt something while messing around online!

I'm also really hungry. I've been in class for nearly four hours and I didn't eat that much for lunch. Going to the Lion for steak tonight though! I can't wait. I am getting some serious steak craving right now. Plus it's not Dewie's so it's pretty much guaranteed to be amazing.

Don't think anything particularly exciting has happened this week. I had a midterm in Playwriting. I think I've failed. I did so badly on that thing. I did pretty well on my Canadian Short Story module though, I got a B, which considering she's the toughest marker in the uni, that's pretty damned impressive. I'm rather pleased with myself. Totally failed that midterm though.

Still waiting on the results for the Intro to Lit midterm. I don't think I did too badly, but I'm going slightly crazy what with all the people panicking and feeling the need to rehash everything again and again. It's done and gone. Is there really any point going over it all the time? It's not like we can do anything about it...

That class was pretty good, the other day. We spent half of class watching trailers for different films based on Arthur (Arthuriana, apparently). It was vaguely academic in that we were looking at how the myth is portrayed depending on the social concerns of the time... It was a valid way to spend the lesson, honest.

How did the prof get onto the Big Bang Theory? I think I missed something. Oh right, he's talking about Hesiod explaining 'the beginning'. Well, he says that in the beginning was Chaos. I love that he doesn't need to explain these things. They just are. Don't you love the Greeks? Chaos meaning 'void' rather than, you know, chaos...

I can totally multitask...

I think he's going off on another tangent. Something about voids and yawning.

The Earth is female! See? We didn't just come about because Prometheus stole fire from the gods! We were here first. The Earth came along into Chaos, and then came Eros (love - as in sexual. Nothing romantic about this stuff). The Earth is called 'Ge' (as in Gaia). Eros is male.

Erebus and Night gave birth to day... I think I got lost. It's pretty hard to follow when he starts reading. I think it would make more sense if I read it myself.

Some parthenogenesis (literally 'virgin-birth') - the Earth gave birth to the ocean with no male input. All of these things are anthropomorphic, because they're the Earth and the Heavens 'laying together' - this is primordial incest.

I really don't know what's going on now... I was paying attention and everything. Kronos cut off his father's balls, because Uranus didn't like his children and buried them in the Earth. The balls got thrown into the sea and grew into Aphrodite. This makes basically no sense, but I love it anyway.

I think I'll stop writing this; class is nearly over. Food!

Leaving Lennoxvegas

I finally managed to go on the shopping trip we've been planning for the last month. We had decided to go the weekend it flooded, so that didn't end up happening, what with the road being closed and all. Then the weekend after was Thanksgiving so basically everybody had gone home. We all had a free day and no other plans, so we went yesterday and had an epic day of retail therapy. I finally have a winter coat! It wasn't the most expensive anyway, but there was also 40% off, which is just a bonus, really. I also managed to get some new trainers to replace my old ones that are worn out and got drowned in the flood. I don't know how much they were supposed to be, but the label on the shelf said $80. When I paid for them and some hairbands that were $6, the total only came to about $51 something, so maybe they were half price as well? I'm so not complaining.

I bought a Canadian phone too, so I can actually communicate with people here now! It's so much easier than relying on the internet, what with people not being online etc... I don't think the bus trip to the mall is one I particularly want a repeat of. It takes about 40 minutes to get there and about half an hour back, but it kept making me feel ill. I'm not sure why though.

No plans for today yet, but there isn't really much to do outside of class work. I'm sure I'll come up with something - spend the day in Dewie's or something.

The amalgamated 'Kailee' bought a couple of fish as well (aptly named Jean-Luc Bacardi and Axel Jagermeister) and spent the entire bus ride back trying to work out the names. It seems only right that the fish of Bishop's students should be named after alcohol, really.

I finally got to try real Poutine, yesterday. It's just not the same making your own in Dewie's.

I'm so glad I finally managed to get shopping though, I've had a list of things I needed for a while, but this was the first chance I've had to actually get it all. I even got a haircut, because my fringe was driving me crazy and it really did need doing. How I've missed shopping! I've been going slowly crazy since I got here, though I think part of that might be because I've barely left campus - there's pretty much nothing else to do around here...)

I had my first midterm on Wednesday; it was pretty easy, although my hand isn't any better at coping with a lot of writing than it used to be. I keep having to stop and stretch my fingers to try and stop it hurting. I got the test finished though, and hopefully I didn't do too badly on it.

I just got back from breakfast and now I have no idea what else I was going to write...

Turkey, Turkey

This week has been less exciting than last week. We have had no crazy weather, or random acts of imaginary omnipotent beings. Life has been significantly more boring.

On the plus side, we had turkey. My first Thanksgiving was pretty epic, all things considered. A couple of the girls I have classes with were hosting a Thanksgiving meal and inviting pretty much anyone who was around and wanted free food. It was a lot of fun. We had real cheese (oh how I've missed it) and crackers, and an epic turkey dinner. We sat around drinking and talking, and we watched some episodes of Charlie Brown (particularly the Thanksgiving episode, as intended). We did have the scary and depressing episode aptly named 'Why, Charlie Brown, Why?' in which a random character with too much hair got cancer. We were terrified. What had become of lighthearted cartoons??

It's ok; she got better, And her hair grew back miraculously quickly. All is right with the world.

The wonders of youtube meant we ended up watching some random videos and sang some disney songs, because we'd passed the mellow part of the night at about 8pm and had become slightly insane.

I'm glad I got to do something fun for my first ever Thanksgiving. It sure beat sitting in my room alone and eating at Dewie's...

Other than the epic Thanksgiving, I have little else to talk about this week. I just felt I needed a new entry seeing as it had been a week since I updated this thing. People have started returning to campus now, so I actually have people to talk to again. I'm going to miss the quiet that was a near-empty rez, though.

Film or sleep? Film or sleep? Film or sleep?