So, change of plans, On account of the fact that it’s going to storm all weekend and the Whacker still isn’t fully put back together, I’m staying home. The new dashboard is now mounted (and looks fuckin’ gorgeous if I do say so myself), and the speaker brackets are installed. I had the neighbourhood shaking [...]

It’s been almost 9 months since my internship has worn thin. My mood started as boredom, transitioned to anger, rapidly towards bitterness, then exasperation, and a few months ago slowly settled on apathy, where it currently remains, fermenting. I received a favourable performance review, not because I’m an exceptional worker, but because I do exactly [...]

The Toronto Blue Jays are 1-2 when I go down to see them. Last Tuesday’s game was a pitcher’s dual with Shaun Marcum throwing a great game for the Blue Jays. As a spectator watching their team lose a game with a final score of 2 to 1 though, the last thing you want is [...]

Life is full of tradeoffs. Over the course of the past couple years/months, I traded the ability to breathe through my nose almost perfectly, a greatly-improved smile, and most of my free time for a practically-guaranteed credit in multivariable calculus, a chance of needing glasses, and my first tooth cavity. Was it worth it? First, [...]

Just a quick note to say that I’m fucking done! I’m 99.9% positive that I’ll pass the MAT235Y exam I wrote this morning. Mmmmm, early bed…

When I’m studying for finals, and I start losing focus over solving question after question, or begin mindlessly flipping through the textbook sections, or constantly make stupid arithmetic errors in my solutions, it’s usually a sign that I’m ready to write the exam. Things ain’t gonna get better. What hurts, and it never fails, is [...]

For the last two-and-a-half months, I’ve felt pretty bad. Finally, whatever was floating around inside me came out last weekend in the form of yellow snot, sneezing, fatigue, and a ringing head; sinusitis. I’ve missed another complete week at work, and I’m on these huge pale-green horse pills that look like they’d glow in the [...]

Have you ever had an unexpected dream about meeting someone you knew of, had seen often, but never spoke to? If so, did they also lucidly say to you in your dream, complete with nervous laughter & concern: “Hey, how are you? I, uhh, can’t believe we haven’t met yet.” Were they really there? It [...]

In the third paragraph of my last post, I said with complete confidence that Russia would take the gold medal and thrash Canada in the quarter-finals. Written off for dead, they instead came out and played one of the best hockey games I’ve ever had the profound experience of witnessing, in terms of utter domination [...]

When you’re doing something demanding, but not really getting an opportunity to flex your muscles and show what you can do, and there is nothing you can do about it, you’re bound to go through some hard patches. Eventually, you realize that this four-walled world of yours is just a temporary thing. Chances will abound [...]