Pictures at last!

Enjoy these! I spent time adding captions when I should have been listening at a FESA meeting.

-Laur

Drink the water

This class is so disappointing. I have to say, it's a hard thing to sit in a class that is supposed to be teaching you skills, important geography-teaching skills, and be totally bored and disengaged. It's awful, and kind of pathetic. This class is such a terrible mix of I/S and J/I teachers, people who are only sticking around until December mixed with people who are here for the whole shabang, and I feel like I should march to the registrar and ask for my money back. Grr.
On a happier note, I rejoined the gym last week. I loved working out at the YMCA in Edmonton so I marched into Women's Fitness at Promenade and set myself right back up. I think I'm going to do the "Biggest Loser" fitness challenge in October and November. I'm so much more motivated now than I was, so I think it's going to be a lot easier for me to continue going.
I work until 9:30 tonight at Penningtons, so it's going to be a really long day, but I think I can make it through. With some coffee, for sure.

Picasa Web Album of BC pictures to come.

-Laur

A brief moment

I'm the worst blogger ever, I know. I thought I would have time tonight to write a few thoughts down, but I really don't, so I'm here apologizing instead.
Tomorrow I start at Langstaff S.S. for my practicum. I will definitely blog about that.

-Laur

Steaming cedar chips and the smell of the Pacific

Fantastic. Tremendous. So many adjectives, so little time. My last days out West were spectacular and when I have more time I'll blog about them, but for now I'm settling back into Thornhill life and thinking about school, which is rapidly sneaking up on me. Tomorrow I'm on campus all day acting as a FESA rep for the consecutive program orientation. I made an awesome shirt. More pictures later on.

Welcome back!

-Laur

Sunshine

Today I feel like I've been crawling around in the dark for the last few months, just kind of surviving with what I could find and accomplish in pitch blackness, and suddenly when I came outside this morning I was blinded by the sunlight and warmth on my skin.
Thank goodness Mother Nature has woken up again.

-Laur

Landmark day

Today is the last day of my second last year of university. It's raining, there aren't many people on campus, and this lecture is dragging on and on but I'm content. I'm sick and coughing and sneezing but content.
I'm waiting right now for the last enrolment date I will ever have in my undergrad career. The wait is agonizing yet bittersweet; once I enrol in next year's courses, I will be finished, in a way. There will be nothing left to do but attend those classes, write those papers, complete those exams and walk across the stage at convocation 2009. I am quickly coming to realize that a year is a short amount of time.
Murlene and I were talking on Tuesday, celebrating our last lunch of the year at Blueberry Hill. We came to the conclusion that we have known each other for 8 years. 8 years is a long amount of time. We met in grade 9 and have known each other and remained friends through the years following. I can't boast of many other friends that I have maintained a relationship with for so many years. The ones I have, though, are very dear to me, and even if we aren't as close as we used to be, I still value their friendship immensely.
Last night I got in the Concorde, started the ignition and drove, by myself, to Bryna's house. From there I drove Bryna and I to the bank, and then to Promenade where I performed a fantastically perfect parking job (like my alliteration?) and bought some hot pink luggage at Bentley for my upcoming journey to Alberta. Then, after a leisurely celebratory dessert at Pickle Barrel, I took Bryna home again and pulled into my driveway by myself, triumphant and exhausted.

This is growing up.

-Laur

It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll :D

The Painting Job

This is the slideshow of the paint job our house has been undergoing for the last week. Allan, the man doing the job, took this past weekend off, but he's very efficient and he'll probably be done tomorrow or the next day.

On another note: this morning I went for my G2 (again, I know) and passed. Third time's a charm, apparently. Thank goodness I passed.

If you were wondering about the name of this post, it's the title and chorus of a song by AC/DC that I happen to really like. The first verse and chorus lyrics are:

Ridin' down the highway /Goin' to a show /Stop in all the by-ways/ Playin' rock 'n' roll/ Gettin' robbed/Gettin' stoned/ Gettin' beat up/ Broken boned/ Gettin' had/ Gettin' took/ I tell you folks/ It's harder than it looks/ It's a long way to the top/ If you wanna rock 'n' roll/ It's a long way to the top/ If you wanna rock 'n' roll/ If you think it's easy doin' one night stands/ Try playin' in a rock roll band/ It's a long way to the top/ If you wanna rock 'n' roll

The driving part is why I mentioned it.

-Laur