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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Its been a while! Quite a while….

Life has been pretty busy lately. For those of you who aren’t aware (I don’t know why you wouldn’t be, but I’ll continue anyway) I am currently enrolled in the Web Development program (well technically now its called Internet Applications and Web Development because they decided to change it for some reason) at Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario.

Yes, its quite a ways away from home, but as I’m sure most of you are aware, I was born in Ontario and lived in Ontario until I was 13. This is the longest I’ve been in the province since then. But, I had never been to Oshawa before, in my life so it was still a new experience for me. And driving in Ontario has been quite the experience too, since I learned to drive in the middle of nowhere in Northern Alberta, and got my driver’s license in less of nowhere in Southern Alberta.

With that said, I’m enjoying myself. For the most part. I’ve made a few friends. I’m not the best at making friends since I tend to be slightly anti-social at times, but I have met a few people that I really like.

Roommates

These people include my roommate. She’s pretty cool! I have to say she’s the best roommate I’ve ever had.

I liked the first roommates I had (Leandra, Dana and Eden) at Lethbridge College, but I didn’t stay with them. It was nothing personal against them, but an opening came up in the two bedroom suite, which was my first choice in residence so I took it, thinking it would be good for me with homewokr and such. I was correct, in that sense but the roommate situation, not so much. My roommate Katelyn was nice… as far as I could tell. She was always locked inside her bedroom and I rarely ever saw her. She hung out with me and my friend Cara once or twice but when we got back she went into her room and shut her door. The last day that she was there at the end of the year we went to Tim Horton’s for and ended up hanging out and talking for two or three hours. And it was fun but we don’t keep in touch. I did see her once in Lethbrige a few months ago and we talked for a few minutes but that’s it.

My roommate at Peace River Bible Institute was pretty cool. I like her too and we got along pretty well but we didn’t really hang out much.

But my roommate here in Oshawa I get along with really well. We seem to be a lot alike in personality, but in a good way. We haven’t gotten into any fights or anything yet lol. We seem to like the same TV shows, so we don’t fight over the TV at all. She watches it more than I do though, which doesn’t bother me at all. She even has relatives in Alberta too, and she’s been there, which is cool. I like her. Like I said, best roommate I’ve had!

Classes

My classes have been pretty good so far. Some have been fairly boring for me though, but only because I’m not actually learning anything. Well, I am, but I’m not. lol.

Mathematics for Computing
Fairly easy class. Learning things that I will definitely use. Remember things that I don’t remember how to do from high school math. And by “remembering” I mean that I’m remembering that I learned them but I don’t remember how to do them. Luckily, this class isn’t a normal math class. Its been described as being like an intro to programming class. We cover, briefly, some math concepts, and then we switch over to how to do them as if we were using them in JavaScript, rather than regular math.

Vector Graphics
This class is all about Adobe Illustrator. Definitely learning things in this class. Although, I took a graphic design class in Lethbridge, it didn’t cover as much about Illustrator as we’ve done in this class. I have a gigantic assignment due in a couple weeks where I have to recreate a company logo. Some how I got sucked into doing the Firefox logo. Its one of the hardest ones to do apparently, and I’ve already seen that. I started on it last week. All I’ve done so far is outlines but I don’t know what to do with half of it. Its very complicated.

Interface Design I
The instructor for this class is ridiculously hard to listen to! He’s extremely mono-toned and even more quiet. This class has been somewhat repetitive for me from a class I took in Lethbridge, so sometimes I don’t pay attention. I try, but its really hard.

Communication Essentials
Fancy name for English. I tried to get credit for this class but failed in that attempt. This is the third post-secondary English I’ve been forced to take so I’m doing pretty good in it so far. I’m a terrible writer. I’m fully aware of that. I have a hard time putting my thoughts into words. Or sometimes coming up with topics. I’m fairly good with grammar and spelling and such though so I have a pretty good mark so far.

Digital Imaging I
This class is all about Photoshop. Also, repetitive for me. Bigger projects though.

Extensible HTML
Obviously title, if you know anything about anything related to website design. So far the easiest class in this program, for me, because not only have I learned about it in college previously, I’ve been working with HTML for about 8 years. Most of my knowledge is self-taugh, but I got the basic understanding of it in a computer programming course I took in Junior High. We’re just starting to get into CSS, barely. Which is something else I’ve known for a while, but its all self-taught, and some things I picked up at LC.

Work

On top of my school work-load, I also have a part-time job. I transferred from Michaels, The Arts & Crafts Store in Lethbridge, Alberta to the one in Oshawa. I’m currently working way more hours than I should be too. I do need to talk to my manager about that but I’m going to see if I can make it past mid-term stress (which is happening right now) and maybe it won’t be too bad. I might have to ask for less hours though.

Anyways, I should probably get back to my homework. I finally finished my Photoshop project that’s due tomorrow but I have an XHTML assignment due on Friday night and a group project for Interface Design due on Tuesday and I have to work tomorrow night, Friday night and Saturday. And with my luck, probably Sunday too but I haven’t seen next week’s schedule yet.

That’s all for now.

Peace.

… ok did I really just say that…? I never say “Peace”… Weird.

P.S.
Oh yeah, an update on my friend Chris Craigman: he unfortunately did not make the top 16 of the MuchMusic VJ Search 2.0. But he totally would have made an awesome VJ!

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School, Work, Moving, etc.

Friday, September 4th, 2009

I am slightly pissed off right now. And a little stressed. I wasn’t until about 10 minutes ago.

As I’m sure many of you are already aware, I am now at school in Ontario. And to make that whole even even more stressful we moved from Taber to Medicine Hat two weeks before I left for Ontario. Because of that I had to get my address changed on my driver’s license and I didn’t think to do it sooner than I did so right now I am without photo ID. Obviously I was given a temporary driver’s license, which is just a piece of paper. So stupid. But this problem has already caused a problem here. I went to get my school ID card and they need photo ID (like a drivers license) before they can issue the ID card. The lady at AMA in Medicine Hat said it would be two weeks for my new license to be mailed to me (in Medicine Hat). My parents don’t fly home until September 9th. So then it will be another week before I get my real card. Luckily, the girl who was there to do the school ID cards was able to get her boss to let me have my card and then bring in my photo ID when I get it. That has to be by the 30th, so it better be there by the time my parents get back to Medicine Hat!!

Before I left, my manager at Michaels in Lethbridge (Chris) called the manager at Michaels here in Oshawa (Mary) to see if I could get transfered. She wanted to meet with me first, before she said yes. She wanted me to call her once I was settled in and stuff. So I called today. She’s on fricken holidays! I’m pretty sure she did not tell Chris that she was going on holidays when he talked to her two weeks ago. Ugh. That pisses me off. Now I have to wait until Wednesday. Next week is going to be extremely busy as it is, without having to deal with trying to get a job that I should already have. And the assistant manager also, was apparently not in today.

Today I have to go to The Brick in Whitby to pick up the night table my parents bought for me the other day. Once I do that I’m going to try and get the rest of my crap organized in my room. I’ve done pretty good so far. I’m impressed with myself.

Anyways, I have a few other things I want to do today before I go to Whitby and its just about lunch time.

Talk to you all later!

Keira

P.S. My roommate hasn’t moved in yet. I moved in early though, on Wednesday. Most people probably planned to move in on the weekend. My cousin Dan moves in on Sunday.

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New Things, Stress, and Craziness

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

A lot has been happening lately. I knew it was all coming, but it always seemed so far away. Now half of it has passed and here I am stuck in the middle of this crazy messed up thing and I’m so stressed out and I’m tired and I just want to curl up in a ball and forget hte world… at least for the next couple weeks.

Last week (August 12) we moved from Taber to Medicine Hat. I’m still working in Lethbridge though. So right now I’m driving just over an hour and a half to get to work. Good thing is that’s almost over. I have two shifts left. Since we have a huge reset in the beading area of the store to do next week, a bunch of us (mostly the replenishment crew, and a few others) are doing some over night shifts. Since I had planned for my last day to be Tuesday, August 25th, I’m doing Sunday night and Monday night. Then I’m finished. So if you are following me on Twitter or are a friend on Facebook, you likely noticed that yesterday was my last day shift. My last day dealing with customers!! lol… until I get to Ontario. I’m getting transferred to a store in Oshawa for when I’m at school. That way I will have a little bit of income while I’m there. And I didn’t have to actually quit my job.

Also, some of you may have been aware that my friend Amanda was pregnant. We hadn’t really hung out much lately. I’ve been busy with work and the move and stuff and she’s been busy getting ready for the baby and hanging out with other people. I don’t want to sound bitter about this but, maybe I am a tiny bit. When I got home from PRBI, Amanda and I hung out practically everyday, more often after she told me she was pregnant (she was scared to tell me because of how someone else reacted, but that’s another story). Then when Cara came back from school we sort of stopped hanging out as much. I’m not entirely sure what happened and I’m sure its partly my fault. I thought we had gotten really close but then it just faded away. I mean I could have put in more of an effort but I felt like half the time we hung out, she just didn’t really want to be there. Like there was something wrong with me. I’m know there are things wrong with me, but it didn’t feel like she felt that way before that. I found myself just getting rather annoyed after a while and didn’t put in much effor anymore. And for that, I apologize. (I doubt that Amanda will read this, mostly because I know she won’t have much time now.)

Anyways, back to what I was originally going to say about Amanda… I was talking to her on the phone (the conversation started through text message) on Monday the 17th evening, when I got off work, around just after 5:30. She was 2cm dialated at the time so we knew the baby was coming soon. Her due date was September 1st, by the way, but obviously he was going to be early. I found out the Tuesday morning, around 11:30am, when I was going for lunch, via text message that Hunter William was born on Monday, August 17, 2009 at 11:08pm in Taber. We talked some more via text message throughout the day while I was on breaks and when I got off work. He had to be taken to the hospital in Lethbridge later on. All she told me was that there was something wrong with his breathing and his heart. I asked her again how he was doing earlier today and she said he was still in the hospital and they’re still waiting for test results. So at this point I don’t really know much. I don’t even know how much Amanda knows. I haven’t seen the baby yet either since they’re still in the hospital. She’s been staying with him in Lethbridge. I really hope she gets to take him home soon. I also hope I get to see him before I leave for school.

Its now officially less than a week until I leave for school. We’re driving out and my parents are flying back, so I get the car while I’m at school. We’re leaving after my parents get home from work on Wednesday, August 26th. My move in date for residence, I  believe we chose for the 2nd. I don’t remember for sure, but I think that’s what it is. School starts on the 8th.

On another random note… in addition to all the stuff that’s happening lately, I’ve had a lot of stuff on my mind lately. More specifically people. I don’t know why. This started a while ago but it got weirder a few days ago. I was unpacking some stuff in my new room and I found my old journals/diaries. I don’t write in them very often. I think the last time was about 2 years ago. I was looking at an old entry. It was one of those stupid email forward quizes (now mostly used on Facebook) that, for some reason, I had written in my journal. It was a personality quiz thing. One of the questions asked you to write a person’s name next to some different colours. Then you get the results at the end. For one of these colours I picked a certain person and the result for it made me think about that person again. Like I said, I had been thinking about this person quite a bit before I read this, but this made me think about them more. I realized that I miss them a lot. It didn’t help that people have been asking me a lot about this person lately too. Its weird. Its closing in on a year since I’ve talked to this person. The last time was around October, 2008. I get random wall posts or status or photo comments from them, but other than that we’ve had no communication since October-ish. (I don’t remember the exact day). I kept texting the person but they stopped replying.

Who am I kidding, its kind of obvious its a guy I’m talking about so I’ll stop saying they and them. For some of you this may be more obvious as to who it is but if you don’t know, that’s fine. Lets keep it that way.

Anyways, we haven’t talked in a long time and I kind of want to talk to him again but I don’t know what to say. I think things were a little awkward last time. I’m pretty sure that’s the problem, but I don’t know how to get past that. We live too far away from each other to go out for coffee or whatever just randomly. And now I’m going even farther away for school. I think the fact that we were closer to each other for a little while last year kind of freaked him out a little bit. Then I didn’t really tell him I wasn’t coming back after Christmas, until after, because he randomly sent me a message or text or something (I forget what form it was in) and some how it came up that I wasn’t back up north, that I had stayed home. I don’t think we’ve talked since that. So, I guess if you include that conversation (which wasn’t long btw) we have talked since October, but that was in like January or something.

I’m not exctly sure why I’ve been thinking so much about this guy lately though. I don’t really know if I still have feelings for him because I haven’t seen him since October and rarely ever talk to him, but for some reason I keep thinking about him. I went for quite a while without thinking about him though. Its just been the last month or two. And, as I mentioned, people keep asking about me and him. At my cousin’s wedding on the 8th, most of my mom’s family was there and  one of my uncle’s likes to bug me about boys whenever we see each other. He asked if I had a boyfriend and somewhere in the word “no” he decided that I had 2. So the rest of the day I was being bugged about having two boyfriends. Then other people, who knew a little bit about me and this guy, were asking about him and stuff. I got stuck in a whole conversation about him and how we hadn’t talked in a long time and stuff.

That got me thinking though. I miss the conversations we used to have online after I moved to Taber. And even the ones we had when we were still in high school together. He was so much fun to talk to. Before the complication of having feelings for each other as more than friends. Before that, we were really good friends. My favourite conversation was one we had until about 3:30 in the morning. We were talking about arm hairs and toe hairs. Sounds stupid, I know, but I swear to you it is, to this day, the most hilarious conversation I have ever had with anyone. One of the few online conversations I’ve had where I have actually laughed out loud. I had to try and be quiet to because it was after 3am and my parents were in bed. It was really hard lol. I miss those days.

(Oh, I forgot, we have actually had a few short converstations (that died rather quickly) online since then, mostly talking about school and other random stuff. But nothing really important.)

I’ve been debating for the last couple days whether or not I should send him an email to see how he’s doing. I don’t really know what to say to him. I’m not always the best with words. Ok, I’m usually not. It would be nice to have a conversation like we used to, but its been so long that I don’t know if we can. I don’t know, I guess we’ll see if I can work up the courage to do it. I don’t think he reads this (I don’t think many people do), but if he is reading this, I hope maybe he’ll email me first. I think it would be nice to know how how feels.

I don’t know.

I should really stop rambling now though. This has gotten quite long and I hadn’t intended for it to be long.

My stomach is growling. I’m going to go make something to eat. I guess that’s all for now. I know I don’t post very often anymore but I’ll try to post when I get to school to let you all know how things are going.

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Moving.

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

I haven’t posted in a while because, well, I’ve been busy and stressed and stuff. My last post was about whether or not to move. Well, now my decision has been made. Its going to be a pain in the ass, but its done.

Today, we got our first offer on the house. We accepted. No counter offer. Just accepted. In the houses that I remember selling (the one we lived in from when I was 5 until I was 13, and the one we lived in from when I was 13 until I was 18) we had counter offers. This is the first one, I am aware of, that we did not make any counter offers. They offered a little below our asking, not too much, and I don’t think they really had any conditions, except the closing date, which is fine. They had a couple issues with dates, but it worked out. I guess their house closes on July 15th or 13th or maybe it was the 25th, something like that. And they, at first wanted  around then, but now apparently they’re going on holidays so the date is like August 12th or 1st or something. I totally forget now and my parents aren’t here right now (and didn’t take their cell phone, as per usual lol) so I can’t even ask.

Anyways, so I am definitely moving before I leave for school.

Speaking of school, on Thursday I got my residence stuff. So, the timing was kind of good… ish. lol. I don’t know. This is so weird. So, I’m moving soon. Then I’m leaving for school right away. We chose the date September 2nd for me to move in to residence. School starts on the 7th. Still don’t know exactly how I’m getting there. My parents haven’t decided yet if all three of us will fly out and I will get a new car there or if all three of us, two of us, or one of us will drive out and my parents will both fly back. Lol. We have no idea yet. This is so whacked out and stressful.

I also have to find a job or two or three in Medicine Hat so I have more money before I leave. I’m still hoping I will be able to transfer to the Michael’s there so I can stay with the company (and I’ll probably work at the one in Oshawa too when I’m at school. I don’t know. This is so friggen stupid but I can’t do anything about it. I want to stay with Michaels until I can get a job in the web industry though because I really like working for them and it would show a certain amount of loyalty, even though I’m going from store to store because of things that are out of my control.

If I do work in the Medicine Hat store, it’ll be the third Michael’s I’ve worked for. I worked in the Grande Prairie store for 5 months when I was in grade 12 (in 2005), then I moved. Last summer I worked in the Lethbridge store for like 2 months (no one in Taber would hire me for the first two months of summer break so finally my dad agreed that I should apply in Lethbridge) then I went away to school for one semester. When I came back I applied for jobs in Taber again and no one would hire me again so I finally went to Lethbridge again and ended up back at Michaels again (same store, second time). Now I’m moving to Medicine Hat, hopefully will be able to transfer so I don’t have to reapply or anything, which is easier, I think. Then I’m also hoping that I can either transfer to the Oshawa store or I will quit and then apply once I’m there. And if I’m back in Alberta in the summer, and even Christmas maybe, I can work at the Medicine Hat store again. I don’t know, I guess I’ll take that one as is comes.

This is insane and I hate it.

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I’m Finished!!

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

I just wanted to post a quick blog. Nothing has really happened lately. I wrote my last exam on Wednesday. I moved out of residence, back home on Thursday. That was exciting. I think I got caught a cold from being outside in the cold that day with no coat on lol. I had a sore throat Friday and Saturday. This morning my head felt stuffed. You know that weird feeling when you have a cold, like your brain is crammed into your head like it doesn’t have enough room? That feeling! Lol. Yeah. It’s still sort of lingering but it’s mostly gone now. And man was it gorgeous outside today!! Wow! I was sitting out on the deck and got the beginnings of a tan!! Sweetness! I’m glad it’s warm. There’s still some remnants of snow from last week though. My parents and I were having a snowball fight when we got home from church today. And I was wearing sandals! It was funny.

Anyways, I’m done school and looking for a job now! I don’t know what I’m going to end up doing. I’m still wanting to move back to Ontario but nothing seems to be working out right now. So we’ll see. Hopefully something happens soon because my parents are driving me absolutely nuts with the whole “get a job” thing. But I mean I don’t blame them. I’ve been living off their money for the last few months plus they paid for my tuition and residence even though I know they couldn’t really afford it but they kept saying that it was fine, when I knew it wasn’t, but they wouldn’t let me get a job during school, unless I was actually bored. If I didn’t have my assignments and whatnot done then I couldn’t work but if I was getting my homework done early and was bored then they would have said go ahead. I’m too much of a procrastinator. Lol.

Well, I guess I should stop rambling. And I want to go watch something that’s coming on on CTV in like two minutes so…yeah.

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One Exam Left

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

So I just finished my Marketing exam. I’m pretty sure I did absolutely terrible on it! For the first hour, I just could not focus. I was at like question 25 after 50 minutes. How sad is that?? But, with help from God, I managed to finish the rest of the 100 questions with 8 minutes to spare. Amazingly there was still like 10 other people in there. There was about 100 of us in there to begin with. They opened up the walls from the 4 theatres in the IB building and it was mostly full. I was sure I would be the last one there. But I wasn’t even the last one from my class. There was one other girl from my class still there when I left. So I didn’t feel so bad.

I just have Management tomorrow morning and I’m done done DONE! But for some reason I’m not going to leave right away. I’ve decided to wait til the weekend to cram all my crap into the van and drive back to Taber. Probably because I don’t want to go back to Taber. But hopefully I won’t be there for too long! I’m trying to find a job in Ancaster or Hamilton and maybe move in with my grandparents for the summer.

We’ll see what happens. I’m gonna go see if my roommate wants some help. She’s leaving tomorrow and all her stuff is in the living room/kitchen lol.

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Good-byes and Hello Agains

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Ok, I was going to keep this quiet for a little while because it’s not 100% set in stone or anything. But I changed my mind. So I’m going to tell you.

I’ve applied to Durham College’s Web Design & Development program and Niagara College’s New Media Web Design program. I had Niagara as my first choice (those of you who have applied to colleges on OntarioCollege.ca understand lol) and Durham as my second choice, but I’ve switched it. I decided to put Durham as my first choice because it’s more focused on the development part of web design, where as Niagara’s program is more closely related to Multimedia, and a bit less on the web design/development part of it. (more…)

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Let’s see how many classes I can fail!

Friday, April 18th, 2008

I’m so freaking out right now. I’m scared I’m going to fail some classes. I mean it’s not like I have terrible marks, although I know certain people would probably kill them selves if they got some of the marks I have but I’m used to it. I’m willing to admit that I’m not the smarted person in the world. I hate people who freak out because they got a 95 when they usually get 99-100. I mean frick! It just angers me so much because they get one mark, which is still a really good mark, lower than what they usually get and they complain and complain and whine and UGH!!!

Seriously, there was this person in my physics class back in grade 11 who had 100.2% in the class and they got a friggen 93 or something on an assignment or exam or something and they were practically in tears and freaking out trying to figure out why they lost the marks. If I had gotten a 93 or even an 83 in physics I would have been in tears because I would have though the teacher screwed up and gave me too many marks! Ok, I exaggerated that a bit, well, only the part about me. The part about the other person is entirely true, I might be off a bit with the 93, but they definitely had over 100.

Anyways, here where I stand in my classes right now: (this may not be entirely accurate since I don’t have all my marks but..yeah)

Computer Hardware Maintenance. Pretty sure I passed since I got I think like 85 on the midterm (100 on the practical and like 65ish on the theory lol). We did the final on Tuesday and I got, I believe it was 73, on the theory (I studied less for this than for the mid-term. go figure) but I don’t know what I got on the practical because Travis had to actually mark stuff after we fixed the computers but I probably did fairly well since my computer was working afterwards lol.

Business Writing. Last I checked (I think it was yesterday) I had 88. We have a unit/final quiz/test/exam thing in the morning (because apparently there’s no actual final exam). I don’t think I’ll do too bad on it. And we’re handing in our business proposal (finished) as well as a resume and cover letter (haven’t started) tomorrow (well, today now I guess lol) as well.

Intro to Management. I think I had less than 70 last time I check. My last two unit exams were almost a fail! Eww! I think they were 52% and 50% lol. I didn’t do horrible on the exams before that but I don’t know what happened. Final exam is on Wednesday.

Intro to Marketing. I think my mark is in the same range as Management. We have a huge final case due tomorrow and I haven’t even looked at the damn thing. Final exam on Tuesday.

Financial Accounting I. Not doing so hot in that class. I don’t even know why. I mean my mom is a friggen bookkeeper, and my dad apparently did well in that class when he took it in University. I think it’s got something to do with the fact that I know nobody in that class, they’re all agriculture students. Eww. So I sit alone and have no one to do homework with or anything so…yeah. Plus, I’m lazy. But I also think that it has something to do with the fact that I thought that class would be simple but I underestimated it and in turn screwed myself over. This is the one I’m thinking I am most likely to fail. Final exam on Monday.

Yay! NOT! ERG!!! This won’t be fun!!

Anyways, I’m going to go to bed now because my computer is going to over heat because it’s like fricken 30 degrees in my room!! No joke! Well, it’s probably closer to 25, but it feels like summer in my bedroom, including the feeling of burning on the skin. It’s ridiculous.

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Industry Dominated by Men

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Last semester, when I was taking Multimedia, the program leader, Leanne (the only female multimedia instructor),would talk about how Multimedia and other technology fields are dominated by men. They usually had at least 65% guys in the program.

It seems to be the same with CIT. It seems to be that way with any technology industry. It became really obvious to me when I realize the high percentage of guys in some of my classes this term. I’m getting a different look at it this term because I have different people in all of my classes. In Multimedia, because it’s such a small program, we were all in the same classes together.

I really noticed it on Wednesday in my Marketing class. Even though it’s a business class, the majority of us are in the CIT program and more than that are guys. We were broken into 7 groups of four to do a case study. At least one group for sure was all guys. The rest only had one girl. So at the most there are only 6 girls in that class.  There might only be 5 because I didn’t really get a good chance to look at every group but I know I saw, for sure, one group of all guys.

In my Computer Hardware Maintenance class there are only three girls, including myself, out of a total of 13, I believe.

My accounting class sort of goes along with this, but it isn’t the best example. I’m pretty sure that I’m the only one in CIT in that class, and there are I think 4 or five girls out of about 25 or so. I remember the first day, it was kind of odd. We took up three rows. The two back rows were all guys and the front row was all girls, and we didn’t even fill up the whole row. The class has gotten smaller since then, but when we were all introducing ourselves (which was getting really annoying because I had to do that in every class, in multimedia we only had to do it once), every single guy was in agriculture and from a farm in either Saskatchewan, Alberta, or BC. It was so weird. I think some of the girls were from farms too. Whether they were in agriculture or not, I don’t remember.

My Intro to Management class is much larger than the others. We’re in a theatre instead of a classroom. I don’t know the numbers, but there has to be over 40. I’d say about 70% guys.

Even my Business Writing class has a higher number of guys. There were only three girls in class today. But there weren’t many there anyway. I’m guessing there’s about 25 people in the class, but there was probably 15 there today.

Well, that concludes yet another random blog post. I’m going to go curl up in bed. I’m really cold but my room is still warm. It got up to 26 degrees today, even though my thermostat is set for 15. I can’t figure out why it’s doing this. I kept my door open for a few hours to help even out the temperature, and I even opened my window. It’s quite cold outside right now. It’s got to be about -10 because my van didn’t want to start but I did get it to start. I think it’s the coldest it’s been all winter because it’s the hardest it’s been for me to start the van.

Anyways, I guess that is all.

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Computers and Cookies

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

I have gotten my schedule, but I haven’t posted it yet because it might change. Hopefully the only change to it will be adding a class, but it depends on whether or not it will fit into my current schedule. It sucks because right now, my schedule for January only has 4 courses. It’s supposed to have 5. And two of them are supposed to be second term courses. When I told my dad, he wasn’t too happy about it. He called the adviser’s office and I guess she suggested that I take this other course as well, but he didn’t think to ask if it would fit into my schedule. I’m going to have to look into it before classes start again though. This course that they’re telling me to take is actually a third term course. These courses probably don’t have any prerequisites, which would explain why they’re allowing me to take them. And for some reason they’re trying to hit me with all the business courses first term lol. On my current schedule, there’s only one CIT course. Right now they’ve got me in a business course, marketing course, and english course. Then the one they want me to add is accounting. Lol.

So my mom and I made some ginger bread cookies! Well, she made them but we decorated them together. They look to hilarious because the icing was being stupid. We’re just laughing the whole time we’re decorating them. It was so funny. I should take some pictures of some of them!

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