Take me home!
Friday, December 16th 2005
Back to the Peanut Gallery
Helloooooooooooo everyone! It's been a while, I know. Taking so many econ courses all at once was a bad idea for many reasons, one of them being that I now find it slightly difficult to write just about anything longer than a "therefore" statement at the end of a test question. I tried to write an entry a couple of times in November but it took so long to come up with something coherent, nevermind interesting, that I gave up. And of course early December was a lost cause due to my absolutely crazy exam schedule. Four exams in six days, starting the first day of the exam period. I crammed like I've never crammed before...shitty thing is that none of my exams were even that hard, it's just that I simply didn't have enough time to devote solely to any one of them in order to kill them. Mid-seventies, here I come...
Anyway nevermind exams, they're over and done with. I'm home now, which is just as beautiful a feeling as I'd anticipated. I haven't done anything spectacular lately, I guess...but just the thought of having nothing important to think about is so relaxing. Plus there's lots of snow, and snow is one of the happiest things in life :D Yesterday it was coming down pretty hard but it wasn't that cold out so after he got home from work, my dad and I took my puppy out for a romp in the fresh snow and it was so much fun :D We all got bundled up, my dad and I in our toques and boots and mittens and Foppie in his booties and Maple Leafs sweater heh heh heh...tonight we're building a snowman in the backyard!
So...interesting twist of events: I'm getting braces. Twice in the last few years I'd seriously considered getting them, but I'd always figured my teeth didn't bother me that much and who wanted to pay that much for them anyway...but very recently it was brought to my attention that orthodontic treatment would be almost fully covered by my parents' family health benefits from work and I guess that sealed the deal. I went for a consultation appointment with Dr. Pollit this morning and he says it's not too complicated, 15 months and I'd be done. I have to admit, I'm nervous about how it'll look in the meantime, but...I dunno, my teeth are the one thing about my appearance that I've always wanted to fix and this seems like the perfect opportunity to just get it done, once and for all. I suppose it's not all bad, anyway...I don't normally care so much about how I look during the school year anyway -- somewhere around a month into every semester work starts to catch up to me and pretty soon it's all about the sweatshirts and head bands. Part of me wishes I'd just gotten it done in junior high, thrown it into the mix with the rest of the whole awkward phase and by now I would have recovered from the emotional scarring. Oh well. Fifteen months, how bad can it be...*sigh*
Okay well I'd better get back to doing nothing...hahaha I love love LOVE this feeling of freedom! :D