Sunday, January 30th, 2005
skits night 2005 :)

Skits night was awesome, to say the least. Everything went so well - even with the royal screw-up that was our hip-hop dance. *sigh* it's one of those situations where everyone will tell you how great you were even if you really weren't, because the important part is how much fun the entire experience was in the first place. (and anyway we were wearing baseball hats so our faces were mostly hidden lol) Can't wait to get the DVD...

I noticed something though - the last couple of times I was on stage were the play in grade 11 and Spring Fling in grade 12 and both of those times I seem to recall feeling much more nervous than this time...which is not to say that my heart wasn't pounding this time but it wasn't as nerve-wracking, anyway. I could barely eat the day of the first production of "Out of Order" - although, come to think of it, it could have something to do with the sleep-deprived stupor I was in by Saturday night heh heh heh...

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
awesome break, if rather short..

Oh. My.
I've been caught up in the whirlwind that is second semester since January 3rd. The winter holidays weren't nearly long enough - 1 1/2 weeks? Come ON. You get more than that in kindergarden when your biggest concern is digesting the paste you routinely ingest. You'd think that by university they'd acknowledge the actual need for down-time..

Anyway I guess the upside would be that every moment was enjoyed and appreciated even more so because of the break's brevity. Spent some definite quality time with my family - I wouldn't go so far as to call it homesickness but there have been moments in the past few months when I've longed for that comfy-cozy feeling of sinking into a couch surrounded by the people I love more than anything in the world, and I'm happy to say that there were as many such moments as possible over these holidays.

New Year's at the Westin Harbour Castle was something else...it's funny cause the whole time we were planning the trip ir was centered around going out for New Year's Eve...and personally, that ended up being the least memorable part of those two days and two nights. It will be a sad, sad day when we're all so caught up in our own lives that we stop going away together like this cause these have been some of the best moments of my life. I've never come back from one of our trips feeling anything less than elated. So none of us are perfect. So what? I wonder if everyone is lucky enough to experience such mad fun with a group of wholly beautiful people at least once in their lives - although, we're sure making up for anyone who isn't...

Right from the beginning this semester's been considerably busier than the last. Gone are the afternoon naps and the "I-can-only-work-if-I-can-settle-in-for-a-few-hours" mentality. Between stats, calc and macro econ I've got a minimum of two tests/quizzes/assignments due every week - and then my French and PoliSci profs realized that, because the courses were full-year, they thought they had all the time in the world and as a result only have about 30% of our marks accounted for from last semester. At this rate I'm gonna have to spend Reading Week actually reading...