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Thursday, February 9th 2006
winter woes
Most of my entries of late have begun with something along the lines of "haven't updated in a while..." (and if I didn't actually write it, I was thinking it no less.) The thing is, I miss this site and there are always little things that come to mind that I think would make a good update, but I'm deterred by the amount of time it takes to actually create a page for each month. Of course I could just be cheap and have a standard background and style for each monthly page. Or I could be even more cheap and make the switch to an online journal or blog...although no I really couldn't bring myself to accept that. I guess it's quality over quantity, then.
Annnnyway, apologies aside, things have been rather hectic lately, as per usual for second semester. I haven't yet figured out why it is that second semester seems to be so much busier and to pass so much more quickly than first. It's possible that we're all just so scared by our first semester marks that we all buckle down and try to compensate for them by becoming hermits throughout the second half of the year, only to re-join the normal rest of the world around the end of April, mentally battered and pasty-skinned from a prolonged lack of natural light. I suspect that as more and more people go through this sort of formal education system, there will be a corresponding increase in the warm weather withdrawal symptoms already experienced by so many around this time of year, as we begin to desperately crave the freedom we associate with the summer months. I also suspect that this is even more the case in Hamilton, where there is a decided lack of outdoor public skating rinks and tobogganing hills, and thus no outlet for what remains of my childish enthusiasm for the frosty months of winter. So far my fondest memory of the past few months has been of the one sympathetic bus driver who waited when he saw us running to catch the bus so that we didn't have to stand outside for 20 minutes waiting for the next one, trying to catch what warmth we could from the heating system's exhaust vent outside the Divinity College.
Alright enough complaining, and off I go to micro econ. Actually all bitterness aside, my courses this semester are pretty interesting...I may change my mind come early March and I have three papers due, all within one week of each other...but hey, I'm not complaining. It could be worse. It could be stats... *shudder*