Because it's awesome...

Sometimes I fail but I usually win in the end.

Okay first of all, how did we go from 5 people to two? I know Becca is in LA this week so she can be excused as such, but I have no idea what's happened with Sam. He seems to have fallen off the internet or something, he has not updated his dailybooth or been on msn. Hopefully he is just having technical difficulties or something and all is well otherwise. Speak of the devil he just logged into msn as I write this. Just as an update he informs me he has simply been extremely busy with school work.

In other news, ZOMG I finally got my new MacBook Pro!!! It's all shiny and pretty and new and amazing *gushes some more...* However getting my MBP was slightly stressful. I should mention that anytime I'm expecting a package and have a tracking number for it, I am OCD when it comes to checking when and where it is at all times. I litterally was checking the Fedex website every 15 min once I knew it was in Calgary. Anyway, so it arrived in Calgary Monday morning and I wanted to just go and pick it up straight away since I knew I wouldn't be home when they tried to deliver it. So I called Fedex to see if I could do that, but they wouldn't let me pick it becuase their contract with Apple requires them to attempt delievery at least once. So the following day I planned to go pick up my MBP when I was done school. Just becuase I could, I checked the Fedex website again to see if they attempted delivery yet, and to my surprise they had and it got delivered, which meant someone signed for it. Initially I thought my landlord (who lives upstairs) had signed for it, so I quickly texted her to confirm. She responded by telling my she was out of the house all day, and didn't sign for it. My flatmate was also out of the house, which meant I had no idea who signed for my package.

Needless to say I became slightly worried that someone simply signed for my package and walked off with my new laptop. It turns out that the neighbour signed for it, and ended up leaving my package in the doorway. I was like WTF it's -30, who leaves a laptop outside for 2 hrs in that weather!?!? Naturally I rushed home to make sure everything was ok, and as of right now it seems to be working. I also preformed a RAM and Harddrive transplant as soon as I got it as well, which means I now have 320GB 7200rpm and 4GB DDR3 1066mhz. So far it is everything I expected it to be, I haven't tried doing any video editing but I will be doing that soon enough.

To answer my own question:

I don't neccesarily like the politcal party in power right now (the conservatives), but I also don't like their main contender (the Liberals). Neither of them seem to know what their doing and seem to endlessly fuck up the country, granted the conservatives seem to have at least stablized things in respect to the economy. I should also add that they seem to have given Canada a backbone once again. As Emma and I were discussing the other day, Canada has traditionally just followed in the footsteps of all the other major global powers, but lately we have been doing things more and more on our own, and not merely conforming to everyone else. Personally I support the Social Democrats in Canada, just becuase a more socialist system appeals to me and makes more sense in my mind. Ironically before I even knew Emma, I've always taken an appreciation for the Swedish Government, and how they are able to implement a Social Democratic government so very well!

When I'm feeling ill, I usually just sleep a lot, and curl up under several blankets and watch TV/Movies. I also try to drink lots of tea and fluids in an attempt to feel better and clense my system. I also try and drag out my sickness for as long as possible just so I can skip school/work LOL. For the record it has been quite sometime since I've been genuinely ill, probably a couple years since I've had anything more then a cold or sore throat.

As for my letter I basically just wrote about what I'm doing in my life right now. Nothing serious, just a light mildy humourous letter to myself. I also mentioned that if it works, I will write a long and proper letter to myself for several years down the road. Currently I set it to send in a years time.

New question:

What do you think you would do in your spare time if the internet didn't exist? Also do you think you would be the same person if the internet didn't exist?

Welcome to my life

As you might have noticed this post is a little late. Thats because my internet decided to fail on me last night but now it's up and running again.

This will be a really short post because I'm really busy, tired and I'm still feeling my cold or someting else maybe.

So this last week has been pretty uneventful. I got sick on wednesday with a fever of almost 104 so the rest of the week and weekend was spent inside and mostly in bed trying to get better. I'm gonna move on to the questions now and since neither Becca nor Sam posted any blogs I don't have to much to answer.

I'll start by answering my own question about life. I would probably try to do more things and not procrastinate everything if I knew exactly how long I had to live. On the other hand it could actually also lead to procrastinating if I knew I had 50 years because thats a long time.

Chris wanted to know what we thought about politics and what we supported or disagreed with. I like the social democrats and the political system we have here. Mainly because we have such a big safty net. Although I think sometimes people have to start take some responsibility of there own and don't just use the system. But I guess you have to take the bad with the good.

Chris also gave us a challenge to write a mail to the future us. I wrote about how stressful things can be and are right now and that I need to learn to priorotise what to do. And that the world won't go under just because I haven't gotten everything done perfectly and on time.

My question for this week is "What do you like to do when your feeling a bit ill?"

Because procrastinating is just easier...

So, I should be studying for my quiz tomorrow and two midterms Wednesday, but I'm just not in the mood. I'm all schooled out after the weekend, sadly I have much more to do over the next few days. Fortunately my astrophysics assignment that was due Friday got pushed back till Monday which is a slight relief. That being said I will still have to work on it as much as possible this week since I'm working all weekend and then going to a birthday party on Saturday night.

On a down note, I have to go to the courthouse on Friday to try and get my penalty reduced for an illegal U-Turn ticket I got a couple weeks ago. It is quite possibly the lamest ticket I have ever gotten! Here's how it went down, in order to get to work I have to drive eastbound in to downtown so naturally I park on the street facing east, but in order to get home I have to go west. So like I've down countless times before I just make a U-Turn and get on my merry way. This time however there just happened to be a police car driving by as I was doing the U-Turn. Needless to say I got pulled over and he gave me a ticket for $115CAD ($80USD/£60/730SK). Anyway hopefully I can get a lower penalty, it just means I have to get up really early and go to the courthouse downtown.

On a positive and exciting note! I am almost 100% certain that I will be getting a 15" new MacBook Pro! YAY! I should be getting a nice tax return next week which will basically pay for the laptop haha. I'm super excited! My current MacBook just isn't up to par anymore. I multitask WAY to much and my poor MacBook just can't handle it. I'm still deliberating what case/sleeve to get for it though, and it doesn't help that I'm super picky.

Question time! I have no idea how I managed to forget a question last week, it completely slipped my mind, so I shall compensate with a question and a challenge this week.

Friday - Law: Well you can read by above about my most recent encounter with the law haha. Otherwise I agree with Emma, I think it is necessary to an extent, however it is often over the top and excessive. Or funding is poorly spent, such as my U-Turn ticket, that was a complete waste of government money! Especially on a Friday night when there is inevitably tones of other crime going on that is far more important.

Monday - Life: I'm not sure I would live my life greatly different, but I think I would at least try a lot harder to accomplish more and live a fuller life. I find myself having a rather boring life, especially when I hear about friends traveling the world, studying abroad, working abroad etc. I personally love adventure and traveling, so I hope to do lots of that throughout my life. I especially want to move out of North America and very possibly move to europe (YAY for being an EU citizen).

Tuesday - Politics: Just to get controversial, what is your political standing, who and what do you support, disagree with, etc? Also please don't be nice on purpose, tell us what you really think and we in turn promise to not be judgemental of your stand! :)

Challenge: Fill out one of these and tell us what you wrote (http://www.futureme.org/). Basically your writing a letter to your future self, and you pick any date you want, and it will automatically email it you on that date. (try and make it at least 1 year later)

Tick-Tock

Ok, this will just be a quick update because I really have to get a few school things done before going to bed and it almost midnight already. And to top it all off I have a headache and some unidentified pain from hell.

The main thing I’ve done this week was the party I went to at my friend’s house. I had a terrific night with a lot of cool people and just maybe a little bit too much to drink. Fortunately the only consequence the day after was the need to sleep from being up for too long.

On with the questions.

To answer my own question I have to say that I easily get obsessed with a song and listens to it for a couple of weeks and these songs changes. But if I have to choose one for the rest of my life that song would have to be Fever Fever by Melody Club. That’s a song I always can go back to and have on repeat for hours.



I don’t think Chris asked a question and Becca forgot to post due to a snowday so the next question is Sam’s.

His question was about law and very vague so I’m not really sure what he wanted to know so… My thoughts of laws in general is that they are good and without them it would probably be anarchy. But some laws is just ridiculous and in my opinion infringe too much on the personal integrity.

My question this week is “Do you think you would live your life any different if you knew exactly how long your life would be? Like if you know you have 10,30, 50 or 70 years?”