Themes and stuff.. interesting & Hello two week break!!

Thank God it’s Friday! I’ve now broken up for two weeks! But I have crap loads of homework, because the teachers think it’s ok to give us 5000 word essays on our holiday.. Like seriously from every single teacher we have like a 5000 word essay. But, I still have a holiday. Also I think I’ll steal Michiel’s stolen idea; That I’ll do a blog every day of April, Well, every day of the holidays. I’ll call it BEDEH (Blog Every Day Easter Holidays). So hopefully that will be on my blog.
Also, We all got together on msn and decided that we would try and theme our blogs, so this week is my turn to set a theme. It is really difficult to think of one, so.. Easter.. I have no idea what we can do about Easter, but we’ll see how it goes. So my question will be, do you get any break over Easter, if so what will you do in it?
Michiel also told me (if he’s reading- sorry for stealing all your ideas) that he has a button on his website where you just type in your email, then click on a button and then his blogs will be sent to your email. I was wondering if we could do that on here, and how we’d do that? If anyone has anyone knows how, or thinks that we shouldn’t do it then lt me know via email or twitter or comments or something.
Now, the questions:
Emma- I try to save for things, but I never succeed. I don’t plan on ever having to worry too much about money.. So, I’d rather ‘live for the moment’ and blow it all on books and stuff :D I suppose though that until I am rich it would be sensible to start saving money. Also, I have decided that it’s very likely I will end up as a lawyer, but I hope that’s before I do something like writing books or something (factual books), but anyhow becoming a lawyer means studying for a long time, and also quite expensive fees but when you do become a lawyer you get payed LOADS!!
Chris- I prefer non-fiction. I am a fairly factual person, I value information and treasure it more than money, so I love anything that fascinates me. I actually dislike a lot of fiction, mainly because I think if they are poorly written books then they’re just terrible! And I find a lot of fiction isn’t that good. Feel free to try and convert me, but for me fiction books are normally terrible or absolutely genious and the best book ever.
It looks like that’s all for this week, Bye!!

FUCK YOU EYES!

For some strange reason my eyes have gotten very sore over the past couple hours. I have tried taking off my glasses, but that doesn't appear to have helped much.

Anyway, I have just returned from Fall Orientation Kickoff, which probably means nothing to you. Every year during the week before school starts we have a Fall Orientation (formerly known as U of C: 101) for all of the new incoming students. The thing is, is that we have about 6000 new students every year, and at least half of them attend orientation week. This also means that they need people to organize and run everything. So they get about 200 volunteers to run the event, on top of the University staff, I believe it's one of the biggest orientation programs in the country. Anyway, due to the large scale of the project they start getting volunteers many months in advance, and today was the first official event to get everyone together.

In related news, they have also created multiple paid positions for the summer to do all the behind the scenes work with the various orientations throughout the summer. So in my on going desperation to find summer work I applied to all the positions offered, and am really hopping I get one of them. Especially since the orientations are really fun, and I would love a job on campus with normal hours. I miss having a job with normal hours haha. I also might have a part time job at the astrophysical observatory.

On a side note, I am potentially planning a trip to San Francisco Pride which is very exciting, and I really hope it works out. It's at the end of June!

On to questions:

My own: I think my favorite things to buy would be electronics, books, shoes in that order haha. I've literally doubled the amount of books and shoes I own in the past year. Now I just need to read them all...

Sam: I didn't entirely understand the case, but it sounds like you have the upper hand with this.

Emma: I try to save money for the future, and can do it if I really want to. But as a student it is very difficult to do. That being said I am forced to save money, since I have to make enough money over 4 months to live for 8 months. The last two years I have just barely made it, but such is life as a student. Fortunately I have not needed to take out any student loans as of yet.

New question: Do you prefer reading fiction or non-fiction?

Someday I’ll hopefully get enough sleep

I’m so tired and was about to go to sleep but then remembered that I hadn’t written my blog so this’ll be a quick one.

Last Thursday I had my big exam in my labour law course and I’ll get the result in three weeks. And today I started my two economy classes. So far I like both the professors but since it’s the first day and ten weeks left I can’t say too much about it.

Let’s continue to the questions before I fall asleep.

Chris question last week was about what our favorite thing to purchase is. I love shopping for clothes, if I had the money I could probably spend all day all days in different clothing stores and buy all the clothes I like. I also love buying movies. At the moment I think I have 6 movies that I’ve bought but not had the time to watch yet.

Sam wanted our opinion on the case and from the info you gave us I would say that he probably is guilty because he had the car key and ran. You don’t run when the police come and you’re innocent, even if you feel ill. You stay and explain. However I think it could be difficult for a jury to convict him since it’s almost impossible to make a positive id of the driver so that could work in his favor.

My question this week is, “Do you save money for the future? Or do you live for the moment and spend all your money now?”

FRIIDDAAYYY!! (IM SURE I HAVE ABOUT 9 ARTICLES ALL WITH THAT NAME) so I will add stuff to this title to make it really long so there arent so many.

hi people! It has been a busy and ultimatley tiring week and also the week, I don't know if I'm the only one who thinks so, has gone quickly. Updates: hmm.. I have got a new case for the mock trials, and that will be in about six weeks when I am going to coventry to defend either the case I have already done or the new case, so in the week leading up to that, I doubt very very very much I will be writing here. But until then, the crazy confused ramblings of Sam, are here to stay! The case, is about a vehicle theft, and I am defending. This is a fairly balanced case, unlike the Jack Johnson case, which was tilted in a slightly favourable manor, towards the defence winning the case. There are strong points for each argument. In every case I defend, even if the evidence is telling me the absolute opposite, I beleive that my client is innocent, and even if as an un-biased person I would condemn as guilty, I still get stuck into a biased mind frame. So I want to ask you all (wow, onto questions already) What you think, and why, if the person is guilty or not; I won't give you the entire details, just the likley arguments to be put forward by defence and then prosecution:
The owner of the car, and the owner's friend are the people claiming they saw the defendant in the car driving. They have admitted they only saw the back of the driver's head. The lighting was poor and there are endless amount of factors suggesting that an accurate identification was almost impossible to make. Therefore, the I will be arguing that in The defendants case.
The prosecution, I presume, will be enquiring into the following; The fact that the defendant had the car keys in his pocket when he was arrested, the fact he ran away from the car when he collected the keys. He has said that he knew the owner of the car (from the number-plate, which was personalised.) to which there is no dispute, and he wished to return the car key's to the owner (even after it was crashed??). Then he ran because he was feeling ill and he wanted to get home (which his friends have agreed, he was feeling ill, without collaborating. Also he was sick in the police car).
Do you think he's guilty? Onto your questions (yay, I can stop with all that fancy writing)
Blood donar? Yes. Do I need go any further (Damn! I had to stop myself from saying 'elaborate' instead of 'go any further', 'restrain' instead of stop and 'as oppose to' instead of 'instead'. Scince this lawyer thing, my head has litterally become a theasorus. STOP BRAIN, I COMMAND YOU!) Anyway, yes. yes. and yes, If it means they give me biscuits at the end then sign me up. I suppose the prosepect of perhaps helping someone is a plus, too.
What is my favorite thing to purchase? Books. books, books and more books. Ok, this time I will go further, otherwise I will have gotten by my entire article by just giving a one word answer over and over again.
I think I've already asked a question, but I just want some feedback: We need to start looking for some other people to fill in the massive gaps in our blog.. anybody?? We need to get together at some point and talk, provided that stickam isn't the un-reliable.. thing it is, and that messenger doesn't do that stupid thing which means Chris Emma and I can't all be in the same conversation without it breaking.
Boi!

There really does need to be more hours in a day!

Hello all!

I must say today was quite a productive day, I went to my lab, did well on a quiz and finished a rather tedious astrophysics assignment. I was going to continue on and work on some quantum mechanics, but I decided against and will just go to bed earlier. Tomorrow is going to be quite chaotic, as I need to get multiple things done for school, as well as I'm working tomorrow evening. With all this "wonderful" school work in mind, I have opted to severely cut back on my internet time. Worry not, I shall continue posting, I'm just cutting back on other things such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Dailybooth, etc. I'm just overly obsessed with the internet and it is affecting my schooling. That being said I'm not going to cut everything off completely, just cut back and really focus on time management and school. There is only a month left in the semester and I really need to do well!

As an update to my MBP, I have received and installed my invisibleSHIELD, as well my sleeve has arrived, so I just need to go pick it up!

Questions:

Mine: I think as far as another culture is concerned, I would either choose something Mediterranean (likely Italian or Greek), or Swiss, or Japanese. That being said regardless of where I was brought up I think I would fancy living else where at least for part of my life and experiencing as many cultures places as I can!

Sam: Probably when I put the wrong date on a form at work. I for some strange reason put March 30th instead of March 21. The accounting department got a good chuckle out of my stupidity, since they are the ones that get the forums.

Emma: As I mentioned to Emma before, I would love to donate blood and organs (when I pass on!) However, as a homosexual I am not allowed to! This makes quite crossed with the government. I realize that statistically homosexuals have higher rates of STIs, but it's still unfair that a healthy person is not allowed to donate, regardless of sexual orientation. Especially when they keep begging for more because there isn't enough to go around. The sad part is that I don't think that rule will be changing any time soon, since it was just this past year that they banned homosexuals from donating organs, it used to be just blood but now it's both.

New Question: What is your favorite thing to purchase? (such as, books, CD's, DVD's, food, clothes, cards, games, make up, etc.)