February 2006


It’s reading week…for every other university student in the country except the select few in Engineering and Math at Waterloo…but that really doesn’t stop me from taking a little bit of time to rest. Midterms are done (Surprisingly it doesn’t look like I’ll fail any…), Feds election is done, (Hurray for Michelle Zakrison! Or should I say, Miss President?), and we do get a few extra days off at the end of the week. So as usual I turn to the TV…or for those who live under rocks, the Olympics.

I just watched the Canadian Women’s Hockey team win Gold…I’m in a quite patriotic mood today because of it (and despite my dynamics prof noting to the whole class I’m of Finnish decent…after the Canadian’s lost to Finland yesterday…). Something about us standing higher than the Americans just makes me beam with joy. You’d think that with 10 times the population of us that they’d be able to get more medals than us…apparently not (right now they have the same at 14). Let’s hope the Men’s team can do as well!

Oh…I forgot to mention a while back that I won (with Christine Steele) the Mechanical Department’s Sanford Flemming debating tournament and we are progressing to the Faculty level. With that win I award all my readers with an insightful observation from the latest book I read, The Hacker Ethic: Modern capitalism thrives off of the exploitation of intellectual communism. I love it because it’s ironic. :)

Well…it’s going to be a slack week with no labs or tutorials (that are worth going to) left, the Autoshow on the weekend, and my birthday early next week. My computer has been delayed being shipped…but they upgraded the processor, so I am content in waiting for it a bit longer.

Currently Listening to: Nothing (Because I accidentally wiped my iPod)
Random Wikipedia Article: Avro Arrow

Just a quick update; I’ve been pretty preoccupied with several things, including the Federation of Students elections and midterms. For those who haven’t heard, I’ve been acclaimed as Engineering Councillor for Student’s Council and am acting campaign manager for the Shape The Future ticket, which has been taking quite a bit of my time up lately.

It’s been a little rough lately as my Dell Notebook computer had a motherboard failure and I’ve been mooching computer time off of my roommate Yassir (Who I’m eternally grateful for…well…maybe not eternally…but pretty close). I just had the motherboard replaced 5 months ago and it went again and they refused to replace it, I bought a new computer (and won’t ever again buy from Dell). I haven’t got it yet, but it will be a big change. Say it with me: “MacBook Pro.”

Oh yeah….election…well it seems there is a Conservative Minority (with more Liberals than I expected), just as I predicted, with my Liberal Candidate winning…so it’s not too bad. I expect a very short parliament…and another election…oh goody. Well, I’d better get back to studying.

Currently Listening to: Sic Transit Gloria… Glory Fades - Brand New
Random Wikipedia Article: Celebrity Jeopardy