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Hey there,

Been quite a little while... well, with how October was going and all... would've expected more frequent updates..

Anyway...

I just wanted to start off with a little something that made me go... "hmm" or "huh" (not huh?? but huh! or hah! if you prefer). Just something that makes me wonder...

To begin at the beginning (or as much of a biginning as this story has), this past Saturday night, I had a dream. I dreamt basically about how I was gonna go to Bosnia for X-mas holidays (which is true)... and somehow I had this extra/free ticket, and for one reason or other neither of my parents were able to go or something, so I ask Meli to join me... leaving out everything else, here's the important point: Meli was in my dream. Yes? Okay.

Now, fast forward to the next day... It had been maybe a month or so since I had seen Meli and Edi... And as I was coming home at about 7:20PM on Sunday, guess who was at my place? Meli and Edi (and their parents too).

So, we have, my dream at night, followed by seeing who I'd dreamt of the next day.

Now, fast forward to today. I saw Sasha on the bus tonight. And him I haven't seen since... oh, I don't know... probably that party at Stef's at the end of August (unless you count a couple of times when I saw him on his bike while I was on the bus... which I wouldn't count..but anyway... that was still well over a month ago..nearly 2 months now)... So, before he got off, he said that last night he dreamt that Hans and him were looking for my house or something like that... and today he saw me.

This just makes me go... huh, isn't that interesting? Could it be coincidence? Perhaps. It's just odd that both these dreams followed by reality happened a mere day apart. It's like my dream w/ Meli in it = Sat night, me see Meli Sunday. Sasha's dream w/ me in it = Sun night, he sees me Monday. So odd.

Not to say that dreams can predict who you'll... oh my goodness, and that one time, when it had been about a month since I'd seen Liz, I had a dream about her that night, and then saw her that day (I think I wrote about that in here...). WHAT THE HELL??? lol, who else have I not seen in a while who I could dream about? Hmm... let's see if this baby works. lol.

Wait, I also saw Sid on Sunday, and hadn't seen her in just under a month Sunday (a day short of a month)... but I didn't dream of her the night before. Alright, so I guess it's an "if ... then" theorem, not an "if and only if" theorem (you know you've just sat through an entire day filled with Calculus when! lol)... So yes, IF one dreams of a person they haven't seen in at least a month or so, THEN one sees them the following day. Right. LoL, I'm not saying this is true.

Hell, what if I dream tonight about someone I cannot see because a) they aren't in KW/nearby, b) they aren't alive, c) for any other reason I don't have even the slightest chance of seeing them.

You know what, another connection to Sasha - yesterday at the movies, we saw this one guy who for a moment, from behind looked like Sasha (he had dreads, but they were too short, and didn't look like Sasha's... and from the front he looked nothing like Sasha, but there was that MOMENT of considering it might be Sasha.. a very very short moment... until all the differences were very very evident)... and then he has the dream, and we see each other the next day... hmm... I wonder if Meli had ANYTHING related to me AT ALL happen on Saturday or something...

Okay, now that I've established how much of a freak I am for you know, contemplating whether there's some sort of telepathy/future-prediction thing going on there... I'll move on.

Let's start w/ the most recent things first. Today. So, today, I had my 4 standard lectures. At 12:30 I went to meet Andrew for our regularly scheduled Monday lunch hour. He didn't show. I went to the STJ library to study Calculus.

Which brings me to the fact that I had a Calculus mid-term tonight, which I had PLANNED to study for a bit on Fri, Sat, Sun, Today.

However, Friday I ended up spending on mainly Philosophy and then saying "meh, too late to start studying now... I'll go online instead" oh and of course, also watching matrix reloaded, so that revolutions can make sense (details from a movie don't stick in my memory for like... a year - when I had seen reloaded)...

So, Saturday... get this, I spent the ENTIRE day in my PJs! Yet... I did NO school work whatsoever! Well, nothing for the courses I'm taking... a lot of it was spent talking, thinking, figuring things out, etc... and then again, "meh, too late now, go online"...

Then, Sunday. Sid and I planned to go see Matrix Rev. at 1:40... so I figured, no time to study before then..so, go online... Sid calls me to ask if we can go to the 4:40 instead, which was fine by me... and I said "oh well then I can study for Calculus until then" but I was already on the computer, so no way you'll get me off...

And so, until it was time to leave for the movies I was online... then we watched the movie... ended a little before 7, her dad picked us up at 7-something... I came home around 7:20 or 7:30 or so... and as I mentioned, Meli and Edi were over. Which of course meant, my plan of studying when I got home, poof, disappeared. They left at like 9:30, and the computer was so inviting because it was just..on. (I swear, it's not an addiction! I swear it! =P)

And yes, at about 10:30 I got off, and decided to get ready for bed early.. of course, since I'd gone to bed at like... 3am the nights before... I couldn't fall asleep... the tegan and sara cd played at least 3 or 4 times through fully before I fell asleep (the cd is about 37 minutes long... so must have been around 1 or 1:30 by the time I fell asleep... cuz I got IN bed at about 11)...

That meant that it was the day OF my mid-term yet I had spent absolutely NO time studying for it at all. Eep. I thought I was dead for certain. And as I had mentioned earlier, at about 12:30 I started studying for Calculus.

I couldn't seem to focus very well, so shortly after 1, I went to the STJ office to get course override forms... went on the computer to get the info I needed and filled out the sheets... when that was done, I went to Prof. Conrad Hewitt to get him to sign the form for his course. Cyntha and JP weren't available at that time - at least not that I know of... I can see JP tomorrow and Cyntha Wednesday (could've got her to sign it at the midterm tonight... oh well).

So, yes. I got back to studying eventually. And the focus was low, so not too much was accomplished... I figured maybe the fact that I ate absolutely nothing that day (uh, today) was contributing to this, so at around 3-ish I left to go to university plaza, being that they don't take interac anywhere on campus (that I know of) and I only had about $3.50 cash on me... So, I got some grub, ate, all that...

Headed back at about 3:40... and then I seemed much more focused (I think I was so focused that I never even took note of the fact that as soon as I ate my focus increased...wow).. anyway, I was studying away... pretty much on task the whole time...

Then at about 6:50, I went over to the room I was supposed to write it (which is on the same floor as the library... so really it was like a 2 second walk lol)... uhm, so yes. And I was doing my standard "yeah, I rock! We're all gonna get 100%!" thing... and then just kinda bouncing around... trying to get myself pumped/confident. Started talking Adrian's ear off - I always talk to him lots... lol, he's just so nerdy. I love my nerds (mmm, candy *drools*). lol. All this usually helps... and yes... off we went... and mmm... nice mid-term..

There was a question which since it was 1.b) I barely could remember afterwards... but, I did it wrong. I don't know, might get a mark or something, but I messed up... I tried doing it on the bus from the univ. to downtown, and yeah, I got it... but oh well. that's 2 marks lost out of 50 (assuming I'm getting 1 mark on that question)... and being that I really do feel confident about this one... I'd estimate around 46/50... depending on how many silly mistakes I made, that could range a bit... I'd say from 44-48 (reeeally doubt the 48 though... maybe 47, but doubt 48)...

Anyhoo. Yes. That covers sort of all the events surrounding Calculus (or lack thereof during the weekend)...

Now... uhm. What was Ari gonna talk about... well... a couple things...

Yeah, I had my PHIL paper due on Friday... on Thursday night, the plan was to stay up as long as necessary (until it is finished)... of course, I decided instead to go to sleep and set my watch to go off at 4:30 so that I'd have a few hours to work on it... mind you, the watch somehow ended up like, under my stomach/back (I forgot which of the two I was laying on)... and so, the sound of the alarm was not heared by my ears... instead, I woke up to the sound of my mom waking me up because it's 7... meaning: get ready, go to class, no time for any work...

Okay, so I figure... meh, I guess I have no time to get it done since I'm busy until like... 4pm, which would mean that I'd have to hand it in Monday and lose 10%... which is actually a pretty good deal - gain 3 nights, lose 10%.. of course, there was the issue also of the fact that I needed to study for Calculus (lol...we saw how that turned out)... but anyway... after class... I asked the prof... just to make sure... whether it is expected that we hand the paper in on Sat/Sun, or is it still a 10% loss on Monday... he said Monday would be fine, but that he won't be picking them up until later tonight... I ask when, he says around 8pm... I think 'wonderful!' and go off on my merry little way...

So, then, at 4-ish... I started writing my essay... and a bit before 7 I was done... then I just sorta read it over, made the odd little edit (odd meaning occasional not strange), did the title page, printed it, all that... and off I went to submit it. By then it was maybe 7:25... I peeked into his dropbox and saw some papers in there.. tried to see, and the title had the name of the author and the book in it, so I figured those must be our class' essays, and he hasn't picked them up yet... which is sort of like "sweet!".. so I hand it in... oh, and one thing: as I approached the STJ building... it was locked.. but some prof was getting in, so he unlocked it... otherwise I doubt I would have been able to submit it. Anyhoo... after that I cought my bus (which surprisingly hadn't left yet) and went home...

So, yeah... I think the reason I never seem to learn to not put things off is because it really hasn't come to bite me in the ass too too many times. I mean, come on... after a mid-term like the one tonight, considering how much I studied and WHEN I studied... and that I did my essay all the day of, and yeah... I seem to be doing fine... so, why change, right? Right.

Oooh, for the essay... I sort of am taking a risk with the organization/format... he might decide he hates it, which I think might result in like... a 70 or something. Maybe even 65. Or he might love it and it ends up being like 90 or something... Clearly I like it, otherwise I wouldn't have done it the way I did, but it's possible that he might not... although I think the MOST likely possibility is that it won't have too much of an influence... as in, I don't think it'll change the mark I would have received making the same arguments in a more "standard" way... but, we'll see. My expectation: I don't know... 80 maybe.

Anyway, I should go sleep... it's 1:40... I was studying for my algebra quiz that I have tomorrow morning for a bit too a while ago... So yes. Gotta get up by 11:30... I can do that, lol.

I'll have to update again soon... gotta update about what's been up since Saturday...

Night.

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