16 February 2006

Midterms

The Legislative Assembly came back this week, just as midterms began. Thanks for the good timing, Dalton. There have been some scandals and emotional confessions in the chamber as of late, and I truly find it emotionaly exhasuting. I don't know how the politicos handle the constant bombardement.

Valentine's Day was no better. In fact, it was arguably the worst day I've had in ages, although entirely unrelated to my romantic life. You know those days when you wake up and everything just goes wrong? I wanted to just crawl back into bed and sleep. Thankfully midterms and work are over for the week, and I can focus on obsessivley playing flash games, which is my compulsion du jour.

Reading Week is next week, and beyond working and catching up on school, the options are few. I have been asked to go to London, Ontario next weekend, which I am contemplating although I have a dififcult time reconciling the idea of visting the very place I mock so often for its thieved name. But an opportunity to leave the downtown core is always welcome. As much as I adore my neighbourhood, and realize how very privileged I am to live in such an incredible location, in a top-floor apartment overlooking Yorkville, the university campus and with a prime view of Toronto's only castle, it gets tiring constantly being surrounded by city noise.

Oh, one last Ontario-politics reference... this MPP is the spitting image of my dad. "Daddy, is that you?"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm sorry to hear that your Valentines was crappy. Unfortunately I think Greig and I can top you. He was in a freaky car accident while doing an escort at work. Greig was the passenger in the car when it lost control and the engine died (including the use of breaks) while entering the freeway and spun onto the freeway facing oncoming traffic and then were hit by the trailor of a semi. Had the impact occured six feet closer he would have been dead. Amazingly he his doing just fine, but it was a bit of a shake up. One of those days where you realise how precious life is.

Shannon

Leonard said...

holy crap shannon, that's insane. i really hope greig is alright!