sunday best

in beeld

since we were driving for 7 hours straight, i turned to my camera to keep myself entertained. the one good thing that comes out of not stopping for so long, is the strength of our bladders, such that i am convinced we are more than ready for a road trip across canada.

while i take the next few days to fret over getting pictures loaded, i might as well give a basic summary of the trip, which pretty much involved hitting every possible red light.

this was taken at rockford, rather close to home, but yet again we hit the red light.

augustana - stars and boulevards

when it is all said and done

again, it certainly has been a while.

and again, a lot has happened. i am no longer unemployed. the red wings won the stanley cup. holland performed brilliantly, and then when it mattered most, completely unbrilliant. so now that i will be ridding the house of all the flags, i am going to prepare a little statement for everyone at work as to why i wont be driving around with my flags anymore.

:(

since my last update, i have also graduated. and have gone to see my new school in ottawa. if i could calculate my feelings in to percentages, i would probably say i am 40 per cent excited, and 60 per cent scared. little chicken that i am.

i also have tons of pictures to add, but since i am both lazy and busy, and alogether tired of this supposedly high-speed internet, i will do that at a later time.

till then.

long time no see

it certainly has been a while. and seeing that i have previously established a distinct pattern of blogging a lot when i am busy, and not very much when i am not so busy, it can be concluded that i have not been very busy. well, i have kept busy, but not really. the next few weeks look promising though, as there will be tons of visitors from holland, and much fun to be had.

ps. go red wings
ps. HUP holland HUP!

Ottawa: here I come!

goodbye Hamilton. hello Ottawa.
dear Ottawa though, you will have to wait about 4 months before I will grace you with my presence, as I will be making a pitstop in Owen Sound.

can I just say how excited I am?
also about how excited I am that I found a copy of Boyzone - by request for only a few dollars, same as Matchbox 20?

:-)

all i want to do ...

.... is laundry.

why?

because i know i have to study. and i can think of a million things i'd rather do.
coffee count: 3

augustana - stars and boulevards

"do you not know, have you not heard ..."

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens?
Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?

... He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

... the LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall:
but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles: they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

from Isaiah 40 (NIV)

What is it good for? Absolutely nothi...: eh. This one is for the memories

We may have tried hard ... to no avail. Or we may have been in a losing battle from the beginning. No matter how you look at it, it has been producing some embarrassment. Especially for the fans, who really cannot control anything, but how loud they are in the building. And CBC announcers being drowned out by the boos and cheers, taunts and praises, is sufficient evidence that the fans, have not failed our team. The other way around, is subject to enough debate as it is. But for how much it is worth, the senators produced some memorable moments, while the team of flightless birds, well, will be moving on, without any flash. So, this is why the series was not all bad:

5. the Gary Roberts pillow factor.

4. the anthem sung at SBP

3. the a-train putting the flight in flightless bird: hit on Crosby

2. Gerber save after Volchenkov gets puck in the face.

1. game 2, when the senators were down 3 goals, and caught up. the silence in pittsburgh and surrounding area, was definitely worth hearing. even though it did not last nearly long enough. this was also the game where we finally scored. yay!

goodbye 2007-8 season: hello, next year.

ensemble of ones

1 more exam

1 huge decision

1 more game?

Series: 0 - 3

foo fighters - home

|cc| mission control

still my superstars

0 - 2

please don't make me sing linkin park in the end ever again. please?

on another note: i am officially done classes. assignments. essays. tests. only one more exam, and hasta la vista 'too bad we never made too good of friends' mcmaster. now, there is only the future to (worry about) look forward to. and a calculus exam.

coffee and donuts

who needs energy drinks when you can just get yourself a good old-fashioned sugar high?

lupe fiasco (ft. matthew santos) - superstar

spring is here!

between the bushes i was able to take a snapshot of this beautiful creature on my walk to school this morning :)

matthew ryan - jane i still feel the same

4 more hours of econ classes, 2 more hours of calculus, and 1 more hour of history. one more presentation, one more essay, one more assignment, and one more final exam. wow!

and can i just say how much i am going to miss my history seminar class entitled the north american city. i know so much more about hamilton than i would ever really care to, but i also feel so much more enlightened about cities, space and its people.

surprises

i am listening to a mars volta song ... and i actually like it.

and the ninjas have been defeated. my army of cowboys and bunnies has redefined glory. (well that remains to be seen as i may not have written a very good paper on japan).


toothpastefordinner.com

my tune

i guess the credit is at the bottom of this picture, as i was far too lazy to edit it out.

change is not enough

Glance at the sun.

See the moon and the stars.

Gaze at the beauty of earth’s greenings.

Now, think.

-Hildegard von Bingen-

two more weeks: monsters and jelly beans. no, chocolate. because chocolate is on sale.

"you are now in 3 dimensional space, congratulations" (this falls under the category of interesting statements made by mac educators, kind of like when the phrase "sexy topic" was used to announce taxation)
woohoo! me and my wonderfully advanced ability to visualize things are so excited. i am glad however to spend some time in calculus covering topics which i have studied for three years in economics. maybe one tiny thing in this course is going to be working out for me. unlike integration for example (created by sherry):
between now and tomorrow, i am going to be cranking out a paper. i can do it! i have to.

falling leafs [5] - sens with less [4]

well that was painful. entertaining. but terribly painful. i am pretty sure that the bad guys will not forget this affair as they look upon their bruises caused by a ride on the a-train. i like to blame the referees. and the giveaways.

still, another sad face in my agenda. le sigh.

can i tell you how much i like the powerwise commercial? it does not come close to the miller commercial, but it is so cute.

augustana - stars and boulevards

titleless

a couple of weeks ago i was on the bus and could not find one of my gloves. i thought i had lost it somewhere between waiting for the bus and getting on the bus. and surely the other day, a very rainy day (i might add), and a couple of weeks later it was just lying there, all wet and lonely on the curb in front of shoppers drug mart. and for some reason i felt so sad for it. like i was choosing to keep it lying there, so lonely and cold, after it had kept me so warm for much of the winter. now, i know that it is somewhat silly beyond belief, but i have been thinking about going back there and picking it up. i guess in some sense, someone swedish should appear on my screen and tell me "it is because you are crazy, it has no feelings." and if not that, this might just appear on your screen. thanks anna.

and can i impart to you how excited i am to receive a copy of the bbc drama north and south in the mail today? teehee.

keane - try again

the countdown is on ...

1 major seminar paper done, 2 more to go
1 major seminar presentation done, 2 more to go
no more midterms, ever.
2 more assignments.
1 more final exam.

perhaps the thought of having to carry all my books to the library and begging them to let me renew one more time is clouding over my happiness of almost finishing. for now anyways.

matt costa - these arms

that makes me most of us

"there are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads. the choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. of course, when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back."