new stuff

I'm missing my "roomie". I get to see her for dinner tomorrow...which reminds me I haven't called her...I'll call you tonight chelle! The next week is so, so busy and then I think I sort of have a week off. yay! my dissertation prelim is scheduled finally, so I'm meeting with my committee on Oct 16th to see if they like me enough to let me continue :) Also, their pass on my dissertation gives me clearance to apply to internship. So, just a little bit is riding on this!
I also bought my ticket for New Years tonight! It's going to be one doosey of a flight...leaving Vancouver BC at 8:20pm and flying all night to arrive in Jacksonville at 10:30am the next day! whew. Maybe I'll invest in one of those airline sleep sack things that I saw in the Inflight magazine.

whistler, bc

I'm going to Whistler this Christmas with my friend Jen! So I've been trying to scope out some deals on ski jackets and clothing. I found this today at The House online. Great deal and SO cute! I ordered it today, can't wait for it to arrive!

hahaha

The cockberg was photographed by Andy Rouse* in the Bransfield Strait near Antarctica.

fire retardant clocks

So at GFU most of the graduate programs are at a smaller campus in the city rather than the main campus. However, my program is one of the only graduate programs on the main campus. We used to be relegated to a small corner of one of the buildings and tried to juggle all of our classes between 2 rooms. Furthermore we've gone through a lot of changes over the past 2 years. From trying to hold class in a room with literal jackhammers outside or cranes accidently breaking through windows, to being moved into the old hospital before it was ready and having empty buckets catch dripping water right next to our laptops. My cohort has seen it all to be sure!

With all of that you'd think I'd be happy with having a decently renovated building with our own space finally. But there always has to be someone create more red tape and stupid rules. Over the past 2 semesters all of our clocks in our classrooms have slowly been disappearing. It was until today that I found out our security people have been taking down our clocks because they are not fire retardant!!! honestly, wtf?!? fire retardant clocks?? are you serious GFU??? God forbid we have a fire and the 12" clock on the wall is the one thing responsible for burning down the building!

I found myself looking at the empty space on the wall all day hoping for the end of class yet not knowing how much more I had to wait...Also, I google searched for fire retardant clocks and I don't think they even exist!!