Update #2: Matt smells.

Update #1: The pop-tart was crispy on the edges, nummy and warm in the middle. All goes well. ^_^

Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful, since we've no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
It snowed yesterday! It was incredibly nice and such a mood picker upper. I think I wrote a post about snow way back on the 'mother blog' and if you are one of those who actually read it and remember then you know how much I love snow. I took a break after Ryo started to pelt my window with snowballs. I couldn't resist when they were all outside having fun. I stayed out for a bit just wandering around and hitting my friends with snowballs. Snow is so relaxing. The white is so peaceful and when it falls, well... ya. I'm not going to get into that. Me and Corey went for a walk to look up Spanish stuff in the AQ and on the way we found some rez guys making a giant snow dick. What do you expect hey? When we walked back we stopped and made a small snowman on the ledge of the walkway, I think it got knocked down though. I hardly expected it to even last the night with the kind of guys we have here. It was really nice to be all bundled up with my new boots on, a hot chocolate in my hand, and walking around in the snow at night. The lights from the city were so serene behind the white powder that was falling over us.
Oh! And I'm toasting a pop-tart on my electric heater. It's browning! I happen to find that exciting though I think it's semi-dangerous. Oh well, taking it off before it burns down the place and they blame it on me.
Ciao.

Everybody have fun tonight
(oh and I wonder if anyone has noticed that I usually put songs as my titles, meh)
I need to post more. That way I can bury all my old posts in a snowfall of new posts. Since starting up here at SFU, I've posted so much more then before. Not like the posts I have made were very in depth or well thought out pieces of writing, but I guess it gives me a way to vent and tell somebody about all the work I'm doing.
I picked my courses for next semester. All I have to say is that if you aren't on scholarship, they kick you in the ass many times and I'm pretty sure they enjoy doing it too. I couldn't take: Bio, Japanese, Italian, Political Science, English, French, History, Anthropology, Chinese, Criminology, most likely not Spanish, and several others as well. I couldn't take anything in those departments because all the classes were either a) full b) conflicted with my psych class or a couple others c) the prerequisite classes weren't being offered this semester and d) the exam times conflicted.
So my schedule next semester will most likely be Psych, Philosophy, Sociology, more Psych and maybe a Spanish class if I feel like going into Vancouver to take it. *sigh* I hate conflicts.
Now it's time to write my 9 page essay for English. I need to really modify my topic. After that then I will have time to study for Biology Lab Final which is Friday. Grrrr...

Cleaning! Oh joy! Well I was doing that today and now my room is spick and span. I also managed to clean out my bookmarks on my computer because I had way too many silly things in there. In the process of sorting, I found my "autobiography" from grade 11 which I made in a day. Basically everything in it is distorted to suit the pictures I could find that were on my computer already so I didn't need to scan anything in. Basically that means that a lot is made up, but it's still fun to look at.

I just called to say I love you, I just called to say how much I care, I just called to say I love you.... and I mean it from the bottom of my heart.
Oldies are fun to listen to. Yesterday me and Corey danced around to some oldies songs. Ones I know my mom loves, she's such a sap for old songs.
It's amazing how many things have happened in the last couple of years. I've had so much love in my life, not saying that I haven't had my share of pain, but at this moment, the happy times are making me nostalgic. I was organising my pictures into albums and well seeing everything from before makes you miss what you had. I talked to Keren for a bit on msn today. I miss seeing her and talking to her every day. She's always happy and smiling and it's hard not to have fun when you're around her. I haven't talked to Louis in way too long. I wonder what's going on with him. Looking at my pictures from when I visited him reminded me so much of when I could actually see him every day. My favorite picture in that was one on Canada Day where me and Louis found Cooper in Ottawa. Back then that picture was just cool because I met someone I know even being far from home, now it's so much different because there is added history between me and Cooper. So many fun times and things I'm going to miss.
I do love it here. The people are different then my friends from before, but I think that's what I like about them. I would feel too sad every day if I was reminded of who I am missing. Everything has changed and I doubt that anything will ever go back to how it used to be.
I wonder who will still be with me twenty years from now.
- Natalie

Taking a break to watch Bridget Jones' Diary. I've never seen it and it just so happened to be on TV while I was flipping through on my break so I might as well watch it. It's raining so much outside. I think that's part of the reason I was so cranky this morning. After my nap I was much better, but before was hell. I was doing Spanish and my head hurt too much to continue so I stopped and napped. It went much smoother after that. Now I only have a couple of sections to finish in the morning. I wonder how I will ever be able to finish my english. Oh well.

Tomorrow is Damariz's birthday and we got her a fish, 'we' meaning Shilpa and I. It's cute but doesn't want to eat, which reminds me that I really should feed it soon, but I have to wait until Ryo comes back so I can get the food out of his freezer. Then I will clean the bowl and give her the pretty fishy.
I have an incredible amount of work to do. I really have to buckle down and actually work too because some things just can't be done in one day. Today I should finish/start Spanish assignment number nine and then do four questions for Psychology and after I really should finish reading Occupied for English. We'll see what happens though.

Two must reads:
Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai
and
Power Politics by Arundhati Roy (mostly the article called "The Algebra of Infinite Justice")

The first is a weird mix of sci-fi, old time myths and new age politics. It is actually a really good read fictionally even without the messages of Globalization and such coming through. The second is full of short essays concerning global issues and really show an interesting view of the situations.
Now study time!

I died my hair! Ok so it's just a 8-10 wash deal and well it's only redish, but still, this is new for me. I haven't ever died my hair before. Woo! Shilpa and Damariz both helped me though Damariz ran off with Matt for most of it. Next time I'll do this when I'm not as tired.

Fear
I absolutely hate assignments that are worth a lot of your mark. The last psych assignment I got and thought that I did well on, I failed. Now I have another one that is worth about 8x more and I can't seem to start it. I'm way too worried about how well I'll do. I just don't think I'm cut out for this sometimes. When I try hard I fail, when I don't try hard I fail. Everything just equals fail. Not very encouraging.

This amused me:

I was born in the Year 1986 And my favorite color is Blue

Take the flooble Birth-Year Quiz

Random stupid quizzes are fun.

School is still killing me
So I failed the written part of my last psych midterm 13/30. I thought that I did much better, oh well.
My body is turning against me. I'm getting sick. My head feels heavy and my shoulders have so much pressure on them which is making my breathing slow and hard which is making me dizzy and it's making it hard to concentrate. *sigh*

Want to see something cool? Try to find the only difference between these pictures. You will be pleasantly surprised.

Some random fact
I'm not sure if you know this, but me and Cooper broke up at the end of September. So now I'm technically single. We lasted a year and two months almost. It's amazing how long and how short that feels all at the same time.

Strawberry Poptarts
They give us a long weekend to make us happy and then they take it away by making us have huge projects due the week after. Where is the justice? Tomorrow I have to study the whole day and actually learn how to speak Spanish for my speaking exam on Friday. *sigh*

School Update!
Well studying for many many many days (ok so it was just those 3 in a row) made it so I got 67% on the Multiple Choice part of the 2nd Psych Midterm which is the same mark I got on the 1st Midterm set of Multiple Choice, but this time there was double the amount of questions. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing. I think though that it's really sad when I see this as a good mark. For this one I was 2 points above average which does make me happy, wooo smarter than the average joe ;) Now I just sit and wait for my essay mark to come back. *sigh*
I saw The Incredibles on Friday. It was a great movie. I urge everyone to go out and see it. It was so refreshing from the normal superhero movie and I was pleasantly surprised. I haven't seen a movie of that caliber in a while. This was one of those movies that doesn't really dumb down to the kid level and it did a good job of intergrading real life situations into the fictional world. For example, the reason that the superheroes went away in the first place was because they started being sued when they saved someone that didn't want to be saved or they saved someone and as a result, the person was injured. That's exactly what is happening in today’s society, not with superheroes of course, but instead with doctors and how many don't do certain operations anymore for fear of being sued if something goes wrong. Many of these operations are high risk and have a high chance of something going wrong in the first place, but many doctors are being blamed when it does even when it was not directly related to the doctor's actions.
Anyways, I have a lot of work to do and much more studying to get done. I'm actually working on the next chapter for Psych now instead of right before the final so that I may get better because next time I won't be learning it for the first time three days before the exam.
Sweet dreams,
nat

Pain! Horrible, horrible pain! *gurgle gurgle die*
OK so that was slightly dramatic, but I do indeed have pain, much pain, in my back and neck. The muscles that allow my neck to bend forward don't work anymore and they feel as if they have been stabbed at several times when I do try (that isn't being over dramatic). So basically I won't be moving my neck forward any time soon. Ladidadida. This is what happenes to me when I am hunched over my books for three straight days. The only break I get is sleep (and I curl into a ball with my neck bent forward too so that doesn't help), food (I have to look down to eat) and class time (well ok so here I get a break because my head is upwards, go figure, class is good for me). Oh and I failed the psych assignment that I was working on forever. Wooo! Go me :P