And here I thought I knew all there was to know about my family.

I feel less informed and more annoyed than I was before. But that's nothing new now is it?


In other news, my Psychology textbook has a little prounciation lines for words like lesion and autonomic but not for words like electroencephalogram and it amuses me.


And being the curious commuter, I took the bus along the Transitway and ventured to Bayview and took the O-Train.

Though 10x shorter in length and station length than Calgary, it owns the C-Train in looks and size hands down. (It's like riding in a commuter train and it felt "luxurious" inside kinda. I was impressed)

Also bought the Monty Python Ministry of Silly Walks poster today. Steps included.

What's new with everyone? I hear it snowed in Calgary. :O

Go watch HEROES tonight.

TV recommendation from moi;

That new show on NBC called "Heroes"? Yeah that one. Go watch it. It just finished and oh my goodness. (Hiro, the Japanese salaryman, is made of various levels of special. He also quotes star trek and makes references to the space-time continuum)

Not that the two brothers or the son of the Indian geneticist aren't interesting either.


But er--go watch it.

*promptly headdesks*

I'm sick whoo! Actually, not 'whoo!' because being sick=bad. Neo Citran has become my new best friend now...so have kleenex and sneezing is now a daily occurence . Though, I would prefer to sneeze lots than cough lots---the latter is more painful for my chest.

That and, I couldn't get into JPN 1901 after emailing the prof. Meaning, I'll have to play the "Check 'Availible Courses' page" game everyday until the 21st s/he (The prof has one of the hundreds of gender-neutral names in Japanese). Buh.

And the dreaded R and D words...Hm. It was everpresent in Calgary, but apparently I barely noticed it in Montréal (or in Calgary for that matter). I tend to like being blissfully ignorant sometimes about the whole matter. Call it a defence mechanism if you will. *shrugs*

I'm briefly interrupting the broadcast to make an announcement

I've become a Doctor Who fan. *hears the cries of "Oh dear..."* This proves I really must have some deep love for British shows courtesy of mum introducing me to the original Avengers one day. (The Avengers--the original!, The New Avengers, MI-5/spooks, Second Sight, Poirot, Mulberry, My Family, Postman Pat, Wallace and Gromit, Mr Bean, Thin Blue Line etc.)

*hums the theme song for a bit*

And, I have made over 200 posts in this blog.

And dear CBC,
Why couldn't Series II of the new Doctor Who start earlier than October 9th? Better yet, why couldn't episodes be aired a week or two after the British air-date instead?

Oh and dear BBC,
In Series III, I hear you're introducing a new companion for the Doctor who's British-African which I would assume is a big first in the series since it began in 1963 (and she reminds me of the girl from Zixx which has and maybe never will air in the UK. Yes I did at one point, watch Zixx) From pictures that I tried so hard to avoid because of spoilers, she looks cool. You guys (or well, the writers) deserve some cookies.

If you're curious about Doctor Who, the newest Doctor (referred to as the Tenth Doctor) is portrayed by David Tennant, aka Barty Crouch Jr. from Harry Potter (and if you saw Cassanova, he was there too) I haven't seen the episodes with Tennant because that series doesn't air until Oct 9th. The Ninth Doctor was played my Christopher Eccleston who was pretty good.


Okay, off to bed before I get sick because I think I might be coming down with something,
G'night

College shooting in Montréal.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/09/13/montreal-witness.html

Well, it's total chaos there right now my mum's friend says. A girl they're letting stay with them from Jamaica attends Dawson College and just started her first year. I'm being told she's okay and that she had ran to a restaurant or bar further away.

Concordia is sheltering students (it's only 3 or 4 blocks away) too at Sir George Williams.

I could try and describe what area is shut down but many of you probably don't know the area. The mall/shopping plaza you might be hearing about--Alexis-Nihon-- was a shopping plaza I used to go to on many, many occaisions with mum and dad. The plaza is located right next door to the college and is connected tot he metro station underground and I had walked down there this summer in front of the college where all the chaos is which, when I think about it was only a few weeks ago.

Most of the metro apparently has been shut down on the green line from Lionel to Peel. So it's almost as if downtown near that area is locked down. Anyone looking to go home, students included because the metros in front of Dawson and Concorcia---Atwater and Guy-Concordia respectively---are closed. Yeah...

Bloody hell.

That's just not supposed to happen.

Not in that part of the city either.

Msn? Bah.

Call this a 'I hate technology' moment but some of you may (or may not) have noticed my new screename (I hardly think most people do). Reason behind it?

I'm really, really disliking the use of MSN as a means to communicate. I mean, whatever happened to the phone? I'm just finding the use of MSN really silly. You send a message, you wait a few minutes for a reply. It's not as good as a phonecall, you can't keep up a 'fluid' conversation really also, through MSN and any IM-type programme for that matter, it's very hard to tell what the person is saying. By this, I mean that the conversions lack the ability sometimes to convey an emotion. You can't tell in what sense someone is writing something or what tone they've assumed. You can't tell if someone is really "listening" or in this, case reading. (When you're IM'ing you're not talking, you're typing)

Mind, since many of you are surely busy, a phonecall isn't possible and I recognize that; I just don't want to use MSN anymore at the moment (it's a really good thing then that I didn't go for a seperate phone line altogether---that would've been a HUGE waste of money). MSN isn't altogether bad, it's just...there are times (and have been very many times) where I just want to talk to people rathter than type, wait, type another sentence, wait, type a word, wait etc. etc. (I think I've just grown tired of Instant Messeging)

In reality, no one really ever phones me (much) so *shrug* to that. Actually the only people who ever phoned me were relatives...or well, most if not all the phonecalls to our house in Calgary were calls for dad. I've been more a secretary than anything. Meh.

I'm going to stick to email (gmail) and the telephone for methods of communication for a bit. May or not sign in to MSN unless I really need to. You know, hearing a voice is better than the clickity-clackity of a keyboard and the 'do-do-da!' of the reply alarms.

Skype works too, it's just I'll only be able to type and listen but not speak. Again, box of stuff still has not arrived and I doubt dad has sent it.

(I can be up this late because I have a class at 1pm.)

Well merde,

Making this post short as I must sleep.

So TV Tuner thing on laptop wasn't working so lady at HP suggested I use the PC Recovery. What she told me, was that the only thing that would've changed would be my desktop. What she hadn't suggested to me nor inform me was that the PCR would be similar to a reformat of one's HDD. So, I lost everything I had uploaded onto one of my two drives. I don't belive I backed up any of my photos but I am hoping that one of my CDs in my box of stuff has something. (But I doubt that because I remember deleting some of the folders after I had uploaded them.) But this means I lost alot of photos.

Montreal photos are still on my camera but other photos, debate, provs, BP, random random pics are at the moment all gone. I think I have provs on a CD but missing two photos because I was stupid and Montreal photos but that's it. Photographs...I hate loosing photographs.

Guess the lesson learned is keep stuff backed up and stored on the 2nd HD.

I guess I'll just try and keep my mind on school and hope that I either backed up the photos or that I didn't actually delete them off dad's laptop. Oh I start my first Socio class tomorrow morning too.

So I really didn't keep this short. Ah well. Oh and France beat Italy 3-1. Me=slightly happier.