Today was the international Buy Nothing Day. Convieniently it is the same day as Black Friday. Our club had a stuff swap on campus. It was a store set up, but no money was exchanged.. just items. Kinda cool. Unfortunately today was also the big Country Christmas Craft Show at the Exhibition Grounds. Over 177 craft booths! :) I did go, and I did buy a couple of items (as gifts of course). I also wanted to scout it out, since I plan to have a booth next year for my cards. Last year I had said I wanted a booth this year... but I'm still in school. So next year... I have it in writing now... that I WILL have a booth at the craft show. There were 2 other card booths there this year. One of which the cards weren't very nice and they were charging $4 a card. The other one had great cards. :) I would considered mine to be on the same level as theirs. They were charging $3.50 a card. So I scouted it out, and both booths were selling a number of cards while we were there, so YAY!

My cats have been fantastic lately. I thought they'd be all over the tree, but they just leave it alone. Actaully they've been napping under it, but not disturbing it. Which is wonderful.

At this point, I think there is no way I can fail any of my classes. I think I'll even get through chem with a somewhat decent mark (my lab is definately going to drag up my mark). In lecture I'm sitting at 56% (higher than I thought), and she gave out a make up assignment which is able to add 6%to the top of my mark. So say I only get 50% on the assignment, I will be sitting at 59%. Which means I only need above a 40% on the final. :) which I can guarentee I'll get. So YAY!!! No chem worries anymore. With th lab factored in, I should get 65-75% on the course in the end. YAY for lab, even though it is a very brutal lab.

Ohh and I charged up my cell phone for the first time in,.... 8 or 9 months! They're threatening to cut me off if I don't use it soon. So I figure I'll carry it this week, and one day I'll call Josh to get him to pick me up!

I was reading yesterday about christmas trees and the environment. Artificial trees (which I have) are bad in that they have so many chemicals in them. Which really isn't bad, until it hits the land fill. Real trees, well.. you're cutting them down and killing them. Now being a christmas freak, christmas just isn't christmas without a christmas tree. So it gave a solution. In some cities you can rent a tree. It's a really neat idea. You pay a rental fee, and the tree comes burlapped up (roots), and after the holidays, the tree is picked up and gets planted within the city, whether it be a park, a schoolyard or something! It's brilliant! Right now this program is available in San Fransisco and Portland. Hopefully it takes off elsewhere for next year. If you have a real tree... make sure to recycle it at the end of the season!

Radium was fantastic! Relaxing and enjoyable! We got to enjoy the facilities within the condo (billiards..... I lost, but it was fun), movies and sleeping. The condo was very nice, very spacious. Josh's parents decided to buy. So now we will be able to enjoy it a couple times a year.

Once again I am working on Chemistry. I just don't get this stuff. I'm on my second time around in this course, and it's not any easier. In fact, having a different prof different material is covered. The average on the midterm from last week was in the 40% range.... which means I probably did even worse than that. I haven't found out yet (she's planning to hand out the marks tomorrow). I REALLY don't want to fail this class a second time. That would push back graduation, and I don't want that, I want to be done. I spent HOURS... DAYS studying for this midterm, and turned it in with only 2 questions actually answered. Not a good thing. Anyway, since the class mark was so low on the exam, she's decided to give us an assignment to help bring up our marks. So I really hope that the assignment will put me over the 50%. I'm REALLY hoping.

Registration for next semester is next week for me. I have 2 courses I am quite excited about, and according to others I should do very well at (easy markers). Then I have 2 biology classes. One is Evolution, which I'm not too excited about, and apparently is a very brutal course. Then i have molecular genetics. Which I would have thought is a difficult course, but according to proffessor ratings, if you just print out the ppt slides, and study just those, I should get an A. So that's comforting. Other than that I have an independent study that I have to do, but I haven't decided what topic I want to do. I do have an idea what prof I would like to do it thorugh though. So that's a start. Hopefully that is my last semester. It would just be this Chem course that may screw that up.

Christmas tree is going up on Wednesday night! from then it is only 39 days til christmas!

Getting away for the weekend.

It is a 5 day weekend. Well, that's not really news... since I never have class on Monday and Friday's anyway. But this weekend Josh gets them off too! We're going to Radium with his folks. It should be fun, good to get away. I can get away from everything here that is driving me crazy. I was hoping this weekend would be a break. But unfortunately I have an exam to write (submit online) and 3 assignments and then studying for another exam next week. But I will be in a different location. Plus... I get to do some soaking in the hotsprings... and probably have some tasty food. Very exciting. The ipod is being prepped for road trip!

Last weekend was the climate change weekend. The Be Aware Club (Biology and Environmental Science students) here on campus (which I am a part of) held a funeral for the climate. :) I didn't attend, but I was excited to read the coverage of it. They had a a priest, a coffin, grim reaper and much talk about the changing environment. They had it on the steps of City Hall and then walked down to the MP's office. These events were held all over the world. Not all done the same, but the same topic. But as Canadians we are not keeping out Kyoto commitment. We signed the Kyoto Accord, but have not reduced our emissions much at all. So sad. We could do so much!

Anyway... now I'm going to be bad.. and we're DRIVING to calgary. But there will be 3 people in our car. From Calgary we will all car pool out to Radium, rather than each driving seperately (or even as couples..).

Anyway, I was sent this video from a faculty member. Really interestinng. Watch it.
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I liked the longer one better..


-apparently we'll have flying cars in 50 years.....