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yeah, its that season.. i have one more tomorrow, and then another in a week or two.. i am done 3 so far, and they all went pretty bad. and i’m not just saying that. but i’m not stressed out about it. i’m pretty good at not stressing out about things, like midterms, and other things…

my reward list for studying, even though i may not have studied as much as i should have, goes like this:

friday: sitting in the basement alone playing nintendo. fantastic!
saturday: sleeping in, featuring a hockey game.
sunday: hatebreed. yeah, neat.
monday: soccer, it might be sunday, but if so, i might have to skip.
tuesday: the oc season 3 out on dvd

so, i’m feeling pretty good for those reasons. studying chem tonight, i learned two very important things, that my teacher in grade 12 taught me, and i added onto a bit.

God loves a cheerful giver, so God loves metal, and God loves acid.

God loves metal! so do i! however, i’ve never tried acid, since God loves it, i better give it a shot.

not much can cheer me up. but everytime, no matter what, this does. every time.

being eighteen is not much different than being seventeen, which is not much different than being sixteen and so on.. it feels the same, obviously. the only real difference is that i have to start buying my own socks, deodorant and underwear. so, looks like i’ll be barefoot, awfully smelly, and going commando until i get some sort of income. which might be a while.

being eighteen, i should now know that i should be responsible and be studying for my two midterms tomorrow, instead of writing this garbage.

i think the past week, i’ve been doing good. i mean, i struggle with loads of things, too many to list, but this past week, i feel that i have been dealing with them all very well.. doing my homework but not stressing about any of it. saying less rude things than the amount that come into my head. being honest to myself. praying. trying to be a good friend to all the people i know.

and since i am now a legal adult (no more fun) (start drinking old people drinks every night, while reading the newspaper. no funny jokes, and no smiling) i understand that i have more responsibilities. i have to be careful what i say, i might not be able to get away with my jokingly rude comments. hopefully i can still have sarcasm, because without that, i’ve got nothing. i now have to start making my own wise decisions and hopefully i don’t screw my life up too bad. i really hope i don’t screw up my life, because that seems pretty easy.
crap.

oh, and i have to get married in two years. because we all know, if you’re not married by 20, you are going to have a sad life.

or i can act like i’m 12 again. my coolness peak was around 12.. i am certainly on the coolness downfall now..

my last post can almost be disregarded.. really.. it is much easier to be thankful after this past weekend. i had an unbelieveable time, and i went to 0.5 lectures. some big news includes:

eric goud came to town. first time in three months, from hongcouver back to regina. this, in turn created the reunion of the ages. tim maxwell came down from s’toon, and almost all the other guys that i have held dear were there. it was truly an amazing feeling.. thinking about it makes me cringe with smiles…. ? with this reunion came a riveting match of hide and seek, in downtown regina. it was at like midnight until 2am, so not many people were around, just police and security guards. we played on a two block by two block area and shifted the playing area numerous times to confuse cops and security, and make it a new terrain. people were in caged parkades, on top of buildings, in dumpsters, and everywhere else, and it was great. we didn’t even get in trouble from any authority figure. not this time anyways.

thanksgiving meal with 60+ olsons and orrs can be frightening, but today it was great. that family is full of heritage and is often intimidating, but it was a gooood meal. my personal highlight may have been the turkey.. not sure though.

and the day before today, i went to the 4th Annual Butter Chicken Fest at india house here in regina. i ate so much in a span of 20 minutes, that i seriously couldn’t move for 45 minutes.. i was in a very real pain, and all because i have no self control when it comes to buffet. i’m such a loser..

and now, still 1.5 days left in this weekend, i forget that i have midterms i haven’t studied for, i forget that i have numerous assignments to do, i forget that its getting cold out, all i can think of is that feeling i have inside now.. the one that feels like you just sipped a hot chocolate and you can feel the warmth run down your ribcage.. not the time when you burn your tongue. that just sucks. but the best kind of hotchocolate, that isn’t too strong, and isn’t coffee.. thats what i am feeling right now…

yes!

it’s a very busy weekend, so i kinda thought i might do one of these before i never have time again. this weekend is lectureship, thanksgiving, montreal vs. toronto, butter chicken fest 2006, and a reunion of many, so i have much to do. on top of all that, a bit of studying and homework. but homework is for… ‘chumps’. i had a better word, but it could be considered a swear.

the gridblog, whatever that means, for this week is thankfulness, or thanksgiving or something like that, because of the holiday, thanksgiving this upcoming monday. there is too much these days to be thankful for, in my life anyways.

i’m thankful for almost being 18. eighteen years of life is quite a few, and i feel i’ve lived them pretty well. eighteen has got to be around my prime, so if i didn’t go on any further and people remembered me at this age, i’d be alright with that. i’m thankful for homework, somehow.. if i didn’t have homework i’d be doing very very little, and things would get awfully crappy. i enjoy pounding out the limits of functions, because when i finish, its a relieving and accomplishing feeling. i may have said this in like 3 other blogs, but i’m thankful that the NHL season has started up. finally, something worth watching on tv, until the OC starts up again.

and the total cliche comes, i’m thankful for my family and my friends. i’m with at least one of the people from these groups everyday, all day and thats for a reason. i would be dead without them, probably. and bored as a ‘chump’. and there are hundreds of other reasons why i’m thankful for them, but i’ll stop there. cause i’m lazy as ‘chumps’… again, i had a better word there, but i’m refraining from the curses.. its hard to come up with a decent simile these days without using offensive words.. no lies.

In elementary school surveys taken numerous years ago, I could never answer the question of ‘What is my favourite season?’
But, I just figured it out. A month of university sure helps on those doozy grade 1 questions.

Fall has got to be the greatest time of year. Sure, soon winter will be kicking our warm human cans, but the few weeks before this happens is a fantastic time. The holidays of Thanksgiving, Halloween, Yom Kippur and this October, Friday the Thirteenth are all great family celebrations and that cannot be denied. The CFL is hitting it’s regular season high of excitement, the NHL is just kicking into high gear. And of course don’t forget the sacred gathering of Lectureship. All the events and parties peak at this time of year making it the greatest season for all things social.

The weather is unbeatable. It is warm out, but at the same time it is a bit cold out too. The leaves coat the ground. The other day walking home from school I saw a tree with leaves THIS colour.. it was amazing. I wanted to pick off the leaves and eat them. They looked like pink lemonade. The smell of chopped up poplar leaves from the lawn mower is as inviting as a warm pool filled with fun water toys and famous movie stars… And really, what is more inviting than that. Nothing, thats what.

Really, I can’t think of any other reason that any other season could top this one.. I didn’t mean to rhyme in that last sentence, I promise.

i don’t know if you are getting tired of my stories, but here is another sweet one.
tonight, kris, ben and i went to a nearby tower. i am not sure what it was for, maybe cell phones, maybe some satellite receiver of some sort. but we climbed it.. we got about 1/3 the way up, and it got windy, dark, scary and we were tired, so we headed back down. the whole adventure lasted about an hour or so. it was a lot of work climbing up the ladder, you had to hold on tight. if you didn’t, it would be a rough fall to the ground. a rough, long fall.

anyway, thought i’d blog that one too. it was super fun, and next time, i am hoping to climb even further, maybe pack a lunch, some bouncy balls.. should i take a sandwich or maybe some leftovers.

this past saturday was a good time.

kris and i headed down to weyburn for a good visit with the grandparents, and a good chance to break and enter in an abandoned building…

we both had heard lots of crazy stories about Souris Valley Mental Instiution. this place did some crazy things. lobotomys, lsd treatment, from what i’ve heard, and apparently there is a lot of things left in the building. kris had gone in before, but only with a large ladder, because the bottom three floors are all boarded up. before we left, we stopped by at Home Depot got a flashlight, some batteries and a solid set of bolt cutters. we found a door that opened an inch or two, but stopped by a chain and a lock. we managed to get the bolt cutters in the door, cut the chains and enter, fairly easily. before we went in, some kids from weyburn told us that it was alarmed and sensored, so we had a clue. we took about 5 steps in the door, and a loud siren-like alarm sounded. i saw the motion sensor, but it was too late. we sprinted out, bolt cutters and cut up lock in hand, and ran back to the getaway car. quickly, we drove away, before any sort of police or security could arrive.

we went to tim hortons, hid the bolt cutters in the trunk, ditched the broken lock i still had in my hand, and went back the scene in about 15 minutes. the cops were there, as well as a maintenance truck. the cops pulled us over, asked us why we were there, and we told them that we were visiting from regina, and told him that our great grandma lived there at one time, so we wanted to check it out.. that was a lie.

he let us go, and we went and talked to the maintenance man for a while. he gave us all the clues for the building, everything we would ever need to know about the security system and the protcol for this that just happened. he didn’t know that we were the ones that broke the chain and set off the alarm, but he was a nice guy..

all in all, i had a great time.. the northern lights on the way home were amazing, unexplainably. i figured that i should get into a little bit of trouble quick, before i am no longer a young offender.

this one is a topicless blog.

today i watched highschool football, featuring Jesse Elford. that kid is amazing. he ran for 3 touchdowns, the only three his team scored. his team, Notre Dame, won 21-14. he is a truly amazing athlete. he also wrestles steers.

i have never liked english class. it is for a couple reasons. i am not good at sharing my feelings. digging deeeeeep down and saying how i truly feel.. sure, sometimes about small issues. but that digging really sucks.. and these are about things that don’t matter. like how i feel about this short story, and how i feel about my inner true mask i wear. another reason, you can’t be right.. there is no right answer to anything… every class, you can’t learn the right way of doing anything, because it is different to every teacher…… brutal! give me a formula, give me some numbers. then i can’t be wrong.

i joined a new soccer team.. i feel bad about leaving my team of 3+ years, but it had to be done. i wasn’t even sure if CCFC would exist this season, and i needed to join another team. i am now on Pantera, no not the band, the team. i have never played on a team where i don’t know anyone.. i’ll probably get beat up every game.

ron howard was smart. when asked, “what trait do you most deplore in yourself?” he replied, ” the endless desire for the world’s approval” i paraphrased a bit because of a lack of memory, but he got it right.

i like bacon.

It is slowly beginning. The National Hockey League Regular Season 2006 – 2007. Koivu is back in action, after a missed-call high stick jabbed him in the left eye in the third game of last season’s playoffs. Guy Carbonneau is ready for his new head coaching duties. I read a newspaper article today that said through a season simulation, Montreal and Calgary were the only Canadian teams to make the playoffs. Remember this.. remember. October 6th, here we come.