Future..... going to be sooo.... AWESOME
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
And I'm Out...
So I leave tomorrow (Thursday), and probably won't get a chance to say goodbye to all of you another way. Hope you all have a sweet June!
In Alphabetical Order
- Alice - I hope you find a job that you love. If you don't tough it out, and I'm sure you will not only do well at it, but it will make you stronger. Don't give up!
- Maddy - have a great time in Panama! (No amorous connections/suggestive clothing strictly enforced!)
- Maia - Have a killer time in MASS, see as many obscure bands as you can, and then go tell everyone how they have never heard your music. JUST KIDDING. But actually have a sweet time with Kevin, the family, your friends, shrooms, etc. and make sure you do what YOU. "CUZ I DO WHAT I WANT! I KILL BABY SEALS!" Go kill some baby seals. You know what I mean.
- Mo (Girl) - Continue having a sick time in Alaska, and since you don't read this anyways, go kill a polar bear for me! JK. Just make sure to see one, its a good conversation starter.
- Mo (Guy) - Quit with all your "binge" drinking and start having some good clean fun! I've heard your working as a line cook, and I hope you give all these people the same benefits you would give yourself (as little broth, extra veggies, etc.). Get ready for ball next year! (PS. Bean is cut.)
- Nick - I really enjoy this Facecard idea, but it doesn't work in Canada. Its okay, us Canadians are used to it by now. But actually, that's cool that you get to work with a company so closely tied to Facebook apps. Very cool. Sad you are not coming back, but such is life, and I hope you get into the school you want. Also, you must visit sometime after August 21st to the start of school so we can do one last Montreal night out properly.
- Sebastien (In a drunken French Accent) - I hope that you get what you wanted to out of the lab - besides your paycheque that is. Hope you have a good time, and if I don't talk to you before then, a great time at SASS. When you come back you have to be able to STOMP 7's. Or else. Preferably 9's though. Also you have to learn those front-flip while riding things. We all know those are the coolest - and not to mention hardest tricks. LOL.
Anyways I hope you all have a GREAT June, and that you all are well! And make sure to check in on my blog, I will post here when I update it...like now!An update at:www.sengara.wordpress.comAnd I'm out!!! PEACE!
Monday, May 26, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Stuff
Colleges - Accepted Colorado's offer. Waitlisted at Pomona and McKenna (sent them both packets of accept me! things). Pomona had 200 applicants and 10 slots. Anyhow, now I just start waiting again. I would rather be in California, but I keep hearing good things about Colorado College. I'm sad that I won't be with you guys again next year. I was in Montreal in one of my dreams the other day, and it wasn't anything like the real Montreal, but it was really nice. So I'm going to have to visit. We should plan a party for after Senga's exam or something maybe.
Job - it's okay. I like what I get to do with photoshop and illustrator designing stuff, but I think they need to change one or two things.
Ultimate - Really like my summer league team, we owned in our first game, and on the second I got a handblock on the endzone line on universe point (one of the sweetest things ever) and I have been out throwing every single day.
Beer Pong last night - I was actually good! Impossible to believe I know. But a couple tips from a friend and I was sinking them like Kobe in the 3rd period against the Spurs. Seriously, we lost our first game, then we went on a 7 game winning streak before calling it quits. Anyhow I was hungover as hell at work and said I was going out to sign my friends up so that I could leave at 1130 and sleep.
I need to post more, but that's that. My brother got a C- in precal also! He was going to have to go to summer school but got an A on the exam.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
"I feel summer creepin' in and I'm tired of this town again"
Oh Carlisle... its nice to be in familiar territory, but I am still bored as shit being here. My job at Cheap Summer Help keeps getting pushed back so it looks like I am starting in Mid-June, which I am pissed about because I wasted a whole month here. After my boss finally contacted me and told me this I started applying to places to be a waitress/hostess so hopefully one will work out. I can set my own hours with CSH so I will be able to do two jobs pretty comfortably, and if not, I will just quit wherever I make less money. Its not even that I need money badly, I am just someone who needs things to do. I have been sitting around reading, playing guitar, watching Lost, and tanning when its nice, which sounds fun, but not for three weeks straight. I can hang with my friends but usually only at night, and some people still aren't back. Kevin finally came home yesterday which is nice and will give me something else to do (no pun intended, I know what you are thinking) and tonight we are going to see The New Deal which is an electro band out of Montreal.
Last week Seb visited which was fun. We had thai food and kimball's ice cream, and I took him to a party where my friends played land mines and he got pretty drunk and made me laugh because I was the sober driver. On Sunday Emily Frank is coming to town and we will probably have dinner with her which I am excited about.
Girl Mo - I hope alaska treats you amazingly!!!
Alice - Good luck running the company, that sounds like hard work, and I hope you find out what is afflicting your Mom soon so she can be all better
Everyone else WORD TO YO MOTHA
Last week Seb visited which was fun. We had thai food and kimball's ice cream, and I took him to a party where my friends played land mines and he got pretty drunk and made me laugh because I was the sober driver. On Sunday Emily Frank is coming to town and we will probably have dinner with her which I am excited about.
Girl Mo - I hope alaska treats you amazingly!!!
Alice - Good luck running the company, that sounds like hard work, and I hope you find out what is afflicting your Mom soon so she can be all better
Everyone else WORD TO YO MOTHA
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
To all you future mothers out there
Yeah I know, we probably won't have kids for at least another 8 years but still some important information:
"The largest randomized study of breastfeeding ever conducted reports that breastfeeding raises children’s IQs and improves their academic performance, a McGill researcher and his team have found.
In an article titled, Breastfeeding and Child Cognitive Development, published in the current issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, Dr. Michael S. Kramer, Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH), reports the results from following the same group of 14,000 children for 6.5 years.
"Our study provides the strongest evidence to date that prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding makes kids smarter," said Kramer, a Professor of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology & Biostatistics in the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and lead investigator in the study.
Kramer and his colleagues evaluated the children in 31 Belarusian hospitals and clinics. Half the mothers were exposed to an intervention that encouraged prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding. The remaining half continued their usual maternity hospital and outpatient pediatric care and follow-up. This allowed the researchers to measure the effect of breastfeeding on the children’s cognitive development without the results being biased by differences in factors such as the mother’s intelligence or her way of interacting with her baby.
The children’s cognitive ability was assessed by IQ tests administered by the children’s pediatricians and by their teachers’ ratings of their academic performance in reading, writing, mathematics and other subjects. Both sets of measures were significantly higher in the group randomized to the breastfeeding promotion intervention.
"The effect of breastfeeding on brain development and intelligence has long been a popular and hotly debated topic,” says Dr. Kramer. "While most studies have been based on association, however, we can now make a causal inference between breastfeeding and intelligence – because of the randomized design of our study.”
The study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research."
In an article titled, Breastfeeding and Child Cognitive Development, published in the current issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, Dr. Michael S. Kramer, Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH), reports the results from following the same group of 14,000 children for 6.5 years.
"Our study provides the strongest evidence to date that prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding makes kids smarter," said Kramer, a Professor of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology & Biostatistics in the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and lead investigator in the study.
Kramer and his colleagues evaluated the children in 31 Belarusian hospitals and clinics. Half the mothers were exposed to an intervention that encouraged prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding. The remaining half continued their usual maternity hospital and outpatient pediatric care and follow-up. This allowed the researchers to measure the effect of breastfeeding on the children’s cognitive development without the results being biased by differences in factors such as the mother’s intelligence or her way of interacting with her baby.
The children’s cognitive ability was assessed by IQ tests administered by the children’s pediatricians and by their teachers’ ratings of their academic performance in reading, writing, mathematics and other subjects. Both sets of measures were significantly higher in the group randomized to the breastfeeding promotion intervention.
"The effect of breastfeeding on brain development and intelligence has long been a popular and hotly debated topic,” says Dr. Kramer. "While most studies have been based on association, however, we can now make a causal inference between breastfeeding and intelligence – because of the randomized design of our study.”
The study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research."
Monday, May 19, 2008
My OWN Blog.
Since I have friends outside this circle (hard to believe, I know) I created a separate Travel Blog to update all you clowns with.
www.sengara.wordpress.com
It's kinda legit, its not a porno site - at least until I post my pictures from the trip. LOL ROFL LMFAO. Yeah that's right. So yeah.
Visit the site!
Other than that Vancity's weather is nice, but I am uber-stoked to get out of here. Its nice to be around the family, but I cannot simply be sucked into the depressing quicksand that is my Grandmother's house. My mother hasn't slept at home once. I have been out there everyday. I can't explain to you guys through a blog how weird it is. I see nobody, this place fucking sucks. I need to do my own thing for a while. I leave May 29th, and come home July 3rd. Indeed.
Hope all of you are doing well, at whatever it is all of you are doing, and I hope you all are happy above anything else!!
PEACE OUT. (A-Town) [Yes that is a "YEAH!" reference for those of you keeping score at home. Chalk it up!]
And a big shout out to MOMO (BRI) have a great time in ALASKA!! WHAT WHAT!
Thursday, May 15, 2008
hardwick
so like the good vermont hicks that we are, we have friends that have farms. ethan is one of those kids. on his farm, he has a shitton of field where he has a leanto (sp?) its basically a shack with three walls and a roof. we go "camping" there sometimes. when we first started drinking thats where it would be. make a fire, have some brews, talk about life.
thats what i did last night. it was a chill night, just my guy friends around a fire getting drunk and high. hah so i went to bed around 12 ish after making some phone calls that maia and alice should know about. this is where it gets interesting, apparently after i went to bed, I got up like 30 min later and wanted to go pee. I get out my tent that i brought up, stumble to some bushes and appaerntly just pass the fuck out. like fall down, in the middle of the grass and start snoring.
my friends find me, pick me up and cant wake me. so they drag me to my tent and put me back in. now, I wake up again an hour later actually having to go pee. i get out, my friends rush towards me and hold me up because i was so drunk i couldnt walk straight or even stand up. kevin grabs me from behind while i piss, then puke basically everything that was left in my stomach.
haha they tell me the story about how i passed out and i couldnt believe it. so i just chill by the fire with them for a hwile and then go back to bed. great night, first time i actually needed help from someone. never needed to be taken care of, but thats what friends are for hah.
the weird thing is that i only had like 9 beers from about 6pm to 12 am and was eating constantly. I dont know how I got so drunk and could just pass out, but i suspect taking zyrtec, which is some alergy medicine had something to do with it.
so long story short, I drank and passed out for a couple hours. now i'm goin to bed because i still feel like shit.
night
thats what i did last night. it was a chill night, just my guy friends around a fire getting drunk and high. hah so i went to bed around 12 ish after making some phone calls that maia and alice should know about. this is where it gets interesting, apparently after i went to bed, I got up like 30 min later and wanted to go pee. I get out my tent that i brought up, stumble to some bushes and appaerntly just pass the fuck out. like fall down, in the middle of the grass and start snoring.
my friends find me, pick me up and cant wake me. so they drag me to my tent and put me back in. now, I wake up again an hour later actually having to go pee. i get out, my friends rush towards me and hold me up because i was so drunk i couldnt walk straight or even stand up. kevin grabs me from behind while i piss, then puke basically everything that was left in my stomach.
haha they tell me the story about how i passed out and i couldnt believe it. so i just chill by the fire with them for a hwile and then go back to bed. great night, first time i actually needed help from someone. never needed to be taken care of, but thats what friends are for hah.
the weird thing is that i only had like 9 beers from about 6pm to 12 am and was eating constantly. I dont know how I got so drunk and could just pass out, but i suspect taking zyrtec, which is some alergy medicine had something to do with it.
so long story short, I drank and passed out for a couple hours. now i'm goin to bed because i still feel like shit.
night
Friday, May 9, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
538 p0w|\|5 n00b5
Hello to all!
Its very nice hearing from all of you. Sounds like everyone is starting to settle in back home. As for me everything is going quite well.
I will now present you with my daily routine:
- Wake up 7:30(shower breakfast pack lunch etc)
- Depart for work at 8:30 by bike
- Arrive at work around 9:00
- Do some basic stuff in the lab
- Eat lunch 1:30
- Leave for home around 4:30
(Alice I hope you enjoy my bullet points)
And there we go thats the basic weekday for seb. If you read my first post thing you should have an idea of what I'm doing. As interesting as it sounds the actual process is quite slow. We are often confronted with problems and have to re-do lots of our things. The main issue is that we don't have all the material necessary to do what we want (ie currently as I write this message we are missing some glass slides to observe things under the microscope, also waiting for the liposome specialist). Either way I'm pretty happy doing this since its quite easy and the hours are relatively flexible. I get to spend quite some time procrastinating on the internet.As for non job related things it has been quite boring here. I went to a small "house" party (as in the kids from 10th though 12th grade from my old hight school) and was DD so I got to see my sister and friends get drunk. I also got to hang out with Florie a fellow ISB alumni who goes to McGill and talked about school and future stuff like that. I now think that I am going to do four years, one term abroad and a minor in either management or technological entrepreneurship. I also watched Montreal lose against Philadelphia? I don't know it was sad. On another note I was the man of the party for about 30 minutes when I opened the beer botte with another beer bottle and proceeded to open the second one by hitting it on the pongpong table. This impressed everyone. THANKS MO for teaching me such a valuable and impressive skill.
Other then that I don't do too much. I try to go biking as often as possible and go enjoy the woods next door. I have also become my sisters personal taxi driver taking them all over town and driving them from place to place (took them shopping at the mall last night). Luckily most of my other friends here are coming back from college this weekend. I plan on going snowboarding with some of them this coming saturday. It will be nice seeing them all.
And now for some interesting stuff that I found on the internet:
This one is very interesting and directly relates to what I believe was a big part of my college experience. I'm so jealous of their skill!
Diverting blog talking about new scientific discoveries and studies and stuff of that sort. Some stuff also relates to popsci.com blog posts.
This stuff is really cool. I can't wait for it to be implemented in everything!
I'm also trying to brush up on my spanish and have been trying to download Rosetta Stone spanish. Unfortunately I can't seem to find a good torrent or download site for it. So if anyone ever finds a good working mac version of rosetta stone spanish level 3 let me know.
So yeah, thats about it for now. Hope that everyone else is doing well.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
the roots
quick post,
Roots played tonight in vermont, sold out show. I snuck in by Xing my hands and acting like i had a ticket stub inside.
show was amazing, they played for like 3 hrs, everyone member of the band was super talented and great. awesome show.
went to uvm for a little after, saw about 6 of my friends, felt finally like i was home.
bed now, and who knows tomorrow.
edit: this is what my friend posted on a thread AFTER being at uvm with all the other SB kids hahaha
I just want to share that Emma O'brien and I had to drag Andy Gower's drunk ass into his house after he had 20 or so shots tonight. I dropped him twice on the sidewalk.
He pissed in the radiator in my common room. I mean god damn, there is urine running down the side of the godamn radiator. Andy may hate me later for sharin this, but I'm drunk too, so it's fair game, and it's HILARIOUS.
We just put him on his couch at his house, and his mom comes down, and asks him how many he had, and he says, "Fuckin' shut up, don't even worry about it!" Then he shares, "I don't know, like... 20?" Andy's Mom: "ohhhhh andy, I'm getting your father." Gest shit ever. poeuirhpaodisjgho
Andrew Gower is sort of my hero. I hope you're still alive buddy, give a shotu tomorrow if you're up at UVM. I can't wait to see all y'all cool cats this summer.
now its definitely good to be back home.
Roots played tonight in vermont, sold out show. I snuck in by Xing my hands and acting like i had a ticket stub inside.
show was amazing, they played for like 3 hrs, everyone member of the band was super talented and great. awesome show.
went to uvm for a little after, saw about 6 of my friends, felt finally like i was home.
bed now, and who knows tomorrow.
edit: this is what my friend posted on a thread AFTER being at uvm with all the other SB kids hahaha
I just want to share that Emma O'brien and I had to drag Andy Gower's drunk ass into his house after he had 20 or so shots tonight. I dropped him twice on the sidewalk.
He pissed in the radiator in my common room. I mean god damn, there is urine running down the side of the godamn radiator. Andy may hate me later for sharin this, but I'm drunk too, so it's fair game, and it's HILARIOUS.
We just put him on his couch at his house, and his mom comes down, and asks him how many he had, and he says, "Fuckin' shut up, don't even worry about it!" Then he shares, "I don't know, like... 20?" Andy's Mom: "ohhhhh andy, I'm getting your father." Gest shit ever. poeuirhpaodisjgho
Andrew Gower is sort of my hero. I hope you're still alive buddy, give a shotu tomorrow if you're up at UVM. I can't wait to see all y'all cool cats this summer.
now its definitely good to be back home.
Hiii guys! Sorry I just figured out how to get on this whole blog business ( mo hold back your women in the kitchen jokes), because it's not that i'm technologically retarded but more because I never got the link from Nicks email.
Home has been pretty good for me thus far, I have been loving the mild weather and the intense greenery that is everywhere. I joined a women's Div A soccer team made up of girls mostly from my team last year which has been sweet (just a lil step up from our intermural level), although my fitness is ridiculously bad and thirty year old ladies totally kicked my ass... ug how embarrassing.
I'm back working at the same restaurant for the rest of May down in Granville Island. I wear my hooker books and secretary shorts every night to rake in the tips... my dad is super proud.
Panama is getting closer, I leave June 8th to Miami and then into Veraguas. I have been trying to get myself ready to go, searching out "conservative professional work clothes" that wont suffocate me in 90 degree weather. I'm trying to brush up on my spanish too so I'm taking lessons with my Mexican uncle and watching spanish movies (Volver tonight!). All in all, I'm super excited although a bit nervous to do something 100% out of my comfort zone. I will try to get on a computer at least once to let you all know I'm still alive but I'm making no promises.
Keep in touch, i miss you all! Have a stellar summer and KEEP SWEET
Life
So here it goes. I came back on the 28th of April, and haven't really left my Grandma's house. The funeral was only on Sunday, and I was asked to speak, along with my sister. We did, 1400 people showed up, and it was probably one of the most difficult things of my life. My family is taking it well (for a brown family) with the notable exception of my mother. She hasn't slept at home once, and she is pretty much taking over the role my Grandmother filled (taking care of my uncle, my cousin, and essentially serving as an unpaid social worker to the Indian community). I realize I will not have a mother for an extended period of time. I must say though, in complete seriousness, I know that all white people are not the same, but maybe 95% that I have talked to since the funeral, have mentioned closure. This is a cultural difference. If one more white person asks if I feel that I have closure now that the funeral is over, I will go apeshit. No, I do not have a sense of closure, simply because her body is no longer where I can see it. Traditionally, Indians (Sikhs) take months of mourning, not days. I know I have said on numerous occasions that I hate brown people, but when it comes down to it, blood is thicker than water. Remember that.
Enough of that, I start work on Monday, and it will be good to take my mind off things. My Dad recently fired one of his two IT guys, so I get to work in the IT department. Quite excited about that. Get to program the software to adjust to the variables of market price and cost. Much more interesting than the paperwork I would have had to do otherwise. I am also starting, very slowly, to get things in order for Europe. Flights booked, trains booked, but now I seriously need to start looking for hostels. Nick Chang, my traveling companion is in the middle of exams, and understandably refuses to do anything in terms of looking. If you guys have any suggestions, please comment.
PS. Alice stop with the colours (yes colours, not colors) my dog had a seizure.
PPS. Alice you are not allowed to use bullet form. Ever.
PPS. Maia, you can't send mail when you are not on the McGill network. But if you set up another account on Mail, then you can respond using that one.
PPPS. Spiva, if you don't get in to Claremont/Mackenna (which I hope you do) then come back to McGill.
PPPPS. Guy Mo, nice username...not!
PPPPPS. Girl Mo, way to specify that you what Mo you were...
PPPPPPS. Seb I don't think Guillaume is allowed to pick up the keys without you or I...
PPPPPPPS. Did Alex Cartmell join?
PPPPPPPPS. Maddy is retarded.
PPPPPPPPPS. Most PS's ever? Tight.......
I'll try to keep you guys updated, please do the same! PEACE OUT
Enough of that, I start work on Monday, and it will be good to take my mind off things. My Dad recently fired one of his two IT guys, so I get to work in the IT department. Quite excited about that. Get to program the software to adjust to the variables of market price and cost. Much more interesting than the paperwork I would have had to do otherwise. I am also starting, very slowly, to get things in order for Europe. Flights booked, trains booked, but now I seriously need to start looking for hostels. Nick Chang, my traveling companion is in the middle of exams, and understandably refuses to do anything in terms of looking. If you guys have any suggestions, please comment.
PS. Alice stop with the colours (yes colours, not colors) my dog had a seizure.
PPS. Alice you are not allowed to use bullet form. Ever.
PPS. Maia, you can't send mail when you are not on the McGill network. But if you set up another account on Mail, then you can respond using that one.
PPPS. Spiva, if you don't get in to Claremont/Mackenna (which I hope you do) then come back to McGill.
PPPPS. Guy Mo, nice username...not!
PPPPPS. Girl Mo, way to specify that you what Mo you were...
PPPPPPS. Seb I don't think Guillaume is allowed to pick up the keys without you or I...
PPPPPPPS. Did Alex Cartmell join?
PPPPPPPPS. Maddy is retarded.
PPPPPPPPPS. Most PS's ever? Tight.......
I'll try to keep you guys updated, please do the same! PEACE OUT
Colleges
So I have heard back from both Tulane and Colorado College, got into both again. Tulane offered a fatter scholarship this time round. Tulane doesn't have to hear back till june 1st. Colorado College was supposed to have a postmarked decision by May 5th. CC sent the letter to montreal instead of nashville, and I didn't find out until may 5th that I had gotten in. They gave me an extension until this Friday to issue a decision via email to them, but I don't hear back from California schools (Pomona/McKenna) until next Thursday. CC is also strictly against double depositing (saying yes and then withdrawing later, because it holds up the waitlist people). And I understand and agree with policies against double depositing the majority of the time, because at that point you have been issued a decision of some form from all your colleges. Unfortunately transfer deadlines are all over the place, so I don't think it's fair for them to request a decision so early, it would be as if you only had an early action option, and no regular decision. So I'm a bit twisted up decision wise.
In terms of books for maia, it depends on what you're looking for
the baron in the trees by italo calvino is a really good story
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance is a good story and great philosophy by robert m. pirsig
watchmen is one of the best graphic novels I have ever read and is in the times best 100 novels list, so good (frank miller)
time travellers wife great romance story
blow-up and other stories by cortazar is a great short story collection
white noise - dan delillo is a great book (*this one you should definitely read some time)
In terms of books for maia, it depends on what you're looking for
the baron in the trees by italo calvino is a really good story
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance is a good story and great philosophy by robert m. pirsig
watchmen is one of the best graphic novels I have ever read and is in the times best 100 novels list, so good (frank miller)
time travellers wife great romance story
blow-up and other stories by cortazar is a great short story collection
white noise - dan delillo is a great book (*this one you should definitely read some time)
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
the 802
so, Ive got my apartment subletted to three mexicans, hopefully they wont run out on me. my land lord is still crazy and aparently a homophobe (we thought at first that 3 guys were gonna sublet but it was 2 guys and 1 girl, but told the land lord it was 3 guys and he goes "thats utterly disgusting, to think of three of them sleeping in a 2 BR place. one shoould never share a bed with another man"...or something on those lines.
vermont is beautiful in the summer, lake champlain especially. ive got a old road bike from a friends dad that i have been using to get around here, which i will bring up to montreal. Its been sunny now for 3 days, before that it was constant rain. i went to uvm once or twice but didnt really party there. everyone is in exam mode. my friends are coming in slowly, by the weekend ill have some people to hang out with. Ive done nothing really, slept, read the 4th bourne novel which is by a different author and have been looking for jobs
after this post, i will go to this Inn and get an application to be a barback for them. if I get the job, its easy work and could help me score a barkeeping job later on. I am also applying to work as kitchen help at a nearby retirement home. I want to work as a line cook in the future sometime. but again I need experience so its the dirty work for now...washing dishes, peeling potatoes etc... another option would be a PCA position with a kid that has autism or some disability like it. Ive been looking at schools/camps that need that kind of service.
things have not changed in vermont, im prolly go see death cab for cutie in a month, feist is playing in vt also in a month and then i want to go to warped tour in mtl. no other plans really, maybe a road trip or two, who knows. I saw forgetting sarah marshall the other night and it was hilarious. and mila kunis is mad fucking hot in that movie.
cheers to everyone, enjoy the summer. oh and im trying to get my parents to bring up two 30's each month when they come up to visit. if there are no other objections i will get Keystone, maybe splurge a little and get coors light hah. we'll see. later kids.
vermont is beautiful in the summer, lake champlain especially. ive got a old road bike from a friends dad that i have been using to get around here, which i will bring up to montreal. Its been sunny now for 3 days, before that it was constant rain. i went to uvm once or twice but didnt really party there. everyone is in exam mode. my friends are coming in slowly, by the weekend ill have some people to hang out with. Ive done nothing really, slept, read the 4th bourne novel which is by a different author and have been looking for jobs
after this post, i will go to this Inn and get an application to be a barback for them. if I get the job, its easy work and could help me score a barkeeping job later on. I am also applying to work as kitchen help at a nearby retirement home. I want to work as a line cook in the future sometime. but again I need experience so its the dirty work for now...washing dishes, peeling potatoes etc... another option would be a PCA position with a kid that has autism or some disability like it. Ive been looking at schools/camps that need that kind of service.
things have not changed in vermont, im prolly go see death cab for cutie in a month, feist is playing in vt also in a month and then i want to go to warped tour in mtl. no other plans really, maybe a road trip or two, who knows. I saw forgetting sarah marshall the other night and it was hilarious. and mila kunis is mad fucking hot in that movie.
cheers to everyone, enjoy the summer. oh and im trying to get my parents to bring up two 30's each month when they come up to visit. if there are no other objections i will get Keystone, maybe splurge a little and get coors light hah. we'll see. later kids.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Math Education
Stumbled across this on popsci and got more info in the nytimes article.
Pretty interesting study, all math should be taught this way.
Greetings to all. I am finding I am not technologically saavy enough to do this, but I will continue to try. I have been home for about a week and its been rainy every day up until today. At first I wasn't into it, but then I got in my rainy day creative mode. I wanted to make some belts for this skirt/dress I bought right before I left, so I went to the fabric store and got stuff. I went to the sewing machine in the attic and found all these unfinished projects and some cool scrap fabric so I made three pretty cool shirts but am still trying to figure out how to make the belts clasp. I spent a nice afternoon wandering around in the state forest too. It started off as a run but there was too much cool stuff so I kept stopping to climb boulders and cross streams and I shimmied up a fallen tree that was propped up against another and climbed all the way to the top! I have one friend who is here but she has been doing a lot of family stuff, and has a lot of senior friends so I have only seen her once. We went to Kimballs (DELICIOUS- I got coffee and cookies) and then watched The Office and Lost, which I enjoyed so much that I have already watched the first ten episodes online. Today is sunny so I went and got a gym membership and have been gardening the rest of the day. Alex is back from Israel and wants to see me so we might meet up today, but its gonna be pretty awkward at first. I am also trying to read For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway in an attempt to become more literarilly (ya I made that word up) cultured, but I have only gotten through thirty pages all week, so as much as I hate to, I may ditch this book for something more intriguing. Any suggestions people (Nick?).
Also, is there a way to get notified when people post? Is that what subscribing to the blog means? And Senga my mac mail that you set up receives mail but won't let me send it. I need you guys to help me figure out things like this, I don't know what I will do. Nick thats good that you are staying busy and back into frisbee. Have you heard back from any schools yet? Seb, the internship sounds really cool, thats awesome you get to do things that are actually important on a larger scale.
Hope everyone is enjoying themselves, and I apologize for this being impossibly long.
Also, is there a way to get notified when people post? Is that what subscribing to the blog means? And Senga my mac mail that you set up receives mail but won't let me send it. I need you guys to help me figure out things like this, I don't know what I will do. Nick thats good that you are staying busy and back into frisbee. Have you heard back from any schools yet? Seb, the internship sounds really cool, thats awesome you get to do things that are actually important on a larger scale.
Hope everyone is enjoying themselves, and I apologize for this being impossibly long.
Cool New Yorker Invention Article
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_gladwell - seb you should read this, and if you haven't checked out the last link thing I posted you have to, it's a super cool 3D hologram demonstration using a rotating mirror - pretty cool. The article is really confirming that innovation is something that most often occurs at crossroads between disciplines, where an idea/concept/procedure from one can be used to solve problems of another in order to progress.
Other than that, been playing lots of frisbee, finished memories of my melancholy whores (really enjoyed) still waiting to hear back from my interview people.
PS Post more n00bs
Other than that, been playing lots of frisbee, finished memories of my melancholy whores (really enjoyed) still waiting to hear back from my interview people.
PS Post more n00bs
Friday, May 2, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Life Update
Been back for a little while now; Nashville is verdant, lush, and as gorgeous as I remember it. It's weird having all of my grade gone pretty much, but there's still enough to do around town. I'm helping out with my old highschool frisbee team, they brought 3 teams to state last weekend girls/guys/guysB so they needed some extra coaching help. Coaching is irritating. I believe it's the captain's responsibility to get the guys going, but none of the captain's will take the necessary disciplinarian stance in practices to get the guys focused and intense.
Job-wise I have an interview today with the people working on facecard (www.facecard.com) a pretty innovative start up project, that is eventually going to be tied into facebook. Fingers crossed, I'd like to be working with them over the summer; also would get me closer to designing/producing facebook applications.
It's insane how much I start reading as soon as school ends. Reread two long forgotten books this week, and now almost done with Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and I have decided the next step for me is to educate myself on the history/religion of the middle east. So next up are The Middle East (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684832801/${0})
and a book called Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare, coupled with the actual (omg!!!11 if you're still reading) US Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. This recent Middle East interest has been sparked by my desire to become something more than an ignorant observer of others' arguments about the region.
On the other hand this(http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1773271) thing is so sick. Watch all the way through. Soon we will be holoconferencing my friends.
Job-wise I have an interview today with the people working on facecard (www.facecard.com) a pretty innovative start up project, that is eventually going to be tied into facebook. Fingers crossed, I'd like to be working with them over the summer; also would get me closer to designing/producing facebook applications.
It's insane how much I start reading as soon as school ends. Reread two long forgotten books this week, and now almost done with Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and I have decided the next step for me is to educate myself on the history/religion of the middle east. So next up are The Middle East (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684832801/${0})
and a book called Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare, coupled with the actual (omg!!!11 if you're still reading) US Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. This recent Middle East interest has been sparked by my desire to become something more than an ignorant observer of others' arguments about the region.
On the other hand this(http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1773271) thing is so sick. Watch all the way through. Soon we will be holoconferencing my friends.
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