Life as a University Student

Here I am, sitting in my friend's kitchen - procrastinating, as usual. I figured I'd post for a second and get my brain thinking about something other than "Do Primates Have Culture?". Although a fascinating topic - it really is - I am so tired of writing. By Monday I need to take a Psych quiz, complete two English assignments, do Math homework, finish reading my Sociology, and write a 500 word opinion essay on "Do Primates Have Culture?" for Anthropology.

Gone are those days when homework was a joke, (homework was classwork!), and tests are done in this manner:

"Oh, we have a test today? Huh. News to me. Okay, well, let's wing it and see how that goes!"

Yeah. I miss that time! High school now feels idyllic, a lost paradise, or a secret garden of never needing to work at my courses. I'm being challenged and that's exciting, but at the same time, there are days when you have so much due at the exact same time, that things are just overwhelming.

Cheers, until next time, I remain your overworked professional procrastinator.

"Bummer Summer"!

So, as the CBC says - "it's looking like a bummer summer!". The weather's been absolutely terrible, wet, cold, and miserable. I've been soaked pretty near constantly, especially since I work outside.

Probably because of the weather, we've been kind of slow at the McNeill Harbour. Hiltje was saying that the last two days have looked like March instead of July, the Harbour has been so empty and quiet. It's been really lovely actually, to see all the boaters who I know really well.

Anyway... not too many plans on the go, other than I'm trying to head home to Kwatsi for my mom's birthday. Hopefully I make it home Sunday, stay Monday (her birthday...), and come back on Tuesday so I can go back to work Wednesday. I'm just managing to take one day off work for the trip, so cross your fingers that it's not too windy for me!

Summer! Maybe?

Well, graduation has been and gone, I'm accepted into UVic, and most of that stress is gone!

I was hired to work at the Port McNeill Harbour for the summer, so I'm dockhanding. As I keep saying - "Who knew Kwatsi Bay was work experience?". The work has been good - I really enjoy seeing all the people. It's pretty tiring though, and the downer is that I never see any friends anymore, which really sucks. I miss them all, but my schedule only gives me Sunday and Monday off... not really what everyone else has! Because I need to be up at 6 am, I'm pretty limited in how late I can be out as well.

But the time has been flying by, I'm still reeling slightly from Grad... I almost feel as if September will roll around, and someone will pop out and go "Just kidding! Go back to highschool!". It doesn't quite feel real yet.

So that's it - just a very quick update... Cross your fingers for decent summer weather for us, it's been awful!

Absolute Sping Insanity!

Quick update... things are crazy! As you could probably tell from the title of this blog update... Can I still call it a blog without snickering at myself at this point? It's truthfully the poorest excuse of a blog that anyone's ever seen.

Regardless, between school, boyfriend, grad, scholarships, my future university, and then just my normal school... It is, well, let's say not entirely lazy. I think I've never been so stressed out, freaked out, excited, and feeling like I'm flying in a million pieces at once. Hopefully, once May rolls around all I'll have to worry about is school, grad, and boyfriend. Ah, for the glory days when life was simple! As I said on nearly every birthday when I was asked if this was the best year yet... "Three was best. Five was pretty good, but three was the best." At this point I'm seriously missing the mud pie, blocks, lego, watching fish over the dock days. The octopus touching, gunny hunting, squirrel-house-making days. Those days seem pretty awesome, now that I'm filling out tax returns, applying to universities, etc.

Life changes, and we adapt as best we can I guess! Excuse my pessimistic tone today... this is just me freaking out REALLY HARD about graduating, and all that it entails.