Last week I did my first round of classes, though, due to the holiday I didn't have my Monday class until this week. So now I have had all of my classes at least once. Go me!
Also, since I don't have classes on Fridays I started the school year with a 5-day weekend, with which I did no homework. Because I am lame.
Having been out of school since last December it was a bit more difficult to get back into the swing of things than I thought it would be. I finally plunged myself into reading, etc. last Wednesday after class and since then it's felt a lot better, and easier to get started on assignments.
Though, now I definitely understand that it is true, once you stop it's hard to get back into the school mind-set, real life is easier to just float by in.
In that made any sense at all...
Anyway. What have I been up to?
Been out for drinks with people from my program. Both of my roommates had guests over last weekend, which was a lot of fun. Oddly enough they both had friends who were guys coming over, which, although we have guys in our program, was a bit refreshing, because we had been hanging out mostly with each other and then other girls from school.
As the week progressed, though, we all met more and more new people, so it wasn't all girls....
Also, introduced one of my roommates to Apples to Apples, because everyone should know the joy that it is.
Other than classes last week I am drawing somewhat of a mental blank until the weekend. With the way my schedule is set up Wednesday and Thursday is like my main "week" because I have 3 classes between the 2 days. Also, the weeks are already flying, and I haven't even been here a month. (Yet, only 3 days til that's reached)
Thursday some friends and I checked out the Midnight Kitchen on campus. It's a soup kitchen run by volunteers and that happens during the week, every day at 12:30pm (even though it's called Midnight Kitchen...)
It's an vegan meal that is supposed to have all the nutrients you need, and it comes with a dessert. It's also a pay-what-you-can operation, which is perfect for the miserly graduate student me.
The trick is getting there early, it's very popular and the line wraps around the hallways. And around, and around.
Friday afternoon there was a potluck picnic for the SIS (School of Information Studies) crew, which had a good turnout. Met more new people and fended off a pack of squirrels. They're bold little critters around here!
just before he touched my roommate's leg
Friday night found us at the graduate-student pub for some hanging out meeting of even more people...I think after Friday my friend count went up by about 20 +
Sunday my roommates and I organized a trek to the Tam-Tam which is at Parc du Mont-Royal, about a 25 minute walk from us. Or so we thought. Turns out there was a bike race so they had most of Avenue du Parc was blocked off and also part of Avenue du Mont-Royal, and we needed to cross Parc but couldn't where we were. Ended up walking about an extra 30-45 minutes just to get across the street. Ridiculous.
Monday night my roommates and I organized a horror movie-night, inspired by Monday's full moon. We have a pretty small living room, and didn't really take that into account beforehand, but we still managed to squeeze about 15 people into it, plus a ton of food, picnic style on the floor. It was a good turnout though, and a lot of fun.
Other Stuff
Although I finally bought myself a bike pump yesterday I am going to have to hold off on using my bike until this weekend, when I buy a new bike pump. I foolishly bought a small hand pump, thinking it'd be a smart and cheap way to go. Only, it's a lot tougher to use than a regular pump, and I can only get my tires up to 50 PSI and they need to be at 100.
*facepalm*
My apologies for this update being a bit slap-dash and lame. Been a long week and I need more sleep...better updates to follow, I promise!
No comments:
Post a Comment