So last night we had our first snow fall, so naturally this morning when I woke up it was FREEZING. I'm talking -16C freezing. I hate the cold..
Today I had my usual classes and we had a review lab for our Vertebrate Design and Evolution lab. Kris went through the different systems we wanted her to, and I recorded her going through them, I've found this helps me out a lot better with memorizing the different parts of the cat. We had thought about going bowling again tonight but Dave and Elliot said they had too much work to be doing so we didn't bother. Instead, I started and finished my annotated bibliography that's due for Thursday, while watching Men in Black, I believe it may have been the 3rd one? I don't even know, I'm not a fan of those movies.
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| First snowfall on campus. |
Tuesday November 11th
So today is Veteran's Day, a Federal Holiday over here, so therefore, we have no classes. I FaceTimed Mom and Dad this morning and Dad said I should probably get de-icer and an ice scraper for the car. So Fiona and I did some study and then we left for Walmart. Only, we couldn't leave. The doors of my car has frozen shut!! We went in and out of the apartment with hot water trying to defrost the door handles and the doors themselves and then we gently opened all the doors and the boot. While out at Walmart, I got two large tubs of Vaseline so I could put this on the rubber of all the doors to hopefully make it easier the next time we have to hop into the car. While we were out, we went to Best Buy to buy ink for our printer and I also got Rocky and Patch some Christmas presents in Petsmart. I got Rocky a name tag for his collar with his name on the front, and on the back I have my name, address and home phone number. It's so incredibly cute I'm getting one for Patch as well. I also went to Target to get the de-icer and when I was there I was looking around the $1-3 section and found the cutest little Santa outfit ($3) for dogs, so naturally, I got it! It was way too cute to leave behind!
We got home and I spent my evening studying for my Vertebrate Design and Evolution class exam that we have tomorrow. These exams are never ending, over the next three weeks I have an exam each week, assignments to do and also two papers to work on. I can't even start one yet because we were not able to get all the results back last Friday.
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| Rocky's new nametag and collar :) |
Wednesday November 12th
So I got up nice and early this morning to continue with my studying for the exam today. I skipped my Wildlife Physiological Ecology class to get an extra hour of study in. I can't risk messing this exam up because I didn't do too great on the last one. We had the exam at 1pm and I was out by 2pm. It didn't go all that badly, there was some questions I was a little bit iffy on but it didn't go terribly! And Bret also allowed us to skip one question we were not sure on, and we would get full credit for it - saving my ass a little bit!! Got home and FaceTimed Mom and Dad, and my sister for a while. Mom and Dad were asking how I was coping with the cold - I told them it's so damn cold here that the polar bears will be moving in soon! (-16 C) Supernaturals 200th episode was out yesterday and it was AMAZING. So amazing, I watched it again today! It was completely dedicated to the fans, it was brilliant. Spent the evening working on my blog a little bit, watching TV and reading some scientific journals for one of the papers I have to write. Always fun -_-
Thursday November 13th
So today we handed back our Grant Proposals and got back the corrected ones from members of our class. I didn't thankfully get any negative comments just have to change things around a little bit and maybe change my wording a little bit also. I fell asleep this evening for a while too, the last week and a half of constant work caught up on me a little bit and I just passed out on my bed until Fiona rang me. So Kate and James called over this evening and we watched the first Hunger Games, in preparation for Mockingjay part 1 next week :D SO exciteddddd!! This weekend we also plan to watch Catching Fire so we'll all be up to date on the happenings in time.
Friday November 14th
I just had my Physiology class today, which we got 1 point extra credit for turning up to it! That now brings my last exam up to an A so I'm quite happy with that. We have no cat lab this afternoon so I headed home and was meeting Fiona and Eoghan to go out to North Reserve Street cause we had a few bits and pieces to get. We went to Petsmart and got Patch his nametag and Fiona got one for her dog, Mya. We then went to Walmart and did food shopping and Fiona got herself a haircut. We got back, I worked on my blog and then made a start on an assignment that's due for next week as well as reading a few more scientific journals for my paper. All work and no play for the moment!
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| Patch's nametag :) |
Saturday November 15th
So this morning we had an open lab for our Vertebrate Design class. A lab on a Saturday, who would have thought?! We were in from 11 until 2.30pm. studying our cats. Joe and Taylor also came in and soon enough Elliot and then Evan came in also. Fiona, Taylor and I put in some quality study into the circulatory system in the cat so hopefully we'll know it well enough for our exam Monday. I have a lot of work to go into that class to hopefully bring my grade up a little bit.
We got home and made lunch and put in some more study again a little bit. We're making Irish stew today for Elliot, Dave, Siobhan and Eoghan. I just happened to look up a recipe and saw that it takes over two hours to cook with half an hour roughly to prepare the vegetables and the potatoes. So we began our preparations. Eoghan wasn't able to make it this evening so he's coming over for his tomorrow. Preparing and cooking the dinner took longer than we expected but it turned out absolutely AMAZING. Everyone was stuffed afterwards, and Dave and Desiree had brought ice cream for dessert so we all helped ourselves and then once James and Kate arrived around 8pm ish we sat down to watch The Hunger Games, Catching Fire. Again, in preparation for next week :D Yay too excited!! Got to bed at like 1.30am and as soon as I hit the pillow I was asleep.
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| Stew preparations! |
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| The finished product :D |
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| Family meal :) |
Sunday November 16th
So today was spent studying for my exam tomorrow. I couldn't get in the right frame of mind for it and kept getting distracted by absolutely anything. I started organizing my room / cleaning it out / de-cluttering. I found my sunglasses that have been missing since September, but how they ended up in the back of my wardrobe is beyond me! Makes no sense :/ I settled back down and did some more study, and then Eoghan called to have his stew we had kept for him from yesterday and we also gave him back his pot. Back to study again. Showered as another distraction and then again, back to study. I'm feeling a lot more prepared for this exam so I'm hoping it's going to go well!
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| A photo of the icicles that formed outside my bedroom window :) |
So this week has been a lot of the same stuff. Except it's FAR colder. Having to de-ice my car whenever I need to go somewhere and wrap up extremely well, cause if you don't you'll literally freeze. And what's even worse - apparently it's not even cold according to the Montanans. Yay. So next week, is much of the same! Finals week is approaching fast and our workload isn't easing off any bit with papers and whatnot due in shortly so I'm afraid I don't have any extraordinarily exciting posts coming up.
Thanks for reading!
- Shannen.
