SoccerChic9: September 2004

Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Gus wrote a song - it made me laugh. So, with his permission I post it here. All famous rights belong to Gus!

A D
Well you must've been sent from above
A D
You're all that I can think of
A D E
You're just as psychotic as me
A
My crazy love
You dont mind if I dont take out the trash,
And you don't cost me alot of cash..
Your the girl that I'm dreaming of
My crazy love.

You wake me up at quater after ten
You tell me that my days began
Where would I be without You?
My crazy love

You'll get my beer when its far away,
You change the channel when the game is not in play.
Im so glad I got you.
My crazy love.

You call me when Im lonely at work,
You clean my clothes when I'm a jerk,
You've got your own power tools..
My crazy love.

Well the times are rough and the times are hard
But you still don't rack up costs on my master card.
Your the strawberry filling of my pie,
My crazy love.

A E
My crazy love, your all I want around
A D E
You make me float up off the ground
A D Dadd2 E
I love you like world cup hockey
A D E Eadd2(3rd)
Now fetch me another beer. [ Dont take to long..]

A D E Eadd2(3rd)
Now fetch me another beer. [ Dont take to long..]

A D E

Cuse without my girl I would starve and be alone.
A D E
So utterly Hungry and alone..
A
My Crazy Love.

I am slowly beginning to lose my mind. At first it wasn't noticable - I just accepted the changes and blamed them on my old age:) But, it has become noticable, noticable to the point of scaring me. I have begun to talk to myself. I know this must be one of the top signs that someone is going crazy. The wierd thing is that I don't even notice it.

I was sitting in a lab today - quietly minding my own business when something from the outer world tapped me. It was Cheryl, she asked me why I was talking out loud. I was unsure of what she was talking about until I realized a few minutes later that I was actually talking out-loud in the middle of class. Then the truth hit me - I was talking to my computer, I was on the road to becoming brainwashed. The horrible disease had affected my feeble mind.

And that is not the worst of it. My weekends are spent with a computer, my fingers have become shaped in a keyboard shape and my hands are always in a semi-bent position. My nightmares are late assignments, and missing school.

I think I am becoming insane.

I sit here, assembling what seems like the fiftieth Statement of Claim, with backpage and Notice. Actually is is more like the fifth. Today - we had a pop-quiz on Statements of Claim and it was so easy I almost felt like I must be missing something. My teacher assured me and my friend that everything was fine - we were just quick at grasping things. Although these words mean nothing to you - it is quite exciting to be learning all this law "stuff"!

My fourth week is going well - I am almost completely caught up on my homework which is quite a miracle considering the amounts they pour onto us. Though I am sure with the holiday coming up they will give us a whole lot more.

Canadian Politics test coming up - I think it is going to be hard - there are a whole lot of terms to be memorized. Grrr.

I think I am losing my imagination - this is a very sad thing. Sometimes I think maybe we are all becoming robots and soon I will be just another face in the sea of faces, without a mind, and brainwashed by our society. So sad I tell you.

Monday, September 27, 2004

Sometimes Monday's just fly by especially if you have no sleep;) I had a good weekend, though kinda busy, then again that does keep me out of trouble. I have a busy week ahead - but I am in my fourth week, that means at the end of the week, one month done already! Most exciting - time flies. Thanksgiving is coming up and that always makes me happy! Then mid-terms already - crazy really.

I visited a new church plant Sunday morning - I was greatly challenge by the ministry and outreach this church is doing. It was very impressive and convicting. Sometimes I think we just get too comfortable in our churches and we don't really work outside of our circles enough. Young churches always seem so full of life and ambition - too bad that we often lose that over time.

Thursday, September 23, 2004

In one of my classes we are studying what our personality types are, how to release our innerself, yadda, yadda, yadda. But, in my last class our teacher gave us this really interesting website. You fill out part of the Jung test and you can find out what your personality is like. I found it kinda interesting.

K, here is the website - sorry it isn't linked www.humanmetrics.com

So, if you have a chance and you are bored, go ahead and try the Jung test and see how accurate it is!

Well, I went for a run yesterday. I have decided that I don't work hard enough to reach my goals. Like I dream, say I want to do things, but then I never really make a huge effort into achieving them. So, I am trying here:)

Last night I went to Bible Study. It was totally awesome. I came back so pumped. We had a great discusion in our group about witnessing and such, followed by a really good movie based on how we make idols in our lives and such. I came home last night totally encouraged and stoked up to do better in my Christian walk. I love those kind of days!!!!

Can't wait till coffee tonight - always makes my Thursday fly by!

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

well in a few minutes it is officially fall. This makes me happy since fall is my favourite season of the year!

What is your biggest dream right now?
What are you doing to help you get there?

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

I was walking through the parking lot this morning, on my way into school. Now, due to the large amounts of students attending Mohawk at the moment, I have to park quite a ways away, even though I come in at 8:40ish in the morning. One of the obstacles I have to encounter is a fence of sorts. It is a chain fence that drapes across the parking lot. Now, there is a walkway through it, or you can jump/step over it. Well, since I used to be good at high jumping, I jump over it, back pack and all.

This normally works fine, but for some reason today, wether it was my backpack being extra heavy, the fact that I was wearing a skirt, or the parking lot being especially full of walking students at the moment - I am not sure which one, things didn't work so well. As I did a graceful run up to the fence and prepared to leap over it, my foot hit an oil spot on the pavement. Instead of sailing over the fence I became entangled and ended up looking like a pregnant caribou trying to dance.

During my flight, my book bag (which unfortunately was open) spewed books all over the parking lot. Students stopped to stare, and the sea gulls laughed from the side-lines. To say the least my face was slightly red after I untangled myself from my skirt and picked up my books, all the while trying to maintain an air of confidence and dignity - something which is hard to do after a show like that:)

But, nothing could prepare me for what came next. I felt my head and it really hurt, and blood was trickling down the side of my face. I walked into school, trying to pretend that people always walk in to school with blood on their face and a ripped skirt that, according to conservitive standards, was anything but decent at the moment.

I rushed into the bathroom to see the damage one look in the mirror and I almost cried. Someone had lost the Mercedes logo off the front of their car and it must of been lying in my path of quick desent. There embedded into my forehead was a Mercedes symbol. And by embedded, I do mean embedded. Not to mention the gravel marks on my face and my skinned nose.

Well, I endured a few jokes about my choices of skin emplantments/tattoos during my short walk to my classroom and my teacher tried her best to be sympathetic, but that resulted in hysterical laughter.

Just when I wanted to slide under the desk, a beeping noise erupted. I turned around only to realize my alarm clock was going off. It was 8:00, my morning hadn't even begun yet.

Canadian Politics class is kinda interesting. At least today no one lost their heads. Though sometimes I am wondering what the heck is our government thinking somedays. Like signing the free world trade agreement with the clause in it saying that we always have to supply the States with energy and such even if we are running out. Mexico was even smarter then us when signing this.

You know what was wierd today - two guys held open the door for me. That is the first time it has even happened to me, despite me being here since May. Also the first time I have even seen guys hold open the door for a girl. I was kinda shocked.

Somehow the sound of keyboards clicking has become like the sound track of my life and the computer screen the back drop:) I think I may be going mental in this place:o

I walked outside today on one of my breaks and it is the most beautiful day. I love it - this fall weather!! Anyhow, I have a few hours to kill in which I hope to accomplish some homework, and eat the pasta my mom bought for me from the Outback!!

1. Travel the world.
2. Learn how to play the drums well.
3. Carve a pumpkin.
4. Visit the Art Gallery in Toronto.
5. Play laser tag with my brothers next week!!
6. Have a house with a huge library, art room, and the telescope ceiling room!
7. Learn how to play the Piano well!
8. Never stop dreaming.
9. Go to the moon!
10.Take a photography course.
11.Learn how to draw/paint a camel:)
12.Become a better person (a life project methinks)
13.Always be there for people when they need it.
14.Write a masterpiece.
15.Build and maintain an iron mind.
16.Run regularly.
17.Do well at school, make the Dean's honor list again this year, possibly win a legal award.
18.Stop procrastinating.
19.Appreciate every moment I have.

And that is just a few!

Just recently at Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers developed an electron microscope image that can distinguish the individual, dumbbell-shaped atoms of a silicon crystal.

In a Sept. 17 article in the journal Science, Pennycook and colleagues wrote that they have achieved an image resolution at 0.6 angstrom, breaking the previous record of 0.7 angstrom which the lab set earlier this year.

An angstrom, the smallest wavelength of light, is about 500,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair.

For its latest findings, the Oak Ridge lab used a 300-kilovolt state-of-the-art electron microscope aided by new computerized imaging technology developed by Nion Co. of Kirkland, Wash.

Researchers said the next frontier will be seeing atoms in three dimensions.

***I've always wanted to have a room in my house where the entire ceiling was made of telescope glass. So, you could go into the room at night and see all the stars. Due to the glass they would be like right in the room with you. How cool is that. And with new discoveries like this, perhaps I could see the little people who live on the stars:)

Monday, September 20, 2004

Well, I can't put a post on about things that bother me if I don't mention some of the things that I love.

1. Thanksgiving up North.
2. Rain drops falling.
3. The first snow fall.
4. Hanging with my friends.
5. An early morning run with the sun rising.
6. My family.
7. Those moments were time seems to have stopped and you are in awe.
8. A deep conversation with someone I care about.
9. The millions of moments I want to freeze when you are there.
10. Causing someone to smile.
11. When despite how horrible I am God creates amazing things for me, i.e. a rainbow, awesome friend, sunset, etc..
12. A campfire.
13. Freshly cut grass, liquid skies, and a street light.
14. Fall - as in the season:)
15. Playing Tony Hawk every once in a while with my brothers.
16. My most awesome sister.
17. Coaching soccer - most days:)
18. When you are working on something in your life, and one day you wake up and you finally notice progress!!
19. Taking time to do devo's and then wondering why you ever skipped them cause it makes you feel a million times better.
20. The friend who takes the time to really find out how you are doing.
21. My feather duvet!!
22. The Ancaster Fair - definately trying to hit the demolition derby this Friday night with my brothers!!
23. Freshly baked bread.
24. When you write a poem - and then you actually like it two days later!
25. Finally doing things that you've always wanted to do!!
26. Dreaming big - and never stopping!

1. Slow drivers in the fast lane.
2. People who are down on themselves and have no reason to be.
3. Overly critical people.
4. When someone empties the butter dish and doesn't fill it.
5. Cocky people.
6. People who make up their mind about something and then don't even listen to your viewpoint.
7. People who are never wrong.
8. When computers just seem to hate you for some unknown reason and do wierd things.
9. When I am not content, especially cause I have every reason to be.
10.Boys who line up at the end of the hallway just to watch the girls who pass (I always pick my nose:)
11.When I freak out over nothing.
12.The fact that I am still scared to go into the basement when it is dark out.
13.How hard it is to trust people some days. Especially when they deserve it all and you still don't trust them.
14.When I am jealous over stupid things.
15.When I have extra time and instead of doing Devo's I read a magazine or watch t.v..
16.The fact that I haven't gone for a run or to the gym for a while.
17.I haven't wrote a good poem for a while.

Weekends are great, I love them. Though I did spend most of my weekend doing homework, I still enjoyed the break. Shana was over for the weekend, that produced some crazy times. She makes me laugh - though her pink socks kinda worry me:)

My new soccer team is shaping up - that is always a positive thing. I hate doing the cuts though - it really sucks to have to tell a kid they didn't make the team. Things like that can be quite tramatizing for children - not cool. One of the negitives of coaching. Positive side of it though, is you can cut that kid who was so annoying, talked back to you, and picked on the rest of the kids no matter how many laps you made him run - that is my evil side coming out:)

It was so cold this morning, I wore socks and shoes. This is a miracle for anyone who knows me:)

Friday, September 17, 2004

Only a woman will TRULY relate to the following, but it's fun for all!

My mother was a fanatic about public toilets. As a little girl, she'd bring me in the stall, teach me to wad up toilet paper and wipe the seat. Then, she'd carefully lay strips of toilet paper to cover the seat. Finally, she'd instruct, "Never, never sit on a public toilet seat. And she'd demonstrate "The Stance," which consisted of balancing over the toilet in a sitting position without actually letting any of your flesh make contact with the Toilet seat. But by this time, I'd have wet down my leg and we'd go home.

That was a long time ago. Even now in our more mature years, The Stance is excruciatingly difficult to maintain when one's bladder is especially full. When you have to "go" in a public bathroom, you find a line of women that makes you think there's a half-price sale on Nelly's underwear in there. So, you wait and smile politely at all the other ladies, also crossing their legs and smiling politely. And you finally get closer. You check for feet under the stall doors. Every one is occupied.

Finally, a stall door opens and you dash, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the stall. You get in to find the door won't latch. It doesn't matter. You hang your purse on the door hook, yank down your pants and assume "The Stance." Relief. More relief. Then your thighs begin to shake. You'd love to sit down but you certainly hadn't taken time to wipe the seat or lay toilet paper on it, so you hold The Stance as your thighs experience a quake that would register an eight on the Richter scale.

To take your mind off it, you reach for the toilet paper. The toilet paper dispenser is empty. Your thighs shake more. You remember the tiny tissue that you blew your nose on-that's in your purse. It would have to do. You crumble it in the puffiest way possible. It is still smaller than your thumbnail.

Someone pushes open your stall door because the latch doesn't work and your purse whams you in the head. "Occupied!" you scream as you reach out for the door, dropping your tissue in a puddle and falling backward, directly onto the toilet seat. You get up quickly, but it's too late. Your bare bottom has made contact with all the germs and life forms on the bare seat because you never laid down toilet paper, not that there was any, even if you had enough time to. And your mother would be utterly ashamed of you if she knew, because her bare bottom never touched a public toilet seat because, frankly, "You don't know what kind of diseases you could get."

And by this time, the automatic sensor on the back of the toilet is so confused that it flushes, sending up a stream of water akin to a fountain and then it suddenly sucks everything down with such force that you grab onto the toilet paper dispenser for fear of being dragged to China.

At that point, you give up. You're soaked by the splashing water.

You're exhausted. You try to wipe with a Chicklet wrapper you found in your pocket, then slink out inconspicuously to the sinks. You can't figure out how to operate the sinks with the automatic sensors, so you wipe your hands with spit and a dry paper towel and walk past a line of women, still waiting, cross-legged and unable to smile politely at this point.

One kind soul at the very end of the line points out that you are trailing a piece of toilet paper on your shoe as long as the Mississippi River! You yank the paper from your shoe, plunk it the woman's hand and say warmly, "Here. You might need this."

At this time, you see your man, who has entered, used and exited his bathroom and read a copy of War and Peace while waiting for you. "What took you so long?" he asks, annoyed... This is when you kick him sharply in the shin and go home.

This is dedicated to all women everywhere who have ever had to deal with a public toilet. And it finally explains to all you men what takes us so long.

PS - The answer to the other question, why do women go in pairs. It's so the other woman can hold the door and hand you Kleenex.

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

It all started with one step, a step made in innocence. There was a requirement this semester - an elective. Everyone was required to attend an elective class. The problem: registration complications forced many people to take a class they weren't interested in. Mary gets put into Canadian Politics. This is great, a nice lecture in a friendly environment, some homework, and I have the privilege of broadening my knowledge - it's all good.

Well, I attended the class today - I am afraid that we may be producing heart patients instead of political knowledge. I think all the opinionated people were signed up for this class. In all my time at Mohawk I have not seen people so close to killing each other over minor details. We have a few Conservitives, well just the few who dared mention their standings and are forever now facing the majorities wrath. Many Liberals who are well, very liberal. And the inbetween groups.

Let's just say - class will never be nothing but interesting. And I will never forget the look on the guy in my group's face when his firey opponant called him sweetie:)

what will kill me first....the fact that my backpack weighs more then me, or a mob of people running over me in the hallway. I am not really sure yet, but both seem to be a possibility:)

My week of school starts off crazy, Monday's are a four class day from 9:00-5:00. I came home last night from school, did my homework for a few hours and then went to bed....it was sad:) Tuesdays are not really any better - I get here for a 9:00 morning class, have classes all day and end at 9:30 at night. Most likely go home, scramble to get my homework done, off to bed and ready to start my next day. Thank goodness Wednesday's are easy. Thursday's are busy - 9:00-5:00, and then Friday gives me a little bit of a breather - 8:00-2:00.

So ya, that is my week definately interesting.

I learned that I don't have to take University for three years in order to get accepted into law school - I can take a six hour law test, if I pass I could get accepted based on that. I found that kinda cool, it would mean that to be a Lawyer it would only take me a little over four years. That is based on the fact that I pass that hard test:)

My sister might be taking a night course here with me. Well, she would be in a different class but at least I would have someone to drive home with:)

I hope you all are having an awesome week so far!!

Friday, September 10, 2004

Well, the first week passed quite quickly. School is going well, I am enjoying the classes, I have great teachers, my best friend at school is in my class, the lab bought new computers - it is great!!

Last night we had coffee at Starbucks with a bunch of us - always good to see my friends and hang! Tonight I plan on doing something exciting, like, oh ya, homework. Great stuff:)

I had Real Estate law this afternoon and enjoyed the "priviledge" of hearing horror stories from the Real Estate realm. Moral of the stories - get a house inspection before you buy the house, and include in that contract a search for bodies. This will hopefully take away the risk of you finding dead bodies in your house when you start remodeling:)

Anyhow folks, have a awesome weekend!

Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Wednesday's are going to be my favourite day of the school week I think. I have on morning class - 9:30-11:00. It is great, then the rest of the day off to get things completed - and Bible study at night - which I am looking forward to. Monday and Thursday are going to be my late days at school - I may have night school possibly on Tuesday. But otherwise things are finally getting straightened out here.

You know what is sad - I think in general we don't dream enough. We have become robots performing our daily tasks without any spark or passion for life. Considering all the amazing things we have been given and have the opportunities to experience - you would think our life would be full of excitement. Sadly when I look across the sea of faces, it is hard to find someone who looks like they really enjoy life. What is worse - my face most likely reflects the same look.

I had advanced communication class today - I think it is going to be a big joke. I sometimes wonder who comes up with these programs. But, at the end I should know the following - how to effectively end relationships, how to express my inner self, how to avoid being used by people, etc.. Should be interesting - in my humble opinion - considering I didn't agree with everything that was said in just the introduction to the course:)

Tuesday, September 07, 2004

I saw God as an artist tonight - He painted the sky in a completely brilliant array of colours tonight. And I was priviledge to witness it.

Well, my first day back, and from the looks of Mohawk, me and the rest of the world. It is crazy here - so far I haven't run into any familiar faces - besides two girls from my class. Sheesh, I am just another face in the sea of faces. Hopefully once I get my schedule and everything figured out things will run a little more smoothly - like next week. First week is always interesting - I sympathize with all you people on your first day of school:)

I had an awesome week at Tamarack - everything was great (besides the food and the fact that it was less then a week long:). The Spiritual side was very refreshing, I really enjoyed the Ephesians 6 topic, it was challenging and enlightning. I also had good times hanging with friends and family - all this was topped off by the time at the beach yesterday - good times! It was a great month off.

Well, I have homework already from my first class - so off I go, I hope you guys are all having an awesome day!