Let's be brief.

I have been enormously busy this month. The work has been creeping and piling up. I fell behind in classes, yet I value every moment of free time, maybe too much. I indulged in my extra-curriculars. This is what my schedule has looked like in past weeks:Oh an update on how our vball team did in the Div. 2 finals: Another trophy to kiss :)

Despite some minor barriers to overcome, we were able to pull off a narrow defeat over none other than Trinity (again.). Below are teammates Kristin, Emily, Eileen, Jane, myself, Jen, Stacey and Julie (my mentee...I have taught her well ;) haha). Yashi's missing due to her broken finger!

Shit, so much stuff to do. Stop procrastinating!

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Cutest song right now from The Last Kiss soundtrack: El Salvador by Athlete.

Culmination

I just walked home from the Medical Education Centre and it's 2am. The crazy thing was that there were snowflakes in the air! I do love that downtown Toronto kinda reminds me of London late at night...quiet and serene. Great for thinking walks.

I have been working on my research project all day and there is so much left to do. Everybody is complaining about their project, and while I also find it to be a really tedious and contrived exercise, I actually don't mind doing it (other than the time involved and distraction from my other obligations). Maybe it's because it feels similar to my summer job and I'm used to it (but getting paid for it) and probably it's because I have a good grasp of my research topic and I actually like what I'm doing. That is, the pilot testing of a functional clothing line that was designed for breast cancer patients who suffer from lymphedema. Don't know what that is??? Doesn't matter....it involves clothes!

Why am I so behind you ask? Because my friggin life has been so busy in the last 3 weeks. I'm not really complaining...I think it has been a relatively 'good' busy. But nevertheless...I don't sleep much and I have piles of work ahead of me. The pressure will be off once my exam is over next next Friday. Wait, I haven't even started to study for that yet.

Anyhoo, the last 24 hours has been like multi-tasking galore. I went to a conference in the morning, to which my supervisor seemed surprised to see me there. WHYYYYYY did I go if she didn't even seem to care that I went??? Anyway, it was beneficial for me to go.

Then I was shuttled off to the next engagement: Birchmount Stadium for the women's flag football championships against Trinity.

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This pic is funnier than the other one so I am using it. Everyone looks so random. Katherine and Kate are missing.

Points of interest in the game: WE WON, WE WON, WE WONNNNNNNNNN (26-12); Yashi broke her right index finger on the fifth play of the game; Adina caught 2 passes; I scored 3 TDs again :); and we got a snazzzzy blue intramurals T-shirts for being the champs! A spectator has a videotape of the game so I can't wait to see it, replete with his wiley sideline comments. I can't believe that I actually had butterflies before the game. It's been a while.

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Then it was off to this:
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Andrea and I in front of the art display.

The Earthtones concert and art auction where I ended up doing WAAYYY more than I expected to do. It seems as though the organization could have been better, and there should have been more people designated to do specific tasks. I found that people kept coming up to me and asking me what they should be doing to solve this and that problem, even though all I was responsible for was the artist registration and dropping-off of artwork. My job was supposed to start and end before the concert even began. Maybe it was because I was wearing a tie and looked like "management" as Rahim A. put it. HAHA. Well it was a fun-filled/stress-filled day all in all! Oh and 'Mingus' was sold....goodbye my friend.

More busy days ahead!

Quickie

Oh I finally finished this on the weekend:
Now I have to figure out what I'm going to wear with it. Oh well, it was fun to make.
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We just won our semi-final women's vball game...another finals for meeeeeee!!

Mental note

Oh I also went to Pusateri's on Bay St. today for the first time. And I am IN LOVE with that place. I could literally spend a million dollars there!!! I must go back again soon.

What I did this weekend

I made a painting on Friday night to donate to a silent art auction being held during a school charity concert next Saturday. It only took me 5 hours to complete, which is pretty good for me. The painting is pretty small (8" x 10") anyhow so it came together really quickly. This painting is called 'Mingus' - based off of a photograph of Charles Mingus. Clearly, this is the subject matter that I am the best at doing, especially when compared to my last pitiful attempt at floral subjects. I also managed to watch the whole first season of Prison Break too. It started out as I was painting, but I ended up finishing the season throughout various different times during the rest of the weekend.

It looks like this auction is going to be much better than last year's in terms of submissions from donators and publicity. I am helping out with getting artists registered and collecting the artwork. Now it is just a waiting game to see how people actually respond to it on Saturday.
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'Mingus'
2006

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In other news: our women's flag football team played in the semis today and we had the BEST time! It was seriously the most amusing game ever. We were arguing with refs, roughing up the other team and well, I got roughed up myself too. But it was all in the spirit of football, which is clearly a contact sport. I scored 3 touchdowns! Woohoo! Coming in as underdogs, we ended up beating the first-ranked team handily and next weekend is the finals. I'll keep you posted.

In my endeavor to try out as many different restaurants as I can, Natasha and I ended up at Zyng on Yonge St. for a post-football lunch. As you can tell, we were pretty tired by the time we finished eating. This is what we had to eat: (I had chicken Sen Mee with spicy peanut sauce)

For now

I've chosen to hide comments and prevent new comments from being published for a while. Some jerk will not stop leaving stupid links in one of my entries. It is only temporary because said jerk will realize that he/she can't leave dumb and useless links anymore and hopefully move along like the parasite that he/she is. And if jerk thinks that he/she has won this battle by forcing me to react, then fine, but just go away. Can't you do anything better with your time? Don't worry, I promise not to write anything that you will find interesting enough to comment on!