Hey guys, long time, no update!

The good news:

-I for sure have a place to live in Ottawa! \o/ Huge load of stress off of my back.

-I've been driving up a storm on 1920s street. (Though sometimes I think I've gotten lazy and decide to drive the Model A Ford or use the old bicycle instead of walking one minute down the street, but whatevs!)

-Saskatoon ( Read more... )

This is my determined face.

So even twenty four hours ago I was puttering along quite happily in my safe assumption that I'll just apply for a master's in history at the University of Alberta (where I completed my undergrad last spring), fairly certain to get in, very little stress. Then I had this status update on facebook: "Also: now applying for ( Read more... )

Hello everyone! It's such a cliché to say it, but time really does fly! I've been hard at work preparing for and teaching English classes, but this week I had several other things on my mind.

First, on a sad note, I think that for the first November since I started NaNoWriMo, I am not going to make it to 50k. :( I have fallen several days behind, ( Read more... )

 I try to make mental lists of things that make me happy every so often, just in case I have a bad day.

( What am I anxious about? Jobs, papers, group projects... )

 Donc je pense que j'ai déjà indiquer que ma nouvelle ordinateure a quelquechose de différent, en comparaison avec l'ancienne: ce qu'on appelle un "number pad" en anglais. (J'ai toujours du misère à trouver la vocabulaire pour les choses éléctronique en français. Beaucoup du temps c'est seulement le mot en anglais avec "le" ou "la" en avant.) Bien ( Read more... )

 Update on the whole France-job-application thing.

I checked my e-mail this morning, at 9:20am Ottawa time (that's 7:20am here). I had an e-mail back from the Madame at the French embassy in Ottawa about that piece of paper. She had e-mailed me back probably within the first ten minutes of her shift. :)

She couldn't read the file (the scanned ( Read more... )

 Okay, guys, so remember all of that brouhaha last week? About the job application to France? And how I had originally thought that it was due in March 15th, not March 1st, and then I had to rush to get it all put together and sent off but ultimately I got it in and everything was all right?

Apparently not. :(

Dad walked into the study about half ( Read more... )

 So after this past stressful week... I'm finally getting stuff done!

( Things I have achieved )

 Oh man, you guys. I really should be working on my thesis right now because I have to hand in the next draft to my supervisor tomorrow... but I have to get this off my chest, because holy crap. >:(

So for the last few days I've been compiling everything for the job application for the English Second Language teaching assistant position in France, ( Read more... )

I honestly am not sure if this was a bad day or not. I think, although it started off rough, it ended off half-decently. Let's break it down...

Bad stuff:
-woke up with a headache. Haven't had alcohol in weeks, so this wasn't a good sign.

-woke up tired, had to get out of bed.

-started sneezing, sometimes so violently my tummy hurts when I suddenly ( Read more... )