Today is the last day of my trip out west. We get back to Guelph tomorrow and my prof is going to pick up me, John, and the squids up from the train station tomorrow. This has been the best vacation ever and I have done so many new things that I have never done before. It all started back in September when I heard from Josie (my marine biologist ( Read more... )

Yeah, so I'm still in Vancouver. We should be on the train, with two boxes of squid and John's snowboard on our way to Edmonton. Instead, we're still here and John's snowboard is on the way to Edmonton ( Read more... )

Here we are, the first semester of fourth year over. And I only took three courses because my other one was my thesis project, which is about to take all my time in the entire world once I get back with 15 stomachs and 2 whole squids to cut up. How the hell am I going to thaw a 2 foot squid? Well, let's worry about keeping it frozen for now. ( Read more... )

So today, a list of 21 Happy Things ( Read more... )

And sometimes it's nice when you feel sleepy and have a cup of tea and think about Sociology.

My prof e-mailed me this afternoon with a response. He said it was done through a cough-syrup haze, but he tried his best. He was happy that I had something written, since just getting it down on paper is apparently the hardest part. He's always too nice, but that's why I like him. I thought he was going to be upset that I didn't take his ( Read more... )

Deep breaths, Heather, deep breaths. I have to write a proposal for my thesis. No big deal right? It's not going to be hard or complicated, right? Now let's go back two weeks ago, to September 16th when my prof e-mailed me telling me I should really start to write the introduction/background and methods section for my project. And let's go ( Read more... )

So this was my big adventure. My first chance to just hang out with my dad and do something cool for a while. I've never before spent so much time with just him, and it was great. We left on Thursday and took the Go Bus to the air port. We got lost because he thought it would be more fun to expolore and figure it out ourselves than it would to ( Read more... )

Welcome Aboard: Andrew Braid Heather Braid ( Read more... )

Josie Osborne has made my life awesome ( Read more... )