I would like to apologize to the girl whom I almost kicked in the face in the Uni Centre last week. You have to understand I didn't mean to kick you. I meant to kick the person behind you, you just came out of nowhere. I saw Chris, put my foot up, blinked, you came out of nowhere, I almost took your head off and it ended a lot better then it could have. You have to admit though, I did a really good job of getting my foot down when I saw your eyes widen. I would have apologized there but you ran away before I could so I'm sorry whoever you are.
Now if you think this is a joke it actually isn't. Last week I did almost kick a girl in the face. So remember, if you see a friend of yours that you want to kick in the face, look both ways before you do it.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
I Procrastinate and So Can You!
Why don't I check my email before class?
Because I would have nothing to do during class.
Yes thats right, while in class I do not pay attention. Instead I choose to surf the internet. However I have to be strategic about it. I can't just look at all the interesting news articles and all of my emails at the start of class, I will die of boredom before the end of the lecture. Also, I never, ever, check anything on the internet before the lecture starts.
This allows me to maximize my time where I am not paying attention and it makes lectures like 'Comparative Politics of the Geo-Politcal North' bearable. Now, if you are reading this and are wondering how you can structure your lecture like I do, wonder no longer.
What you need to do is go to a news network website, I prefer BBC but you can use whatever works for you, and look at all of the headlines and ration them out for the rest of the class. I will usually look at my first article at this point. I also combine the BBC with sports websites (i.e. TSN, NHL.com, NFL Network, etc.) but this is not for everyone. Now you are free to open up gmail and see if anyone has sent you mail. If you haven't got any read an old one so you can waste time. Now read your second article, check facebook, tune into the lecture to make sure you haven't missed news of a test or a paper and then read article number three. If you have a second email account, check it now. It is very important that you do not skim any of the news articles or emails. You must devote your hole attention to every word so that you can use up the most time.
Also, it is a rare treat that whomever is sitting in front of you is watching a movie on their computer or ipod, take advantage of this. Do not rely on this, however, as your only time wasting method. Be prepared to last o full lecture on the internet alone.
It is possible that you will be too hasty in your procrastination and will run out of things to do. This is a tough one. You can't just reread an article because that is as boring as the lecture you are trying to avoid. So, you have two choices, either you pay attention to the lecture or you facebook stalk your friends or their friends. This has risks however. The biggest one being that everyone around you who looks at your screen, and they all are, will think you are a very big creep but if you are okay with that then go right ahead and stalk your friends girl friend whom you have never meet.
I hope this strategy will revolutionize your lectures the way it has for me. If you are of the opinion that I am paying for my schooling and therefore should pay attention and take effective notes I would love it if you kept you comments to yourself.
p.s. Writing a blog on wasting time is a very good way to waste time :)
p.p.s I want to throw a shout out to Rachel S who is suffering through Comparative Politics with me
Because I would have nothing to do during class.
Yes thats right, while in class I do not pay attention. Instead I choose to surf the internet. However I have to be strategic about it. I can't just look at all the interesting news articles and all of my emails at the start of class, I will die of boredom before the end of the lecture. Also, I never, ever, check anything on the internet before the lecture starts.
This allows me to maximize my time where I am not paying attention and it makes lectures like 'Comparative Politics of the Geo-Politcal North' bearable. Now, if you are reading this and are wondering how you can structure your lecture like I do, wonder no longer.
What you need to do is go to a news network website, I prefer BBC but you can use whatever works for you, and look at all of the headlines and ration them out for the rest of the class. I will usually look at my first article at this point. I also combine the BBC with sports websites (i.e. TSN, NHL.com, NFL Network, etc.) but this is not for everyone. Now you are free to open up gmail and see if anyone has sent you mail. If you haven't got any read an old one so you can waste time. Now read your second article, check facebook, tune into the lecture to make sure you haven't missed news of a test or a paper and then read article number three. If you have a second email account, check it now. It is very important that you do not skim any of the news articles or emails. You must devote your hole attention to every word so that you can use up the most time.
Also, it is a rare treat that whomever is sitting in front of you is watching a movie on their computer or ipod, take advantage of this. Do not rely on this, however, as your only time wasting method. Be prepared to last o full lecture on the internet alone.
It is possible that you will be too hasty in your procrastination and will run out of things to do. This is a tough one. You can't just reread an article because that is as boring as the lecture you are trying to avoid. So, you have two choices, either you pay attention to the lecture or you facebook stalk your friends or their friends. This has risks however. The biggest one being that everyone around you who looks at your screen, and they all are, will think you are a very big creep but if you are okay with that then go right ahead and stalk your friends girl friend whom you have never meet.
I hope this strategy will revolutionize your lectures the way it has for me. If you are of the opinion that I am paying for my schooling and therefore should pay attention and take effective notes I would love it if you kept you comments to yourself.
p.s. Writing a blog on wasting time is a very good way to waste time :)
p.p.s I want to throw a shout out to Rachel S who is suffering through Comparative Politics with me
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Top Ten Most Useful Childhood Lessons
One can never have to many lists of 'Top Tens' or 'Best Of''s so, because i don't know what to blog about, i will give you my Top Ten Most Useful Childhood Lessons. Here we go
10. Don't put a plastic bag over your head or you may die!
9. You don't need girls
8. When your parents say you are too young to go on the top bunk they are telling the truth
7. There is always a chance your parents will say yes to more ice cream
6. If your brother says it won't hurt he is lying
5. If your brother says it will hurt, run! He is not lying!
4. When building a fort, make it only big for you and your grandma, and you must use a chair or couch as the base
3. Using a hockey stick to retrieve a ball that has gone into your mother's favourite bush, that she has been waiting a year to see bloom, is NOT a good idea
2. Imagination is the best toy you will ever have
1. Never eat yellow snow
Friday, January 7, 2011
Have i got a blog for you
If you like sports you should check out Ignorance and Sports written by yours truly. Its just me giving my thoughts on sports. If you don't like sports let me give you some advice, don't read it you will not enjoy it
One Thing
I was talking with a friend of mine who was writing a story for her journalism class. She had interviewed the player/president of the Carleton women's rugby team. This lady had been injured playing club rugby and had to miss one season, and possibly another, as a result. This got me thinking which is rare because i rarely do so.
Most people who know me know that i don't just like rugby, i LOVE it! I love watching it, i love coaching it and i love playing it. However i don't play rugby anymore, not competitively anyway. In high school i both wrestled and played rugby but while wrestling i injured my shoulder. Instead of resting it the appropriate amount of time i decided to keep wrestling. Bad idea, i know. I ended up making the injury worse and it prevented me from playing entire rugby matches. I still played more then i should have because i was an idiot (well, i say 'was' but really i still am).
At this point you may be wondering what i am getting at. It's this, this injury changed my entire life. If i had not been injured wrestling i would have continued to play both high school and club rugby and i would have gone to the University of Windsor with the intent of playing rugby. If i had done this my life would be very different.
Yes i would be playing rugby and i would love that but since i have gone to Carleton my life has been changed. Before i say anymore i need to tell you i am a Christian but before coming to university my faith was dead. I knew all the sunday school answers but the meaning was lost. However at Carleton my faith has been revived. Looking back i know that this would not have happened at Windsor. God wanted me to go to Carleton and it has taken me a while to come to this point but i thank God for my injury and not being able to play rugby. Rugby is fun and all that but when it's all been said and done rugby...doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is God and i needed to get that straight.
One day i hope to play rugby again but it's okay if i don't. If i live my life for God, following all his commands and being a servant to all, and never play another game of rugby i will consider it a good life.
If you have an opinion or comment on what i have said i invite you...to comment, i would honestly love to hear it. Thanks for reading
Most people who know me know that i don't just like rugby, i LOVE it! I love watching it, i love coaching it and i love playing it. However i don't play rugby anymore, not competitively anyway. In high school i both wrestled and played rugby but while wrestling i injured my shoulder. Instead of resting it the appropriate amount of time i decided to keep wrestling. Bad idea, i know. I ended up making the injury worse and it prevented me from playing entire rugby matches. I still played more then i should have because i was an idiot (well, i say 'was' but really i still am).
At this point you may be wondering what i am getting at. It's this, this injury changed my entire life. If i had not been injured wrestling i would have continued to play both high school and club rugby and i would have gone to the University of Windsor with the intent of playing rugby. If i had done this my life would be very different.
Yes i would be playing rugby and i would love that but since i have gone to Carleton my life has been changed. Before i say anymore i need to tell you i am a Christian but before coming to university my faith was dead. I knew all the sunday school answers but the meaning was lost. However at Carleton my faith has been revived. Looking back i know that this would not have happened at Windsor. God wanted me to go to Carleton and it has taken me a while to come to this point but i thank God for my injury and not being able to play rugby. Rugby is fun and all that but when it's all been said and done rugby...doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is God and i needed to get that straight.
One day i hope to play rugby again but it's okay if i don't. If i live my life for God, following all his commands and being a servant to all, and never play another game of rugby i will consider it a good life.
If you have an opinion or comment on what i have said i invite you...to comment, i would honestly love to hear it. Thanks for reading
Thursday, January 6, 2011
The Size of a Maple Leaf
Things that are the size of a Maple Leaf:
1. maple leaf cookies
2. some phones
3. the brain of anyone who cheers for the sens, habs or canucks
4. a coaster
5. a Jewish skull cap
6. the circumference of the bowl that has been sitting on my desk for way to long
and
7. the hole left in my heart after Canada's collapse
1. maple leaf cookies
2. some phones
3. the brain of anyone who cheers for the sens, habs or canucks
4. a coaster
5. a Jewish skull cap
6. the circumference of the bowl that has been sitting on my desk for way to long
and
7. the hole left in my heart after Canada's collapse
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