All in less than 40 hours?

Here a very sleepy girl will describe her great weekend in Toronto, by the hours.

Friday 1100
Left Lionel-Groulx metro station on a bus with 3 guys: Brad, Dan and Michael
1200 Arrived at the Montreal airport to pick up Brad's dad's car... and we were off!
1300 "No cars go" - Arcade fire singalongs
1400 Guys love videogames!
1500 Had a nap and woke up just in time to see us pass the "Oshawa" sign
1630 Arrived in Toronto, took the subway and decided I like Montreal much better
1700 Union station, grabbed a tea, waited for Julie's train to come in
1730 Found Julie, more public transit
1800 Found our hostel, found our private room with yes, only one double bed, thanks! Put on the classy outfits we had packed, but decided to skip the concert we were supposed to attend (at the Toronto Center for the Arts) to go out for dinner instead
1900 Tried on fedoras
2000 Tried to decide on a chinese restaurant... tried to decide on what to eat at the chinese restaurant
2100 Ate chinese food... delicious honey garlic pork ribs and spicy szechaun chicken with sides of rice. Mmmmm.
2200 Talked about anything and everything, especially boys. Took pictures of the city lights and the beautiful CN tower
2300 Returned to our hostel, the lobby filled with lots of Arabic men who like to stare
100 Fell asleep after a long chat

Saturday 800
Awoke to hear "IIIII CAAAAN'T help falling in LOOOOOVE with YOOOOOU." (Remember the Arabic men in the lobby?). Apparently they like to sing, very loudly, in the shower.
900 Prepared for the rainy day downtown TO, checked out of the hostel
1000 CN tower!
1100 Cabbing it to North York so we're not late for Julie's graduation ceremony
1200 Me, a peaceful lunch at Wendy's, watching tiny droplets of rain on the window.
1400 The ceremony begins! Beautiful graduates grace the aisles, gowned and ready to be hooded
1500 Julie gets her French horn performance, and piano teachers certificates, and a gold medal!
1600 Getting changed, not in the washroom, but in the fancy room where they keep the gowns
1700 Catching a tea and a frostie before our loooong ride home! Subway, back to Union.
1800 Subway... subway... subway... wow, we sure are far.
1830 Arriving just in time to board and be off back to Montreal!
1900 Too much chinese food!
2000 Are they gonna check our tickets yet?
Sudoku sudoku sudoku... cheating at sudoku
2100 Three dimensional Tic-Tac-Toe!
2200 Laughing way too much about my travel pillow and about the steward man. wuhquelchose? wuhwantsumthing? Got the giggles!
2300 Falling... falling... can't fall... Julie's still talking... falling asleep!
2400 Home sweet Montreal home. How I love thee.
100 A nice cup of sleepy tea and a nice warm bed. It feels good to be here again.

Or not spring?... is that the question?

It snowed last night... piles and piles of the beeeautiful white stuff.

I guess spring's not on it's way, as I thought it was.

I am happy to have the snow again, and so much of it! I think there's almost a foot out there. I wanted it to keep getting warmer, yes, but I also want to get out there with my cross country skis!

Spring!

Mmm. It is warm in my bed. With lots of blankets.

I know you're all jealous. :P

I thought it was going to be warm today. And it was, it's like spring lately. I just didn't wear enough coat :S... raincoat = not enough coat

Boys, girls and boogers

Wow. After that week of crapiness AND failing a midterm, I had an awesome weekend. I spent Saturday night hanging out at the Nursing, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering party. It was a really good time of building relationships with people in my faculty. (It's expected that they were mostly guys :P). And I met some great guys at that.

Wooo... I am moving! I've been on the lookout for new roommate(s), but not yet for apartments. It looks promising. It surprised me that there are Christian girls around who are in the same situation and haven't found anyone to live with. I am excited to be living with some new people. I've learned over the past year and a half that being in community, being around Christian girls, is so beneficial to my emotional well-being.
Aviva, one of the gals from the young adults group at my church is looking for someone to live with for next September. But there's also a dancer from Concordia, and a music student from McGill.

I just have one last thing to say: it is COLD! You know it's cold when icicles form on your scarf right by your mouth and the boogers freeze inside your nose.

Life always shoots me down when I'm least expecting it

Last night I finished a looooong week of midterms assignments and just plain craziness.

Sunday I spent 7 hours on a physics assignment. I would have been at it longer if it weren't for the 6 hour dance meeting and rehearsal for our show next weekend.
My roommate returned from two weeks in Panama, and the apartment got a littler smaller.

Monday I handed in the assignment after very little sleep. No sleep for Lindsay... I started studying for math. Meanwhile, there was a rendez-vous of 20 people in our living room. ~10 Campus for Christ students and staff from the University of Western Ontario trekked all the way out to Montreal for the week. Unfortunately I didn't have much of a chance to hang out with them. But it sure was a blessing to our ministry.

Tuesday I crammed and exammed. I think I might have a B in math! Wooooo!

Wednesday I started studying for physics... dredded quantum mechanics. My study buddy didn't show up, but another friend showed up and we studied for hours. I worked out most of a computer programming assignment due the next day.

Yesterday was Thursday. Everyone in my physics class was more worried than they'd ever been about an exam. We studied and studied... and gave up studying. I spent another 2 hours on my computer assignment and handed it in.

My roommate and I got together to chat. We've figured out that life in such a small apartment (three people in a two bedroom) isn't working so well. We need to split up (someone moves out) or we need to get rid of 1/2 of our stuff. I think I've decided it'll be best for me to move out. At least I'll be living with students... people who have schedules more like mine. *Sigh*

Then the physics exam. It actually wasn't so bad... for everyone else!
I'd concentrated so much on what was giving me trouble (wave packets, wave functions, psi, probability densities) that I forget to go back and study the easy stuff from the beginning of the course. Yikes!

Frostbite (the Engineering ice cream shop) gives out free cones to people who can prove they got <30% on a midterm... who wants my free ice cream?