So you may be wondering why there have not been any posts in the last little while, and I fear that you may have developed some crazy idea's about what I have been doing, let me quell the fire before the rumors get out of hand. No I do not have a girlfriend, no I did not go to Alaska on a fishing trip, no I did not fall asleep while writing an exam and wake up 2 weeks later inside a coffin, I did get sick and lose my voice, no I did not take a midnight walk and get mugged (though it might happen here), its true that I have been busy and trying to read, write papers, study, and generally stay sane, and no I did not go sky diving. So really what it boils down to was that my life was kinda boring, I dident want to write here as well as papers, I am sick of pasta (I never thought I would say that), and in general I am sick of school. Its been a tough couple weeks for classes, papers, reading, exams, relationships. So really everything. But there have been some points of happiness during the past little while. Well there was the Christmas banquet, an annual black tie event where there is a service of sorts, then eating and then a program. It was pretty good this year. The food was dodgy, no fault of the planners of the event, it was simply the caterers fault. Then there was an after banquet party at Mike Schalins house where be basically sat around and chilled, which was totally cool since I mostly felt like sleeping. After that night of glory I had mad amounts of homework to do, papers to write, reading to get done (theres a theme here), so I spent many days and nights holed up in my room trying to get all this work done. I got it done, but it was not the quality I had hoped. I had done papers my first 2 years at college mostly the night or two before it was due, this year I started earlier and I still did not acomplish the quality that I wanted to. Its a tough life when your a third year. One of the papers was comparing Akira Kurosawa's film "Ran" to Shakespeare's "King Lear". I really enjoyed the film and it has opened my eye to a new director. At the start of the week of terror, I had an oral exam in my Christianity in the Second Century class. This was made almost impossible by the fact that I had lost my voice the morning after the Christmas banquet. So I trugged through the exam to pull out a semi-decent but not that great mark. I have since re-gained my voice, though I still feel like I have a cold. Anyways after this exam I spent much time writing and reading for my other classes, this was not helped by the fact that I was getting sick and needed to study for my Ethic's examination. So I finally did get to study for Ethic's and it was alright, but not that great. I dont really know how I did, I will hopefully find out before I head home for the holidays, which is in about 5 days, yeah! So thats just the start of exam week and now I have 2 more this comming wednesday, which should be fun, if you like studying until names and dates are throughly confused. Well now that your all caught up on my life and its happenings, feel free to send Christmas gifts my way as well as any food, other than elbow macaroni. Peace.

Sadly its snowing outside. Don't get me wrong, I love the snow, but when I have to walk to school in deep snow wearing Vans its not such a nice thing. But I suppose I will live. I got my birthday package from my parents and siblings yesterday. It was filled with mail, money, and a bunt pan. Now you might be wondering how a bunt pan got mailed all the way from Sweet Home Kamloops to Cowtown, and it is quite simple. The pan is made of Silicone. Apparently Tupperware is on the cutting edge of Kitchen Technology and has developed a flexable pan of sorts. Its quite a curious feeling when you can move the sides of what appears to be a solid and sturdy pan. I have yet to use it, but when I do I will surely write about it. Last night I played for this smallish College and Career Gathering at Foothills Alliance Chruch. Smallish meaning 12 people showed up. This is double how many people were in the band, so there were 18 there, and 6 in the band. It was slightly discouraging, but it was a wonderful time anyways. I also got a free dinner, and that was keen. I am in the midst of writing a paper for my Ethics class, and it is one of the hardest papers I have written yet. For one I have to think on my own, and not research what other people thought, and another its Philosophy so of course its gonna be difficult. Its not too enjoyable, but I am pretty sure I am learning stuff, so thats always good at college. This snow is kinda depressing. Since I live downtown its not like the snow gets to fall and then look all nice and stuff, the snow falls and then is run over by cars so it gets a nice brown tint to it, therefore not nice looking but sadly depressing. I am reminded of a time when I lived in a house where the snow was great and there were large trees and mountians, I miss the mountians. I think I miss them even more being here than in Regina. In Regina there was nothing to look at so you just delt with it. Here I can see the mountians on a good day, and realize that I cant get too them without a great deal of preperation. Sadly that is the case, but I get to go home in a few weeks time for the Holidays, so that should be pretty nifty, I am definetly looking forward to no papers for a couple of weeks. Sadly there are many things to do and happen before such a time of rest is allowed. Speaking of rest I need to work on my paper some more. Peace and Love.