Chez Nuclear Sunrisette

Ok I guess I should clarify this. NO I'm not going to have a baby, at least not for many many years. I was just curious, that's all. I was watching The View this morning (one of my favourite shows) and one of the chicks is named Meredith. One of the other chicks, Elizabeth, is very very pregnant and due any day. That's all! Don't worry!

Jeepers creepers. Did I mention that I have 7 major assignments due between today and the last day of classes, which is like 2 weeks away? Not impressed.

I FINALLY finished my resource binder. I probably should have put it into a 2 inch binder but it does fit into a 1 1/2 inch. That's a HUGE assignment for 40% of my mark. 2 weeks of work for a big binder. That's nuts. Now I gotta get cracking on my other assignments. I asked my English prof for an extension yesterday but she said no, sympathetically at least. She said that I would need a doctor's note and that if she did it for me she would have to do it for everyone. She's so bloody rigid it isn't even funny. So I'm gonna email my rlst prof and ask for an extension because his paper is due on the same day as my English paper. Cross your fingers, knock on wood.. for my sanity's sake.

I really can't think of much else to say. I guess there's a temporary job in Nipawin in a grade 3 class. If I have time to breathe in the next few weeks I'll apply for it. That would be awesome, hey?! And Kass, we could visit each other lots if you're in Tisdale.

Ooh I have a question for all of you. ANYONE who reads this, please leave a comment. Even if I don't know you. If you don't know how to leave a comment, click on "[number] comments" at the bottom of this entry. (There, now you have no excuse to not leave me a comment!) The question is, do you think Meredith is an old-fashioned, ugly name?

I'm just taking a break from cleaning my room. I decided to do a really good cleaning BEFORE I started most of my assignments so I had no excuse to put them off. Now if I have to take a break I can "tidy", not "cleanse and purge".

Remember, I want comments!

Happy Easter everyone! Yes, I say everyone because I now know that more than one person actually reads this pathetic thing!

My Easter was very good. Jess and I went to my mom and dad's for the weekend. Uncle Grant, Aunt Robin, Yonny, Brea and Auntie Darlene were there too. It was awesome to have other relatives there too because I haven't actually spent a holiday with my family in about a year or so. The way things have worked out, we've been at Jesse's every holiday. It was so nice to be on my home turf and spend more than just 4 or 5 hours with everyone. We had a great supper today too - turkey, my mom's special carrot casserole that is the highlight of my entire YEAR, etc. It was a great weekend.

I did forget how horrible dial-up is though! I brought my psych resource binder home with me in hopes of getting time to work on it. Fat chance of that. There's so much stuff to weed through on the Internet, at least what I needed, so I finally said screw the Internet and I did as much as I could offline. I know exactly what I'm doing now, I just have to actually do it. I have 2 sections completely finished; I have 9 to go. I'll pretend you care and keep you posted. For once I don't have anything on the agenda for tomorrow except for class tomorrow night so I could theoretically stay up late late late tonight and get lots done. I've already brewed a big pot of coffee.

I really like that plan not just because I'll get lots done if I'm on a roll, but because it's gonna be hard to go to sleep tonight by myself. It was just MEAN of Jess to stay in Regina for three weeks and let me get used to him being with me all the time again. Now he's back in Potato Stream, 4 bloody hours away, and I don't think I'm gonna get to see him for 3 weeks. I shouldn't, anyway, because I have 7 major assignments due in the next 2 1/2 weeks. Not cool! That's part of my pity trip but most of it is just Jesse not being here.

I'm glad he's back with his parents though because they really missed him. And I'm excited too because he has improved SO much since he left there three weeks ago. He hardly uses his crutches at all anymore and he's so much stronger! He said his dad commented on it right away; I think he was proud. I find it funny how one's self-perception can be so different from others' perceptions of them. I knew what size he was before he jumped, which was pretty skinny and scrawny, but because he was in a wheelchair for 6 weeks his upper body is much more muscular and defined. Don't laugh Brea, I know he's still skinny but the muscles that are there are much stronger.... kind of like my Wal-Mart muscles from 2 summers ago.

Anyway this was just a little distraction from my resource binder. Take it easy!

Wow, these comments are a great incentive to actually update! I'll try to post more on yours Brea. And Kass, you should make one. I know I shouldn't talk cuz this is the most posts I've ever ever done. But life is actually interesting enough to post about!

Well I'm feeling a little bit better. My throat isn't sore anymore but I think it was a cold that I had cuz I can hardly talk. Seriously, I said something to Troy this morning and he cringed and said, "You sound rough." I'm really croaky and I think I'm on the road to losing my voice.

This all really sucks because I have to volunteer at an organization in Regina for a class. I'm volunteering at a place where there are a lot of children with disabilities or who have had problems in their daycares and preschools. A lot of them have actually been asked to leave. I won't say any more because I'm restricted by confidentiality stuff but I will say that I love it! I've just been kind of hanging back and observing yet, but yesterday I worked closely with this SWEET little boy. I'm not even sure why he's there other than the fact he's really quiet.

So anyway, this morning I woke up and said something to Jess and basically... I croaked. And seeing how this place focuses a lot on language and you really have to enunciate and pronounce stuff correctly, I figured I shouldn't go. So here I am.

On a complete side note, we just found a centipede in the living room. At least, we think it's a centipede. So Jesse put it in a jar to show Baker. Now he's cooing to it and baby-talking to it and he's making it watch him play Xbox. Some people are so weird. :)

Just cuz I need to take a break from homework I'm gonna make this a long entry. I'll talk about homework next. Yeah, like you really care hey?

This last semester is really interesting because of the classes I'm taking. I really like my education ones. I'm taking a reading class where I have to actually tutor a kid in reading and then do a case study. That's coming up right away; it won't be a tough assignment, just a lot of work to analyze. Then I'm taking a health class, and I have an action plan due next week. That's the class I have to volunteer for. But I think I need an extension on that one because I couldn't go in today. My absolute favourite class though is my special needs class. It's so interesting and my prof actually talks about RURAL schools, not just urban like some profs think only exist. Our big assignment is a resource binder. I would guess mine is like 200 pages so far. It's not like an essay; it's a compilation of resources plus some stuff we had to do ourselves, like adapt lesson plans for certain disabilities and stuff like that. Homework isn't generally fun but this is fun.

My other two classes kind of stress me out though. I'm taking English 110, the second English you can take. It's... get this, food and literature. Right now we're reading Chocolat. Good book! I have an essay due on the 7th and final exam in that. I haven't written final exams in 2 years. This should be interesting. My other class is Religious Studies - Themes of the Bible. VERY interesting, I feel like applauding after each class. The prof is a Lutheran pastor and it's hilarious to hear him swear, especially the F word. So yeah, I have to write an actual paper on angels. It's the research that's killing me! I don't know how to do research! Yeah, I have my sources but to organize all that information is making this a lot more work I think. If you have any tips that'd be great. Note though that I hate using index cards. You know how some people use those? I don't like that. That's a little side ramp.

Anyhoo, Jess wants to go to Future Shop and I gotta go grocery shopping cuz I'm making baked fetuccini alfredo tomorrow night and I need a few things. Ta ta.

Thanks for the support Brea! I think you're actually the only person who reads this.

So anyway, this is gonna be the week from h-e-double hockey sticks. First, I have to volunteer at SCEP Monday-Thursday in the mornings. I have some huge assignments coming up in the next few weeks that I HAVE to work on. Jesse is still here and I want to spend time with him before he has to go back to Carrot River. And just because life is mean, I'm sick.

Yeah, not just like a cold sick. I wish it was just a cold. Hell, maybe it is, I dunno. My throat is sore, my glands are swollen, my sinuses HURT, my ears ache, I have a cough and JUST to top it all off I have a bladder infection. The doctor said that he thinks it's a virus. That was last night when I was feeling bad but not this bad. I just wanna sleep and not think about anything at all but that won't happen.

Yep, life is grand.

Call me Chef Megan. Guess what I made for supper tonight? Ham, scalloped potatoes and salad. Booyeah Grandma! Ok ok, the potatoes were a little watery but I know where I went wrong so it's all good. Yay me though!

Last night Jess and I had an awesome night just hanging out. Not even watching a movie or anything; we sat at my computer and installed firefox and customized it, and then I customized my msn homepage. The msn thing is so cool, now I can see the weather, my horoscope, the quote of the day, the news, etc. etc. I feel so uppity doing that.

I think tonight is going to be much the same. We got invited to a party but I don't think we're going to go cuz Jess's ankles are really sore. That's fine by me cuz I wanna chillax tonight. We want to watch Saw. I've heard it's good. Watch me not sleep tonight. That'll be greeeaaat.

I actually went out to a bar last night!! Write this down in the record books. And we were there till last call!!

So yeah, we went to the Pump last night to see a hypnotist. I didn't get hypnotized but I had fun watching others. It was awesome cuz some of Jess's friends from Future Shop were there and 3 of them got hypnotized. It's always more interesting when people you know are up there.

I've already described the whole show to a bunch of people and I don't really feel like doing it again. Maybe another day though. I'll just say it was good and everyone had a lot of fun. But boy am I tired now...

Jesse is staying another week!! That means he won't be at my parents' for Easter but we'll live. It's sure gonna suck when he has to go back to Potato. But I'm not gonna think about it cuz then I'll just get sad and in a bad mood. So yeah.

That's all I got right now.

Bet you thought I would never post again. Well, you were wrong! Ha ha ha!

So anyway, the other night Jess, Mark, Baker and I went to the Rainbow to see White Noise. Here's a hint - if your fiancee has recently tried to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge, you might want to wait a bit before going to see it. There were at least 3 times in the movie that it showed people jumping. The first time was right at the beginning. I started bawling. I bawled for a good 20 minutes. Then I finally calmed down and another chick jumped off a balcony. Bawled again. They didn't actually show the last jump/fall, which is good otherwise I would have walked out. There's only so much you can take, ya know?

Anyway, I'm off to a date with Jess. Adios.

This weekend was great cuz Jesse has decided to stay an extra week. Yay! The only sucky thing about this is that we didn't actually get a night alone. I thought, oh awesome, the boys are going home for the weekend so Jess and I can have a nice night alone. In the week he's been here we hadn't actually hung out, just the two of us. Isn't that horrible??

So anyway, we went to Moosomin with Troy, Celine and Colin. It was fun I guess, Celine and Troy are two of my closest friends and it's never horrible hanging out with your best friends. :) Jess and I got in an argument though cuz I wanted to stay and he said we could, but then changed his mind. Nasty fight entailed, but we got through it. And we had a nice night last night.

We went to East Side Mario's for supper.... yum!! I had grown-up mac and cheese and the bread and salad that comes with it. It was our first time there and we were both impressed. Then we went to the Galaxy to see Robots. It was a good movie, maybe not as good as we both thought it would be, but I'd see it again. Then we rented The Exorcist: The Beginnings or whatever it's called. SLOOOOOWWWWWWW beginning but the end was really good... which we watched this afternoon cuz we fell asleep halfway through it last night. :)

So that was my weekend. I hope I'll have something exciting to say tomorrow.

So here I am with another blog. I know, I know, Brea is probably rolling her eyes and thinking, as if she's gonna stick with this. But I'll try!! Actually, the only reason I signed up for it is because I tried to post in her blog and I needed a username. I'll bite.. so I signed up. I think my old one was nutmeggers or something. Oh well, fresh start I guess.

In a little while I'll write about my weekend. Then I'll be able to say that I've posted a few times. Tootles.