Month: March 2001

Weekend long. Finishing assignment now. Have long lab this evening. Can’t think right now. I need some major stress relief. Nic, I’m so there at the Pennywhistle this Friday.

It’s nice to see that the Mozilla guys have a sense of humour.

I spent most of the day just being with Sandy. I’m so proud of her. She really is taking this very well. This morning I drove her to her morning class but instead she went and talked to all of her profs about what happened and they were all supportive, which was nice. Then we went to the mall because she wasnted to use her Music World gift certificate, but we ended up just walking around a lot and not buying much. In the afternoon we cleaned the house just about from top to bottom: it looks great now. I love the feeling of clean things. After dinner we went to Bowlarama and played a few games of 10 pin with Emily (I didn’t win any games, dammit).

I finally got a good photo of Sandy that she will let me put on my photos page, so here it is.

No reason for the title, just the title of the Moby track I’m listening to right now.

Well, I didn’t have that group meeting tonight after all, so I decided I’d do some stress-relief exercises with my thumbs, that is, playing PSX. Unfortunately it was not to be, as Sandy got some bad news from her mother: her cousin had died earlier today, when he was struck by a car in Toronto. I was cooking while she was on the phone, and then I looked over at her and there was a look of sheer terror on her face, so I moved the frying pan off of the burner and went to her. From the look on her face I immediately thought the worst: that someone in her immediate family had died, or maybe her adopted grandmother. (Later she told me that she thought the same thing at the same time). I didn’t know what it actually was for several seconds, while I was holding her, and a million awful things raced through my head as I tried to guess what it was that had happened.

Sandy didn’t go to her night class and I just went out briefly to buy some garbage bags and put some gas in the car. I’m having a hard time understanding because this has just never happened to me before. All I seem to do is just be there for her.

And I was going to quote some Guster here, but I can’t remember what I wanted to quote. Dammit. Tomorrow I’m not going in: I’m staying here and working on my group design document.

My two midterm this week are done. Yesterday’s Operating Systems was not bad. Today’s Intro to Microcomputers was dead easy for me. If I don’t get at least an 80 on that one then there’s something wrong somewhere.

But hell isn’t over yet! I have a group meeting at 10pm tonight where we will be writing the better part of a 60+ page design document. And this weekend I have an assignment and a lab to complete.

But today after my class I’m going to relax with some Final Fantasy VIII. I deserve it.