Ever notuice how once you've forgotten (or chosen not) to do something once, the quanitity of work or material to get through increases and so the next time you go to do it you realize its going to be an even harder task and so the cycle continues and you just keep putting it off and putting it off until theres so much you just don't know where to start. So I'm in that situation. With chemistry, with econs, with blogposting, with cleaning. Oh with cleaning! Which must be a good sign right? I mean, I wasn't just procrastinating in order to procrastinate, I was doing other things and having a good time and getting to know people and learn other things.
There. That's my thinly masked excuse for missing Thursday two weeks in a row.
Though I did definitely have a valid excuse for the week before last. You see, we were preparing for National Day last weekend. But not just any national day, there were two distinguishing features to this national day. 1: it was the second years' last national day and 2: it was asian national day. What's so special about that you may ask, well you see, asians run everything with absolute efficiency and wish everything to be perfect. Honestly, the first auditions could have just been the show due to the extreme OCDness of the asian act leaders. Which is a good thing. Except that people were getting super super stressed. So stressed that on several occassions students approached David Hawley (our director ... principal ... whatever you want to call him) and asked for a day off. And so, we all awoke on thursday morning expecting a normal day at Pearson. Our homework was done, our minds set. And so those few who regularly wake up at a ridiculous hour to consume breakfast were sitting in the caf at 7:10 calmly enjoying their breakfast when all of a sudden the power went off. No big deal, the power had been flicking on and off all week due to some problem with BC Hydro. However, all of a sudden these signs were posted in all the houses and on the cafeteria notice board stating that due to the power outage there would be no classes all day. Now, when the power goes off at Pearson it really goes off. No hot water, no computers, no lights, no food from the cafeteria, no heating. So we partied. All day long. Everyone was already done their homework for the next day, and they could only use already charged laptops anyways, so we just partied. We played games and wen ton hikes, we had a musical cafe (basically everyone got together in the common room with makeshift instruments and made noise together ... though since its Pearson it actually resembled music!), we had a BBQ, we had fun. People sat in dayrooms and caught up on reading for their classes, knowing full well that they could and would be interupted at any moment. It was nice.
Then the next day, we all woke up and, what do you know, exactly 24 hours after the power had gone off, it came back on. Hmm ... conspiracy theory anyone? Nonetheless, it was a much needed and potentially even more appreciated day. It was really a good opportunity to build community and just hang out. And then came national day, a success through and through. As was to be expected.
So I did the authentic college student thing last week. Rhubini and I had been harbouring a box of Kraft dinner for quite some time. So we finally had a chance to cook it on Tuesday. We stole butter and milk from the caf, and found a random bowl lying around the dayroom. We boiled water in the kettle and poured it on the pasta, but of course thats not enough to cook noodles. So we "borrowed" a hot plate from the chemistry lab and finished up the process on that. Then, in order to not have to wash more dishes than was absolutely necessary, we ate straight from the bowl. I'm now an authentic college student. No one can argue with it.
Hm ... what else. Nothing really. Well I mean things are always happening, but I'm lazy. And I have a massive chemistry exam on Thursday. I really need to do well this time. I think Garth is beginning to doubt my abilities ... later.
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