Delusion-Elle

So I've neglected this blog for a few days, just trying to muddle my way through real life, but I'm back and more rambly than ever! And I come with links to interesting articles! And... pie? But you'll have to wade through the epic amounts of crap I blogged about in a fit of logorrhea.
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NHL All-Star game roster has been revealed! Yay! I'm mildly surprised to see Carey Price on there, though he has done quite well at times in this season so far. It's just that I remember the last time he played in the All-Star game, he didn't do so well and that just broke his confidence leading to a botched season. I guess that's the thing about the All-Star game: it doesn't count for shmuck, and it will probably result in getting hurt, whether it be physical injury or loss of confidence. That being said, from the Canucks, the Sedins and Kesler have made it onto the roster, and should any of them become injured, that would most probably have an impact on the rest of the Canucks' season.

Doing good on one of my resolutions for 2011, I've been trying to make friends and somewhat succeeding. At least, I've had conversations with a few people in my classes. Strangely one of whom is from my high school (ta-da! Instant conversation starter!) and is still attending it. o_o" She's in grade 12, but is in some ACES program (anyone know what that stands for?) and is taking some Music courses. Huh. She kind of remembered me ("OH, YOU PLAY THE FLUTE, YEAH I REMEMBER YOU NOW"), though she doesn't believe that I graduated from high school. Like straight up, she doesn't believe it. At all. She asked me if I really had graduated from high school about 8 times before my prof started talking. Someone care to tell me what I'm doing wrong in my life such that everyone thinks I'm a little kid?! Do I come off as an LG or something?

In another incident of Small World syndrome, my 221 lab partner (who I met through a friend in our class) was in the IB program at Churchill and knows a totally different friend of mine. Yeah. Lovely. We spent an hour after lab just walking around, eating lunch and talking on Monday because everyone else was in class and woooooo joined lonerdom? I learned that he is a Radiohead fanboy.

And since things go better in groups of 3 (or so fairy tales dictate), the last bit of weirdness I'll include involving people seems to be a weirdly recurring one. I was walking to the bus loop with a friend and we ran into one of his high school friends. Strangely, that friend was the cashier at the bookstore the day I went with my CPSC project partner (last Wednesday?). I only remember because his credit/debit terminal was failing and he was all flustered. On Monday when I accompanied my good buddy WizardGoggles to Pie R Squared, he was in line ahead of us. And to top it all off, the friend I was walking to the bus loop had told me before that his flustered cashier friend is into Asian girls and even has a T-shirt that says "Looking for a girlfriend" in Japanese or something. Let's hope I stop running into him before he remembers that we were introduced to each other.

Aside from people popping in and out of my life (I am not fond of people, but alas, they are interesting creatures from a certain standpoint), school has been relatively boring. My first 221 lab went okay and me and my partner left before most of the rest of the class was done. And since people ask me what CPSC is like, (I promise to write a full rambletastic entry on it someday) here's the lab, in case you're curious as to what the silliest labs in all of Science are like. No lies, they are all for completion marks and make up 5% of my grade. Lolwut.

My Stats lab was ridiculously easy. My group was rather lackadaisical -- ugh, men -- so I ended up taking charge and even helped a few of them out with the quartile function in Excel. For some reason I was under the impression that Engineering students wouldn't need my help. At all. What is this?! Me, a lowly female CPSC student helping these 3rd year male Engineering students?! Preposterous. And slightly disappointing from my point of view, but whatever. I'm just upset that there might be someone else with my first name in my class, since my login username consists of only a few letters of my first name plus my last name. Maybe 8-letter-long logins and 8-letter-long first names don't jive. Darn.

Through that article, I found this one about how Canadians are online more than anyone else in the world. Interesting statistics. I have to say, the last line of the article got a chuckle out of me. I definitely think that travelling and going on vacation has made me ever more thankful to live where I do.

It is also snowing like crazy outside. For once the meteorologists were right and now this city is going to come to a grinding halt for a few days, it seems. Or however long it takes until the rain washes it away.

Time to decide what cold-defying clothes I should wear tomorrow.

Here's that pie I promised:

(Also I think this layout ate the jump-break code so I had to put my own in because I don't want to clog up my main page. D'oh.)