A GRIZZLY BEAR.

A GRIZZLY BEAR.

You are the Grizzly. A strong, but good willed person who is in touch with both people and your surroundings. You like the social life, but you also like quiet moments alone simply relaxing and doing nothing. You have an inner temper, which when lashed out upon any unsuspecting victim - can be scary.

So yea i'm a grizzly bear in the test of what animal i am most like.. which sounds cute except for the last part.. I'm scaring myself.. lol

Try it out and let me know what u are! :D

I know one cat already (eh Claire, you manipulator :P)

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=16559

Le tired

So tired... lol this week has already been super hectic.. and its only Monday! Luckily I don't have that much to do for the rest of the week!

The weekend was fun as it was my dad's 46th B-day party so of course we did what anyone in their right mind would do... DANCED! haha

Lets see, what else. The kitty is losing weight which kinda sucks. He was 7.6 kg last week monday and today he is 7.4kg. He's starting his insulin shots on wednesday and hopefully after that everything will be good :D I'm feeling optimistic about the prognosis and I'm becoming rather fond of the kitten, since he slept in my bed yesterday and was doing happy paws to my feet for half the night! :)

Hmm other than that, there is really nothing much going on. I'm still hoping for that thesis dealing with antifreeze proteins in fish.. we'll see how it goes :P Also I'm planning on taking a spring course (2 weeks) which is "Techniques in molecular biology"! now doesn't that just sound like fun :)

Ok well that's it! I'll write more later when I'm not as tired... Off I go to bed

Sebastian has Diabetes :(

Poor little kitty. He's been getting kinda thin lately and we really didn't know if it was just stress from having to deal with Io, old age, or something more serious. It turned out to be diabetes, and as of monday we'll be giving him regular insulin injections :(

It kind of seems to me that an era is coming to an end. The era of Addie and Sebastian. I hope that the little guy'll hang on for a few more years, since we caught it early, but he looks pretty scrawny and sad, sleeps a lot, and his back legs look a bit wobbly...

It seems weird, how life cycles. Addie died; Julian and Io were born. The grandma's will die, but their children live on, they will die, but us "kids" will live on (I'll stop there). Inevitably we will all die, but our children will live on (if everything works out how it should). Maybe I'm in a weird mood, but it makes me a bit sad.

Even seeing all of the Gr. 12's being led around campus, happy and bright-eyed about getting into university, it seems like we are growing up.

When did we stop playing?

When did we stop asking the question "what do u want to be when you grow up?" of our peers, and more importantly of ourselves?

So that makes me come to a turning point.. A point when I could either sulk about what used to be, how we are going to die, and how nothing will ever be the same... OR I could suck it up and be a bit more optimistic! :) (I choose the second option)

We are grown up, and its time to make some changes in the world. We finally can!
Stop this damn global warming, and mass destruction of ecosystems! woot, now i'm pumped! :)
To sound super cliche, lets make some positive changes so that our chidren can enjoy the world we left for them, and not constantly have to worry..

I'm just happy that I am alive to have witnessed all these great things in life so far! :)

(wow this post went so off topic, but lets just say that even though Addie is gone, and Sebastian has diabetes, they each were loved and continue to be.)

Time's a tickin'

Wow.. I have so little time to figure out exactly what I want to do in life.

I have to figure out soon (within the next two weeks) how I want to spend next year. And by this I mean which lovely professor I shall be doing an honours thesis with. Of course there have been many reasurances that "everyone gets a placement" , but it may not be one of your top choices, since its a very competitive program.

I assume that only a handful of professors get about a million emails asking then to be supervisors, while the rest get only a few, and wait for those students who weren't assertive enough, to fall into their laps. Being one of these less assertive students myself, who didn't volunteer at any labs, nor talked to professors much ahead of time, I may just have to settle for a thesis that doesn't necessarily interest me outright. Although I do have hopes that I'll learn to enjoy what I do no matter who I am placed with :)

On a lighter note, once this is over I can relax and try to concentrate on finals/ finding a job for the summer/ volunteering in some sort of lab/ starting my thesis! *phew those sound much less stressful*

Also there is my field course to the Bahamas in August (I got my first pick of places) to make me feel better! :) Gonna be on Harbour Island looking at "Tropical Island Ecosystems: Ecology and Conservation"! So that should be fun!

I've never been to a tropical Island before, so that should be an amazing time! (Although.. those spiders *shudder*) hehe I'll just have to get over my fear while i'm there! Can't be running for cover at every sign of a spidey.. I'm sure there will be lots!

Well that's about it from me, for now!