There was a little bit of a mix up...

So, today was the race at the zooo and there was a bit of confusion on my part....and turns out I ran 11.6k instead of 10...so instead of running around the bald eagle and cougar 4 times I should have only ran around them twice...but the lamas and camels I only ran past once...other than that all i remember about the run is lots of slippery patches and overcast windy 2C day....
pretty happy with my time of 1h 15....and right now I am cold and enjoying my 7th day of rest from lent with a ginormous cup of coffee...
I actually wiped out just walking to the zoo this moring, which helped me be extra cautious during the run...after the run checked my leg and my knee was bleeding...good thing I didn't check before or I would have gone wimpy and not pushed myself...
anyway, so thats 10k's down and hopefully more to come...
I am going to the rellies for some RandR later today....
my bio prof decided to imitate a starfish's movements...which involved laying on the floor and moving like a starfish...I don't make this up people....then he was a tape worm...a jellyfish, who knows if he will ever evolve into a man....that was a joke...
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I want a nap...

Deadlines and pranks

This morning I woke up and went to go to the bathroom and there was a sign there that said, closed for maintenance work....it was 8:30 which was a little early but I was like, fine, i will go outside across the sidewalk to the school building to go pee. Fine, alittle early and cold to be outside in my sweats and hoodie but whateves, I can take one for the team...go maintenance....20 minutes ago I found out it was the first floor boys, they stole all our stall doors ( shower and toilet) at 4am this morning and put the sign on. And clueless me thought it was for real, I had worked out this morning and have been waiting to take a shower...hoping 'maintenance' would be finished with it since they had started so early...I have been waiting all day for them to finish whatever they we doing-I of course thought they were installing a new toilet or something to ease the 'issues' our floor seems to have with the plumbing system...but now, here I am, all stinky after a whole day of waiting and it was the first floor boys (organized by their RA I might add) and we have no idea when they are going to give the doors back...lame-o...I really, really, don't appreciate the first floor boys' sense of humor right now...
West Side Story is being put on by the school...unedited and unchristianized...which is kinda funny and weird but it's how they do things at CMU...so I am watching kids make-out on stage and laughing, this would never have gone over at Prairie...but the performances were amazing and I enjoyed every minute...
9 more sleeps until my first 10k run at the assinnaboine zoo....eeeks am feeling alittle freaked out about that....
I write my last paper this week...eeeks so weird that it's all coming to a close....and then summer session, bahhhhhhh!!!!

Tony campolo and the 2cd crime infested city in canada...

Did you know winnipeg is the 2cd crimy-est city in canada (per capita)....I did not. I have been walking around winnipeg at 11pm and 1am just having a grande old time with the -30 wind chill and have felt like this must be a safe city cause its so stinking cold all the time, apparently not, apparently cold brings out the worst in people...(cause saskatoon is ranked the big #1) so I guess what I really am trying to say is, I am brave, and I didn't even know it...seriously people, a revelation.
Also Tony came to speak at the high school retreat that the college puts on here at CMU. I got to go for free so I did. His topic.....facing your fears...no laughing please.
Anyway, it was good, Tony is 74, he has been in youth ministry from the get go...but mostly he's a sociologist and wants to change the world.
Moment of the week,
To get to work I have to take the bus, and usually end up getting to work either 1/2 hour early or 1/2 late...so as my one treat (I say one but I mean many...I just like you to think I only treat myself once...) of the week I usually take one shift a week to go to starbies and just sit and chai and watch the snow and cars and just be for about an hour...lots of times it takes me a long time to get all the superficial junk out of my head and quit the mind noise...sometimes I never even get to an actual state of just being with my chai, in the shoppe, just sitting. But this week was nice, the mind noise settled, it was snowing big flakes and cars were merrily driving to destinations and it was just me and the chai and the tree outside the window watching life...I realize more and more, I am kinda an observer, I love the story, the potential, almost like the mystery behind what the daily activities actually are...I am not so excited about papers, ironing, paying bills, making appointments, checking off that mental list of things to do...nope, but sitting back and realizing very quietly that there is purpose and beauty behind all that rush, stress and littleness...I crave those moments...and then I go to work and get caught up in racing around trying to make people show me economic kindness or else I will go home crushed and bewildered at how many people (I don't even know) don't like me...and then I realize that I am only using them for monetary gain and then i don't feel that bad that they didn't like me...
but mostly I am avoiding doing homework right now, so I had better go do a paper...

horrible no good very bad week...with major exceptions...but still...

monday, cold, bitterly cold and had to study for my nursing midterm...but I capped off a week of running 25k's (during the week not that day) felt pretty good about that and had gotten a b in my nutrition midterm things didn't start out that bad....
tuesday, crash, found out I failed an assignment for the nursing class right before writing the midterm...basically I was so traumatized, I totally didn't think I was going to fail the assignment but I failed it, really really failed it...
wednesday...totally lamed out of running cause I was kinda like, why am I here, can i do this, should I drop the course? am I dumb? nursing sucks. I want to be a nurse. My prof hates me and I feel like crap...basically I think thats what I thought about all day wednesday....
plus random things have been happening on the floor that are making me so annoyed and the girls...woke up to someone crying on the floor phone right outside my door and I think it had something to do with not getting into a pub because she forgot proper ID...can I just say, I felt like that was a lame thing to wake me up for...also cliquiness is starting to be evident and I feel bad for the girls who are left out and get frustrated with the whole, this is my life for the next 4 years...dorms and girls and cliquiness and awkward friendships and why can't everyone just be friends....so thats been interspersed with the whole everydayness of it all...
thursday, worked on my paper for nursing all day ( I am trying to get it done early and then running it by my prof) see if the prof likes it...am nervous about that...I hope she will look at it and not blow me off...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and then grey's was a rerun...
may I add that I went off coffee and now get headaches usually in the afternoon evening for a bit because I am super religious and observe lent...my grandma bailey wrote me about observing catholic traditions when I told her about lent, so I wrote back and said I am anglican and observing church traditions...
friday I lamed out on running and did the eliptical, Oh and the most embarrassing thing was that I was all by myself in the gym and I had to fart so I did, 2 seconds later a guy walks in and gets on the tread mill RIGHT beside me...I was considering telling him to leave for a couple minutes before starting to inhale and then I decided I don't have that much courage, blast him, let him run...and he did and it was awkward and I finished my lame workout and left and thought, It could only happen to me...then I went to University of manitoba library for a source for my paper and almost froze BUT linds was with me and the bus ride back was so nice and we talked and I was full of the spirit of friendship and lent and then I went to work and my first table didn't tip me...humbug
saturday I was up at 4am and sick and nauseated and not sleeping then did nothing till i went to catch the bus for work, and the bus was a 1/2 hour late and I froze and by the time I got to work, snot was running down my face and all over my gloves (yuck) and there was the music producers and his latest group of musicians in the booth by the bathroom ( they all smelled like teenage male cologne) this is my life and I should just know that i am bound to these sort of awkward situations. anyway I cleaned myself up and eventually got to work, Linds was closer and she was so good to me-in letting me ditch early for the bus, but I lost my earing -the one I never take out of the top of my ear on the way to the bus so I was madly searching for it and missing a bus go by and I never found it, it's gone, I lost it...and the stupid bus, anyway, i did finally get back to the dorm (1:30am) and decided to not leave my room and encounter the cold cruel world for a day...
that was my week....I did however get 2 emails from my fav cousins...yes, you are my favorite cause you wrote and they were long and newsie (or just plain demanding, which was hilarious) and just reminded me that someone loves me and although my nose is perpetually large and round and running here in winnipeg, they don't care...I also got a card from a friend and one is one the way from my other favorite cousin...yeah!!!!
so I need to actually learn to be more lentish in attitude and not just in practice....and also I need to beef up my running so I don't feel lame about that...and I had a gaither band party with my friend Rachelle...so positives in the midst of crisis week...I also want to add that I think the 2 month lull has set in where I start to look around and decide, wow, i just moved, started school, changed my life, what was I thinking??
I am tired now, I need a nap