Montreal

It has been a while since I last posted, but life is busy and when the internet that magically appears becomes sporadic you have to prioritize where you post.

So, I went camping. I definitely had a fun time and allowed for some sleep deprivation to cause me to be cranky. Also, I can't make chewy french toast, those eggs need to be fully cooked - even if they are to be burnt. Despite working as a lifeguard all summer - and working over a month and a half by that point - the trip was the first time I went swimming all summer long. It felt great to be back in the water. Although I realized all my swimming endurance had gone into nothingness by that point.

Memorable event mentions:
-Austin almost pegging people at the island a good deal into the lake while golfing.
-Austin trying to miss people with his golfing and in fact almost hitting them again with pachinkoesque hijinks.
-Breathing fire.
-Alvin the drinking warden.

Camping didn't end after returning from the campsite as I ended up living at Kevin's for about two weeks. I believe in about 3 weeks time I slept at Kevin's 12/14 days and was there pretty much there in some capacity every single day. As a result I now have an obscene amount of characters spread across 5 profiles in Castle Crashers and have become addicted to quaffing. If you ever encounter me online, we will need to quaff prior to actually playing Castle Crashers.

Softball has come and gone this year. I am glad that I was there until the last day at least of post season. Without softball this summer really would've only been work and videogames on xbox live. However with softball I got to meet a bunch of new people and get a lot closer with some I had met before. I think Wendy was accurate when she blogged that the team was essentially, "family away from family." With everyone supporting one another and growing together in their softball abilities it definitely felt like that. I am already experiencing softball withdrawal.

Now to the present. I moved in to my apartment about 5 days ago. I am wondering about sound problems when it comes to playing stuff like Rock Band - mostly drum noise issues. The walls are rather thin so if my neighbours put on their television I can hear clearly what is on. At the moment I am thinking about trying to dampen the sound coming from the one wall with ghetto egg cartons and a heavy curtain. Although these things cost money, and I am a cheap student who wishes to not spend any money. It is definitely an interesting experience being here. I thought that cooking would be far more difficult than it has been and that still not having a microwave would cause me to be without any edible food. In all honesty though I haven't even missed my microwave.

Bell installed my internet last night and so far I am much happier with their service in comparison to a few years ago. As of right now the equipment actually work the way it is supposed to. We'll see if that changes. Up to this point I have been using an unprotected wifi in my building. The first few days were actually pretty good on the network. However about a day or two ago it started giving me sporadic service. I thought it was possible the person was just cutting my connection off but if they knew about privacy issues then they would've password protected their network. Personally I think their downloads skyrocketed a couple of days ago and I was just cut out of the bandwidth because of it.

School is well on its way and essentially it is the same routine. I'm pretty lucky in my schedule as most days I end class by 2 pm. Other days I don't I have labs and those are engaging enough to counteract it. I've noticed people aren't too social when it comes to being in lectures. In high school we always had breaks during the class where we were supposed to do work, and naturally in this time we would socialize with everyone else. However the only breaks in the class are before and after the lecture. People are way too busy to socialize at these points so it just makes meeting more people difficult. Something I have noticed this past week.