Just a few more days

I have just a couple more days of my incredibly busy schedule and then it is back to the regular work load. Today there is a midterm in wastewater and tomorrow I have a wastewater lab due and on Friday I have a lab to perform in air pollution, a lab due in air pollution, an assignment due in waste management and a midterm in waste management. But I think I can do it. I am going to have to tape Grey's Anatomy Thursday night though. At least I think I am going to have to. Unless I can get everything done before then which isn't very likely. And really even if I can, I should be studying for the midterm so that I don't screw it up like I am pretty sure I have scredwed up most of them so far. I will be so glad when this is all done.
Although next week I have a lot of stuff due still, it is just normal load though:
possibly a landfill assignment, wastewater design chapter due, a wastewater lab to perform and apparantly an air pollution assignment which I just learned about yesterday (and I can't seem to find it posted anywhere). But that isn't too much really, definitely manageable.
I just can't wait until this week is over, until all the midterms are over. It will be a huge relief.

someplace warm

This house is so freaking cold. Stupid have to pay for heat now.

Oddly enough my room (the basement room) is the warmest in the house. Perhaps because it usually has two people in it and the door is closed majority of the time. Which as measured previously, means the CO2 levels must be insane, but I don't really care too much.

It is hard to be productive when you are freaking freezing. I just wish I was someplace warm and I didn't have to wrap myself in a blanket as I type, and that my fingers weren't little icicles.

Studying

There is always a point in studying where the actual act of studying becomes useless - where the information you are trying to shove into your brain just won't fit. This time has come for me. It isn't that I have been studying for this midterm for too long, in fact I haven't been studying for it long enough, it is more that I am just so tired of studying that I can't seem to get myself to do it. I sit here and stare at a computer screen full of notes or at a binder full of notes and don't seem to achieve anything. I have written my cheat sheet. I have crammed it full of information. I have left a little spot incase any of the notes from yesterday's tutorial need to go on it, if not I will cram some other stuff on there later.
I also have an assignment today that I didn't have time to work on. It isn't due today but I was supposed to work on it so that it would be possible for me to be useful today in class. There was no time so I get to look stupid in class today when my group and I try to work on it. I hope I wasn't the only one.
I should stare at some notes a little longer - though I really don't want to.

I need motivation

Please someone motivate me. I just can't get motivated. I have a billion assignments and midterms, one midterm tomorrow actually and I just can't seem to get motivated. I know about the grades and the importance of this year and that in the long run I actually do need to know these things but I just can't seem to get motivated, I don't want to work. I don't want to sit here anymore I want to have fun.

exams

exam schedule is posted.
http://www.carleton.ca/exam/schedule
my exam schedule is actually pretty decent.
I have one during classes on november 30 (ENVE 4005)
and then the rest are during the actual exam time:
ENVE 4101 - wednesday, december 6, 1400
ENVE 4002 - monday, december 11, 1400
CIVE 4400 - thursday, december 14, 0900
ENVE 4003 - thursday, december 21 - 0900
I hope everyone else's exam schedule is as nice as mine. I will have time to take them all one at a time, that's how I prefer to study for exams and whanot....unfortunately I am supposed to be doing that whole studying thing right now - I should probably get back to it.

Another Productive Day

The day started badly with me playing about an hours worth of Diablo II instead of studying for the landfill midterm I had today. It then got worse by the landfill midterm being ridiculously long and much harder than anyone thought it would be. Studying a little more wouldn't have helped that much as it did not seem to help anyone else. Noone finished the darn thing. My wastewater class was long and tedious and seemed to never end.
When I got home I sat around for like an hour waiting for Dave to get home after his class then I remembered that he has his project meeting on Tuesdays and then I started to work, this is where the day got productive (that is right I am considering the entire day to be productive because of what happened between 7pm and now).
I started and finished my prject management assignment, well pretty much all I have to do is compare with some other people and then write it a good copy with a little description of what I did and what tables I used, etc. I then started my air pollution indoor air quality lab. I wrote up my share of it and thensome. I ended up formatting pretty much all of it and leaving spots for my two groups members to add their stuff. I then commented the whole thing as to what was left to be done and what resources could be used for it (not too instructorly though). I was so proud of myself for doing that, I usually don't do more than I have to when I have too much on my plate like I do now.
But yes, so I did all that and now I am heading to bed because I have an 8:30 lab in the morning and need my beauty rest...ok I need my brain rest, whatever. Goodnight everyone, hope your Tuesday was as productive as mine.

Good thing they are...

Your Eyes Should Be Brown

Your eyes reflect: Depth and wisdom What's hidden behind your eyes: A tender heart

What Color Should Your Eyes Be?

My Love Style

Your Love Style is Agape

You are a caring, kind, and selfless partner. Unsurprisingly, your love style is the most rare. You are willing to sacrfice your world for your sweetie. Except it doesn't really feel like sacrifice to you. For you, nothing feels better than giving to the one you love.

What's Your Love Style?

CO2 Monitor

From Friday, October 13th until Monday, October 16th I had a CO2 monitor in my room for the purposes of monitoring indoor air quality for a lab for my air pollution class, ENVE 4003.
This is a picture of the monitor one of those days when my door was open. It is really simple looking but really cool. It logged the CO2 concentration in ppm (parts per million), the relative humidity in % and the temperature in degrees Celcius. The reading in the picture means that in one cubic centimetre of air there are 985 parts of CO2. It sounds worse then it is really. It is also saying that my room was 19.7 degrees but it felt much colder. The temperature got as low as 16.7 in my room the one night, brr. Anywho, I got the results from the time period in which I had the monitor and it looks really cool so I decided to share it with everyone. The first graph is the CO2 concentration, the second is the Relative Humidity and the third is the temperature. The CO2 is the most interesting. It goes up when my door is closed, when the fan is on, when there is more than one person in the room or when there is large amounts of activity in the room and it goes down when there is no one in the room, when the door is open, when the window is open, etc. You'll have to ignore the x-axis for now, I am still working on getting that to display the right thing. This is just how excel wanted to do it, now I have to go tell it how to do it correctly.

Its snowing.

Just looked outside my tiny window and saw that is indeed snowing.

Ok I swear it is snowing eventhough you can't see it in the picture.

It is snowing and I am working.

Busy, Scared and Justified

Ok, so today is October 22nd. I have officially come to the conclusion that I am busy. Very busy, all booked up one might say.

Oct 24th - ENVE 4002 (landfill) midterm
Oct 27th - ENVE 4003 (air pollution) midterm
- ENVE 4003 indoor air quality lab writeup due
Oct 28th - Halloween party at Chris' (don't think I can attend)
Oct 30th - CIVE 440o (project management) midterm
- CIVE 4400 assignment 3 due
Oct 31st - ENVE 4005 (wastewater treatment) midterm
- Halloween (don't think I can participate)
Nov 1st - ENVE 4005 lab 3 report due
Nov 2nd - ENVE 4005 design project chapter 3 due
Nov 3rd - ENVE 4101 (waste management) midterm
- ENVE 4101 assignment 2 due
- ENVE 4003 lab 2 report due (could also be due on the 1st)
Nov 5th - ENVE 4002 assignment 3 due

*Note* This will inevitably by added to by a ENVE 4003 assignment (#3) within the time frame. Of course the list will continue until the end of November including more design projects, 3 to be precise, more assignments (atleast 6 if not closer to 10) and labs (atleast 3) and presentations (1 for 4003, 1 for 4005 and I think 1 for each 4002 and 4101 which might be done in front of City of Ottawa employees) and then of course there are exams to look forward to.

Yeah there is definitely a reason as to why I try to work two or three things at a time, no more than a week's worth of work for sure (which is usually 4ish things). Looking at my workload like this really freaks me out and makes it even harder to work and accomplish what I need to accomplish. Yep so in writing this blog I realized that my landfill midterm is on Tuesday. I thought it was on Monday (aka tomorrow). Well that helps a lot more. I actually have time to study for it now.

I wish I were an arts student and only had to worry about a couple of essays and perhaps a test or two. Oh man that would be nice. Nothing all year then a couple of tests and essays in like 2 or 3 weeks and then nothing again and then some exams which are full of ideas and opinions and therefore there are really no right or wrong answers just need to phrase them correctly and be able to think outside the box sometimes. Oh man, why couldn't I have picked an easier degree.

Ok think positively, you got this far, you can do a year and a bit more.

PEZ

Today when I went shopping today with everyone for halloween stuff Chris gave me this pez dispenser. I have never had one before and I really like it. It is Jasmine from Aladdin which is my favourite Disney movie. It was so thoughtful of her. Speaking of Disney she found a great Belle dress for halloween, it is perfect...or atleast it will be after it gets altered.

Unfortunately today's wonderfulness was spoiled by some inconsiderate, impatient people who for now shall remain nameless but anyone who knows me will know exactly who I am talking about. Everything these two do is inconsiderate to pretty much everyone around them. They really only ever think of themselves and unfortunately I could never tell them this for I would end up being the bad guy.

Oh well, I have PEZ.

Thanksgiving weekend

The overall weekend was great.
On Thursday I went into school for my tutorial and then went to the gym after it in between classe. My last class of the day was cancelled which was fabulous!
Friday was spent around the house trying to get stuff accomplised and doing homework. Audrey and I went to Manotick to take pictures for our design project. And then Dave and I had a really nice dinner made from my new WW cookbook (I love it still). When Yan got home we went to the Prescott Pub and Restaurant on Preston and the pizza I ordered was crap. It was burnt, like black burnt, and had no cheese on it whatsoever so I wouldn't eat it. Dave ended up eating most of it and actually paid for it for me too which was very nice of him.
On Saturday my dad picked me up and after dropping Dave off at the bus station so that he could go to Peterborough, we went around Ottawa to the future shops and best buys to buy my mom a camera for her birthday. We ended up getting her this really tiny simple one that can take pictures and make movies. It is 8MP and can do a bunch of stuff and maybe some day she will learn them all. I got her a camera bag from lowepro like all my camera equipment and my dad also got her a memory card for her camera, 2GB for 60 bucks. They are getting me one for Christmas, which is really cool. Anyway, my mom loved the camera she carried it around with her all weekend and read the book every chance she got. I showed her how to take pictures and whatnot and how to get them on the computer and send them in emails.
We had Thanksgiving dinner and I actually almost made it myself this year because my mom was tired from all the shopping we had done before that to get everything for dinner and get me stuff to go back to Ottawa with, tons of canned goods and apples.
On Sunday my dad and I drove to Morrisburg and picked up a piece of furniture my parents had bought a couple weekends ago. It is gorgeous but hard to describe, hopefully my mom will send me a picture of it soon.
My dad drove me back to Ottawa and I spent the night finishing up homework and whatnot and sitting around doing nothing. It was great.
All in all I had a great weekend and I am very thankful for it.

Ramble, Ramble.

Last week was productive, I finished all the assignments that were due at least a day before they were due and got to check them over with other people. I was able to catch up on my stuff around the house other than the dishes of course, mind you Dave did those this weekend, yay.
Speaking of this weekend. The guys and I went to South Keys on Saturday and I bought myself a desk lamp, it has a lazy susan desk organizer attached to it, which is the why I got it over the other lamps that were there. I also got a WW cookbook with over 500 recipes. I love it! I made some cookies from it and they were scrumptious. I am looking forward to tomorrow when I can actually make a dinner from it. I spent the whole night Saturday (after doing stuff with the guys) looking through the different recipes and figuring out what I needed to get from the grocery store next time so that I could make them. I am so glad I bought this.
Sunday was a kind of do nothing day. I went to the gym with Dave and Justin and learned how to work some of the weight machines. I figure I have been focussing on the cardio machines which primarily work legs and I should really be doing overall body workouts so yeah weight machines it was. Some of those things are really complex though, who knew. I am really proud of myself for how often I have been going to the gym. I went three times last week and already this week I have gone twice, meaning I went yesterday (Sunday) and today (Monday), go me. I hope I can keep this up when the workload gets even more intense then it already is.
I have about 3 assignments due a week I think. Sometimes more, sometimes less (rarely). There is always a lab to written and a lab to be performed. Right now I am sitting in the computer lab of the minto building waiting until my next class starts...like 30-40 minutes from now. I have been on campus since 8:30 and have attended 5 minutes of a tutorial so that I could hand in an assignment. I hate waiting around for classes, if I had it my way I would rush from one to the other and get them all done in the morning. My winter schedule is pretty much like that, it will be nice.