Procrastination Blog! - Update

I should be writing my scholarship applications at the moment, especially since the due dates are definitely fast approaching!!!

But instead - I shall blog.

This weekend is looking like a happy weekend.... hopefully one in which I am able to be productive as well.

Friday marks the annual KGB (Kinesiology Graduate Board) golf tournament. Being an exec member I help run the event. After a day on the golf course (and thus a day out of the lab/office) we host a BBG & Kegger.

I have become privy to the information however that Maggie will be in town on Friday night at Kevin and his band will be playing at the good ole Spoke. I say the good ole Spoke and pretty much mean it. A few years ago the reconstructed the Spoke from a bar into a student lounge area. Although people were upset at this change at first, some maybe still, I didn't mind the lounge and spent some time there myself. However, over the summer the converted the Spoke BACK into a bar, complete with a new outdoor patio. Must be nice to have money just floating around. Anyway - Maggie's boyfriend's band will be playing there - and I look forward to attending that.

Hopefully John & Ashley, and Jen & Mark will be in town to go too! John & Ashley are planning on being in Toronto on the weekend, so they may have already taken off by then. Jen & Mark are actually coming to London for a wedding on Saturday - and maybe with the news of Maggie being in London on Friday night they will come Friday too!

Sharon & Rafa will be most notably absent from the festivities. Definitely have missed them a lot since they have journeyed up north to embark on new adventures.

I just really look forward to seeing some friends I do not get to see often. Its been a rough road lately so a few good laughs are always a good way to recoup.

Hopefully in the near future I will also get to see Aine and Lesley. There has been talk about going to Octoberfest on October 16th - so if anyone is interested let me know.

Additionally, with the pending vows between Jos & Barry I hope to be able to visit them in Ottawa!!!! (its been way overdue!).

I wouldn't mind also getting out to Halifax to see Danielle too.

In about 30 minutes I'm off to a recruitment session to inform undergraduates about the wonderland of grad school!!! Might be entertaining.

Especially considering this morning, there were.. ummm.... I believe 6 of us (I think 4 master students and 2 phd students) staring at labview (computer program), a function generator and an oscilloscope attempting to run a few trials that should take the average person (note, a person who knows exactly what they are doing) 17 minutes to do... we were there approximately 3 hours.

The hold up was definitely because we had a setting for one of the buttons on the oscilloscope wrong..... it was one of those "uh... duh.... oooohhh" moments. One that I could discuss further but I'll refrain from comments at this time.

On another note (I just heard some people cheering in the pool.. which is beside my office)... I am currently on three sports teams. I am on a city team for ultimate frisbee on Monday nights - so far we've played two games and won two games. I am on a school rec league for ultimate frisbee on Wednesday nights, also undefeated (first game is this Wednesday), and a school rec volleyball team on Sundays, in which we have had one opponent and we won! So definitely trying to be active, and trying to remember to take time away from other things in life and clear my head - it is definitely nice having winning records though. Hey Mark - see how many ultimate teams I'm on now - I'm working my way up to national champ status!! Ok - not going to happen.... but I am a 2 ranking now of 10... which is better than a 1!! Once I know a few more rules and tricks I move up yet another level! hahaha.

Hope everyone is well....

words to live by.

Its been awhile

I'm sorry

Life has definitely been full of a lot of curve balls lately.

The last few days have been interesting.

I won a Canada-wide award at a conference that was being held in Quebec based on written work and an oral presentation among graduate students - it was pretty exciting.

I also had my first publication with me as a first author! Totally exciting.

But I also got a review back for a project in which the reviewer told me that I need to learn how to write a sentence because I apparently have no clue.

What I have been trying to teach myself is how to dwell on the positive and not the negative - teaching myself how to let the bad stuff roll of your shoulder like water.

I just watched a commercial

It was featuring a baseball player and it was about how he had been cut from a team, and how he struck out many times.

The most important thing however was that he didn't walk away although he wanted too - he kept going back to the plate.

Words to live by.