November 2, 2000 — My ears turn red when I panic

It has been a very long day already. For those of you really into the whole anti-greg scene, you may have noticed that the Web cam showed me conscious and ready to work as early as 6:30AM this morning. This is due to my brilliant plan to get up early to prepare my chemistry lab instead of finishing it before I went to sleep. When will I learn?

Gillian hasn't updated her journal in a few days, so I'm having a hard time living vicariously through her trip to Europe. I hope she's enjoying herself, though. Apparently she's in Paris now. She'll more than likely be the first to visit my site from France, and if that's not cause for celebration, I don't know what is.

I've decided that this journal will have no respect for any sort of logical order, so I'll skip to this evening. I was starving because food plan is ridiculous and I hadn't slept enough and I almost gave myself a hernia during my chemistry lab today. (Phthalic acid can shove it, yo.) So I ended up going to Pizza Pizza and getting the ol' walk-in special.

Now, I'm normally pretty good at dealing with people if I'm buying food or clothes or whatever. But the woman who works at the Pizza Pizza closest to my residence is simply bizarre. I think she must be autistic or something. She looks at other people when she's talking to you, she talks to herself, she answers questions you don't ask...

The strange part, though, is that for some reason she started mumbling something below her breath about Manotick. I didn't even bring my wallet, so she can't possible have known that I used to go to school there. She said, "Oh right, Manotick, just outside of Ottawa," and then went back to just staring at the counter.

Well I thought it was strange.

I don't know that much else happened today. I did my first physics practice problem today because Johnston wasn't sure how to do it and because projectile motion questions are fun. (I wish I was joking in saying this, but I'm not. And in case you want to experience the same joy that I did, the question was: you're holding a hose 1.4 meters above the ground forming a 25-degree angle with the ground; how fast is the water going when it leaves the hose if you're hitting a sunbather 4.4 meters away? There haven't been any replies to journals in a couple days, so I figure this'll liven things up. Can you feel the excitement?)

In site news, I've almost finished the cast page. For real this time. I'm also getting ready to have more site stickers printed and the server switch made. My life is a riot.

Oh, and it looks like I'm voting Liberal in the upcoming federal election. Bill Graham, the Liberal MP, was waiting outside my residence greeting people as they walked in. That's enough for me; my vote is easily bought for a handshake and a two-colour printed flier. I admit that the generally inept behavior of the Liberals as of late had made me a bit hesitant to not at least look into other options, but those Alliance folks scare me. So I'm glad that I now have an excuse.

Oh, and when I was scurrying around in a mad panic to get my lab report together this morning, I was getting a drink and I saw in the mirror that my ears had turned bright red from the stress. Go figure.