sometimes it is hard for me not to equate never getting to see my friends with not having any friends. i mean, not REALLY, but you know what i mean. i had to bail on both krista and candice's birthdays last week after i'd rsvp'ed yes. i was the right thing to do but still. i'd been so looking forward to both of them for weeks and always feel like a superjerk when i have to bail on things. then i did the same thing last night to shaun, sorta. and had to turn tyler down for boardgames (I LOVE BOARDGAMES i so wanted to!!) i mean in every case staying home to work or sleep or take a moment for me was most def the right move but yeah. tofino, man. i cannot WAIT.
my labs are all done! i bid goodbye to chem with happy tears in my eyes but was sad about bio. i loved my lab group and our TA was the shiznit. it was actually pleasantly fun each week!
next semester is organic chem, basic chem continued, more calculus (fuck) verterbrate biology and i think i'll leave it at that.
did anybody hear about that lady starving her chinchilla to death. i read it on the spca website and mom said it was on the news in vancouver which is really great, that it made the news anyways. and that that sorry excuse for a human being got charged. same with the guy who refused to pay for his geriatric horses vet bills so he starved it close to death and when it wouldn't die 'euthanized' it by hanging it to strangle to death on oak bay beach. they published the names of both these people. the horse guy is a family man, bought the horse for his kids originally. i was so incensed reading that story originally i swore to whatever higher power that i was going to hunt him down. i found the addresses of both these people. as it is, i think i might compose letters to both of them. nothing too hateful, because that serves no purpose, but something composed and heartfelt. saying i am glad they got charged, and how causing a creature who is so completely defenseless and innocent pain is probably the most cowardly, despicable thing a person could do. and why did you own animals in the first place etc.
sigh.
and all these canada geese keep coming into wildarc that have been poisoned with something that causes major brain damage. they are probably being targeted by someone who wants them out of their fields. after the fact that have no balance, can hardly walk, have major head tilt and have to be euthanized. the wildarc staff are so lovely, because things are so quiet there at the moment they set up a giant room for the geese (like a whole room, no pen) and let them live out their final week warm and super pampered.
in happy animal new though, i got to release squirrels yesterday. drove back from metchosin to arbutus ridge in caddy bay with them (one of my fave neighborhoods, thought maybe the squirrelies would like it too :) and off they went. hop hop hop into the forest. the male has come in hit by a car and with major malocclusion to boot! so that was totes smiles.
yesterday night i had the most glorious night to myself (not that i'm not always by myself here but you know) and watched zombieland and made cupcakes. omg laura, i take it ALL back about zombieland, that movie was so super great.
what do you guys think about all this rain. you know i actually enjoy it?? its funny because last year every additional grey day caused my s.a.d. to get worse and worse until, well, whatever. this year i love the sound of rain as i wake up or go to sleep and find it so cozy and wintery. shows how far i've come i guess! in something somewhat related i am working with pawliuks resident dr. van du engh for an hour a week and i think it's really helping too.
i've finished my fourth book about the british monarchy (the first was war of roses to present, the second was about the six wives of henry, the third about his kids edward, mary and elizabeth [she is my new feminist hero if i had to have such a thing!] and now i'm moving on to katherine swynford. i seriously can't get enough of this shit, i have no idea why (well actually i do but it's not worth boring you to expound upon :)
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