The only news I read on a regular basis is my “Geology News” newsletter that I get every single morning. Today there is an article about Jupiter being hit with something giving it a gigantic hole in one of it’s oceans.
I really don’t know how often this sort of thing happens. I’m not all up on the space stuff… but I’d imagine it happens at least moderately often? Maybe?
I thought I should update “everyone” on my dieting - it is going quite well, actually. I think I’ve lost enough that I can almost post my weight. A couple more months, maybe…:) …So, I’ve almost lost 40 lbs… which is definitely something to smile about. What I like about my weight loss is that I still eat crappy food sometimes. The other day I ate wings and had beer at the pub, I had pizza at work a couple weeks ago, I got chips when the BF was visiting and I had a chocolate bar at work. But I still keep losing 1 - 3 lbs a week. (If I stopped eating crap entirely I’d be losing more, I know.)
So, things are going really well. Im not losing it as fast as I want to, but I’ve changed how I eat and burn calories to the point where it actually has been a life change. I’m still about 50lbs more than I want to be (and about 40 lbs more than my doctor wants me to be) so I might pick it up a bit for the last end of the summer, but I’m not making any promises, if I push too hard it is easy to fall backwards, quickly. But at this rate by the end of the year I should be the weight that I’ve wanted to be! That’s really exciting…
I did join Weight Watchers, but I’m not using it as much as I should. Im not counting my points very carefully… but I should be. Now THAT I will promise myself about…I will count my points!!! hahah. Then that will speed this up too.
THEREFORE - the update?! it’s going really well, I look great and feel great! The feeling great is the motivator - I am not as lazy and way more willing to get up and run around. I feel lighter and have more energy everyday. Its great!
Everyone is really excited about the World Cup. I wasn’t, until they had us pick teams at work, pick our favorite players and make predictions about who would win things. I like to be in the “know” when I do stuff like this, so I’ve started following the pre-games and looking at the history of the teams. I picked South Korea, as my time, before I read about how much the Asian teams seem to suck. However! Whatever!
The one thing that has really be bothering me about this whole World Cup thing at work is how nationalistic people get. Like… this one guy got really upset that I was supporting an Asian team and not my own nationality… And I was like “Dude, I’m Canadian, we don’t have a team in it” and he was like “well then pick where your family is from” but they don’t have one either. I didn’t tell him that, I just told him it was stupid to pick a team just because that’s where my great great great grandparents may have been from. Maybe they hated it there!
The same guy got really offended (for some reason) whey the Japanese guy we work with said that he might pick South Korea, too. Same Guy got all uptight saying that a Japanese person shouldn’t support anything South Korean because of previous occupations by South Korea over Japan. … Japanese guy got really pissed off at Same Guy and schooled him in why nationalism is ridiculous. Plus, Japanese guy was born in California.
Nationalism is so irritating. Especially when the people talking about it are Canadian. What is there to be proud of??? Most Canadians are such mutts that they’d have to be proud of being from like 8 different countries, and at least one of those countries probably had a war with at least one of the other countries in the list.
But besides that, the World Cup at work has been a good time. Its getting me interested in the game, and I like to take interest in sports. It is fun to get excited about a team winning! And since the playoffs were a total bust for all the teams I picked… I hope the World Cup is better! GO S.KOREA!!
I get like a million spam comments every week. I can’t imagine having a blog that is actually read by a lot of people and how much spam they get. It’s ridiculous.
I quit my job and am moving back to Toronto on June 16th. Guelph has been nice, mostly because I’ve got to spend a lot of time with my mom… but I really miss Toronto. I miss my apartment, walking around without pants on, going down to the apartment pool whenever I want and being a 50 minute transit ride to downtown Toronto. These are all things that can’t be replaced by the shitty transit “city” of Guelph. They cut their bus service down, too. Which makes matters worse.
Work has been great though. I wish I could pick it up and move it to Toronto - that would be ideal. But I’ve decided to just go to school. This way I can get a work-study job on campus doing work at the library or something while I take 9 credits. I got into a Urban Social Policy class that I’m really excited about. I’ve really enjoyed my urban studies classes in the past, and this one seems to be taking two ideas that I’ve enjoyed and combining them together.
I know I said I’d blog all summer, but I lied… and I don’t care. 
I spend a lot of time helping my parents with the book my step dad is writing about dying congregations in the United Church of Canada. (Here is his website… I made that, too.) I’ll actually be going to the UCC conference in the middle of the month to help him sell the books and stuff. Doing this isn’t really helping my reputation as being a United Church of Canada spy in all my freethought groups.
Speaking of freethought groups - FAC has a new executive lead by Emily. I stepped down as president and took a role I had no intention of taking: VP-Special Projects. I really shouldn’t have taken it since I’m leaving the country in 6 months, but I guess it is good that I’ve been involved… it’s less irritating this way to make sure they have all the information/passwords for things that only I have.
About leaving in 6 months - I’m a little freaked out about the war-talk going on in Korea. While it seems like South Korea doesn’t want to get into anything.. North Korea is just such a sketch-bag. Now, I know that they have been at war for like the past 30 years - but this seems to be really serious. Even the South Korean papers (like the Korea Herald) are reporting about how serious it is, when in the past they have all but ignored stuff about North Korea that makes the news here in Canada. What I do find particularly interesting are the tones in news between Canada/UK and South Korea. The BBC has reported that SK has put complete sanctions into place with NK - but SK papers openly report all the things that are still being shipped back and forth and that the sanction is really just all talk. So… UK news does seem to make it look worse than it is, but it is a pretty serious thing.
But I haven’t given up - I still plan on going. If things are still particularly bad in November that I might look at waiting until April, or maybe even going to Taiwan, but I think things will be okay. We’ll see. My mom doesn’t want me to go, but… I really do want to…lol
I’ve been living in Guelph this week (and for the rest of the summer). I get a little bit bored here while my mom is at work. So I’ve been exercising on my parent’s elliptical, gardening, doing lawn work, restoring an old broken mirror and playing Wii. I’m glad that work starts next week so I will have something to do with my days! However, next week won’t be the start of the “many-posts-of-summer”, that will be the week after. Next week is training, so I’m working the day shift - which means I’ll be doing work the entire time.
There are so many conferences I want to go to this summer! CFI’s Discovery Institute in DC, the student leadership conference (for both CFI and SSA), TAM in Vegas… and a couple others. I think I’ll have to pick just one, though. I thought I was *super* cleaver picking the Sunday - Wednesday work week so my weekends start on Thursday morning… but it means they end on Sunday night. Which puts a cramp in weekends away. Bad planning on my part.
I lost 2 lbs a couple weeks ago, and none last week. I won’t be weighing myself until I get home to Toronto since my scale is there. (I guess I could remeasure on my mom’s scale and just use it for pound loss tracking…)
If I were blogging a lot right now these are the things I would definitely blog about! Enjoy:
The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and how sad it is 
USA banning Kinder Eggs and how that should lead to the USA banning Happy meals
Boobquake was super silly
Discovery News: Planet Earth