This weekend was plenty of fun. I spent most of it in toronto with allen… We saw a ton of people and went out to lots of good places. Got free street meat and ditched by people who we don’t care about anyway – we’re cool like that. I went to the “canada day jam” for about 5 minutes, but threw up due to the overwhemling sense of internalized hick-age attempting to hide its self in Toronto thus taking me leave to the real festivities happening at parliment – was much cuter and I talked to Peter Mansbridge for quite a while. Niiice guy, really.
My mom and I went and saw Pirates 3 tonight and it was just down right horrible. Not a fan. The whole goddess story line was just crap, and the places that the main characters are in at the end is just sooo unbelieveable.
I wouldn’t have come home from toronto – but my step dad has gone away to Manitoba for a while, and Im moving out in the next like 2 weeks, so I wanted to come spend some good quality time with my mum – who is the queen of my universe.
Expect some more interesting updates in the near future, as well as some blog perusing and writing on what topics I come across. I sort of miss reading things, and hope to catch up on it a little bit this week while mom is out working. …I’ll have nothing better to do … except play the sims.
love love love. that is all.
Oh and Happy Canada Day!!!
A week from today I’ll be heading off to Amherst, New York for the Center For Inquiry Student Conference. I’m tres excited.
CFI is a pretty cool organization. …Here is what it is all “about”:
The purpose of the Center for Inquiry is to promote and defend reason, science, and freedom of inquiry in all areas of human endeavor. The Center for Inquiry is a transnational nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that encourages evidence-based inquiry into science, pseudoscience, medicine and health, religion, ethics, secularism, and society.
Through education, research, publishing, and social services, it seeks to present affirmative alternatives based on scientific naturalism. The Center is also interested in providing rational ethical alternatives to the reigning paranormal and religious systems of belief, and in developing communities where like-minded individuals can meet and share experiences.
Coooool. I’m really excited to get more involved with the center, as well as the secular group on campus at the University of Guelph. Not only do I want to be involved more heavily with these organizations, its my intention to get involved with Camp Quest next year (if I don’t run away and hide in Muskoka so I can pretend the world is okay for a couple months and just live in the forest.)
I figure if Kenesserie was going to fire me for being an atheist, I might as well try to get involved with a camp that will embarce my desicions to question life and live through reasonable thought.
More on the conference… There is an expected 140 people for the entire weekend! Woo! Speakers include Taner Edis a physics prof who wrote a book An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam, Barbara Forrest, a philosophy prof and key witness from the Dover/Kitzmiller ID trial, Eddie Tabash chair of the Council for Secular Humanism and the First Amendment Task Force, Jamy Ian Swiss doing a session called The Illusion of Psychic Powers and Nica Lalli author of Nothing: Something to Believe In.
I ‘m really excited to see all of the speakers and to hang out with all the people that will be there. (Including our very own commentor Alon Levy! Woo!) It’s going to be superb and a blast.
I will come back with pictures and stories galore. I promise.
Samie and I took a trip down to Hilton Falls on Sunday. The area is part of Conservation Halton a community and area that is based on environmental agency. This helps protect and restore the Halton area of the Escarpment. The forest that we were in is currently the largest natural forest in all of Ontario, which was very cool.
More specifically, the people who run the Halton Conservation area are devoted to having a healty watershed, which reaches out to strong, clean and natural streams forests and green space.
Here is a map of the area that we were in:
We got a few pictures, but they’re all on my camera…. and I didn’t bring my camera cord here to Sam’s to get the pictures off of it, so you’ll have to wait until I get home for those pictures to be up. Here is a picture that someone else took of the actual waterfall…
It wasn’t all that big, but the walk there and back was so quiet and beautiful that it was worth the trip just for the trails. It really made me miss BC. The Niagara Escarpment is pretty much the closest thing we have out this way to mountains and BC like scenery.
It is the logest escarpment in the US and Canada running for New York up to through Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois. It was formed by unequal erosion in the Silurian age and is mostly dolostone, shale and granite. The Bruce Trial runs along the escarpment from the Niagara Peninsual up to the Bruce Beninsula up in Tobermory… something I would most definitely like to hike one day. I had a geography teacher back in grade 11 who had hiked it, he said it was really amazing and makes you appreciate the geography, topography and landscape of Ontario a lot more… Maybe some day.
Here’s my book list for the summer, in no particular order:
Hearts in Atlantis
Moral Disorder
Lamb
The Runaway Jury
To Kill a Mockingbird (again..I know <3)
A Fine Balance
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Stranger Than Fiction
Young Trudeau
The Innocent Man
Some of them are repeates, but they are sooo good and I haven’t read them in awhile. I was thinking about doing book reviews when I finish them – one should be up in a few days, Im almost done Hearts in Atlantis <3 I’ll keep you updated on my progress through my list.
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