i woke up feeling the sniffles. "uh-oh," i thought. i knew it as soon as i woke up that i'd caught a cold. darnit! anyway, i went to school and sat around the unicentre in a bit of a daze, waiting for vincent. finally found him, and we went for our appearance before the funding committee. i talked and hopefully made a good case as to why they should give us (kcf) money. after that, vincent and i went for a coffee and a bit of breakfast before he forced me to go to class. i dunno if the class was on pause for me or what, but he was only about one page further in the notes than when i last went to class about 2 weeks ago!!

ran a few errands during break, then went to japanese class only because rob was supposed to be presenting. he got it extended til tuesday, and then class was class. byron gave me a ride home, which was nice, cuz i was feelin' pretty sniffly. but then i had to run to loblaws to pick up a few things, and on my way home, normie called me! so i walked over to meet him since he wasn't far, and he came over to eat his shawarma. it was wonderful quality time, which i haven't had with normie in too long. we even got to have a spot o' tea together, too! nothin' but normie's fave! whee!! and we had the best laughs while we were waiting for normie's bus... i asked what he would name his childa, and he said "martha." i then asked if he would name his son "stewart." (for those of you that don't know normie, he's a big fan of her show). he also thought of some other horrible things to name his children, the kind of name that you could never forgive your parents for. i said, "wouldn't your wife have something to say about that?" his solution to that is to wait til she's asleep before he files the naming documents. teehee, what a guy!!

when norm had caught his bus, i went home and started working on stuff in the kitchen. made mashed potatoes, a veggie platter, a ton of veggies, and just got things prepared for the kcf invasion. wowee, we had a turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, broccoli & cauliflower, cranberry sauce, gravy, fresh buns, and i forget if we had anything else. i think i had 12 ppl over, which i guess is quite a bit! we watched some good ol' hockey, and eventually turned that off to play mafia which was amusing as always. out came the black forest cake for tim's bday (which was yesterday). mmm mmm mmm.... one of the girls had to go back to school for the korean radio show, so she got picked up and everyone else who lives in rez took the ride too. that left me and 8 guys! if this were about 2 months ago, i'd be really happy cuz i would've broken the record, but alas, the record now stands at 9. we chatted for a while, and then everyone took off. all in all, it was a REALLY fun night and i'm glad everyone could come over!!

now it's just me and my sniffley self and i have to work tomorrow. bummer. an even bigger bummer is that i got a ton of mail today. none of it good like it was the other day. the worst one was the one that says that it's time to pay up for my 2nd term of tuition. auuugh, i can't believe i got the thing so soon!! i haven't even gotten osap yet!! turns out i "didn't submit the sheet with parental signatures" which i'm SURE i did, because i KNOW i got my mom to sign the papers. so those guys at the osap office lost my documentation. GREAT, those papers have my social insurance written all over them!! just great.....now i have to wait for the papers to come again, sign them again, and submit them, then wait for weeks until i get my money! augh! well anyway, aside from that and the sniffles, it was a wonderful day!
happy thanksgiving weekend everyone...let's not get all caught up in the turkey and food, and remember to be thankful for something!