Hotashi

I checked my one e-mail that I don’t use very often and I found out that I had several books overdue from my school library. So I went to check my library account and found out that they have a HUGE fine against me and they have suspended my account. I distinctly remember renewing my books so that they will be due in September! And there is at least one book on that list that I had already given back at least a month ago. So now I have to go down there and settle this all out. I refuse to pay for their idiocy. =/

Btw, I had e-mailed them a couple of times before asking how I could change the contact e-mail for which they contact me by since I didn’t check that e-mail very often. They never replied. Seriously…idiots!

UPDATE:
So I went to the library to give some books back and pay my fine and I find out that the fine is WAY MORE than the fine listed online. ARGH! One book that was recalled had a fine of $25, which I managed to talk down a bit. Still, it was a lot. The rest of my books had a small fine each but there were a lot of them. This fine was from the time between their initial due date and the day I renewed them (6 days). So I really couldn’t justify refusing to pay since 1) it was my fault, and 2) if you don’t pay your fine the university won’t allow you to graduate. There are a lot of things over this year that could have prevented me from completing my program and graduating, and I refuse to let a stupid library fine be the reason. So I am now debt free and I can worry about other reasons why I won’t graduate on time. ARGH!

P.S. It is a REALLY nice day today. =D

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I woke up to a full blown thurnderstorm this morning. I don’t think that has ever happened before. Normally I feel quite down when we have rainy weather, but this time I feel quite relaxed by it. We’ve gotten a lot more rain than usual this summer and it’s a nice change from the droughts we’ve been having over the past couple of years. I remember how everyone’s lawns would be yellow and crispy, and now they are green and lucious. So beautiful! I hope we have more summers like this. I’m sure all those people who have to actually go outside today are glaring at me. =P

I moved back to Waterloo today and plan on staying here until my lease is up at the end of August. I met up with one of my MA friends and we walked around the area for two and a half hours just catching up on things. It was nice to be able to do that again (being at home made me have a very limited social life). I’m partially happy to know that I’m ahead of so many others in our program with the progress of my research. But I’m still worried about not being able to graduate on time. I’m in a stage now where I can’t really do much and I need to wait on a couple of things before I can get cracking on analysis and writing. I’m trusting God and trying not to worry.

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My previous post finally got Jack to get the wedding site up. Surprise, surprise - I have to get mad before anything gets done. So it is finally up. You can check it out here.

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You know what I thought would be a good idea? Having a blog that Jack and I both posted on about wedding planning and other couple stuff. I have a lot of rants regarding wedding planning and I didn’t want to fill this blog with them. Well I’ve been waiting for about a month now and the site still looks like this. So fuck that. I’m just going to post about useless wedding planning crap here.

Read the rest of the post here.

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I’ve been home for the past few weeks because of my research and I have become totally lethargic. I stopped doing my daily exercises and I can feel my body becoming a little more flabby and just unhealthy. I should not be tired from walking up one flight of stairs. I’m pretty pathetic really. So I have decided to start doing some exercises! I saw this article called Tone Your Tummy In One Month and I want to try it. I’m not looking for crazy toned abs, but I would like to decreases my rolls and become more healthy. So here goes one month of tummy toning. And I will start all of this tomorrow. =P

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