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I had been thinking about getting a hamster and the day I got the cage ready for one my mom told me that her friend got dumped with two unwanted hamsters from a third party. Since my mom’s friend has a young daughter (too young for a hamster), she wanted to know if I would take them. Perfect, right? Well, maybe not perfect but I’m glad I got them. They are two full-grown female teddy bear hamsters that were both living in a tiny started cage. WTF?

I’m really annoyed. Well, more like pissed. Why do people buy their children pets without researching about the animals? If they had given a shit about OTHER LIVING CREATURES and researched about hamsters they would have known that 1) they are solitary animals and live ALONE, and 2) even one cannot spend all their life in a cramped cage, especially with their size. Because of their neglect and selfishness these two hamsters have suffered at each other’s natural territorial attacks. The white hamster, among other battle scars, has an eye wound and (I think) is blind in that eye. The black hamster has numerous bite marks and has many cuts on her paws. Poor things. I separated them and they seem to be happier now. I’m so glad they now have a home where their health and security are given consideration.

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I am appaled. Completely appaled. There used to be a time when I would have supported proposition 8. I refer to that stage as my young, dark, naive stage of life; before I recognized the dynamics of my own privilege as a heterosexual being. In a nutshell, proposition 8 was a proposition put forth in the state of California where its citizens were able to vote on whether or not the passing of the gay marriage law should be reversed. I was shocked that it passed and because of this, same-sex marriages are no longer legal. It has not been decided whether those marriages conducted when it was legal will still be recognized under California law.

Aside from the blatant human rights violation, I am terribly disappointed that MILLIONS of dollars were raised by “Christian” (I use that term loosly) organizations in order to withhold this right from people - their fellow Americans. I do not see how any Christian can condone this behaviour. Do you really think you are doing God’s work by preventing same-sex marriage while there are people living in poverty in your own neighbourhoods? Do you really think Jesus will pat you on the back for getting your priorities in check by letting people starve while you stopped same-sex unions from being legalized? Do you really think you’re making this world a better place by creating, sustaining, and promoting ignorance, ostricization, and homophobia? Do you really think you are doing your children a favour by sustaining a hateful world? Seriously! This is bullshit.

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Not again! The first incident with the victim getting beheaded was tragic enough but now another case occurred where a man was stabbed for no reason. It happened on a greyhound bus both times too. Copycat? This is so sad. In the recent case the victim suffered non-life threatening stab wounds. Thank God. You can read about the recent incident HERE.

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I hate the new setup for Facebook. It sucks! Why did they even bother changing it? The previous layout was much simpler and user friendly. This one is more cluttered, disorganized and they have a lot of bugs to fix. I get more error pages than I properly loaded ones and the pages take longer to load on my account than other people’s for some reason (I tested it out with Jack’s). Seriously, it’s annoying!

My other rant is about the Medical Facility we have on campus. Well I had a doctor’s appointment a while ago about my medication and they gave me a call a week ago (at 8am!) wanting to schedule a follow-up appointment. Seriously, who calls a student at 8am? Fucktards. So I made an appointment (yesterday at 9:30) and I had to drive to Waterloo since I’ve moved home. So I left at 8am which should give me about an extra half hour. Well with morning traffic, getting stuck behind a slow moving truck on a one-lane road, and later being stuck in a traffic jam on the highway due to construction, I was cutting it close. So while I’m stuck in a traffic jam I call the office at 9:20 to let them know that I will be about 10 minutes late. Well they tell me that if I miss the appointment then they can’t do anything about it. I also had to pick up my medical files since I’m graduating so she told me I could just see the nurse for that without an appointment. Good since I would have been pissed that I drove all that way for nothing. So I get out of the traffic jam, park illegally on campus and run to the office only two minutes late and the receptionist tells me that I didn’t make my appointment. STUPID! So she tells me to take a seat and the nurse will see me shortly to give me my files. Ok, well the nurse comes, takes me to a room and leaves me there for five minutes before my doctor comes in for the follow-up. Umm…wtf? Apparently all they wanted to know was if my medication worked. It did. And that was the end of the check-up. Honestly, it did not even take two minutes. Useless twits! At least I got my files. =/

In other news, I have handed in my paper and I will be defending it next Tuesday. I hope it does well. I can either get a fail (doubt it), pass with major revisions, or a pass with minor revisions. I’m hoping for the minor revisions so that I can finish this paper and be done with it! I also have a list of people who want to read this paper. I’m a bit nervous about that. It’s one thing to have your paper read by other academics who are used to reading case studies, but those who aren’t trained to take things less personally sometimes overreact to observations that they see as normal but are being critiqued by an outsider. So…hopefully that goes over well. I can’t wait to graduate!

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Jack and I had bought beerfest tickets a few months back and we were really looking forward to going. My sister and her friends had gotten tickets for the Friday and we got tickets for the Saturday. Well it was this past weekend and it was not as great as I was expecting. It was at the Historic Fort York, which is overlooked by the Gardner Expressway. The weather wasn’t so bad on Friday but Saturday was horrible and Jack and didn’t end up going. I did go on the Friday with my sister and her friends since she couldn’t fill one ticket. Here is my pro/con list. (I’ve been watching too much Gilmore Girls)

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