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Today is Jack’s birthday. We celebrated with his school friends and co-workers this past weekend in Toronto. The restaurant was a modern Italian restaurant in Little Italy and they had fabulous pizzas! I never used to understand why gourmet pizzas were so important until I ate some. Shitty student pizza has nothing on it! The drinks they served were awesome too. Not only were they tasty they were well presented. Some had crazy long straws which were fun to drink out of (especially when you’re buzzed). If you have my and/or Jack on FB you can check out the pics there. So now I have to plan ahead and think about what I want to do for my 25th birthday next year. I want special drinks too. D;

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This summer my family will be going to India for a couple of weeks. I haven’t been there in almost ten years. It’s my paternal grandmother’s 80th birthday, so hopefully as much of our family can make it back for that. It will be really special. I can’t wait. ^_^

I’ve been in a pretty good mood lately. I think it has to do with me FINALLY finishing the second draft of my research proposal and the good weather. The past few days have been AMAZING! Around 12 degrees, which feels warmer in the sun. I wish Jack and I could enjoy it together. It would have been nice to take a few walks together. Sometimes I wonder what our lives will be like after we get married. We’ve had a long-distance relationship for 4 1/2 years and I’m used to living on my own. I hope it won’t be too hard to adapt to living with another person…who isn’t a roommate.

I also want to get a new haircut. I’m really tired of looking ‘cute’ and I want a more edgy haircut. Not necessarily shocking, but not something that isn’t mundane and boring. I need to start using better hair products too, because that makes all the difference. Actually, I think I want to change up my entire style. I think I’ll get some more vibrant eyeshadows and play with those a bit. For the past two years I’ve been wearing the same gold eyeshadow…it’s gotten to be a safe choice. So yeah, hopefully I will have time to do all this. We’ll see how much work I will have to do on my third proposal draft. =P

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When you fall in love with a mathie, there is only one day in the year that you should never forget - International Pi Day. It is coming up this Friday (March 14 = 3.14), so don’t forget! Unfortunately I won’t be able to celebrate it with my mathie, so I’m going to celebrate it with two of my very good friends. What are we going to do? Well eat pie of course! If you’re in the Waterloo area and want free pie, they hand them out at the University of Waterloo. See!

Btw, I love how Wikipedia categorizes Pi Day under geek holidays. xD

Resources:
Official Pi Day Website
Pi Day Wikipedia

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I’ve been feeling really stressed out lately. I’m not sure if it is because this term has more work than my previous term or if it is because it is the beginning of the term and I’m feeling overwhelmed by getting back into school mode. Perhaps it is a little of both. Either way it is making me go crazy. My reading list for my courses is insane, and I have to do readings for the two courses I’m TAing for (which I have to lead tutorials for too T_T!!!), and I have to work on my research. WTF?! What made me think doing my Masters in a one-year program would be better than a two-year program? UGH! I was seriously thinking about dropping out. I honestly don’t know how much more of this I can handle. I don’t even know how I’m supposed to be applying for jobs now too. Is the world insane? Am I the only one that thinks this is too much for one person to handle? And to top things off, I have become addicted to ice cream to sooth my worries. This can’t be good…why did I think it was a good idea to keep a deep freezer in my room?

On the brighter side I have been eating healthier and have started to exercise. I keep forgetting to take my vitamins so I need to have a daily checklist. My life has gotten so busy to the point that I need to write down everything I need to do in a day so that I don’t forget anything. I have a feeling though that one day I will forget something really important and then soil myself out of the fear of thinking about the consequences. *sigh*

Oh, it’s my parent’s 25th anniversary today. Happy anniversary Mom and Dad! If I wans’t so busy I would have planned something for them…but lately the timing for things just doesn’t seem to work out. Man, I hope my life gets better soon. =/

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For some reason I completely forgot of making some goals for this year. I remembered when I read Tiff’s blog. So here is my list.

Goals for 2008
1. Graduate >=D
2. Exercise for 10 minutes everyday.
3. Write e-mails & snail mails more often.
4. Eat less meat and more vegetables.
5. Avoid Walmart like the plague.

Sadly that is all that I can think of right now. There are a few things that I am looking forward to for 2008. Firstly I’m going to Ottawa at the end of January with some other grad students. It’s only for a weekend but I’m sure we will have a lot of fun.

There is also a good chance that my family will be going to India in June for my paternal grandmother’s 80th birthday. We’re hoping that all her children will come for her birthday and it will be the first reunion with all her kids there since…before I was born. o_O!!!

And lastly, I will (hopefully) graduate from my Masters program and will get an enjoyable job. Once that happens Jack and I can start planning our wedding. My family in India just started finding out about our engagement. It feels weird with them knowing it. It’s almost like…it’s REALLY official. It gives me chills.

That also reminds me, Jack’s and my family got together for our official family introduction. It went pretty well. There was a lot of talk about India and China *surprise surprise*. Both our parents seem to be very happy for us, which makes me happy. I’m so glad all of these social gatherings are over and done with. I can now concentrate on school for the next eight months in peace. =P

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