March 21, 2009 — Comments Closed
Since this is the first major thing that’s happened in a while, I thought I’d write for once.
I didn’t mention this before, but through one of my roommates, I’m temporairly a hair model. It’s for a high-level competition in Toronto next weekend. I said yes to this in the first place because I thought it would be a great experience to have :)
Originally I was supposed to be an up-do model – so I could keep my hair long and have it coloured. Since then they’ve changed their minds and I’m a cut model instead. This was a little bit unnerving since I have never had my hair shorter than, say, between the back of my neck and shoulder blades. Disregard the fact my hair was not that long when I was born. For most of last week I was worrying about how my hair would look. Before they showed me the cut on a mannequin, I was alright with anything. I saw the cut, and freaked out a bit inside. I’ve grown to appreciate it a bit more, but it will still scare me. It’s basically a short bob cut with a jagged bang. The part I’m most displeased about are the bangs… The last time I had bangs, I was too young to realize how retarded they looked. To grow them out took ages. D:
Right now my hair is coloured predominantly bright orange with purple and yellow. The purple covers the back (I’m not too sure since I haven’t taken a good look at the back yet) and yellow somewhere underneath. An intermediate stage to my colouring was platinum blonde with purple underneath. I wish they kept that instead – it looked so cool! I really felt like Jennifer Garner from Alias with all my colour changes last night. (Did I mention I was there from 9pm until 1am?) They even kept the big chunk of hair the lopped off before colouring.
I’m still a little nervous about the hair cut and how it will look after the ‘fixing’ they promised, but I’ve been reassured by nice friends (and boyfriend) that it will look fine. Easy for them to say — they’re not losing nearly all their hair! Mine will go from down past my shoulder blades as a strawberry-blonde to a super-short cut with crazy colours. It’s like losing a limb already D: Oh well, like they said: It will grow back. Eventually. I’m still pretty excited for this, though. :D
In other news, 2 more weeks of school left! Then finals, then work term after a little break. This term is going by quite quickly. I haven’t been nearly as lazy and prone to procrastination like previous terms, either. Yay!
See pix of hair on flickr :D And yes, that’s my face when I just wake up.
February 16, 2009 — Comments Closed
Hooray for a week that I could potentially do nothing! I won’t of course, I have midterms the next weeks after I get back to school.
Back at home now, I find myself being very bored. So far I’ve passed the time by eating, sleeping and taking apart a non-functioning laptop. That was pretty fun and took a long time to do. I didn’t think I would have to unscrew all the little screws, but apparently I did. It’s lying in parts by my (cold) feet now. It was an Acer TravelMate 2310. I’ll be taking the cute little harddrive and getting an enclosure for it. I’m not sure what I would do with the DVD drive or RAM… If the RAM was better than my EEE’s RAM, I would swap. As it’s not, it will be left to die.
All my interviews went quite well last week and the week before. In total I had 12 including the one that was outside of the jobmine system. I never really knew why people would not want like, 10 interviews, but I guess I know now. It does drain you. It was quite hectic going back to the building, waking up earlier than I had any other day since forever and mentally wearing. A major pro for this though, was racking up the experience. I can interview now and not be all nervous and quiet.
Now what am I going to do for the next week? I will sit down a study I suppose — and clean my room. That should probably come first as I won’t have anywhere to effectively study if I don’t. I probably should make a new design for this blog as well, since I think it’s been up since… some November ago. It might be as far back as 2007. D:
In completely hilarious news, the Computer Science Club at the University of Waterloo (my glorious school) had a ‘no pants day’ at the same time Paul Martin came to give a talk. The result? A picture with some of the guys with no pants, and Paul Martin (wearing his pants still).
CTV.ca News. Pretty win.
February 4, 2009 — Comments Closed
Two months has passed already?! D:
Two months ago I was at RIM on my second co-op. Now I’m back to school in Waterloo, applying for more jobs. Between that time I was in Italy for the holidays and my birthday happened. I’m old now – twenty.
I would say “I can’t believe I haven’t written for so long!” but I can. For many weeks (starting from when I was still in Italy) I kept saying “I’ll update tomorrow”. It never happened! Arg! It definitely was not because I had nothing to write about or that I had no internet. Like I mentioned at the end of my last post, once I think of something to write and outline it in my head, it’s gone. It sounded like such a great post so I effectively ‘posted’ it in my head. Now I update, while procrastinating on CS241 homework. I should be fixing my assembler and working on the next batch of MIPS instructions to implement.
Italy
I’ll blab about things in a chronological order. On the last day of my employment at RIM, I was actually travelling from Ottawa->Washington->Roma. The entire trip as a whole was different from other trips we had been on as a family, probably because we (Tori and I) are old now. We’re well aware of our surroundings, don’t need to be babysat and can stay up late. I found that affected the outcome of the trip. Anyways, Italy was great! It wasn’t very warm – but warmer than Ottawa. It was damp and rainy sometimes which was nice.
Our trip was split into two weeks: First week was spent in Nemi (40kmish from Roma) and we drove to a train station to take the train into Roma for the day. In Roma we visited places like the Colosseum, Vatica city (including the musem and chapel), Trevi Fountain, and generally walked around. Some days we spent relaxing in our place (it was nice) and others visiting the surrounding villages. Our place also had internet, so of course I abused it. :)
There was a restaurant attached to our place (which we later discovered is very common – restaurant with inn attached) and we ate there frequently. The food was soooooooo good! I loved all the pasta, bruschetta and pizza. None of this crap frozen pizza like in North America. We ate at other similar places for lunches and dinner. Surprisingly enough, lunches always ended up being much more expensive than a dinner. There was one lunch we had in Nemi that left us all so full, that we would all explode if we ever saw a noodle again. Amazing food though!
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