tee hee... that hello comment was made when blogger was acting up on me again, and I was trying to get it to work... Finally, all back to normal! :)

wow.... it's been a while, hey? and it's been one heck of a ride, i suppose... it's almost been a month since I last blogged... and indeed, so much has happened over the last little while... It has been so very busy, and while the school aspect of all this has been a bit of a biatch, life itself has been treating me pretty good. Well, let's get let this cacophonic description of my life begin, eh?

anyways, since I last wrote in here, some amazing things have happened. I spent reading break at Katie's place in Erie PA, where the snow was luckily not billowing high. We had a little bit of trouble at the US border. They checked Katie's family's birth certificates AND IDs... and the dummy of a border guard lady thought I was a girl, even though I was wearing a suit in my passport picture I had given to her, as well it saying I was a MALE.

Guard: "What is she doing here?"

Dad: "My daughter? She's going to school in Canada"

Guard: "No not her, the other girl. And what is your daughter going to school in Canada for?"

Gah... I dunno, she was just so condescending, I was rather insulted.

Anyways it was bloody cold there, but a good relaxing time nonetheless. As with all relaxing times, not much work was done, which I think I have been dearly paying for this past week or two. But my days there consisted of waking up late, just being with katie, reading comic books, petting her pets, playing Lord of the Rings for PS2, and going out to eat lots. So not too much to complain. If you have some money to burn, I suggest you read Barry Ween Boy Genius. It's just very clever, funny and besides, it has monkeys! How can you go wrong?? ;p I had some other good times there as well. I finally got to see Katie go scuba diving. well, ice diving to be exact, I guess. It was a little bit eerie, watching her slip below the surface of 14 inches of ice into freezing water. You could sometimes see the dive light illuminating the ice every once in a while, as well as hearing cute little air bubbles rise to the surface of the ice. Yes, I did say cute little air bubbles. Not a fan of cute?? tough luck!! (oh man, my grade 8 art teacher ms. vernon would have my head for saying something like that... she HATED cute. haha). And I think it was actually the first time I've stepped on ice in a lake. Poor little deprived child I am. huh? *grin* It was a cool experience, sorta like walking on water, but not really. And we also went to see the ice dunes. It was pretty sweet. I felt like I was on the ice planet Hoth in Star Wars as I stood there, looking out over a desolate landscape. Very cool. And we also went to Peak'n Peak, the nearby ski mound. Damn, those rentals were bloody expensive... Like it was worth it just for the experience, but seriously, $59US for rentals and lift tix? it's almost like $100CDN!! Aiya... but yeah, it was fun! I went with Katie an her little brother Jordan. Good times, good times, especially in the half-pipe. Haha, in other words, I sucked in there. One of the nights there, Katie's friend Andrew came over, and we just played board games, and sorta talked until 3ish in the morning. It was good fun, but i dunno, it was a bit of a weird experience. I guess it's sort of like being with people who have known your significant other for much longer, and in a way have a bond with them that can sometimes be hard to understand. I'm not exactly sure. It was just sorta a "whoa" moment. And I think that being in the States for a whole week, you begin to pick on very subtle differences, just in terms of the culture there. In a way, you can sort of see it in people's demeanor a small extent. It's not a good or bad thing, simply an observation. Well, not Katie's family so much, as the strangers that we met. Like this one guy who helped us get unstuck in the snow. He had this giant pickup truck with crazy ass stickers on it, and he was seemed like a real nice guy. After we got unstuck, we offered to pay him back or something, and he was like "No, it's fine. This is the American way." I just don't really think that anybody here would say anything like that. Maybe it's because I was exposed only to small microcosm of American Society. I dunno. Anyways. that's what my spring break was like. And now, onwards to post-reading break madness.

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