The Long Weekend

Today is the beginning of our long weekend. No school until Wednesday, it's a much needed break for me to catch up on my school readings, though from what it looks like now I'll probably wait to the end of the break to start it. More procrastination.

Right now I am watching the first season of the show called Firefly. Before yesterday I had only heard of the title of the show and didn't really know much about it besides that it was in space and the future. One of my room mates watched it and decided to buy the entire series on DVD. From watching two episodes so far it's a pretty good show. It's almost like an old cowboy tv show but in space.

Venice Pizza

Since living here, we have eaten at Venice Pizza (our pizza shop on the corner) way to much. The problem is, is that their pizza is way too good, and the location of their restaurant is only a few steps away from our house. It's hard not to eat there .

Our usual is a Jumbo Garlic finger, for $10.50 which isn't too bad split four ways. I have also tried their Meat Lovers Pizza, their Greek Pizza (with stuffed crust) and their Fries Extreme (which is fries with gravy and dressing). The dressing is very good, before coming to Newfoundland I had only heard the term dressing used for the dressing most families eat for Thanksgiving. But here in Newfoundland everyone knows about fry dressing. Go in to a fish and chips restaurant and they'll ask you two things when ordering fries. The usual "Would you like gravy with that?" and the new one "Would you like dressing with that". So most people who aren't from Newfoundland would only assume that the dressing their talking about is bread dressing, or turkey dressing depending on what you call it. Which is what I expected the first time I had it on fries, but it is nothing like it. It's hard to explain what it tastes like or what it looks like, it doesn't look like turkey dressing, but it is crumbly. Lets just say you can't visit Newfoundland without buying fries, with added dressing.

11:00PM

The photo above is of The Basillica Cathedral of St. John's the Baptist. It took sixteen years to build this giant church, from 1839 to 1855. It sits 2,500 people in a giant hall, has ceilings 48 meters high. Even though I am not a very religious person, you can't help but notice the architecture of this giant structure. It seems to also be a huge tourist attraction, as every time I drive by on the bus or walk by there are always people taking pictures in front of it. The church is also apart of a historic route of downtown St. John's. The Basillica reminds of a slightly smaller version of the Notre Dame in Paris, France, which I had the opportunity to see in person a little over a year ago.

Downtown

Today was an other warm day out for St. John's. I ended up walking home because I didn't feel like waiting for the bus. Walking uphill for thirty minutes with a heavy back wasn't fun, but at least it was nice out. I am hoping that it keeps getting warmer ad warmer, right through winter.

This morning I was almost late for my 8am Accounting class. I was about to cross the street after getting the bus at the UC (University Center). I noticed six or seven police officers on the side of the street and two in the middle of the road directing traffic. They were being trained to properly direct traffic. I didn't realise that there was a certain way to direct traffic. You're arms have to be at a certain angle when waving, and you have to be standing completely straight. Luckily I got to class on time.

Tonight we had pizza from Venice pizza, a pizza shop located right on the corner of our street. We had a jumbo sized pizza with ground beef, pepperoni, green peppers, salami, and stuffed crust along with a small garlic fingers and two litre bottle of Coke. It was really good.

Escalators

First of October, hard to believe the first month of my second year of university is already over. Strangely today was a nicer day than any day we had in September (temperature wise). So on this nice October day, I decided to back-up my important files and reinstall my operating system. It had to be done, for some reason my computer was really slow and programs were freezing up all the time. Now my computers nice and fast and back to the state it was in when I first bought it, now the process of me clogging it up begins.

Over the weekend I applied to the Dominion grocery story that just opened down the street, hopefully I'll get an interview. I'd rather work somewheres within walking distance, so the Dominion would be a good place, and it's something different from the fast food industry. An other cool thing is that this Dominion has escalators, and it also has an escalator for your cart to go up and down besides you. An other good reason as to why I want to work there, escalators.

Well I should get back to studying (this entire blog post has been a procrastination attempt), I have a small marketing quiz tomorrow on the first five chapters on the book. It sounds simple, the test format is thirty multiple choice questions, except their not "Choose the correct answer" their "Choose the best answer", which makes multiple choice a lot harder than it was back in high school. Good 'ole high school days. Hard to believe it will be 2 years this summer!

Future Me

I got an e-mail today. The senders name was Future Me.org. After seeing that I remembered visiting a website a few years ago where you type a message to yourself, select how many weeks, months or years you want to wait to recieve it and then click send. I obviously chose two years, since the date it said I wrote it on was September 30th,2005.

"Today is September 30th, 2005. By the time I get this I should be in University. Hopefully everything has turned out. As of now I have been planning on going to DAL, but have later on changed my mind to MTA. It may end up not even being either one.

If I happen to die before this (ie; car accident, etc) my family can read this.

Well Good Luck and you will soon be getting this."

I wish had a wrote more espcially since I had forgotten all about this. Nothing I predicted really came true except one, I didn't go to DAL, and I didn't go to MTA and I didn't die, the only part that was true was the last part "It may not even be either one", and it wasn't.

Want to try it yourself? Go to Futureme.org

Slowly Improving

I am slowly trying to improve the look of my blog. I have recently figured out how to get the three column look I've been wanting since the beginning. I have also been playing with the colours and haven't quite found the ones I want to use. In the next few days it's likely I am going to redesign the banner at the top, that or revert back to the original.

I am also planning on adding useful information on myself. Mainly current information like movies I've seen, what I'm watching etc. This will all be located on the left sidebar. The only thing there now is a Pro-Ad banner ad. It should be filled up soon enough.

An other thing, I'm going to try posting more, and using my camera a lot more. Everytime I go somewhere I wish I had brought my camera to take pictures. So that's my plan!