I can't believe it's April

And the weather isn't doing much to make it spring-like here. The first day of spring was lovely, and everyone at UBC got all excited and put on their shorts. Since then we've had one or two nice days, and the rest have been rainy. But it's a decent temperature, so I should really stop compaining.

In my past few lunch hours at work I have been watching Storm The Wall in front of the student union, which consists of team or individual challenges involving 9 lengths in the pool, a 445 yard dash, a 3km cycle, a 1km run and then getting over a 12 foot wall without ropes or any other equipment. The team trials are mildly amusing, but the individual 'Super Iron Man' men's heats were very good, with hundreds of students gathered on the hill watching blokes hurling themselves at the wall. Sadly the guys I saw couldn't quite make it over, despite being inches from the top at every try. Apparently someone did it on Sunday by stripping naked - this allegedly gave them "more grip." I hate to think about how that worked....

This week I have also been swimming, helping Sunshine move house, trying to get through an 813 page book on Excel, going for dinner with Christie and her dad, cleaning my room and trying to fit in seeing Jay as well. I seriously need some sleep - I keep waking up at 6am for no reason, even though I'm going to bed at decent hours. I can't wait for Easter in two weeks' time, so that I can have a four day weekend.....

No longer single

:o)

Been a while.....

So I guess I should post something, just to prove that I still exist. It's not really that nothing has been happening; more that when my life is going (relatively) smoothly I don't feel much inclination to blog, since it's all boring stuff which fills a day but which doesn't really make for good reading.

I've been carrying on working at UBC, which I'm enjoying, and I'm busy with trying to learn computer-type things and broaden my skills a bit. I saw Hot Hot Heat this week, and they were very good, although I got home at 2am and had to get up for work at 7am, so that kind of sucked. My parents booked a flight over here in September, which I am looking forward to, and I go to Boston for a week in May. My laptop died and was then resurrected. I got a bill for $1,425 from ICBC and had to pay it in one go, the day after my salary went into the bank. I replied to a post from a guy on craiglist and have been on four "dates" with him in the past two weeks - and here's to many more. I am not giving out further details on him, because I don't want to jinx anything. I shall just say that he is extremely nice, he drives a huge monster truck that I laugh at every time I see it, and strangely he seems to be very keen to see me again. Wonders will never cease.

Our hot tub is definitely being fixed in the next couple of weeks. In addition, Roger the Navy housemate and I have decided that we are going to attack the deck and the backyard this summer; sand the deck down and stain/varnish it, clear out the weeds and the crap in the garden and clean all the furniture. This is a large undertaking, since the garden is the size of a small country and the deck will need a good few days of work. But if I'm going to stay in this house, I need to spruce it up a bit.....