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Many apologies for this one coming in a little late...but anyway... So I woke up, went out with the family. We went out by the ocean, it was a great fun. It's so amazingly nice here in Vancouver...but Toronto's where my college and grown up life are happening. Anyway, then we came back and went to Edgemont Village for a while. Edgemont village is just this small village in North Vancouver, with coffee shops, pastry shops, chocolate shops and the like. A nice place. After that we came home and had supper, and then we started to play cards. I taught my family how to play some fun card games. While doing all that, I reprogrammed my desktop so it no longer has the traditional Windows look...but some crazy-cool-backoff-I'm-a-computer-geek feel to it. Here's what it looks like. Particularly proud of how MSN Messenger and ICQ show up.

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Alrighty...so I went to school on Monday, stayed till Wednesday night. I was really really sick on Monday and Tuesday, and stayed up all night studying for my Oscillations and Waves exam, which really didn't help the cold. The exam was pretty rough. It wasn't too difficult, but it covered so much material that it was difficult to prepare. And being that I was sick, and awake for about 40 hours before that, I fell asleep a few times during the exam. Lately I've had a weird problem melding dreams and reality. I'll weirdly incorporating my dreams into the real world in ways I didn't think possible. Sometimes, if I'm hanging out with friends late at night, I'll fall asleep midsentence 'cause I'm so tired. And while asleep, I'll keep talking while dreaming. Apparently I've said such things as "And I really don't trust someone who's full of coffee." But sure... Plenty people talk in their sleep... But how about writing in your sle

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