Italy? Me?

So since my dad came to see me and we did the ski trip, and we did a ski day in Vermont this Xmas, my mom was gonna visit me in Vancouver too. I was looking forward to it, show her around my hang out spots, make her come watch my karate class, lol. So when she said there was another option, I was thinking I dunno, I was hoping to still work a couple days that week, might have a couple classes, hem haw. Then she launches into how she's got another business trip coming up in Siena and how if I wanted to and could get time off I might go with her and spend a few days in Rome and then go to Siena with her where she'll be in meetings the whole time but we'd have one dinner together anyway, and I could take a train to Florence for a day and etc. And my jaw is on the floor. And she's like: "hello? hello? are you there?" and I: oh I should probably pick my jaw up and try to formulate a coherent speech pattern. "yah yah I can get time off yup no problem I will MAKE it work!

So as long as everything goes as planned with her meeting and stuff, I'LL BE GOING TO ITALY IN MAY! WOOP WOOP!

Time to dig up my old art class notes and classics books lol
yippee!

In other news, it's raining. Yup, who'd have thought, rain in Van. But things are blooming (sorry mum, you'll be missing the cherry blossoms I guess) and starting to look really nice and springy. Unfortunately that means the spidey's are making their resurgence and my allergies and unstoppable.

School is winding down, one week left before examinations. Also have to sign up for summer classes next week. Time is moving way too fast! I can't keep up! My civ's class skipped all the Greek/Roman stuff which is irritating. I get if there's not time to cover everything, but then cut out one of the Peru lectures and one of the Mesoamerica! There's only 1000 years to cover anyway! Other than gypping me of my passion lol I have enjoyed all my classes this year. College is so easy, guys. I'm popping out 90's and still able to work 32-35 hours/week. It'll be a small struggle probably once I transfer to uni. We'll see how things go. I need to go talk to people about how to transfer too, maybe I can apply to grad school sooner, who knows. Otherwise I'll keep doing the second degree thing until then.

Last night was supposed to be a study night but I was asked to work, and I need some brownie points that new people need so that I'm well liked and people owe me favours when I need time off. But seriously, this girl I covered for called in sick at 115 for a 230 shift. Nicole, the other supervisor, calls me all frantic like "please please you can start at 4!" she had already tried everyone else, and I was like okay I guess I can not study. So that was a good shift but still a pain in my plans. At least I spent my morning talking to my grandma and mum.

Welp, Gotta go write a quiz and an article comparison. (For the latter, it really helps to have a PhD roomie in the same field. "Eric I need articles." "OOOH! Okay! Where do we start!" and it takes him 20 mins to find something he likes and that will work for me when it would have taken me an hour or more. Then he sits down and gives me a run through on them. "This is this guys argument. This is why he's right. This is the counter argument article. This is why this guy's a moron. This article explains why the second guy is a moron and the first article holds up." etc. So then I sit down and read them until the science stuff makes some sense to me and write a small paper on the arguments presented. I link it to some of the units in class. Nice and easy! So he essentially saves me like 3 hours of work. I should buy him dinner.)

Miss you all!