In between watching Lost (which is on 3-hours early in Canada for some reason) and commcericals, I figured I might as well write a new entry.

I told Tom I would mentioned him so, "Hi Tom!". Now, don't you feel foolish? Ha.

Few things have happened in the past few days, but I have somehow found myself with lots of things I want to do and less time to do them. Certainly better than being bored out of my mind with nothing to do.

The most people we had at one time in my Law class of 55 students was 15 individuals on Monday. When class started, there were 12 people, then 15 before the break, and then 12 again afterwords. Everyone seems to be very busy with midterms, but it was very cold that night too. Hopefully it was not because people did very poorly on their midterm for this classa and plan on dropping it.

I happened to see two of my teachers from High School during my break. I certainly would have liked to have been to able to talk with them for a bit longer, but they were on their way as was I.

Class registration opened today for Spring courses and, though some classes were filling up quickly, I got all of the classes I needed/wanted. The registration was supposed to open at midnight, but they had problems and it did not open until quarter to 9. It would not have mattered if I had not statyed up late to try to register.

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Items of note:

The Navy’s Swimming Spy Plane: If nothing else, a little interesting and futuristic.

'DNA target' to block HIV found: A step in the right direction scientifically.

Canadian ISP is throttling Bittorrent traffic: Good thing I have Bell.

Ready For Takeoff?: A man makes his own jetpack.

Kids Build Soybean-Fueled Car: If they can do it, we may see this as a more viable idea in the future.

I will have to write up a bit more regarding Walk the Line as it was by far one of the best movies I have seen from 2005. There is a good chance that I will end up buying this sometime as the DVD comes out on Tuesday.

I looked at the course timetable for Spring session a bit more today as registration opens on Wednesday. I am somewhat conflicted between taking 5 or 6 classes, but I will most likely end up taking 6. This will put me further along in my degree and 4 of the 6 classes I want to take will be done by the end of June. Here's a list of classes I want to take:

BA 2123: Introduction to Electronic Commerce
BA 2303: Introduction to Marketing
BA 2606: Business Decision Analysis II
BA 3425: Managerial Finance
BA 3623: Management Science: Deterministic Models
SCI 2001: An Introduction to Space Studies

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Items of note:

Sad Girl music: One of the bands whose CD I am reviewing for the campus radio is called Sad Girl. Their debut, Twenty Years, is a collaboration between a screenwriter for movies such as Cool Runnings and Snow Dogs. Really good debut and an interesting history behind it.

Exercising the body can benefit the mind: As if we weren't given enough reasons to exercise, this article has come to the surface.

Apple to offer films to download on iTunes: About time.

Top 10 Strangest iPod Accessories: Yep, there certainly are some weird ones available.

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Listening to: "Sad Girl - Template #4"

I am quite exhausted, but, nevertheless, I had a good and relaxing afternoon/evening. After working from 6am-1pm, I came home and started to watch Walk the Line (I still have an hour to go, but I will most likely post my thoughts on it tommorrow evening. It is really good so far. In the mean time, you can find a great review at Cinema Blend.

Of course, as I have mentioned, today was my father's birthday. So, we had a nice steak dinner and delicious cake. Also, I went for two nice long walks in the woods the last two nights with my dad. It is really tranquil and you can literal walk as far as you so wish without coming to an end. As long as I can remember, my family has taken walks along the paths out back of our house. Unfortunately, I no longer get towed behind in a sled. The trees have started to slowly grow over the path more and more over the last few years so my dad and I may take up the task of clearing it back some this summer.

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I ended up watching The Constant Gardener last night. It tended to go a bit slow at the start, but picked up a lot after about 45mins - 1 hr in. I normally do not enjoy movies of this topic as much as some, but it did have an engaging story; it could have just been told more smoothly ie. less fractured. One thing I keep hearing about that did not bother be while watching, but got me thinking afterward, was how unbelieveable a relationship the married characters had. They have the cliched "opposites attract" relationship. She only takes an interest in him to go to Africa and he only seems to take interest in her once she is murdered. Despite this lack of plausability, the movie was really enjoyable and the ended is fulfulling.

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Items of Note:

Alzheimer's Progresses Faster in Educated People: Alzheimer's has hit my family hard. I have little real memories of my grandfather who contracted the disease when I was very young and just about a year ago my great-aunt was diagnosed. Unlike other diseases which are extremely painful for the individual, Alheimer's seems to hit the families the hardest as they lose the real individual to this disease. My great-aunt was, and still is, one of the most wonderful people in my family, she cared so much for everyone and it is hard to see her unknowingly change like this. It is truly devistating and I can only hope that they can prevent it from happening to others in the coming years.


Star 26 light years away could harbour alien life: Not that it is even proven or that it will see any development in my lifetime, but still cool nonetheless.

Explorers Discover Huge Cave and New Poison Frogs: Despite milleniums of exploration, it is truly astounding how unique and vast our planet is.

The world’s most advanced LCD TV - 56-inch and 3840 x 2160 pixels: Wow; impessive, yet unnecessary? I wonder how much it will cost and when it will become the norm.

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Off to finish Walk the Line now and to hit the sack early.

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Listening to: Tom Vek - "If You Want"