So, let me tell you.... I've been looking for a place to live in Guelph for the next few years and my goodness it's difficult. Last year, I found it a lot easier to find a place (not a great place, but a place none the less). But this year, the area that I want to live is not the area that people are trying to find roommates for. I want an apartment by myself, but my mother doesn't like that idea and yelled at me for even thinking of it. So I've been looking for a place with randoms, which is going to be a little weird, but I guess it's a little better. Don't know why, but I think it is... I hope it is!
This year I'm being extremely picky because I want to make sure that the place I have, is a place that I'll be happy living in and won't be "ashamed" of to show my friends. Like this year, I don't particularly like the house, actually I find it quite craptastic and by quite I mean ultra. Some of my friends want to come over and see my place, but I just say "No. It's too ugly to show people."
So far I have just been reading the descriptions of places and judging if I would like to live there or not. And I use the word judging because I can't really think of an appropriate word in terms of "is that a good area?", "is it close to everything?", "is it far from school?", "what's the price and is including utilities?" and all of that jazz. I guess it's just those normal questions that people should be asking, but I didn't really think of it that much last year. I just went with wherever Bryan and Mike wanted to live... turns out I have totally regretted living there... oh well! I've e-mailed two people and am going to be seeing one place tomorrow at 4pm and the other 2 pm on Friday.
The one tomorrow is in an apartment building with a girl... Don't know how my parents are going to feel about that, but as of right now I don't really care. I'm hoping that it's going to be a nice place. The girl is going to 3rd year zoology and wants to be a vet as well, so that'd be pretty cool. It's a ten minute walk to campus, right beside my church, right behind the mall and by two grocery stores. Plus all of my friends live in that area, so I don't have to go all the way across Guelph to see them and then have to walk home for an hour because I left their place after the buses stopped running anymore. It's just a little irritating when that happens almost every weekend. The other place is with 3 guys, in a house with a pool and hot tub and dishwasher and I'd get the master bedroom with walk-in closet... a quadruple score I must say... so I'm hoping that either of these houses will be the one.
That's all I have to say about this house business... I just want it to be over with so I don't have to worry and stress over it anymore...
latex and all that stuff (my new phrase)
Coconut
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Friday, January 20, 2006
5 weeks later...
5 weeks after my last post... not a lot has happened. Christmas time was pretty boring. I stayed at home A LOT and did nothing. For Christmas I got clothes, HMV gift certificates (bought "root fire" by BS and "In a Coma" by MG), a laptop (on it right now, but I have a desktop as well... weird!), animal encyclopedias and some other stuff. After Boxing Day when everyone came over to the house, my parents left to go to New Hampshire.
I stayed back and went to the Body Worlds 2 Exhibit with Nitin. It was very interesting to read and see all of the parts of humans. The one thing that amazed me the most is that they cut open a pregnant woman up and you can see the baby inside the womb... it was intense! The next day, Thursday, my sis took me for brunch... panzerotti... Mmm. Later that day I went to Josie's
house to take portrait shots of her entire family, including Hippy and Rubix. After that I went to Ashley's house for a great party with all of my friends that I haven't seen since Thanksgiving weekend... Got home at like 1 or 2 am and then slept in and watched TV and movies all day long. Saturday was New Year's Eve and I went back to Ashley's house for a new year's eve bash. Nitin and Manu were sleeping over at my house so we just figured we'd stay there until whenever... It got to about 5 or 6 am I do believe. Manu passed out and Ashley was passing out on another couch and Nitin and I were talking to her keeping her awake until she told us to leave, which I don't think she ever did. Anyways, that was a great night. The next week I was boring as anything though because all I did was sleep til 2 or 3pm and watch TV from that waking up moment and then stop when i went to bed at around 3am. A waste of 7 days I must say, but oh well. I then went got to Guelph and started going to class.
Taking Physics again along with chemistry, structures of farm animals and genetics. My favourite class is Structures because it's pretty much all about the disembowlment of animals. Our first lab we had to watch how they slaughter a cow and stuff... very interesting.. I love it. All of this blood just comes spewing out. Haven't really started doing work, just having too much fun. Seeing people and actually hanging out with them instead of blowing them off and saying I had to go study... this semester isn't going to be antisocial, but my work will get done it has to.
Started looking for a place for this summer and the next bunch of years that I will be in Guelph because I want to just stay put and love where I'm living, but right now it's hard to find a place because people haven't put their apartments up for sale yet so I can't find my perfect place. Soon...soon though... then once I move in people can come over whenever... total relaxation!
Anyways I think I'm gonna go now... that's all that's happened. Nothing too exciting, but soon enough the exciting will be coming... I can just feel it! l8s
I stayed back and went to the Body Worlds 2 Exhibit with Nitin. It was very interesting to read and see all of the parts of humans. The one thing that amazed me the most is that they cut open a pregnant woman up and you can see the baby inside the womb... it was intense! The next day, Thursday, my sis took me for brunch... panzerotti... Mmm. Later that day I went to Josie's
house to take portrait shots of her entire family, including Hippy and Rubix. After that I went to Ashley's house for a great party with all of my friends that I haven't seen since Thanksgiving weekend... Got home at like 1 or 2 am and then slept in and watched TV and movies all day long. Saturday was New Year's Eve and I went back to Ashley's house for a new year's eve bash. Nitin and Manu were sleeping over at my house so we just figured we'd stay there until whenever... It got to about 5 or 6 am I do believe. Manu passed out and Ashley was passing out on another couch and Nitin and I were talking to her keeping her awake until she told us to leave, which I don't think she ever did. Anyways, that was a great night. The next week I was boring as anything though because all I did was sleep til 2 or 3pm and watch TV from that waking up moment and then stop when i went to bed at around 3am. A waste of 7 days I must say, but oh well. I then went got to Guelph and started going to class.Taking Physics again along with chemistry, structures of farm animals and genetics. My favourite class is Structures because it's pretty much all about the disembowlment of animals. Our first lab we had to watch how they slaughter a cow and stuff... very interesting.. I love it. All of this blood just comes spewing out. Haven't really started doing work, just having too much fun. Seeing people and actually hanging out with them instead of blowing them off and saying I had to go study... this semester isn't going to be antisocial, but my work will get done it has to.
Started looking for a place for this summer and the next bunch of years that I will be in Guelph because I want to just stay put and love where I'm living, but right now it's hard to find a place because people haven't put their apartments up for sale yet so I can't find my perfect place. Soon...soon though... then once I move in people can come over whenever... total relaxation!
Anyways I think I'm gonna go now... that's all that's happened. Nothing too exciting, but soon enough the exciting will be coming... I can just feel it! l8s
Thursday, December 15, 2005
I'm free at least for 3 weeks!!!
It's been a long and tedious semester. You must have read all the stuff I did and some things I learned along the way, but now it's Christmas Time in the city and all that holiday cheer. It's so refreshing to finally be done I just hope all this work paid off in the end.
Firstly, I'd like to say that my first 4 finals were so hard, but today's (animal production and intdustries)was so easy I finished in 45 mins., the first one (cellular biology) was difficult and studied 5 days straight for it, but by that time I wanted to be done so... the last 4 I went from 12 hrs of study time for the second one (calculus) to 6 hrs of study time for the third one (statistics) to 3 hrs of study time for the fourth one to 1 hr for the last one (animal productions and industries).
I'm ready to go home, eventhough these past two weeks have been crazy. like, learning school stuff, pulling all nighters again, writing songs (lyrics and music), taking photos again and even reading (well starting today to). I am ecstatic for next semester I know it's gonna be a lot of wierdness, but a better one... for those of you who know what I mean about wierdness... you know! I'm going to sleep all day tomorrow, pack and then go home for 3 weeks, where I'll wait to see how horribly I did and then feel queezy... oh crap feeling like that already!!! Goodnight
Firstly, I'd like to say that my first 4 finals were so hard, but today's (animal production and intdustries)was so easy I finished in 45 mins., the first one (cellular biology) was difficult and studied 5 days straight for it, but by that time I wanted to be done so... the last 4 I went from 12 hrs of study time for the second one (calculus) to 6 hrs of study time for the third one (statistics) to 3 hrs of study time for the fourth one to 1 hr for the last one (animal productions and industries).
I'm ready to go home, eventhough these past two weeks have been crazy. like, learning school stuff, pulling all nighters again, writing songs (lyrics and music), taking photos again and even reading (well starting today to). I am ecstatic for next semester I know it's gonna be a lot of wierdness, but a better one... for those of you who know what I mean about wierdness... you know! I'm going to sleep all day tomorrow, pack and then go home for 3 weeks, where I'll wait to see how horribly I did and then feel queezy... oh crap feeling like that already!!! Goodnight
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Lions, Tigers and... LIGERS??? OH MY!
This week's "Animal of the Week" will be a post because there is too many different references that I have found with a whole bunch of different pictures... okay so here is what I've learned and tons of photos... something I don't have much of on here:
Firstly, when I was looking for this creature I found out that there are many different hybrids with these types of animals. There are crosses with leopards and jaguars as well. Here is a chart that might help easily explain these different crossbreeds:
Apparently I can't make a chart without there being this huge space between the information so here is the link to it instead: Panthera Hybrid
These different species are quite interesting, but since it is called “ANIMAL of the Week” I will be talking about Ligers. They are quite interesting. Here are some pictures:
Liger is the offspring of a male lion and a female tigress, and is named after the combination of their names: l(ion)+(t)iger. It is bigger than either parent, 10 - 12 ft in length and the weight of up to 1,400 pounds - making it the biggest hybrid cat and, for many people, the most fascinating. Ligers vary in appearance depending on how the genes interact and on which subspecies of lion and tiger are bred together. In general, males grow sparse leonine manes and the facial ruff of a tiger. Males and females have spotted bellies and a striped back. They roar like lions and "chuff" like tigers. The females exhibit conflicting needs for sisterhood (pride-like activities of lionesses) and solitude (a tiger-like trait). For comparison, a male Amur tiger, the largest naturally occurring wild cat, weighs on average between 400 and 600 pounds, with the maximum weight recorded about 900 pounds. Nonetheless, this giant is able to reach the same speed as it’s parents: up to 50 miles per hour at short distances, and it walks as silently as them.
You can see the male liger called Hobbs, the son of an African lion and a Bengal tigress. This giant weighs about 1,100 pounds, has a leonine mane and roars like his father, and, though he doesn’t chuff like his mother, he is fond of swimming, like her (all ligers have this trait and borrow it from their mothers tigresses). Lions don’t like to swim, and the leonine side of liger’s nature first makes it a little hard, for the owner, to persuade a liger that the water is useful, but the tiger side finally takes over). Also Hobbs likes to play. Where did Hobbs get spots? He inherited them from his daddy: lions do have spots in childhood and adolescence, but these disappear when the lion becomes adult, though on some lions spots get preserved even when they get mature. If Hobbs' mother were a white tiger then he could become a white liger, and if she were a golden liger then he could become a golden liger. Vice versa, if his father were a Barbary lion, then he could have a thicker and darker mane and perhaps a hair stripe along his belly.
Do ligers occur in the wild?
This is highly unlikely, because:
1) Lions and tigers live in absolutely different areas (almost all lions in Africa and all tigers in Asia). Yet about 200 lions live inthe Gir National Park and Lion Sanctuary in Bangladesh, India... but there is no even one tiger within 100 miles from this area.
2) If even they met, the tiger, being a very solitary cat, would be unwilling to join in with the lions who usually live in prides -- and almost all lionesses live in prides. Tigers avoid even other tigers, except when it is time for them to mate...But perhaps if a tigress would meet a non-pride lion (a lion who doesn't have a pride of lionesses), then a liger could occur in the wild? Then they would have cubs, similar to those shown below.
Ligers' life span is from 20 to 25 years. Lions also live up to this time; at least, the oldest known lion died at 26.
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******Note: Majority of this was copy and pasted from****** **http://ambassadors.net/archives/issue14/features3.htm **
*****************As well as the chart from*****************
******http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_hybrid ******
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Firstly, when I was looking for this creature I found out that there are many different hybrids with these types of animals. There are crosses with leopards and jaguars as well. Here is a chart that might help easily explain these different crossbreeds:
These different species are quite interesting, but since it is called “ANIMAL of the Week” I will be talking about Ligers. They are quite interesting. Here are some pictures:
Liger is the offspring of a male lion and a female tigress, and is named after the combination of their names: l(ion)+(t)iger. It is bigger than either parent, 10 - 12 ft in length and the weight of up to 1,400 pounds - making it the biggest hybrid cat and, for many people, the most fascinating. Ligers vary in appearance depending on how the genes interact and on which subspecies of lion and tiger are bred together. In general, males grow sparse leonine manes and the facial ruff of a tiger. Males and females have spotted bellies and a striped back. They roar like lions and "chuff" like tigers. The females exhibit conflicting needs for sisterhood (pride-like activities of lionesses) and solitude (a tiger-like trait). For comparison, a male Amur tiger, the largest naturally occurring wild cat, weighs on average between 400 and 600 pounds, with the maximum weight recorded about 900 pounds. Nonetheless, this giant is able to reach the same speed as it’s parents: up to 50 miles per hour at short distances, and it walks as silently as them.
You can see the male liger called Hobbs, the son of an African lion and a Bengal tigress. This giant weighs about 1,100 pounds, has a leonine mane and roars like his father, and, though he doesn’t chuff like his mother, he is fond of swimming, like her (all ligers have this trait and borrow it from their mothers tigresses). Lions don’t like to swim, and the leonine side of liger’s nature first makes it a little hard, for the owner, to persuade a liger that the water is useful, but the tiger side finally takes over). Also Hobbs likes to play. Where did Hobbs get spots? He inherited them from his daddy: lions do have spots in childhood and adolescence, but these disappear when the lion becomes adult, though on some lions spots get preserved even when they get mature. If Hobbs' mother were a white tiger then he could become a white liger, and if she were a golden liger then he could become a golden liger. Vice versa, if his father were a Barbary lion, then he could have a thicker and darker mane and perhaps a hair stripe along his belly.
Do ligers occur in the wild?
This is highly unlikely, because:
1) Lions and tigers live in absolutely different areas (almost all lions in Africa and all tigers in Asia). Yet about 200 lions live inthe Gir National Park and Lion Sanctuary in Bangladesh, India... but there is no even one tiger within 100 miles from this area.
2) If even they met, the tiger, being a very solitary cat, would be unwilling to join in with the lions who usually live in prides -- and almost all lionesses live in prides. Tigers avoid even other tigers, except when it is time for them to mate...But perhaps if a tigress would meet a non-pride lion (a lion who doesn't have a pride of lionesses), then a liger could occur in the wild? Then they would have cubs, similar to those shown below.
Ligers' life span is from 20 to 25 years. Lions also live up to this time; at least, the oldest known lion died at 26.
*********************************************************
******Note: Majority of this was copy and pasted from****** **http://ambassadors.net/archives/issue14/features3.htm **
*****************As well as the chart from*****************
******http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_hybrid ******
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Monday, November 21, 2005
The Infamous Aggie Lounge
Howdy Y'all,
I figure today I need to start studying and what not, so I went to the Library to start the studying. On my voyage there I ended up meeting some friends... Gwen, Cristina, Holly, Byron and Amy... anyways Byron ended up telling me to come to Aggie Lounge at around 6... and to my very own surprise I said "yes"... well anyways... I'm here now and have been in here for like 2 hrs. I feel so out of place in here. Mind you there is no one in the "lounge" except for me and Byron... both doing homework. I can't concentrate because there are too many distractions when using a computer like this for instance, but it's always fun. I quoted "lounge" before because when you think of lounge you thing of a room where everything is and everything is going on, but not the case here. I'm sitting in a room what I have officially named the computing lab.
Sidenote #1: Byron is sitting at another computer behind me and making Chewbakka sounds now. This place just changes people.
Continuing on, this computing lab really isn't a lab at all though. It has 4 computers, which I've decided are a little on the ghetto side of things. The computer next to me has a screensaver of a tractor plowing the harvest and pesticiding or watering it (not too sure)... it's funny though!!! The only other room that I've been in here is the "family room" it's got crazy old school "country style" couches (like country style donuts, but minus the donut and add couches to it).
Sidenote #2: And now Byron left on the search for his Nalgene Bottle. It's quite scary in this place by yourself, I'm not gonna lie.
As I'm walking around in this undiscovered area, well for me at least. The floors are creeking and the country music is playing in the background. Posters of the The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair and random photos in frames of what looks like farms and graduating class photos. As I look around even more, I see that the OAC Aggies were the 17th Annual Spad Intercollege Tournament All-Star Champions in 1987.
Sidenote #3: Byron is back and found the Nalgene Bottle... wahoo!!!
Okay, I think it's about time to say something is wrong with me. A total city kid who refused to be part of this Aggie Life here at Guelph, but I guess I'm actually gonna start living it... Yikes wierd to see me write that one down. Oh well, we'll see how it all plays out. Time to get down to some serious work. L8s Y'all
I figure today I need to start studying and what not, so I went to the Library to start the studying. On my voyage there I ended up meeting some friends... Gwen, Cristina, Holly, Byron and Amy... anyways Byron ended up telling me to come to Aggie Lounge at around 6... and to my very own surprise I said "yes"... well anyways... I'm here now and have been in here for like 2 hrs. I feel so out of place in here. Mind you there is no one in the "lounge" except for me and Byron... both doing homework. I can't concentrate because there are too many distractions when using a computer like this for instance, but it's always fun. I quoted "lounge" before because when you think of lounge you thing of a room where everything is and everything is going on, but not the case here. I'm sitting in a room what I have officially named the computing lab.
Sidenote #1: Byron is sitting at another computer behind me and making Chewbakka sounds now. This place just changes people.
Continuing on, this computing lab really isn't a lab at all though. It has 4 computers, which I've decided are a little on the ghetto side of things. The computer next to me has a screensaver of a tractor plowing the harvest and pesticiding or watering it (not too sure)... it's funny though!!! The only other room that I've been in here is the "family room" it's got crazy old school "country style" couches (like country style donuts, but minus the donut and add couches to it).
Sidenote #2: And now Byron left on the search for his Nalgene Bottle. It's quite scary in this place by yourself, I'm not gonna lie.
As I'm walking around in this undiscovered area, well for me at least. The floors are creeking and the country music is playing in the background. Posters of the The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair and random photos in frames of what looks like farms and graduating class photos. As I look around even more, I see that the OAC Aggies were the 17th Annual Spad Intercollege Tournament All-Star Champions in 1987.
Sidenote #3: Byron is back and found the Nalgene Bottle... wahoo!!!
Okay, I think it's about time to say something is wrong with me. A total city kid who refused to be part of this Aggie Life here at Guelph, but I guess I'm actually gonna start living it... Yikes wierd to see me write that one down. Oh well, we'll see how it all plays out. Time to get down to some serious work. L8s Y'all
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