this is a long one.

So It seems, almost, as if in order to not waste time while in school or spend unnecessary money you need to know exactly what it is you want to do or be before you even enter university. Otherwise you might end up taking a whole bunch of unnecessary courses or getting a degree you will end up not using.
Unfortunately, I entered school not sure what I would do or what I wanted to be. I just figured going into university was a smart choice. I started with my electives. I ended up choosing psychology as a major because well for one it interested me and two I wanted to get into either animal behaviorism or child psychology; since psychology is the study of human and animal behavior that seemed like the right choice of degree.
Well I unwisely figured I’d only need my three year BA. So I made no plans to get my masters. Now that I am just about done my three year BA I realized I would really like to continue school and get my masters in psychology so I can continue to maybe even get my PHD in child psych. Well, of course, you need your 4 year honors degree to get into any type of masters program, so basically I’m screwed.
I just read a 43 page booklet which explains what you need to do and what classes to take and when to take them in order to be able to successfully enter grad school. It says do NOT take all your 4th year honors courses in the last year, which is what I would be doing, since I hadn’t taken any for my 3 yr BA. And it says to take the research and data analysis advanced course in your third year, which I can’t do as I am done my 3rd year in 8 weeks or so.
There is no way I’d be able to work (which I have to do as I don’t live at home) and take all 4th year honors courses in one year and still get grades good enough to be accepted into grad school. I feel so upset and lost. I wish I went to an advisor sooner. Now it feels like my edification is stuck at a BA in psychology which will clearly get me no where in life.
The only other thing I ever wanted to do was maybe be a cop and work in the k9 unit. But apparently everyone laughs when I mention the idea of me joining the RCMP. I know it’s a tough job and you are sent all over the country, but it does pay pretty well. The only problem with that is I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to take my two dogs with me wherever I went, and I am not going to give them away by any means.

So I just feel like my life is at a halt, like I can’t go any further, because the obstacles are so high I can’t even look over them much less jump over them.
UGH.

On another note, I’ve moved all my life, I don't think I've lived in one place longer than 2.5 years. As a result, I usually get the itch to move after 2-3 years. Well I’ve been in Winnipeg for over 5 years now and as soon as school is done I’m pretty sure I’m outta here. I thought I'd be moving because I would be going to grad school somewhere else. Now that won't be able to happen I still want to move. It doesn’t matter where to; I Just don’t want to be in Winnipeg anymore. My best guy Friend Kenny is moving to Saskatoon November 1st, my girlfriend Jocelyn moved there in september. Joey and Mel went to Edmonton. Dom might move back to BC. Everyone is leaving. I am more than willing to move to any of those places....Or maybe I'll go back to Toronto where my family is; I still have some friends there. As long as I have a few friends I'd move anywhere, I can build from there. Although I'm fine moving somewhere I know no one, I've done it many times before.

sweetest thing I've heard in awhile

"you get more beautiful every year"



ps. for all you out there who don't know who this guy is....Andrew Paul Woodworth.
get to know him. His music rules.


www.myspace.com/andrewpaulwoodworth

I love The Weakerthans.I've been listening to nothing but them, shiny toy guns and taking back sunday. Strange?

My city's still breathing (but barely it's true)
through buildings gone missing like teeth.
The sidewalks are watching me think about you,
sparkled with broken glass.
I'm back with scars to show.
Back with the streets I know.
Will never take me anywhere but here.
The stain in the carpet, this drink in my hand,
the strangers whose faces I know.
We meet here for our dress-rehearsal to say "I wanted it this way"
wait for the year to drown.
Spring forward, fall back down.
I'm trying not to wonder where you are.
All this time lingers, undefined.
Someone choose who's left and who's leaving.
Memory will rust and erode into lists of all that you gave me:
a blanket, some matches, this pain in my chest,
the best parts of Lonely, duct-tape and soldered wires,
new words for old desires,
and every birthday card I threw away.
I wait in 4/4 time.
Count yellow highway lines that you're relying on to lead you home.

Risks are ok as long as they don't get you hurt, then again, its not a risk if there is no chance of being hurt.

A friend told me yesterday "Life doesn't stop to give you a break". He was right. It's hard to get a break from anyone or anything these days, much less ask that of life. So when life gives you a break in the form of a fantastic professor you can't do much but smile and say thank you. I asked him for an extension via email for the assignment due on wednesday. Yet, I hadn't heard back from him. So when I saw him in class, on wednesday the day the paper was due, I asked him if he had gotten my email asking for the extension. He said "pshh you know you never have to worry about that take your time." This is my 5th class with Professor Ken Johns, and I can honestly say, he is my favorite professor in the world.

Study finds horseback riding more dangerous than motorbikes, skiing, and football

Horseback riding riskier than motorbikes: study
cbc

A Canadian study suggests that horseback riders are more likely to suffer serious injury than motorcycle riders and that the majority of serious accidents happen to the most experienced riders on well-trained horses.
A research team from the University of Calgary found the most serious injuries involved the heads and chests of riders when they were thrown or bucked off their horses.

"With the impact from coming down that far off a horse and travelling at speeds, there was a lot of chest injuries like rib fractures or collar bone fractures," said Jill Ball, an occupational therapist in the trauma program at Calgary's Foothills Hospital.

The study, published in the American Journal of Surgery, said horseback riders were hospitalized with injuries 3½ times more often than those who were hurt riding motorcycles.

Horse-riding injuries requiring hospitalization occurred at a rate of 0.49 per 1,000 hours riding, while the rate for motorcycle riding was 0.14 per 1,000 hours, the research showed.

The research team reviewed the charts of almost 8,000 trauma patients treated at the Foothills between 1995 and 2005. It found 151 people were severely injured while horseback riding, with almost half of those requiring surgery.

Those riders had an average of 27 years experience at the time of their injury.

As well, the study found most accidents happened in "wide open spaces" on dry, flat land on sunny summer afternoons.

"Previous studies assumed that major accidents on horseback were caused by rookie riders on untrained horses or bad weather — something we now know is simply not true," said Dr. Rob Mullroy in a news release.
The team behind the study recommends riders wear protective vests and helmets.

"Deaths in our study were completely related to head injury, so the use of helmets in the study was low. The number of riders wearing helmets remains low," Mullroy said, noting most accidents were preventable but only nine per cent of injured riders were wearing helmets.

Im still not wearing a helmet or a vest. are you kidding me?