So I arranged to go to London for the last half of the week, just so that I might have a secluded place (i.e. Gary’s place) for my thesis. Western has reading week, so the house was pretty much empty during the day. It…didn’t work out exactly that way, but still I got something done, so that’s not too bad, except the deadline is looming… The drive to London was heart-poundingly scary. I got new brakes that I got that morning, and I was skidding and sliding all through the 401. Especially scary was getting off the 401, swirled twice while hitting the breaks and seeing cars ditched along the side… In London, not much happened, which is disappointing. Still, not as bad as I thought.

So the fiasco that is my plane ticket buying… I have made arrangements to clear up the TA schedule for March after thesis is supposedly completed. I spotted tickets online selling for $1200 which was nice. I was hesitating in buying, though, since I still couldn’t contact my parents. When I did, it was mom calling while the phone was very noisy and I was sleeping, so I didn’t think much about that. Next day, those tickets were gone. Doh. I came back from London early (to avoid the snow) and tried to call a travel agency. They said that I could go to Taiwan but there’s no seat coming back…doh. I kept searching online and found a similar ticket for $1500. Called (after buying calling card, before Li Zhen offered me his calling card…doh) dad and he said just buy it instead of trying to contact or go to travel agency again to save time and trouble, so I did. So…I spent an extra $300 for being hesitant…doh. That’s my life, I guess.

Still haven’t finished the thesis…it’s just painful. Meanwhile, I think I’m getting so much confusion in all other parts of my life that I just forget about them all…

Very very depressed that (a) I don’t get enough exercise; (b) I have trouble working on my thesis; and (c) I continue to be a spiritual hypocrite.

Very very seriously considering doing something very very crazy, and that is to buy into Air Canada’s promotion about the spring flight pass. For $799 a month, I can fly anywhere in North America that AC flies to on Tuesdays Saturdays and Sundays, for the months of April and May. Now other than a final to mark and a thesis to defend, I got very little going on these two months, at least nothing much for now…so why not?

In other news, I have promised that I would buy a PS3 once I finish my thesis. What?

Yikes…I really really REALLY haven’t posted here for a while, eh? That must be some record for the longest gap between posts…for this weblog anyway.

So many things have happened, it’s going to be impossible to even record 10% of it. February started off with a snow day, and followed up with a bizarre series of twists in the weather, getting from very lows to very highs; snow storms were common, with some freezing rain thrown in, as I slide across extremely slippery roads. Then there’s the wedding…ah, how it had tortured me, but that’s all I’ll say for now. I spent at least a couple of nights at Forest’s place, mostly due to the snow storms…

But of course, the big thing, this thing called the thesis…things are crumbling down very quickly now as right now only two weeks separate me from thesis completion deadline…and I’m still slacking off! Yikes…I hate my thesis…ruining my life…