If I was Garfield, I would be about to meet my nemesis

Tomorrow has my first monday classes. Lecture at 8:30 am. ack. This past week has been crazy, but awesome. On Saturday, Alana came over to visit we had a great time. The weather has been awesome and I showed her around campus, residence and the transit system. She got to meet a bunch of my acquaintances in residence. I wrote a new song in the past week. It is really emo, and in the style of Oasis somewhat. It is nice, because you can play it on the acoustic guitar and it is in a decent voice range. Highest note, E above middle C and lowest note, C# below middle C.

Last week, even though I had 9 lectures, 2 tutorials and a lab, I felt like I had tons of free time. Of course, I "chose" to use that time for studying, but it was weird. 50 minute lectures just don't seem that long. I hope it stays like that always. You can pretty much choose to do as much or little work as you want to do. I have a chemistry lab every other week and a hardcore biology lab every work. I think those will be the most "work". English will have a couple of medium length essays (1000-1500 words). Biology will require a lot of studying. Math and physics are pretty straight forward as long as I stay on top of them.

Last week was free food week. I got so much free food it was awesome. I'm trying to turn my fridge into a freezer somewhat unsuccessfully by turning it all the way down. I think it will work eventually. I bought some CDs (American Idiot, Disclaimer II and Out of Exile). My brother brought over Soundtrack to the Apocalypse and my Van Halen and Sum 41 Cds. I also chanced getting Morpheus, so we'll see what happens.

Before being completely settled in, I have to get a chemistry text and English book. I also have to cash in my Passport to Education and get my Provincial Voucher. Fees are due at the end of 2nd week of classes, then my scholarship is deposited to my account. Excess funds, if any, are returned to me in the form of a cheque. I'm hoping the Shrum scholarship and Passport will cover it. If not, the provincial one will cover the difference. I am slightly worried about keeping my scholarship.

It is a slight worry. People talk about how university is harder, I have 5 classes while most people have only 3 or 4, it is on a bell curve, English isn't my forte, residence is distracting. Nonetheless, I think I can pull off a 3.0 GPA first semester. After that, I need a SGPA and CGPA of 3.5, so even if I get 3.2 first semester, I need to get 3.8 second semester to balance that out to a 3.5 cummulative. Mreh, technicalities. I'll do my best.

I guess no more free stuff. I got after shave, coffee coupons, a beanie doll, a coffee mug, and tons of other free stuff my first week. I took lots of coke when it was lying around for free. Right now, sleep is probably a good idea. I say hello to everyone in Nanaimo. Hopefully, I can get home sometime in September. :)