The World's Smallest Violin Playing the World's Saddest Song

Supercalafragilisticexpaladosous.

That is how I would describe my day. It's almost a mind-numbing headache, so incorrigible and frustrating, or just too long to pronounce. Alas I shall do my best.

I attended my first chem lecture in way too long. In two school days I managed to miss 3 classes do to the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur and my Friday scheduling conflict, but I managed to get the notes off a classmate and photocopy them. Saved!!

After then, I had a lengthy discussion with Dr. Gibb with regards to how to figure out my chem course equivalents. To make a long story short, the chem department at mac wants a copy of a final exam (although I don't think that the Leeds chemistry department will be so happy to hand it over to me directly), as well as a detailed course syllabus, as well as the textbook and chapters reviewed in the course. Additionally, chemistry courses here generally don't include a direct lab component in the first year. There is however, a lab course I can take which will give me 3x the hours in the lab than required at mac. I am going to see if I can take orgo second semester (organic chemistry) and take the lab for both of them, as they were willing to adjust the individual labs accordingly at Leeds. Although this could work out in my favour, it could also be very bad considering that McMaster has to approve first and I've already started reading up! :S


Second Dilemma: I've asked for notetaking for my literature course because it can be hard to keep up. Not sure if I've already mentioned, but I can't get funding from home because it's a volunteer service there, and I can't get it here because it's only for UK students. Now they want a detailed desription of my problem and what services I require, as well as medical proof. Beauraucracy shmocracy. Like chemistry it's all paperwork and my sincere verbal testimony just doesn't suffice. Blech.

Next point, I've reached the point where I've stopped trying to explain the faculty of Arts and Science to people. I just tell them that I'm in philosophy (which I am at Leeds, even though I don't take any of their courses) and they suddenly think I'm smart. How ironic.

Funny Point: In the America's we have all you can eat buffets. Here they have all you can drink bars, as Ola demonstrated for me this morning hehe. By the way, if you are a Leeds student, I believe it is Bondi's on MOnday with the revolving dancefloor. It's 10 pounds- but I probably couldn't drink my money's worth without getting sick.

On a very positive note, since I have never seen Bridget Jones's Diary (the first and the second), my flatmates decided to have a marathon. Amy cooked us a lovely stir fry which we got on our trip to Morrison's today and we watched 4 hours of the bible to womanhood with 7 of us crowded around Sophies bed. I have apparently now become a woman after an evening of popcorn, chocolate and lots of rediculousness!

And thus reveals the sarcastic irony of the world's smallest violin playing the world's saddest song. Yes this was definitely a rant, but boo hoo, cry me a river because sexy's back in apartment E 3.1 and things obviously aren't bad at all!


*Oh, and a wonderful quote courtesy of Tammy: "People change when uncomfortable. People grow when challenged." - Lynn Thomas*