dreaming over the ocean

it is sooooooo good to have you back. I can barely contain myself.

I am sooooo frustrated with my thesis proposal. or, maybe i am frustrated with my program. or maybe i am frustrated with myself. or, maybe i am frustrated with all of those. I was supposed to be defending my thesis proposal on the 17th of december. I was supposed to be getting feedback from my committee members back this weekend; however, one of my committee members feels that my proposal needs too many revisions, for me to be ready to propose on that date. so, we will be cancelling that date, and proposing at a later date. puts just another delay onto this fricken process... so, this is good, and bad. I am nervous about my meeting tomorrow with my supervisor, and committee member. I am nervous that there are revisions that I should have already done, or known about, or realized previously. i am nervous that i have information overload in my mind, and just haven't been able to adequately put it down onto paper. so, anyways. argh. so much work left to do...

every once and a while, a surprise hits out of the blue. I have recently started (in september) working as a personal trainer, at a fitness studio in the point grey area of vancouver. It is certainly different from working at the bike shop on commercial drive, as well as at MEC. It is a totally different atmosphere, and clients vs customers. Of course, there are great things about it, and other things which are sometimes frustrating. For instance, there is definently a group of people that when working out, just loooooove to complain about every exercise. And, i bet that you can imagine how much I appreciate that. anyways, i had a frustrating client yesterday, which put me a little out of sorts... but, I had two clients immediately after whom I really enjoy working with. So, rah rah rah, having a conversation about my impending trip to whistler with Christina, and Zach, and his brother ben. we have been planning on staying in the youth hostel up there, which is nice, but a litt...

So, I would like to begin with the fact that I am moving over from my long-running Xanga blog. www.xanga.com/that_canadian_rower. For a number of reasons, I think. 1)many of my friends are on blogspot now. 2)i dont really post very frequently there anymore. (not meaning that i will post frequently here, either, but, you know...) 3)im not a rower anymore. so, maybe it is time to not go under the "that_Canadian_rower" name. 4) maybe it is just for a change. Blogging, for me, is a funny thing. because, in reality, who are we to think that our thoughts are interesting enough to be read by other people? but, it is a bit of an outlet, I suppose. and, if people really have the desire to keep up with you, they can... so, Sunday was remembrance day. Veterans day in the states. here in canada, the Poppy lapel pin comes out in abundance, to remember Canadian soldiers. The significace, i think i remember, is that poppies, previous to the 1st world war did not grow a lot on battle...