So, I was sitting here, and decided that it was about due time for a new blog. (Question: if I make it sound just that sporadic does it loose it's merit of genuinity?) The truth is, I haven't posted in a while. Actually, I had planned to post up the wazzoo over the winter holidays (no Wazzoo is not a word, whether it should be or not, and yes this will easily rate as my most unstructured blog yet. Fortunately my panel of advisors isn't too big- after all, zero out of zero is still 100% right? [Don't answer that.]) But being the holidays and all, one gets busy and neglects things.
In a matter of fact, the holidays were very vigorously jammed packed indeed with various doings.
On the topic of keeping busy, if I felt i needed to make an excuse for too infrequent blogging (which i don't really) I could use the "school has kept me busy" line, which would be somewhat true. I could also use the, "It snowed, and you can't do anything when it snowed" line, but that one doesn't really work when it comes to the internet. I also could try the, "I've been busy taking care of an old blue metal thing."
Besides being busy, I think a viable excuse is that less of my thoughts have been coming out in the shape of a blog and less so of blogs that I think are worth sharing.
This might all sound beside the point, but I thought it'd be cool to write a blog all about excuses.

From a Recognized Street

Click here for an recent article concerning funding for AIDS and poverty. You might find it to be some good stuff to think over. I did.

Consider the situation.
What do you figure?

Thanks for checking in!

-MC

Fire and Ice

So I was sitting in my room a few days ago when suddenly a ridiculously loud noise came exploding from everywhere. It took me only a moment to realize it was the fire alarm. It took me only another moment to realize that, "no... no I'm not burning anything- it's not me. Good." From there I decided to grab a coat and then make my way outside, where many had already gathered.
Apparently it was not a drill. An iron had been left on and caused the smoke which set off the alarm. The downside of this was that there were few to no faculty around to conduct what would have otherwise been a drill. We had to, rather, wait outside while quietly freezing in the sub-zero temperature while the appropriate staff and/or fire dept showed up.
Shortly, someone told us that we could go and wait in the gym. By this time, however, I was already imagining how a news headline might look:
"Fire brigade rush to Abbotsford College too late: Students found frozen to death." or if given more thought:
"College commended for fire response time - 70% of students treated for frost bite."
I shared such thoughts with a friend,
"That would be ironic eh?"
"IRON-ic, yes"
"Oh that was a good one."