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August 29 Ah Shit!Son of a B****!
I feel like crap! And it's putting a major damper on my time with Ian!
I got a nasty headache yesterday afternoon that lasted into the late evening, with me almost worshipping the porclin god. The headache finally went away around 10 pm! I couldn't finish dinner!
Here I am thinking that it could be pms! But this morning, when I woke up, I felt as if a train had hit me! I was coughing last night, took some cough syrup (which worked), rode slight waves of nausea and tried to get as comfortable as possible. I fell alseep around 1 am.
Now I just want to melt in my chair into a pool of green goo. I feel fluish.
Fuck!
 And it's viral too! So whatever goddamn strain I picked up, which was most likely from those assholes at the walk-in clinic last friday, those fuckers who were coughing and sneezing on everyone, it will probably hit me hard but quick. And it has.
I am NOT happy!
See, I don't really have a problem having a virus. I can treat it myself. But it's the nausea and bad fucking timing that's pissing me off! I am about to have a bitch fit!
August 26 Autumn is almost here I think its already here.
The temperatures have been been below sesonal for the past month. Summer came back for only a few days the other week and it didn't stay for all that long either. All of the the 'back to school' commercials have now infested my tv with promises of 'rad deals' and 'cool back to school looks'. It gives me shivers watching these commercials because of how I hated to see them when I was in school. It meant the end of summer. So did the opening day of the CNE. That started somesort of internal hellish countdown in my head. I loved my summer vacations. I always made the most of them and felt odd that I was apart of a heard of thousands of sheep going back to the classroom. Oh how miserable I was at times, expressing my horror and resentment at having to go back.
And yet, I went back. Although it felt like going back to school was some sort of invader to my summer. I remember having dreams about going back to school in the middle of summer. *shivers ....twitch* I got used to it and it didnt seem so bad. Besides, there was thanksgiving and halloween to look forward too. *smirk* I think we are going to have an early winter. Shit.
August 15 Toronto Propane Explosion - Bob Leek
The explosion occurred at about 4 a.m. and triggered a seven-alarm blaze, which was battled by almost 200 firefighters for much of the day. One firefighter, identified as district chief Bob Leek, perished during the effort.
Toronto Fire division chief David Sheen says Leek had 25 years of experience. Sheen says it will take a few days to determine the cause of death. He was found with no vital signs on Regent Road near the site of the blasts and rushed to hospital. Police say 18 people were hospitalized with minor injuries and one person is still unaccounted for. The missing man is an employee of Sunrise Propane named Parminda Saini. Another employee was in the facility at the time of the explosion. He has been treated in hospital and released, police say. Police don't know what caused the blasts, which engulfed the facility in flames and blew out windows in homes in the surrounding blocks. A lawyer from Sunrise Propane made a brief statement to the media Sunday night, expressing condolences to Toronto firefighters for their loss and to everyone else who was affected by the blast. He did not take any questions. The sound of the blast could be heard up to seven kilometers away. I knew Bob Leek. He taught my hydraulics/pump operations class @ Seneca in '99. He was very kind to me, and ran a 'tight ship'. He understood my panic disorder, and allowed me to leave the classroom for a few minutes any time I needed to, and offered to allow me to write any exams in a smaller room, by myself. I sometimes reffered to him as Captain,(as that was his rank back than) and he said he didn't mind, as I was trying to show respect as a recruit and student.
His class was hard, but moslty because I hate math. Yet it all made sense. He also touched on nuclear fire responses. He gave me my first real scare as he explaned the different kinds of nuclear fallout, and how it penerates through different kinds of materials. I still have all of my notes and exams from his class. I was shcoked when I heard of his passing. Too close to home. I wish I was going to his funeral, but I'm still not feeling 100% yet, but I'm hoping they will broadcast his funeral on tv. It's going to be a full fire service funeral, and Toronto hasn't had one in a long time. Let's keep it that way.
They still haven't released the cause of Bob's death yet.
I have watched video footage of the explosion, and a lot of people thought it was an attack. Others thought it was nuclear. Thank god it was neither, but it's still just as damaging. There is some word floating around that it was terrorist related. I guess that's what people will think in this 'post 9/11 world'.
Sleep well Firefighter Leek. You answered your last call. Thank you for teaching me about fire and giving me my first real scare. It was sobering.
August 07 Large Hadron Collider - Scary Stuff
Ummm, okay, this looks like something out of a video game called 'Half-Life'. And its supposed to do the same thing as the one in the game too. Wtf is it going to do? Well, trying to understand this complicated physics experiment from a layman's point of view is very difficult. From what I understand, it's supposed to find out exactly how the universe was created, and accumulate shit loads of information to be sorted through later. And this collider is fucking huge. Eight stories tall, and enough metal to recreate a second Effiel Tower. In short, playing 'God'. They are getting ready to see the universe born again. Again and again and again — 30 million times a second, in fact.
The LHC is supposed to detect other dimensions as well. But the scientists don't really know what's going to happen when they turn it on. It's the largest scientific experiment on earth. Great. That's got my vote of confidence. (not) Here's a good link to read about it: http://www.uslhc.us/What_is_the_LHC Another link with pictures so you can understand exactly what I'm talking about, and just how big it is. It's interactive too: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html
Is it safe? Supposedly. Here's what could happen: "Concerns have been raised regarding the safety of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the grounds that high-energy particle collisions performed in the LHC might produce dangerous phenomena, including micro black holes, strangelets, vacuum bubbles and magnetic monopoles ......." - Wikipedia OMFG. BLACK HOLES? JUST OMFG.
There's a lot of fear over this thing being fired up. Some people say that it will kill us all. This site is even counting down until the LHC fires up for the first time: http://quegrande.org/countdown/ Perfect. I'm going to go get my teddy and hide in a corner.
Summer!
There's something about getting caught in the rain on in the summer. Most people rush to get to shelter but me, I'm different. I will stand there, put my head back and feel the rain cascade down my face. It's almost primal, it's so beautiful. I was told to go live in the UK, with all the rain they get. I wuold be happy to visit and see all the beautiful grass, flowers, trees....much different from here.
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