Not without our faults II.

More reasons why I feel inferior:

• They have a class that's actually design studies stuff, where they get to learn to draw isometrically and design objects for some of the school's engineering projects. It's like, ARTS in the midst of all the math! Or rather, hands on design experience.
  
• Instead of a building being just messed up, it's messed up to the point where the hallways always appear to be going uphill.
  
• Buildings really have doors that go nowhere, not just legends.

Correction: ENGG100 homework this week is to write a mock cover letter and CACEE job application form. Which means BS-ing about my absolute lack of leadership or cooperative roles in high school (yes...singing in choir counts as teamwork....sure............). Which is why I'm nominating myself for the role of Engg Week Team Coordinator for the First Years' Engineering Club. And why I talk about the weird experience of having walked into the wrong classroom twice already this year, and both times whilst looking for the same room.

Also: I *finally* finished my math homework, completely oblivious to the fact that today was Chinese Moon Festival, and having spent the entire evening since around 6 o'clock at Niesen's apartment doing our math assignment. My parents left a weird message on my answering machine.

Tämä yö on kylmä ja rajaton. [journal]

Which means it's also very lonely. Sometime before it gets cold I want to take a nap in the sun in the middle of Quad. It just could be the deficiency of sunlight that's causing my sad disposition. It's worse than in high school because then there was such a thing as looking forward to a fun class. Now, every class means tedium. Every class I can't be enthusiastic about because it means more work. There's a cycle of things that are due throughout the week, for every day. Monday - Engg130. Tuesday - Engg100 (if applicable). Wednesday - Math. Thursday - chem lab reports. Friday - physics. No day without something due. The least we can do instead of doing everything the night before is to do everything a set number of days before - this is assuming you want your weekends [off] to do something else.

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Yesterday was Moon Festival, so this morning the prices for moon cakes get marked down. People at Superstore had been opening up all of the tins of assorted (2 nut, 1 lotus seed paste, 1 red bean) moon cakes and putting all of the lotus seed ones into the same tin so they can buy them for $9.99. By the time I got there (2:30pm-ish), there were several tins that were missing ... hm ... the lotus seed ones! I think I may have picked up the last remaining one that still had all four original cakes intact, even though the tin was a bit scratched and the tape seal opened. The normally $14.99 tins of mini (lotus seed) moon cakes x8 were reduced to $8.99 but I bet they were already sold out within 10 minutes of store opening.

Anyway, taking the bus down to Superstore was an experience. I've never had to take a bus to someplace and back on my own, and I think that it's sort of neat that there isn't just the main stations at the end of each line, but also at other major stops along a route where it intersects lots of other routes. As a result, to go to Superstore, I have to take any bus that goes to Southgate, get off at Southgate, then switch over to either route 6 or route 80, which should take me to Superstore. It's like you have to switch buses even though you've taken the same route number down (I took route 6 to Southgate too). And yes there's also a Northgate.

Now to the stuff I bought.

• Moon cake (1 tin)
  
• Granola bars (1 box)
  
• Breakfast cereal (1 med. box)
  
• Facial moisturizer (1 jar - it's so freaking dry over here)
  
• Extra strength Ibuprofen tablets (1 bottle - for my b0rked finger)
  
• Instant Chinese-style wonton noodles (4 packages)
  
• Korean-style instant ramen (4 packages - my parents never used to let me eat this stuff because it was so spicy - they thought it'd give me pimples. It probably does.)
  
• Rechargeable batteries and charger (2 AA, 2AAA - will come in handy for my CD player coming soon and my mp3 player)
  
• Whole-wheat bread (1 loaf)
  
• Pizza Minis (2 boxes - because I need some frozen quick snacks so I don't have to cook every time I want to eat something hot)
  
• Capers (1 tiny jar - more for the jar than for the capers, although I do enjoy the capers)
  
• Big Rock trad. ale (12 bottles - hey it's cheap and doesn't taste really really bad. And the 750mL bottles of Finlandia here were like, *gasp,* a whole $5 less here than that other liquor store. But I don't want any more for now...)

Total: somewhere in the vicinity of $75±$1 +bus fare ($1.50 - ticket from booklet)
Time: about 1 hour 45 minutes (somehow I think the bus driver marked the transfer for 2 hours rather than the correct 90 minutes.)

Speaking of time, I have homework due every day of the week next week. Plus a midterm. Please see as follows, ordered chronologically. (There's stuff due for the remainder of this week too, but I'm not putting that down as well)

• Monday 10.4 - 0900h - ENGG 130 - Problems 2-62, 2-73, 2-85, 2-98, 2-123 (this is 3D vectors stuff)
  
• Tuesday 10.5 - 1300h - ENGG 100 - Mock cover letter and CACEE application form (as mentioned previously)
  
• Wednesday 10.6 - 1600h - MATH 100 - Homework #4 (problems on limits of functions and continuity stuff)
  
• Thursday 10.7 - 0900h - CHEM 103 (why isn't it 130 to match with ENGG and PHYS? because we sit in the same lectures as the science students' CHEM 101) - Lab #2 report form (this has actually already been extended for our class, by my TA, from Wed.@1700h. Shhhh, don't tell anyone)
  
• Friday 10.8 - 0900h - SOC 100 - Midterm #1 (Chapters 1 through 5, lectures); 1000h - PHYS 130 - Chapter 34 Problems #64, 92, 94, 110