I’ve been crazy busy these two days, so I didn’t really get a chance to log on the ‘bag. So I’m posting for the 26th, since I didn’t really do anything interesting afterwards.

Now pretend it’s actually the 26th… Woke up at 5:30 AM “today” for the Student Web Service for UoT. It’s the second round of enrollment and I need to add some computer courses that were unavailable the first round. I need to get the good courses that fit in my schedule before they fill up, so I have to be on the site at 6:00 exactly, when it opens up. So I figure half an hou’s enough to let me frickin’ wake up and think correctly.

So I’m there at 5:59 and I’m clicking the refresh button like mad. But the server’s being beaten to death by thousands of users, and it takes me like 20 minutes to finally log in successfully. My connection times out over and over again, and I’m finally able to get the courses I want at about 7:00. I’m meeting some friends to go downtown to pick up textbooks in a couple hours so I decide to stay up and just sit around.

While walking around downtown at the bookstore I realize that I don’t have enough money or manpower for the textbooks. There’s at least two books for each course, so my five courses equals to roughly ten textbooks. There’s no way I’m carrying ten textbooks back to the subway and back home. I can’t even lift ten textbooks. Plus the cost would run close to $1000 and my Interac has a daily limit of $200. No credit card yet. So I buy what I can and drag them back home.

I hit home, take a quick shower, and head out again for dinner at A Taste of Japan. I’m meeting up with all the grads from my church fellowship to have some fun before everyone leaves for their respective universities. Suffice to say, we make quite a ruckus and have a very good time. It took me a while, but it finally hit me that night, that I was gosh darn graduating. High school went by incredibly fast, even with the fast tracking. I don’t remember my grade 9 and 10 years – they’ve kinda merged together into one big blurry memory. While high school could have been a lot more than what it was, I can’t say it was all bad, and I’m missing it already. I don’t believe I’m a freshman again.

After tasting Japan, we went off to someone’s house where we played pool and did some stupid stuff for a couple hours. Wonderfully nice house, so clean and nicely decorated. I wish my house had carpet. Got to know a lot of the grads better that night, I’m surprised at how much I’ll be missing a lot of them. I don’t really know that many people very well at the church, but over the years they’ve made a huge effort to get to know me better and I’m very grateful for that. Swell guys. Well, it turns out that I’m pretty bad at pool. Got trounced fairly badly on a number of occasions. We had a lot of fun, time flew by pretty fast. I managed to get home at about 12:30, and ended up sleeping at like 1:30. So I stayed awake for like 20 consecutive hours. Whoo. Now I’m tired just thinking about it.

We should get around to doing something this week.