Day: June 17, 2009

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As Matt likes to call me…

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Offering candy canes to all…

I’m on a photo spree tonight after zonking out from studying.

Hey, this is some good news. I shall be referred to (in some circles) as ‘Mon oncle Ryan’ as Vero’s sister gave birth to a baby boy! Neat-o. I’m pretty excited to be the awesome uncle that any kid would want to have. Let it be noted that if I fill his backpack full of beer on our hike up a mountain, it’s for training purposes.

Hey! Vero and I are godparents as well. That’s a touching invitation…nowadays, I wonder what being a godparent is all about? I asked the question and it doesn’t seem like they expect much from us (like do I have to show him the Christian way? Do I have to demonstrate how to NOT shotgun a beer?) but I am willing to take notes from others on what they would expect from a godparent.

Congrats to Steve and Anne-Marie on welcoming a cool kid to this Earth!

I have two tickets to Paul McCartney in Halifax for sale. I’ll let the two of them go for $250. Let me know if you’re interested! Too many conflicts on our end halted us from attending.

Yesterday I got a whole heck of a lot of sun on my skin which is fine by me. We had a team planning session which was held at my colleague Marie-Annik’s place. I must admit that I was upset with myself for not believing that she had a pool. Yesterday was probably the nicest day I’ve seen in awhile and that pool was calling my name all afternoon!

After the meeting I headed out with Benoit to Long & McQuade to pick up this neat little amp for his Dad’s bass guitar. It’s a Vox reproduction and fits in the palm of your hand, plugs into your guitar and you can either listen to it or plug headphones into it. Awesome!

I then headed to my final Spanish class…which could conceivably become my final class of University ever. Mark this day…June 16 was my last University class (until I decide to go back again!). It was…nothing different. I’m in exam crunch mode so all that’s roaming through my mind is “How do I conjugate the third person for an imperative command with an irregular verb?” ARGH, brain overload!

I had my five minute oral exam which consisted of me chatting with my professor. I personally felt I bombed it but hey, what do they expect? I’ve only had six weeks of Spanish training. I will tell you two things that I’ve realized over the past six weeks…1) I am not interested in learning languages. I had a sneaking suspicion of this after learning German. 2) I find six weeks compressed class time makes it hard to learn another language. I believe my brain needs time to soak it all in, not get hammered with it. Granted, this doesn’t apply if I were immersed into the culture and have to learn it in six weeks. But for a guy who only speaks a few phrases in class a few times a week…meh?

So there you have it. I now have one final exam and I have graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with a specialization in Communications. It’s been a long time coming. The first few years were not hard at all to handle as it was when I first met Vero and she was also in school…so we shared something in common. In fact, I would say that it helped us out because we could understand the concept of “No, I can’t see you this week as my brain is melting from studying so much!”. When she went ahead and graduated before me (the nerve!), she has been quite understanding when school stuff comes up. In fact, all my friends have been understanding as I just don’t have a lot of time for them. Well, I hope they are understanding. For all I know, when I try and rekindle a friendship in the near future, maybe they’ll have changed their phone numbers on me! Ha ha.