northern

Oops! I went through the whole month of August without posting anything.

I had hoped I would do better, but I haven't been feeling very socialable I guess. The medication change a couple months ago has helped, insomuch as I don't feel blah or affectless. Now I feel depressed. If nothing else, it's a familiar feeling.

It makes it hard to be friendly, if that makes any sense. Maybe it's just because I'm not very outgoing, and the depression increases the feeling?




But it's not like I didn't do anything the past six weeks. I went to my brother's birthday party in Mississauga. I went to the Garlic Festival in Sudbury. It rained a little bit that day, which was nice because it reduced the lineups for food. Well, nice for people standing in line, not nice for the Ukrainian Seniors Centre who use it as a fundraiser. Also went to the Ribfest in Sudbury. I don't really eat ribs, so I had pulled pork. Really yummy. Went to the Massey Fair and watched the demolition derby. Had a scone with bologna. (The scones aren't the usual scones, but native Canadian scones, which are basically big lumps of dough, deep-fried). Had a funnel cake too. But this year they didn't have deep-fried Mars bars. Oh, the horror.



I also finally got off my butt and did the first unit of the grade 10 math course. For anyone unaware, I decided that although I have my high school diploma, if I ever get the chance to go back to university, I'll need to redo high school math and science. I had miserable grades in high school, mostly through a combination of lack of effort and lack of attendence. And as an update, I decided to take the grade 10 math course by correspondence instead of at the local adult education centre. I actually did go to the centre to register, but discovered a couple things that steered me back to correspondence. The first is that the adult education centre wants you to commit, in writing, to spending two-and-a-half hours a day there. I can't possibly do that. My body and mind just won't allow for that. Especially since it's during the day. The other is that each course, however you take it, is divided into four units, with four texts. And the adult learning centre makes you return each text as you finish each unit. The correspondence courses let you keep the books. Which makes doing the work so much easier. Each unit builds on the previous unit, and with no way to go back and re-read parts of previous units, I doubt I'd do very well.

So I finally got around to the first unit, after letting it gather dust for a couple months. It's all that stuff about sine, cosine, and tangents. Other than recognizing the words, I had no memory of the actual math involved. But I sent off my first unit, and managed to get 98% on it. So I'm pleased with that. And I've already started the second unit. Yay me!



I'll be going to my nephew's first birthday party in a few days. I'm not sure infants are aware of birthdays, but he better pretend to like the gifts I got him. The day after his party, my mom and I will stop by the Vegetarian Food Fair before heading home. No, I'm not a vegetarian (see Ribfest, above), but the food there is really good.


Once again, I've managed to fall behind on my friends' blogs. I am determined to catch up with everyone before I go away next week.