Well, so stuff has happened recently, and I thought I'd update.
 
Tuesday was my birthday. I'm 21 now and feeling very old. It was pretty low key, which was good. Some of my friends and I went to Shakespeare in the Park yesterday to see the Taming of the Shrew. It was good, but toward the end my bum got numb, which was uncomfortable... After, we went to Amanda's and had ice cream sundaes and sat around a fire in her backyard. Then...then we saw the aliens! I know, I know, you're thinking "yeah right", but honestly, they were aliens. I think only Alan and I saw all of the UFOs. There were four, a group of three and one off to the side. They were moving pretty fast across the sky, and nothing was unusual until the three lights in the group of three started to move around each other. It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. It defied all logical explanation. Planes don't move like that... I have no idea what they were, but that's the only thing I've ever seen that made me honestly think that we probably aren't alone. I was exhausted last night, so I slept like a log, I dunno if I'd have been able to otherwise. I hope Alan was as lucky!
 
I've started to seriously look at grad schools. My list to apply to is now at 4: Waterloo, Toronto, McGill, and Concordia. There's a guy at Concordia who's researching the acquisition of automaticity and fluency in skilled performance. Right now he's focusing largely on second language acquisition, but he's starting to look at music. I need to get some of his papers to read (great... more stuff to read). I think He's looking like my top choice at the moment. I hope he's taking a student next year...
 
In other news, I gave my two weeks at my other job today. I got a little misty while penning my letter. The rational part of me knows that it's time to move on, but I've worked there for 2 years, and it wasn't a bad job, and I like the people there. Sigh... change stinks!
 
I guess that's it for now. It's fecking hot outside, so I'm inside. I almost died at work it was so hot(no a/c in the car... *gasp*). Btw-air conditioning is the greatest invention EVER!!! So long...

So, I'm feeling guilty about having not posted anything in over a month, so time for an update...
So, what's new with me... well, not q whole heck of a lot. I work in a basement for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, then I drive around in traffic, cursing at the tourists for 5 or 6 hours on the sixth day of the week, then, it's Sunday and I have one day to do everything else that needs to get done, but all I really want to do is sleep, so I inevitably get absolutely nothing done, And that, folks, just about sums it up. I really should just quit the other job, but I cannot bring myself to do it. So, for now, I suffer. And complain...

My other job really isn't that bad though. We're learning stuff, which is good. It's not too too hard or boring, which is also good. We finished this one experiment and we're going to start writing it up to see if we can get it published. I sense, however, that the next few weeks will be lonely. Or maybe peaceful. Andreas is taking 2 classes, so he won't be around 2 days a week. So I'll be alone in the basement... Sigh. We're giving a talk for CCD next friday, so that should be thrilling! (anyone sense the sarcasm???)

In good news, I picked a thesis topic. It's gonna be good. Both Glen and I are excited about it. We could learn some interesting stuff about unconscious processes and stuff. We've started planning out my series of experiments. It's not progressing very fast at the moment due to the suckiness of having one day a week off and my compulsive procrastination does not help... Oh well. Whatever...

So you know what sucks? Birthdays. I've never liked them. And when they happen during summer, they're even worse. And they get EXPONENTIALLY worse if your birthday is also during Stampede week. And that is all I have to say on the matter for the moment...

So, movies are fun. I saw Spidey2, man was it good! I'm so buying it when it comes out. Best superhero movie EVER!!! And Mean Girls is AWESOME!!! Man, we were laughing like 10 times harder and as much as anyone else in the audience.

Anyway, I guess that's enough posting to be going on with. Have a good week. Beware the ides of Stampede...