the week in lessons

Since each day is chalked full of new and fascinating discoveries, I figure it’s about time to start noting some of them down. So let me review my lessons of the past week.

1. Friday at midnight is not Friday night. Obvious? You’d think so, but apparently not to me. Consequently, I signed up to volunteer from midnight to 4am on Friday morning, which resulted in me getting approximately 3 hours of sleep before a very painful day at work.

2. Counting backwards is harder than it seems. As a side job, I’m learning to be a production assistant at work. You count backward to give the director cues so that the show runs smoothly. In theory, a simple task. In reality, a mite bit difficult and more than a little stressful. But in a couple of weeks, I might be calling it simple again.

3. Drivers in Ontario need to take a cue from Albertans. I actually learned this lesson last year. There’s just one rule you need to remember over there. Cars never stop for pedestrians. Not in parking lots, not on campus, definitely not when jaywalking. But now that I’m back in Alberta, I’ve decided jaywalking to work is crucial in allowing me to hit the snooze button one more time. I don’t expect, nor want cars to stop for me, and yet that’s exactly what they do. I can’t get used to it. Must be all those near death Ontario experiences.

election scars

Five expressions I never want to hear again:

1. Pork barrel earmarks
2. Hockey mom
3. Joe the plumber
4. Maverick
5. The greatest economic crisis since the great depression