Registration

I've got my courses for next year picked!

1st Term:
ANTHROP 2PA3 - Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology
WOMEN ST 1A03 - Women, Culture, Power

2nd Term:
ENGLISH 1B03 - Cultural Studies and Visual Culture
ENGLISH 3CC3 - Reading Film

All Year:
3K03 - Shakespeare
3I03 - The Age of Elizabeth I
3R03 - Postcolonial Cultures: Theory and Practice

You'll notice there isn't any Nineteenth-Century stuff on there -- I'm still a bit frustrated about how my courses translated to McMaster equivalents. However, I intend to make these courses work for my passions, in whatever way possible. Right now I'm registered as Honours English, and I'm hoping to get the Interdisciplinary Minor in Archaeology, assuming I like the one archaeology course I'll be taking this year.

UPdate

I need a digital camera for the following reasons:

1. To take pictures of the older romance novel covers, since they're so hard to find online and it's only going to get harder.
2. To take pictures of myself so I remember what I used to look like.
3. To add more pictures to my blogs, to make them more colourful and interesting.

I've been getting a lot of headaches at work lately, and I want to make an appointment to see an optometrist. I think I might need glasses. I'm kind of excited at the prospect, but I'm also trying to save money and don't really feel like shelling out hundreds of dollars for glasses right now. Still, I went with Jon to Island Optical because he needed to get his glasses repaired, and I tried a few pairs of glasses on that looked really great.

To continue on this appearance-absorbed vein, I've been growing out my hair for a couple of months. It began as about a quarter of an inch long, and it's maybe an inch long now. I'm trying to decide whether I can justify going to our newly-opened Body Shop and buying a nice wooden comb and brush -- Jon has the brush and it works great for him, and I've always wanted a wooden comb.

I haven't been doing anything academic lately -- all the reading I've been doing is Feeling Good and occasionally Pamela. I think I need some more good romances to jump start me, though I didn't finish the last one I read, and my reviews are backlogged about three deep. I also bought a book of Sudoku puzzles I've been doing on my breaks at work. I realized a couple of days ago that I shut parts of my brain down to be able to stand working at Zellers, which results in me walking around in a semi-conscious state. Hopefully, by doing puzzles on my breaks, I won't get so deep into my stupor, and will wake up from it more readily when work is over.

Veganism

I'm always embarrassed to admit that, while I was a 95% perfect vegan for over a year, it's been a couple of years now and I've been struggling to get back to veganism. I like to say I'm a vegan, but I'm really not, not totally. I'd say I'm vegan about 60% of the time, and then I have double bacon cheeseburgers and whole blocks of cheese. I'm probably going to have macaroni and cheese later, because it's cheap and making it taste good doesn't take any effort on my part.

It's not easy being vegan. There is so much motivation out there, so many good reasons not to eat/wear animals, but in day to day life, it's easy to let those reasons slip to the back of one's mind for the sake of convenience.

It's even harder being a poor vegan. I'm getting really sick of rice and pasta with a few other things thrown in. I've also always had a really difficult time enjoying vegetables. I can throw a cup or so in with whatever grain I'm eating, but the thought of eating a salad makes me feel...blah. I'm really not sure what I ate for the 14 or so months I was a complete vegan, except canned beans and tofu.

So that's my little rant. I'm tired of pretending I'm perfect and virtuous, and ready to admit to my struggles.

I've decided that my biggest problem is cheese. To combat that, I really want to get the Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook, and give more vegan cheeses a try.