It's nearing the end of the term and although I have greatly enjoyed my co-op placement at Alias, I am looking forward to getting back to school and Waterloo. It's always nice to see people and I normally like my classes. Also, at the end of terms I get anxious to go back to whatever I'm not doing. If I am in school I can't wait to get to work and if I am at work I can't wait to get to school. I like both, but I am strange. I think this comic sums up my feelings nicely:

Calvin and Hobbes, don't like the present

Sorry for the poor quality, I had a lot of trouble finding this.

Weekly update time!

Adrienne is visiting Matt this week, so I went to see them on Sunday. We went to The Distillery District and looked through a bunch of shops and stuff. We also got super good chocolate from Soma. We then went to Rainbow Cinema and saw Sin City which is the new winner of most violent movie I've ever seen. It was pretty good though, and had a very cool style. I'll be tempted to pick it up on DVD and I hope there will be a sequel.

For lunch on Sunday we had Bahn Mi (Vietnamese subs), which are cool because they taste good and only cost $1.50. For supper we went to Sushi on Bloor and had sushi...on Bloor. We sat at the bar and I got to sit in front of an Octopus leg. Not very hunger-inducing in my books, but the sushi was still really good.

Tonight was wing night and we went to Pizza Rustica which is an award winning pizza place that just happens to be attached to my apartment building. Sweet! I had asparagus pizza which was totally amazing. The asparagus tasted fresh which is pretty special since it is only April. Jen brought cake for everyone but she didn't have time to stay and eat it so she left without having any. She still rocks for bringing it though. We ate in the lounge area of my building while wondering why the furniture all seemed to have been designed for very unusually proportioned people.

Inspired by conversations at work today, I am adding a new feature to my site. I really enjoy reading so I am starting a Booklist of things I've read so I can keep track and give it to people who ask me for suggestions. I also might do things like comment on the books and stuff, but that is a lot of effort.

Basically the list will have sections for currently reading, recently finished, and all others. It will take a while to populate, but if I do a bit at a time it should come together. I will probably store the data as XML on the backend and I want to add a feature that lets other people give book suggestions.

Hopefully this feature doesn't take me a year to implement, even if it takes that long to populate with data.

Double update today, I just found out that Google maps now has satellite photos built in! Here is my my apartment in Toronto and here is Alias. So cool!

There is a new condo going up across the street from my apartment, although currently it is just a hole in the ground. The crane you see in the CN Tower picture below is the crane for this condo. Anyway, there is a portable toilet for the workers I guess, but I don't think anyone will be using it:

Sinking Port-o-Potty

Tonight was wings night, but we went to Chris and Jeff's new place instead of going out. Jeff made wings and Chris made pasta and we all played some GameCube.

This weekend's story:

On Friday I left work early to catch a bus to Waterloo to go out for Kellie's birthday. I got there just in time to have a drink and then we left for the Bomber. Lots of people went and it was really good. We got there a bit early, but it turned out well, it got busy quickly.

I spent the night at the apartment on the couch and on Saturday I visited Mike before he leaves for California and Pixar. Pretty good visit, we went to Maharaja Palace for supper with Ans, Kristen and Norm and I got a gigantic amount of food. It was pretty decent and I was completely stuffed. Good times. We followed that up with some gelato and then I caught a bus back to Toronto.

Today I just sat around, watched a movie, did some laundry and went to the gym for a bit. And obviously I watched the Simpsons which, contrary to some opinions, is as good as ever.

I need to create a section of my website just for pictures I think, otherwise my main page will become to large and cumbersome with lots of images. This is taken from the balcony of my apartment in Toronto:

Some tower thinger

So I got my digital camera and I'm quite happy with it. It's the Canon Powershot A80, and I managed to get a pretty good deal on it. I had to go to the store twice though because the first time there was no camera in the box when I got home!! Crazy! But they were cool and replaced the whole thing when I went back. I should have asked for free stuff for my trouble.

Here are two random pictures taken in my apartment here in Toronto. They were taken within minutes of each other, under the same lighting conditions and the objects are about a half a metre from each other, but they look very different because I did "something" with the camera, not sure what though. Pretty cool.

The utensil holder of the dish rack in the sink with my supper dishes in it

An arched candle holder in front of the sink

The thing I like about digital cameras is that taking a picture costs nothing (other than battery life), so you are free to take random shots of stuff without worrying about film or developing fees.

This weekend was pretty cool. Kim came to visit and we just did a bunch of stuff without having any real purposes or goals for the weekend.

She came in on the bus at 4:40 and I picked her up at the bus station, but I wasn't quite done work for the week so I then had to go back to work for an hour after dropping her off at my house. When I got home we had frozen pizza for supper and just hung out a bit. On Saturday we went to the Eatons Centre to look around (which can last quite a long time) and we also went to BMV where I got six books. We then went to the St. Lawrence Market and got some really good strawberries which we ate later that evening. After all the shopping we saw Million Dollar Baby which we both really enjoyed.

Today I took Kim to the bus station for the 10:30am bus and now I plan on doing a whole bunch of nothing for the rest of the day.

Tonight I went to see Apocalyptica in concert at the Opera House way out on Queen East near Broadview. It was freaking amazing!!

In case you haven't heard of them, Apocalyptica is a hard-core cello group that plays metal-inspired music with a classical bent. The members all have prestigious classical training but are also metal-heads. The music is really quite amazing, very very powerful but also quite musically valid (it's not just a bunch of noise). To watch them play cellos like they did was incredible, I didn't really think someone could play a cello over their head while head-banging with the music -- cellos are kinda big, you know.

They played a bunch of their old stuff (including covers of some Metallica, their own version of Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King and a whole bunch of their original works) and they also played some of their new album which just came out in January. Unfortunately they weren't selling it at the concert or I definitely would have picked up a copy. The encore was really good too, amazing cover of Enter Sandman by Metallica.

I'm really tired now though so I think I'll go to sleep. Still have to work tomorrow.