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So now it is Thursday again. Last time I wrote was on Sunday. On Monday I attended my ritualistic bodypump class only to feel nauseous and weak and dizzy about twenty minutes into it. I dry heaved and returned for another song. It was still not good. I ended up returning to the car and sleeping while my mother completed the rest of the class alone. I was really worried with the whole outbreak of SARS, of course, but I made it to the doctors on Tuesday afternoon and he assured me that I was just catching the tail end of a flu virus and that I was already returning to my healthful self. It has been a confusing week. War, SARS, and the death of Leslie Cheung this past Tuesday. It came as a complete shock since he has always been one of those actors / singers in my mind, that would grow old and beautiful and resilient in the limelight. The public would always love him..and they will still. Today we visited Golden West Bakeries, otherwise known as the McDonalds' bakery, supplying to all of BC, Alberta, Saskachewan and Manitoba, and parts of Northern California, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. COOL DUDE. Here is a mass-production, commercial bakery. It was so neat to see all these buns and english muffins just rolling, moving along, popping out of the machines. The packaging lines were so fast, it was somewhat frightening to think that if my finger / hair / clothing got caught on the lines, I'd be pulled along at the same speed and dragged into the slicers, rendering me eyeless, disfigured, and full of bread tags... *ahem* yeah. It was cool. Yesterday I took my project so far to my sponsors. It was a moderate success. While they didn't like some things that I made, all four of them agreed on something that I thought was horrendous to masticate, much less digest. Shows how little I know. :p Anyways. It is an ethnic product, so that's probably why there was such a difference in my ideas versus theirs. It IS good, however, that they did like my product. yaaay. Now I have more work to go. Have to optimize the formulations, then reformulate to produce other flavours. The hardest part is now over. Today after the field trip, i was SO tremendously hungry, I (and Jerry too!!!) forgot that we had scheduled with Anne to use the atomic absorption spectrophotometer. CRAP! I remembered when I was at home, half past five, when I was cleaning my room. I quickly phoned Jerry, who didn't answer because he was napping, then emailed Anne a huge apology. I hope she didn't stay too late. It's her day off too, I feel REALLY sorry, on top of feeling sorry already. yikes. I hope she isn't chewing nails or something. I know I'd be very angry if someone made me come in on my day off and made me stay late. *sigh* We ended up going to White Spot for some burgers, brunch, sandwiches and milkshakes. It was too late by then and I ended up losing my appetite. ~$14 dollars later though, I am still pretty full. whatta deal. We have baby fishies!!! Mark called me back one day (after he'd just called me) to let me know that we have tiny tiny guppies swimming around. They're about the size of tiny flake food!! That is very cool. Spring is here... Another sign of that is that the days are longer, earlier, and warmer. I had a dream one morning about rich dark soil outside, with fat long worms thrashing about in it. As the dream progressed, however, I found these piles of soil throughout my house, with the same rich worms swimming about it. It was neat to look at, I thought, and I did not find them disturbing at all. So a day afterwards, I sowed a packet of sunflower seeds. I hope they're not crappy seeds. I got them from the dollar store, and there's still another packet where that came from. While I was digging about in the soil..I found that my mint plants are still alive!! As are my thymes, and of course, my rosemary was always alive anyways. It was a good discovery to find these frangrant leaves hanging about. yaaay to life in the garden. :)
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