It's not hard to dream.

Last night my dreams were crowded.

I remember thinking about things like eponymous archons and Alcmaeonids.

My subconscious could not, for the life of it, remember who Miltiades was.

My consciousness however, remembered very well in the morning that Miltiades was an Athenian leader who thought that the hoplite land army, not the navy, was the key to beat the Persians in the first Persian invasion in 490 BCE. He was largely credited with the victory at the Battle of Marathon in East Attica. In 489 BCE he lead an attack against the island of Palos to punish them for siding with the Persians, which was an embarrassing defeat for him and for Athens. Miltiades was wounded and fined by the Athenian government for his failure. He died of his injuries and his son Cimon was forced to repay his debt to Athens.

My head is crowded with Greek names and dates. Too many names that are long and somewhat similar, or at least they get confused in my head. Like Aristagorus and Archilochus,  or Pesistratus, Pausanius, and Parmenides. And too many greek terms, like pentakosiomedimnoi and seisachtheia.

Athenian history is a giant web of tyrannies, archons, conspiracy, exile, conflicting political leaders, ostracism, reforms, treason, and wars.

Maybe cross the country.

So I have already lost the buy no University food bet.

geez.

I forgot and bought an ice cap. twice.

So I am looking up grad schools.

It makes me feel grown up and intense.

I could do my OT degree in Vancouver, or Edmonton, or Toronto, or Halifax.

There are more options than that. There are a couple choices in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, but who wants to go there.

There are a bunch of schools in Quebec. I looked up McGill, in Montreal, and it said that speaking french is greatly recommended. Not knowing french seriously limits your practicum opportunities. And I assume this will be the same in all the Quebec Universities. There are also a few more options in Ontario. Like McMaster University, and Queen's University, and the University of Ottawa.

So far, Dalhousie in Halifax has caught my eye.

Grad school is a big decision.

This is the Occupational Therapy Building at Dalhousie

Update.

My room looks awesome!

It is finally done.

In the last two days I have built my new shelf, reorganized my bookshelf, gotten rid of more stuff, unpacked the rest of my boxes, organized everything, vacuumed, dusted, washed my sheets, washed my clothes, and hung my mirrors/bulletin boards/pictures.

It feels so great to have everything clean and organized, and to have gotten rid of all that stuff I never actually use or want.

Tomorrow I start working. I thought that I wasn't going to be able to start working until next weekend. It is nice to be making so money sooner, but I am not looking forward to 5 am wake up.

Back to the smelling like sawdust and spending all my weekends doing hard labour. When I left for school last August, I was actually kind of sad to leave my job. It was the first time I have ever left a job and wasn't ecstatic about it. Which makes coming back to it now so much nicer. Usually I work somewhere until I hate it, and then I leave and would never go back.

Konstantine by Something Corporate is my favourite song in the world right now. I put a video of it in a post a couple days ago, listen to it if haven't already. It is 10 minutes long, but definitely not one of those long songs that gets super boring, or one of those ones with ridiculously long into and outros, or with a million lyric repeats. The lyrics are beautiful. I can listen to it over and over (and I do).

I am home :)

So my exams finally ended last friday.

Then I spent Saturday moving my roommates stuff to our new place in Lethbridge.

On sunday I came home.

I spent Sunday night and all of Monday trying to get unpacked and fit everything into my room.

I did the whole get rid of ridiculous amounts of crap that have been sitting around in my room forever thing. It was quite the job.

I am not even done yet. I still have stuff to organize, a disgusting amount of laundry to do, stuff to put up on the walls, and a new shelf to build and incorporate into my room. But it will be sweet to be all done and have a nice, organized room full of stuff that I actually use.

Today I went to the States, then I went on a bit of a hike/walk. I am probably going to go on an overnight backpacking trip next week. It will be sweet, and by then I will likely have some nice trekking poles and perhaps a new backpack which is actually made for a woman and will not give me nasty hip belt blisters.

AND, good news! I got an A in my nutrition class! Definitely didn't see that one coming. That class was brutal. It was the easiest material, but the teacher had such a thick accent, you could never understand him. And his tests were never a fair representation of what he taught us, or what was in the textbook. I have no idea where he got his test questions from, but it certainly wasn't the course material. Also, a good chunk of the questions made no grammatical sense. Anyways, that class is over forever, and somehow I managed an A (seriously, I must have rocked that final).

I also got an A in my fourth year class, which I wasn't sure I was going to be able to pull off.

I am excited, I like it when I do better than I thought I would.

Now, if you want to listen to a song I recently discovered (like an hour ago) and really like so far you could listen to Konstantine by Something Corporate. It is the same lead singer as Jack's Mannequin.