Turn That Bucket Upside Down

Alright, lots of stuff has been going on since I last wrote.

Orientation was fun times. I really enjoyed presenting. As well, being a Transfer Presenter, I got a chance to check out some of the other presentations, all of which were very entertaining. Highlights included the Tyler Botten presentation of "University, Yesterday and Today" as well as watching the Academics groups put on two completely different yet equally informative presentations using the exact same video as a base. I also finally got to experience a Chris Samuel presentation. Since I didn't really have an Orientation faculty anymore, for the Faculty BBQ's on Tuesday I scoped out Engineering, as usual. However, unlike last year they just had hotdogs instead of burgers. Rather unfortunate. Gary informed me it was because they were able to provide more hotdogs per student than hamburgers. I think another factor may be that when you have the best food you also have more interlopers. The Science lineup for burgers was too long, and while I was briefly tempted to swing by my former Faculty for pizza, instead I went with Samuel and some of the other OPs to SUB. We tried to start the wave on the way down to the President's Address (watching the crowd of people move down is a sight to behold), but it didn't take. We were able to acquaint ourselves with the "Skeezebucket" Cheer, however. The address was nice. Roman and I got to reprise our "Law, Law, Law" chant from the year before. When they were going to move on to the actual program, Tyler yelled out "But what about the Faculty of Law?", prompting us to get up and start giving it. We even got the nurses (and certain Education degree holders) behind us to join in. Harlow even came down to the address especially for the chant. I'm not sure why, but he seemed to get into it.

Classes have been good so far. Sort of an adjustment getting back into the swing of things. I think I have my schedule finalised, but these things have been known th change. Rugby starts on Monday. I'm really out of shape so that should be interesting if nothing else. Hopefully the weather is a bit nicer by then at least.

For Friday, I was faced with somewhat of a Tri-lemma regarding various activities. There was the WoW Concert (or whatever they're calling it now) and the Sleeping Bag Drive-In, First Friday Back with the Law folks, and finally the football game. Needless to say I chose the football game, though the other options were definitely tempting. Always good watching an Esks win, though at the end it almost felt like a loss since Pringle didn't get the record and Calgary scored at the end. It was also quite cold. Afterwards I swung by Gary's for a bit for some chick-flick viewing. Gary's basement is a veritable shrine to Edmonton sporting greatness. I'm rather jealous that he has not one, but two Gizmo bobbleheads (they were all gone by the time I got to that particular game). I forgot (for about the third time) to get my Apprentice tapes back before I left though (tangentially, this season looks like it'll be pretty good).

First debate meeting this Wednesday. I'm hoping it's a good year. We're hosting nats, so there's definitely a few added variables for the year.