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Today I didn't do any homework, so I'm planning on spending quite some time on piano and sleeping early. Don't think that'll happen.

Oh, and as of now, I'm still wondering what's happening with tomorrow's bus ride to Granville Island.

Yesterday, we had to see "Through a Blue Lens", a documentary film by Veronica and David Mannix and the NFB, which was about drug addicts in the downtown Eastside. It was extremely graphic, and you know what, 3 minutes into the film I felt like I would rather have a project due tomorrow than see the rest of it. I promise you that I will never ever touch any of that stuff. It just brings back really bad memories.
I was reading a bit about it, and apparently it was quite well-received. Mr. Ehrmantraut said that all the women in the film had died, but Randy Miller might have stayed clean. I read a imdb article, which said that Nicola had also cleaned up and stayed that way, but then, the comment was written in 2004. Carlee and April both died, Carlee dying of drug overdose and April being strangled. Ugh.
However, it appears that crystal meth usage has grown much more than when the film was made, so now there is a near zero chance of rehabilitation and staying clean forever.
This is really some depressing stuff, you know.


Edit: I just went to this website:http://www.oddsquad.com/EN/through_a_blue_lens/_through_a_blue_lens/

Sigh.

37 Book Summary

Summary:
In 1735, the Royal French Academy of Sciences headed an excursion to Peru (and Quito) to investigate the circumference by calculating the distance between two degrees. During that time, there was a lot of interest in discover things about Earth. However, that excursion was ill fated, and included such bad fortune as having a doctor killed, many diseases, permit problems, and tensions with the locals.

Halley, a genius who was famous for many things, went around, work on some stuff, then went to Cambridge, talked to Newton about Keplar's laws, then discovered that Newton had figured it out, but didn't do anything else about it. Newton was quite a genius, and worked and so many things that it'll take forever to mention, but his specialties were alchemy and religion.

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Ah.
The music of an extension was pure bliss. It totally made my day.

Now, just after typing that, I realize how much of a procrastinator I am. I asked around, and everybody is ahead of me.

Lots of work to do.

35 Education/Punishment-A Short History of Nearly Everything

Okay, have to sleep soon, to prepare for tomorrow's inevitable lack of sleep, so I'll make this blog short.
By the way, I forgot to check the website in a while, so I'll blog about Education vs. Punishment and A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Education is obviously not punishment. Not much more to say about that. For some people, they view it as a punishment, not because of education in itself, but how they view the way they're being educated. Some do think its a punishment, though, because the things that they're learning gives them a sense of depression, but that doesn't apply at all to us.

A Short History of Nearly Everything really helps in explaning very technical topics to us people with not much prior knowledge, except the very basic concepts. His comparisions to things that we can relate to make it so much more easier for us to understand how big, or small, or dense, or whatever a certain thing is. He sort of 'explains' the numbers, if you understand what I mean.

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Okay, since I have some time today, I'll just talk a bit about what happened the past two days.
Well, on Thursday, our Japanese 10 class went on a field trip to the Nikkei Place in Burnaby, where we saw their Japanese Expo. We learnt how to make sushi, sumie (one-stroke painting), several handicrafts, and also their exhibit on shojun manga (girl comics). They also had many other workshops, but we didn't manage to visit them. There were also a couple of small activities we participated in. AC and I also had a interesting conversation with one of volunteers there.

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I slept two hours today in the afternoon, then spent the rest of my time listening to various radio stations. To be honest, I never knew that there was so much Canadian music on the CBC channels.

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Soo tired right now. I'm still awake doing English, because I slept the afternoon away.

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I'm promising myself that today I will sleep before 10:00 today, because I slept quite late yesterday, the day before, the day before that, and the day before that.
All I really have to do is just practice the piano, but I should also work on the Applied Skills project, as that is coming up very soon and I haven't really done that much yet.

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Okay. I didn't do any studying for the Socials test tomorrow, or practice piano, because of :
I came home late after debate
The extremely irritating and annoying JAL Mileage Bank (we're booking a ticket using miles, and because of a promotion that's happening, the entire process is taking hours)
English
Procrastination

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Well, I really didn't manage to do enough today.
I did finish Socials notes (excpet a small part of me is reminding me that one and a half page of notes on half of what I should have done is absolutley positively not enough.)

Ah. Another weekend not used effectively. And it was a long weekend.