Before I go, a friend of mine sent me this info: You can enjoy the wonderful taste on M&Ms and help Breast Cancer Research. They have created a special package and Pink and White M&Ms which will be available online and at local retailers. For each package sold, they will give 50 cents to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. It’s time to sweeten up your life, and the lives of many women suffering from BC.

Yes, blogging from school… what a leech! Well, I’m done with my group work and I have to wait until 7 p.m. for my Anthropology class, so. I could’ve gone home, rest and come back, but I didn’t feel like taking the train and spending two hours of my life “sur la route”. I’m now in the process or answering e-mails and looking for information for my different projects and I’m really happy about the fact that a guy from the Kennesaw University was absolutely nice and sent me copies of his articles about physiology.

I’m deciding what to do. Stay here, until I’m numb in front of the computer or go to the other building, lounge in the cafeteria and read my book about the Iroquois. I guess the second option is more interesting, academically speaking. We’ll see.

How do bears, bees, frogs and other creatures stay alive in a barren, subzero landscape? — That’s what I’m going to learn about when I start reading Winter World, a book I found in the “Nouveautés” section at the local library. My leisure reading time is very restricted these days, but I went looking for documentation to work on my Climatology report and I couldn’t resist the new arrivals. What a nice surprise to see a book about Biology, especially related to one of the classes I’m taking this trimester which main subject is animal adaptations. I’m anticipating it’s going to be really useful Bon, je vais faire dodo, bonne nuit !

Colombian coffee bean growers began an effort Tuesday to boost income, opening their own coffee shop in Manhattan. Take that, Starbucks! “New York’s 2,000-square-foot store, which can seat about 200 customers, will be considered the flagship of an eventual 300 Juan Valdez stores worldwide.” — Now I’m eagerly waiting for Juan Valdez to come and open a shop here in Montreal. Wouldn’t that be lovely?

From these 200 things, I’ve done the ones in bold. [Via Christine]

01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula.
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said “I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Done a striptease
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The first thing I did when I got home after my wedding ceremony was changing my shoes. I put on sandals because the beautiful off-white shoes I had bought for the occasion were KILLING me (turns out I spent many years of my life buying the wrong size, but that’s another story). I kept the shoes until today -you know, for sentimental reason- but I just took an executive decision: I’m going to give them to someone who can actually wear them. My wedding wasn’t fancy at all and the shoes can make part of any other formal outfit because they’re not white-white (I hate white-white shoes). Why keep something I’m never going to wear? It actually makes me feel as if I were wasting when there are many people in need.

There are other things I want to get rid of . Call it autumn cleaning.

How to discourage and stress Beatriz in less than 5 minutes? Give her homework full of physical equations and a question requiring to find the integral/area under a curve. The equations are OK, I just have to apply the numbers. The calculus related stuff is driving me crazy because I remember ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about it. Funny thing, this course is not obligatory, and I’m *this* close to drop it, but I don’t think giving up is a good idea since I like the subject.

On the good side, homework is not due until October 22nd and I can go and stalk the démo (which seems to be Spanish speaking, based on his accent and name) and ask him for help and guiding. But just in case, is anyone out there willing to help me with this? I’m sure it will look really stupid if you’re really good with Calculus because it’s only a few numbers, but I’m feeling I’ve reached new levels of stupidity. THANK YOU, JAYA!

Anyway, it’s Friday, I’m tired and my neighbour just came to invite me to watch “Mean Girls” on DVD, so I’m going out because I’m about to burst with anger, but that’s another story.