Respect

I've been accepted as a Respect ambassador. I just went to my first meeting today. I think I'm the only heterosexual white able-bodied male born and raised in Canada. Seems like the organization attracts people who feel like they've been denied some respect. We're organizing a Random Act of Kindness day... Still don't really know what it entails. It was supposed to be 4:00 to 5:00 but they got me to stay until 8:00. I spent the extra three hours packaging bookmarks. Kind of assembly-line style. Oh well, got free pizza.

I have an interview to be an English Conversation Partner tomorrow at 1:00 PM.

Got the chance to talk to the person in charge of the Social Service Worker program. She said that the Respect volunteer thing is prefect. So I've got Canada World Youth and Katimavik backing me, and then I'll top it off with this Respect program, and hopefully the English Conversation Partner. The other important thing is English. If I can keep my English mark over 80% and I've got this volunteer bit, I should be a shoe in.

I really have to stop procrastinating, though. So far, I've gotten everything in on time, and I've passed everything with flying colours. I'm one of the very top students, but I'm still nervous, because despite having done well so far, I've only managed to stay a half-step ahead of my game. I shouldn't be pulling all-nighters for every major assignment. Eventually I'm going to have several in a row, and no matter how well I'm doing, if I've got three assignments due in one week and I've put everything off until last minute, then I'm gonna burn out.

I got my first two major papers back. 100% and 95%.

My door lock is broken. My roommate managed to get in, so he let me in. I went down to the front desk, and the guy came up, looked at the lock, said he didn't know how to fix it so he'd send up a guy at 11:00 who knows this stuff better than him. It's 11:47 right now and he hasn't shown up. If I leave the room to go to front desk, I'll be locked out. Looks like I'm getting locked out tomorrow!