Today is the first day of classes for the winter term. Hair’s done, the war paint is on, my backpack has all the various things I figured I’d need for today – I’m ready. Oddly enough I’m more nervous about classes today than I was in the fall. I wonder why. First class this week is History 109, the continuation of the history course I took last term. That’s a bit of a relief. I guess I’m worried that I’ll have people sitting beside me in the lecture hall and my other course (HI 102) is really popular and fully enrolled.

Those seats in the lecture halls are a wee bit squishy for me. There’s my motivation to lose a little weight – to sit in my lectures comfortably. I do want to lose a bit of weight this year, at least a bit of the quit weight. It’s still an immensely loaded issue for me, but I want to stop hurting so much. I’m pretty certain that part of my back issues have to be related to the extra weight I’m carrying. We’ll see.

I’ve been working on my uberlist for 2006 over the past week or so. Have a fairly substantial list, but not enough yet to post. I’m reminded as to why I wanted to work on it throughout the year. It’s hell trying to make a to-do list of over 100 items all in one go. I find it interesting looking at the assessment for last year’s list and realizing how little I actually got done. What’s funny is the items under ‘one time only tasks’ I figured I’d get done easily. You know, set aside an afternoon and go. Enh.

The other thing coming to my notice is that it’s really hard to get me to work with my photographs. From simply going out on a photo shoot to processing them for the photoblog to even posting to the photoblog, I just don’t seem to want to do it. I wonder why. I mean, I’m obviously skilled at it, I obviously enjoy it, why is it so hard for me to do it? I seem to give myself permission to shoot when I’m not at home. 5 rolls when we were in Ottawa for the weekend, the same amount on our road trip to Vermont and Nova Scotia. Perhaps some of it has to be shyness. Not wanting to pull attention to myself. Because someone with a camera wandering around taking pictures of fountain drains is very noticeable.

Plus I want a better camera. The digital started showing signs of dying when we were in Ottawa and that makes me very nervous. I guess I’d rather not take photos at all than have the digital die on me completely and make it clear that I *can’t* just go out and shoot. But the downfall is the digital I’ve decided I want is going for $550 before taxes on eBay and $700 retail. Might as well buy a good replacement if we’re in the market for a new digital camera. Enh, we’ll see. Maybe I’ll ask for it for my birthday. :)

So I’ve been typing this up sitting in a Timmies waiting for Mike to get done with his physio appointment on my new laptop, Mormallor. The typos are monstrous. I’m not quite sure how I can miss letters *and* do doubles at the same time. It’s most likely because I haven’t been doing a lot of typing on here yet. I hope it improves over the next term. Hah. A $1500 notebook so I can take better notes. That’s kind of sad.

Blah. Half an hour now and I’m written out. Time to clean up the typos from hell.