Weather Bomb!

When one awakes to the sound of wind whipping around the house as though a cyclone were threatening to tear off the siding and burst through the wood holding a house together, they find it quite...exciting. Yes I said exciting. Why do I say that, you might ask. Well...one has to take Newfoundland weather with a different view then you'd take most province's, region's or country's weather. That is because Newfoundland weather can't make up its bloody mind. Last week I was walking around in a light sweater and tank top, my window open at night to let in the light, consistent breeze that seems to plague this giant rock, and today the clouds threw down sleet! One thing I have learned here on Newfoundland is that if there is a "weather bomb" in the weather forecast...bunker down. This is what The Weather Network explained this weather phenomena that we experienced two days ago. Now I suggest you go to this link -> http://www.theweathernetwork.com/index.php?product=glossary&pagecontent=glossaryindex&pagecontent=weatherbomb and read up on what a Weather Bomb is exactly. If you figure out what they're saying, please inform me. All I know is that when I went out that morning to catch the bus in the heavily drizzling and intensely windy day I almost blew away. Out of the one hurricane, one post-tropical storm, and one weather bomb I've experienced so far, the weather bomb was definitely the most surprising. Unlike the other two it definitely lived up to its name. So what happened after the bomb hit? I'd say something similar to a post-weather bomb winter. Winds continued to pound the island on Thursday and Daniel and I found ourselves struggling to open doors and attempting to stay indoors as much as possible to avoid the rather wet day. A short while of this had me resorting to look at the weather on the trusty Weather Network site only to see a winter storm watch. It was like a big sign slapping me right on the forehead. "Welcome To Newfoundland!" ...so this was what the Newfoundlanders had been complaining about all this time. Wow. I can't believe I wrote that much on weather and still feel like I could go on for eons describing to you what it's like to live on a rock weather-wise. But onto other matters. Classes are fantastic and despite looming deadlines and tests that are creeping up slowly, I'm falling more in love with each of my classes every day. I can only hope that the next semester continues on this well. Health-wise I've been rather out of it lately. A horrible spell of stomach sickness has been cast upon me and I've been attempting to eliminate things in my diet to see if it helps any. I started with dairy products and think I'd rather deal with sickness than give up the joys of dairy. OH! I should mention...while having various tests done due to this sickness I, Yvette, was able to sit in a chair in the hospital, all by myself, and have blood drawn into various vials! Now if you don't know me well, you wouldn't know the process of drawing blood from any of my veins has led me to losing consciousness every time (except once when I was so excited to be let out of emerge that I didn't even notice they'd taken my blood). Don't start with the "it's only a needle". I get that part. I can take a hundred needles before I take blood. I don't know what it is, it just happens. Asides from that I am still waiting to hear about my test results in hopes I can have this resolved and hoping it's only a bug not some allergy as I would enjoy eating cheese again. Onto other news....if any of you hear from my parents or about them, please inform me of what is going on in their lives. It seems I told them that they were calling too often and then decided to get more social lives than I have and I can't get a hold of them ever. If only for one night I could sit and have a cup of tea while talking on the phone with them....alas I will have to wait till Christmas arrives. I do apologize for the awkwardness of this post and lack of exciting details. My life's been busy, but I do not feel you would be interested in small things like the assignments I've been writing, the books I've been reading and the linguistic properties I've been discussing. I do hope you are all well and wish that some day we will meet up and have tea and discuss your life rather than mine. I do miss you all and pray that things are going well in your lives. Tschuss

An Unoriginal Title

The dread that passes through one's mind when they walk out from some building to see the bus pulling away from their stop, is indescribable. It turns your stomach and twists it and thoughts of shouting frantically and waving your arms dramatically course through your mind. Such thoughts flooded my mind as I exited Sobey's this afternoon, but alas I found I could no wave my arms frantically as my hands were weighed down by heavy grocery bags. The thoughts of their contents flying in all directions outweighed those of attempting to halt the departing bus. So I resorted to catching the bus driver's gaze and telepathically communicate to him that the reason I was trekking across the Soby's parking lot to no particular car was because I did indeed need his assistance of transportation. Unfortunately my telepathic skills failed me and I thus had to wait thirty minutes at the deserted bus stop. A once wonderfully warm autumn day had turned into a breezy, cool day and left my hair tossled and my fingers quite cool. The thought of snow not coming till January only dampened my thoughts further as I am extatic for the first snow. I've been told the falls are long here however and I believe it as only about half of the deciduous trees have lost their leaves while the others are still changing colour. So what's been happening in my life here in St. John's? Quite a lot actually. Classes have ramped up and are in full swing with the semester already half way over. The assignments are finally coming and I find myself continually turning pages to finish 5 Russian novels for my Russian literature course with the final research paper looming in my mind with each chapter. Details on that exciting paper are sure to come...that is once I discover my topic that I'll write on and hope the prof enjoys enough to give me a satisfactory mark. Fortunately I do not have any midterms currently and am only expecting one to happen sometime between now and Christmas in my Russian language course. I have an odd doubt that it'll actually happen though. Memorizing my dictionary of 1500 words is coming along alright as long as I don't fall behind and find myself baffled and lost in a jumble of impossibly hard words to pronounce, let alone memorize the meaning of. It gets stressful at times. As the majority of you have heard...yes there is a boyfriend. His name is Daniel and he is doing his masters of/in philosophy. Who knew I'd get to know a pre-philosopher so well? Otherwise I find myself stressing out over the smallest things as people around me seem to be flooded with various exams and assignments to be done. Updates on that will also come as time progresses. I do hope all of you are living wonderful lives and will continue to do so until I am graced by your presence. Cheers.