Friday Five - September 13th, 2002
Time for my weekly Friday Afternoon Five:
1. What was/is your favorite subject in school? Why?
I didn't really have a favorite. I always like Art, even though I was horrible at it. I was always intrigued by science and eventually learned to like math. Finite may have been one of my favorite high school subjects. Come on! Who doesn't like probabilities?
2. Who was your favorite teacher? Why?
My high school Chemistry teacher Mr. Gresko. Sometimes he was crabby, sometimes he was fun, he told us we would all live in cardboard boxes, he told us how to distill liquor, he told how to make Loon (see Virtual Cam) soup and he gave me a 98% in his Grade 13 Chemistry course. What's there not the love?
3. What is your favorite memory of school?
At this point in my life all of the memories have kind of jumbled together. Graduating is always nice :)
4. What was your favorite recess game?
I was also picked last. But since I have to pick on I would say Red Rover. You know the game where there were two lines of kids all holding hands and you'd call out "Red Rover, Red Rover, Let (insert name), Come over" and then that kid would have to try and smash through the other sides line. If you didn't smash through then you were stuck on their side.
5. What did you hate most about school?
Having to get up at 7:30 in the morning to catch the bus so I could get to school by 8:30 or so. That always sucked!
Busy Week
It's been a really busy week in the world of academia and now it's time for a much needed weekend. I've put more time into my thesis in the last week than I have any other week before and it's drained me right out. I just want to go home, finish reading Pincher Martin by William Golding, watching some TV or a movie and then falling off to sleep. Maybe not in that order but always ending with sleep.
One thing of interest is that on my way into school today I saw 124 motorbikes. They all had riders and they were all driving away from the direction I was going. Why did I see so many motorbikes? Isn't the answer obvious? It's Friday the 13th. You see every Friday the 13th thousands of bikers decend on the small town of Port Dover. The population of the town balloons from 3,500 to around 50,000 for the day and then it's business as usually on Saturday the 14th. Port Dover is on Lake Erie and is about 30 minutes south from my parents place. I've been to the Friday the 13th festivities several times and it's always quite interesting. Lots of bikes, lots of bikers and lots of booze. I don't plan on going down this time but it should be interesting.
