I'm back! it's been great to see people in residence today move back in, and it's exciting to know that within a few days time we will be starting classes once again. I'm very excited for all the things this semester holds, and I guess I just felt that it would be good to express my excitement in a blog.

I had an awesome time on holiday, spending some quality time with my family (both immediate and extended), getting to see some friends back home, practicing and spending time on my guitar playing as well as other musical endeavours, picking up a few new games with some friends (Starcraft II and Lord of the Rings Online, which is now free to play), and finishing it all off with a week and a half in Calgary moving between my sisters house and some friends houses, just relaxing with a couple people whom I care for dearly. (Thanks to Jon, Garrison, Adam, Joshua, and Andrew if you are reading this for putting up with me being in your space and housing me during that time =])

I am honestly more than excited to begin school again, it was good to have time off, but 3 weeks just feels like too much. not to say that I was anxious, I could have spent a large portion of my "down time" worrying about the future and where I am going (as is so unfortunately natural for me to do) but I think that I have learned more of trust and peace, for which I am glad. The outcome of many things is out of my hands, and I'm fine with that, there is someone far more capable who will be taking care of those things anyway. This is not to say, however, that I don't want to work hard or strive to achieve what I'm passionate about, so I'm excited to be challenged and have things to do again.

Also, an unexpected blessing came in the form of my hard drive becoming faulty right before the holidays ended. I went to partition it, so that I could install windows XP on the separate partition (so that I could run the Windows OS on my Apple Macbook and play Lord of the Rings Online, which is only supported on windows) when I discovered that my hard drive was faulty. 

Remembering that I had purchased a 3 year warranty at Best Buy I went into the store hopeful that it could be fixed. I came back a day later to pick up my macbook with a brand new hard drive of 250 gigabytes! twice the size it was before, AND with the new Apple "Snow Leapord" operating system (an upgrade from my previous "Leapord" OS), FREE OF CHARGE.

since then, I have successfully partitioned my hard drive and installed windows XP and LOTRO, so I am now the proud owner of a "hackintosh".

I should probably get back to transferring my backup files back onto my hard drive....

edit: also thanks to my Dad for buying me an external hard drive last year which I used to back up my original hard drive, including my entire music collection of 3000 songs...