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March 28, 2005
Home Sweet Home
Being the holiday season and all I headed home (Renfrew) last weekend for Easter. It's never a great drive - averaging about 5h or so without stops, but it's not bad. It's just enough distance to be away and just close enough to permit easy trips home on occasion.
Trips home are always nice cause they mean seeing my family, not having to cook or clean for myself, as well as seeing old friends and ignoring most responsibilities for a couple days. I did, however, get a taste of work when I was back on the farm. We had our first two calves born on Saturday. One was born in the wet corner of our pasture so my dad and I had to take the tractor out to bring it into the barn so it could get dry and warm up. 
I could make some sort of metaphor involving new life being brought into the world and such but I won't cause that's too academic and it was enjoyable for the opposite reason. It was nice to do some work that didn't require integration or remembering some theory that only applies under special circumstances in the real world.
Now, speaking of the real world, I realize that I'm not in it yet - still being in school after 4..5..six sexy years. Most of my friends from home are in the workforce now and some are married (a couple have kids). That's the real world. It's sort of weird listening in to conversations that involve house shopping and parents talking about grand-kids when those are so far out of my immediate considerations or future. On the other hand, I love sitting out on a friend's patio, drinking some beers and having a great time without people complaining about midterms or leaving early cause they have an assignment due or some other bullshit.
I think too many people in Waterloo think that school is life - they can't seperate business and pleasure. Maybe that's why I've been here so long, I took the time to enjoy and experience life on campus, not just the classes.....
Sorry for the rant about life and work and school...I'm just trying to clear some thoughts as I prepare to finish my final term of school. Real world, here I come? Hell no! I will say a not-so-fond farewell to the pressures of midterms and assignments though....right after I finish an astrophysics essay on the stellar evolution of Wolf-Rayet stars....
....almost makes house shopping some enjoyable, eh?
Posted by Dr.Unk at March 28, 2005 4:29 PM
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Okay, wait. How is being home different then living in Waterloo?
"Trips home are always nice cause they mean ... not having to clean for myself ... as well as ignoring most responsibilities for a couple days."
That sounds awfully similar to your life in Waterloo.
Posted by: Kyle at March 30, 2005 4:13 PM
That's a fair statement which I'd respect.....
..if it came from someone who didn't just spend the last 8 months living at home living off unemployment insurance
Posted by: Dr.Unk at March 30, 2005 6:26 PM
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