The Weekend

I was at the grocery store the other day to pick up some bacon (FYI the bacon in Oz is excellent). I decided upon 400 grams, but the lady at the counter so graciously gave me 460 grams at what should have been $9.99/KG. Upon checking out and to my dismay I was charged not for medium bacon, but for short bacon which runs at a premium price of $16.99/kg. Needless to say I was somewhat surprised and I made mention of said injustice. As it turns out in South Australia if you are charged the incorrect amount at the till they refund the money. I ended up with 460 grams of free bacon. I Danny Mitchell am conquering the world one same battle at a time.



Pretty quiet weekend... watched Beautiful Mind with Erin on Friday night, Saturday I had hockey and then a small get together with classmates at a local Pub where myself and others went about drinking far too much. Following this self-mutilation I feed on not one, but two gyros and woke up without a trace of a hang over. I think the Greek's may be onto something.



Adma Eckert a former classmate and fellow football player is currently trying out for the Blue Bombers. Apparently on day 5 he dislocated his left index finger through the skin. I am going to take a gander and say that may have hurt.



Only a few more weeks till the Sydney trip, which I am very excited about.



THINGS I LIKE THIS WEEK

• That I am going to add a "Wanker of the Week" section at the end of this column.


• That I didn't have a hang over this morning.


• Looking forward to going for a long run tomorrow to work off the beer which I initially thought was going to lead to a nasty hang over.

THINGS I DO NOT LIKE THIS WEEK

• I was considering doing a 25KM race this morning, but figured it would be unwise to run such a race under the influence.

WANKER OF THE WEEK

• A tutor (who will remain anonymous, but he knows who he is) broached the topic of how many of the Health and P.E. students at my school seemed to have resubmitted an assignment twice, but in two different classes. This should be deemed to be academically dishonest, but the topic was "Discuss your beliefs of what quality teaching is." My emerging beliefs did not change over the course of two weeks. However, out of sheer scaredy catness I did not resubmit the same assignment, but rewrote very similar ideas. This is clearly a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing and students should not be held in contempt as it is not their fault that tutors at out school are completely and totally unoriginal. I did however take a small sampling of my peers to see who had and had not resubmitted the assignment at it was unanimous... all the students re handed in the same thing. The beauty in this is the confidence in numbers. I will assume they will not kick everyone out of school. Anyways, to my point... there is no need for said tutor to be so crusty he clearly would have done the exact same thing. GROUCH!

Man of few words

I was thinking about A-Rod and his night on the town with his mystery blonde, which included dinner and strip clubs. Seeing as though he is the highest paid player in MLB baseball at $250 million Dollar man will that make his potential ex-wife the $125 million dollar ex-wife seeing as though she may be entitled to half A-Rods assets?

May practicum has come and gone. For the most part it was fairly good other than the fact the Phys ed teachers outright told us they didn't want student teachers and that the of student teacher I was with is buddies with the phys ed teacher and all they talked about was Cricket and I wanted to claw my eyes out... Let me tell you how much I am looking forward to spending 5 weeks in Early November with the same people.

I wish I knew why stores such as the Gap and Nike do not ship merchandise to Canada off of their websites. Does the idea of 27 million potential buyers not appeal to these companies? Seeing as though clothes are expensive and of poor taste here in Oz I was hoping to get some stuff sent over here by purchasing off their webpages, but NOPE. I just do not understand.

John Cacayuran ex-roommate and future visitor of Oz recently ran the Manitoba marathon in a stunning 1h45m. Congrats to him. He will be arriving in Sydney July 8th where we will be spending some time before shipping off to Brisbane and then back to Adelaide. It will be a hoot.

I have one remaining assignment due before the end of the semester... a pass or fail 2000 word essay. Why in the world i have a pass or fail class is beyond me. People will be able to hand in terrible essays and they will be deemed to be just as adequate as say an "A" paper makes no sense to me.

I must confess after having everyone tell me how great the weather was last summer in Winnipeg, I'm enjoying the wet weather and potentially life sized mosquitoes you guys and gals will be getting.

I just wanted to let everyone know that I now have a monopoly on danmitchell13 e-mail addresses as I have signed up for yahoo, hotmail and g-mail all in the same name just in case I decide to switch. I'm quite happy with my yahoo address, but it seems to be inundated with junk mail, which is becoming increasingly aggravating.

Well not too much to share right now... I hope everyone is well.

THINGS I LIKE THIS WEEK

• The end of my practicum
• End of the semester
• The rain

THINGS I DON'T LIKE THIS WEEK

• Birds who keep eating my grass seed