the (un)real thoughts of realbt

As I sit and enjoy my naturally brewed rootbeer purchased during my weekly produce shopping trip to New Apple, I’m pondering a number of food-related health facts. First — rye. What is it, and how good is it actually for you. A simple Google search has revealed a number of things, including that it is very high in fibre, and Finnish people consume a very rye-rich fibrous diet. This is good, because I love my rye bread. Second, granola. My breakfast cereal has recently become replaced with a good helping of plain, non-sweetened yogourt and some wonderful ginger granola. Oh, granola. (As a side note, my good granola is a little bit expensive compared to the cheaper bulk stuff that can be purchased elsewhere — so I may need to alternate between the two.) And ginger is quite excellent too. Now back to my rootbeer…

After an arduous week working on a (very interesting) computer science project, I came home on Wednesday night at about 11:30 to discover my closet had sprung a leak. Either something was leaking from the kitchen upstairs, or the sprinkler hose has sprung a leak. The leak was coming from the wall/ceiling inside my closet, and dripping down skipping across some clothes, and landing partially on my dresser. Most of it ended up on the carpet below, soaking it through. Thankfully the leak was only a bit of a drip, but it still managed to release quite a bit of water.

These photos above show how the leak had pulled down the paint off the wall. When the landlord’s person-who-does-things-for-him came on Wednesday night to have a look, he pulled this down, and a good lot of water came down with it. The other photo shows my dresser catching the water after my discovery.

It was left overnight to collect in a bucket after I emptied my closet. The following day, the plumber came to take a look. After tearing open the ceiling (below), it seems the source of the leak was a small hose in the fridge upstairs.

This week I have been quite ill. Seems I have a bit of a strep throat, though the tests are not yet back from the lab to confirm it. All the symptoms are here, of course, and the doctor was relatively convinced (high fever, white spots in the throat, swollen lymph nodes, abdominal pain, and of course, a very sore throat). It was all quite wonderful, really.

Cracked out of my mind, I’ve fallen quite horribly behind in school. While I tried to do some work each day in between shivering from a bad fever, I didn’t get all that much accomplished.

So, falling to the lurid temptation of illness, I set out to watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy, in its full extended edition. Nearly 12 hours of it. One per day while I was too sick to do anything else. It was bliss. What a great piece of cinematography. If only there were more of that, and less Paris Hilton slime.

Okay, so I’m back from Ottawa.

For those that don’t know, I’ve spent the summer in Ottawa working for the federal government on my last co-op work term as part of my B.Sc.

How the time does fly: I have a mere 1 week left here. This summer I’ve done so much (for proof, visit my photo album): lots of yoga, learned how to climb (and what fun rock-climbing is!), visited every museum in Ottawa (with only a few minor exceptions), worked, and been quite social (oddly enough, I’ve been hanging around with other people from Vancouver..).

This weekend I’m off to Montreal for the third time this summer.