Catching up

Okay, so it's been forever since I've updated this thing, and I really feel like I should let everyone know what's going on with my life.

1) Jobs

So first of all, the law school had the OCI's (off-campus interviews) on Oct. 17th. I ended up getting an interview with 5 firms, including 3 IP boutique firms and my top choice firm, Gilbert's (all from Toronto). The OCI's are a crazy day, filled with 17 minute long interviews, and about half of 2nd year class at my school goes in for interviews, and something like 100 firms from Toronto come in. So I thought that my interviews went fairly well, at least with a few of them. October 27th was the day where we got calls from the firms to tell us if we were getting a call-back for November interviews, and I unfortunately did not get any call-backs. But don't worry, I was too disappointed, because only something like 25% of 2nd year students actually get law firms jobs, so it's really not a big deal. Plus I can apply for all the smaller firms in January/February, and I can also still work for my IP prof again next summer hopefully, so I'll have a job doing some kind of law regardless.

My one roommate got 1 interview, and my other roommate is an all-star and got like 10 offers, but only ended up taking 7 November interviews. She seriously is an All-Star and she was the most nervous going into OCI's!

So they're both in Toronto this Monday to Wednesday doing Toronto interviews at the actual firms, and I have the apartment to myself! So that's what's been going on in terms of jobs, at least so far. I will update more about all that in January when I start applying again.

2) Health

So I recently had some health worries - at the beginning of September, I started working out more often and more intensely than I really had before. Beginning of October, I started having chest pain and tightness, and naturally because of my heart surgery when I was young I started getting worried. So I went to the doctor on campus, and had echograms and electrocardiograms and a pulmonary holter (wires taped to my chest and attached to a little box that recorded my heart beats) and finally got a cardiologist appointment, and after all that (and a lot of worrying and stress!) figured out that whatever it was, it wasn't my heart, and I didn't need to worry about anything. That was just last Thursday (Nov. 2nd) that I found out that it was no worries, so I had about 3 weeks of worrying that I would maybe have to have heart surgery again or something!
But now everything is okay, nothing to worry about, I can go back to working out. So it's all good!

3) Concerts

A couple of weeks ago, I went to a Pink Floyd Tribute concert. The band was really good, pretty much as close to Floyd as you could get without being Floyd. But there's something about it being the real band, who created and originally played the music, that makes a concert so much more amazing. The tribute concert just kind of felt like I was listening to the music being played really loudly - the band was pretty much irrelevant, which was too bad.
Plus it didn't help that it was like 2 hours of standing in a bad neighbourhood of T.O., with a rough crowd!! Let's just say Adam and I may have stood out a tad... ;)

This past Saturday, however, I had an entirely different concert experience - ELTON JOHN!!!! It was by far my best concert experience yet. I know I keep saying that, but Elton John is a musical legend, and so incredibly talented, and he plays the piano which makes me love him even more. He played for almost 3 hours straight, and the only break he took was at the end, when he went off-stage for about 5 minutes then came back for a 2-song encore. No intermission, nothing! It was absolutely amazing. I actually started crying when he first came out and started playing, because it was just so intense to see a musician/artist like that, playing, in person. Nothing compares, let me tell you!
And we went because it was my step-dad's birthday present, so it was my sister and I, and our mum and step-dad. He loved it, which was really nice. My parents aren't so big on downtown Toronto, but it was kind of fun to show them around, take them on the subway, etc.

So that was concert experience since my last updating. This month I am also going to see Guns 'n Roses again (well, really Axle Rose and a bunch of musicians who aren't Guns 'n Roses, but good enough), and I'm also going to see a LEAFS GAME!!! And the best part is that the Leafs that night will be playing New Jersey, and New Jersey happens to have Adam's favourite goalie of all time (Brodeur). So unless I manage to jinx it, Adam will finally get to see his favourite goalie in action! I went online the minute the tickets went on sale, so I actually got them for the real price, only $50 each. Not great seats, of course, but cheap and we can see what's going on, and that's good enough for me!
I'll let you know about how those two things go, don't you worry! I'll also let you know if Axle is till rocking the leather pants and the same 3 stage/dance moves... hehe.

4) Kitty

So I'm finally getting a cat, picking it up tonight. Turns out (very fatefully!) that the very building manager who I had to go to, to get permission for having a cat in the building when I thought I was adopting from the London Humane Society, is moving and can't bring her cat along with her. I ended up not being able to adopt from the Humane Society because apparently the one in London doesn't give animals to students, because statistically students tend to bring animals back at the end of the school year. That's ass, in my personal opinion! I was going to go to Toronto Humane Society, because I know they would give me a kitty, but then my building manager put up a poster about her cat, and I jumped on the offer! Ironically, she got the cat from the London Humane Society... hehe, I outsmarted those bastards! :D

So the cat is all black, she's a year and a half old, and her name is Spice (isn't that cute?!). I'm really hoping that she'll like me, and get along with bunny, at least eventually. She's a little shy apparently, I only met her very briefly last Thursday and she spent most of that time hiding under the bed, but I'm sure that when she gets used to me and my roomies she'll be fine.

So finally after years of waiting I will have my very own cat!

5) Travelling

I don't know if I actually wrote about this before, but Adam and I are going to the Bahamas in December!! We got our payments all paid up in time, so we are officially going. I am so frigging excited, I can't believe that I finally convinced him to spend the money and to travel, but we're going, and it's going to be amazing. If anyone wants to know where exactly we're going, send me an email, and I'll be happy to tell you all about it! ;)

Conclusion

I love that I organized this posting like this, I am such a frigging nerd sometimes. Anyway, that's all the important things that have been going on in my life the last 2 months. Now you're all caught up. Everything in-between is just me going to school, working on assignments, visiting Adam. Really nothing exciting at all, which is why I really don't update on a regular basis. Although I would like to be done my posting on my last trip before I go on my next one, but that's not looking so good right now!

Ta ta for now!