Apparently, the Canadian court can now stop my Ex from being happy! Kick ass. How do I get this court order slapped onto my ex-boyfriends???
But seriously now. Since when can a court dictate when you have romantic relationships?? Does a one night stand count? What about a coffee with a friend who happens to be of the gender you prefer? Do you have to tell the courts if you come out of the closet, and thus you could be 'dating' someone that before you wouldn't have been before? WTF.
I also like that this was reported on an american site, but not Canadian...
Ok.. I realize that I haven't posted in awhile. I'm not going to lie - I forgot my password. It has taken me this long to admit to myself that I cannot for the life of me remember what my password is and reset it. So, here I am! I don't really have any pressing political commentary to make right now. I've been a little disconnected from the provincial scene, completely being engulfed in my own selfish endevours.
What I do want to comment on tonight is: my amazing rapping abilities. On Friday there was a little party for the departing Gavin Gardiner, who is moving up North. Where did this take place? Where else! The Colonial, the best/amazingest kareokee bar in Saskatoon. And what did I do here? I rapped. I rapped "Work it" by Missy Elliot, and it was nothing short of brilliant. I also sang "Its Not Unusual" by Mr. Tom Jones, and "Liquid Dreams" by O-Town (oh how I miss them...), but they were nothing in comparison to "work it".
What is the moral of this story you ask? Well there are two.. A) Everyone needs to go to the Colonial. B) I need a record deal.. Preferrably with Death Row Records... Gotta follow in Tupac's footsteps right?
I was so excited to see Borat. I wanted to go in the theatres so badly, but everyone had already seemed to have seen it.
Josie = extremely disappointed.
But, I finally rented it and watched it yesterday! I was so excited. I've watched almost every Borat clip on youtube. I loved Borat.
I was extremely disappointed again. But this time it was because the movie did not live up my expectations! There were so many better Borat clips from the Ali G Show... The movie could have been made a million times better in my view.. *sigh* oh well.. I guess it's over
Also, sorry for the lack of substantial posts lately. I have one of the crappiest exam schedules, and I've been spending 7-8 hours at the school every day by myself (sad.. i know) studying Aboriginal policy and American government. Anywho, I swear, after the 16th I'll be back!!
I apologize for the lack of posts lately. It's been a tad crazy with homework lately considering I haven't done any homework for a few weeks during the campaign and whatnot... It's safe to say that I have a lot to do in the net week or so!
But onto more important things. Just got home from Decepticon 2007, which is the annual spring conference for the Board of College Presidents and various incoming position on the respective student councils. It was pretty awesome seeing a whole wack-load of student leaders in one room like that. It definately is a pump-upper for the next year! I got to address the group, which was a little awkward becuase I wasn't sure before hand exactly what we were supposed to do there, and the exec hasn't actually met yet formally! We just got together to take our kick ass group shot that can be seen in this week's Sheaf! I suggest you all check it out (and by 'you all' i mean the 8 people who read my blog, although through the election I was gettin upwards of 25 hits a day! Go me. I'm so popular.)
I'm getting extremely excited to take office in May. It's a great bunch that got elected, and I'm super pumped to work with them, and the USSU permanent staff in the upcoming year. I think its going to be a good year :)
So the budgets here... We were told that 'students would be happy'. Is this the case?
In it students are basically given two things: 1. The freeze is continued - yay I suppose. Not that freezes are the answer to a system that is severly underfunded... But I suppose they help a little bit, and more or less they allow students to make a point about the funding of post-secondary education. What they've been advocating is tuition reductions, but that concept kind of makes me nervous I have to say. As the new VP Academic Affairs one of the things I'm really going to be focusing on is the quality of our university education. Cost is obviously an issue as our institutions are incredibly underfunded, and that is being put on the backs of our students which is ridiculous... But, I don't want to be a student at a school that is cheap for me to attend, and get a degree that is not respected by the national and international community. Quality SHOULD be our number one concern as students, for thats why we're at University. We're here to get an education to expand our minds, and hopefully get a job somewhere along the lines. Maybe drink a little on the way. There are not enough professors at our universities. The professors that are here are overworked and not allowed to do the research that they need to do to remain qualified and up to date in their fields. THIS is my major concern. So I'd like to see increased investment in our post-secondary by our Federal AND Provincial governments so that we are able to maintain a proper number of professors along with a reasonable cost for the education we receive from them.
2. The first $10,000 we make after we get our degree is income tax free. Awesome. This is really good FOR the government to attempt to solve the problem of young people leaving the province. Personally, I like this but I can't see a huge advantage for students here and now. Students have issues with money now, and two, three, four years down the road will not really effect what happens to them now. So, good intiative in the end, but it doesn't really do anything for students now.
So in the end my opinion of the budget for students is this: meh. It's ok.. Not amazing, but ok. I'd like to work next year for more with the new VP External Affairs to lobby for increased funding along with tuition fee issues.
The last few weeks has been full of stress, excitement, nerves, and sleep-less nights. But, it is now all over. I am happy to announce that I was elected to be the Vice President of Academic Affairs for the University of Saskatchewan Student's Union. I'm excited for this next year to work with some wonderful people and hopefully change people's opinions of the USSU. Recently, student's have become extremely upset with the Union. I hope to change that, and give student's something to believe in.
Thank you to everyone who supported me and helped me through these past few weeks. This was definately a group effort, and I would not have been able to do it alone. The support that I've gotten from people who love me has been overwhelming. The support I've received from people I just met has been absolutly amazing as well. People had faith in me, and I'm esctatic that I've been able to live up to their beliefs. So, THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!! I REALLY couldn't have done this without you :).
Well the USSU budget is out. USC got it Thursday night, and after a four hour long meeting, we have gotten nowhere because we haven't read it yet! If you want to read it, go to http://www.ussu.ca, and I'm told that theres going to be a link to it. Sometime this weekend I have to make time to go through it, because we only have a week, and even though its one of the busiest times for us students (most of us are taking full loads), AND the elections are on, the vote can't be delayed a week because it came out too late. *sigh*... fun weekend ahead...
This blog really has no real unity to it. Although a large number of my posts deal with student politics at the University of Saskatchewan, that is by no means what my blog is. Basically, it is a place for me to vent, a place for me to express my ideas.
