Yesterday and today is clubs day at UVic. I spent a bit of time walking around, picking up free stuff (especially buttons) from the various tables. (My favourite button? The one that says “I’ll blast high tuition fees with my magic tiara.” I wish I had a magic tiara.) Today I checked out the various political clubs because I figured they might be able to tell me who the candidates are in my riding and give me an idea of who I should vote for. If I were to base my vote on the guys sitting at the tables, I would have to say Liberals. The guy was actually able to carry on an intelligent conversation, whereas the NDP’s completely ignored me. However, I like to think that I will be voting with a little more discretion than that.
After reporting my findings to my fellow IVCFers at our table, we got to talking about leaders, in particularity my [lack of] love for the NDP. Our conclusions? Moustaches are creepy.

Karissa, this one’s for you…To see more of the moustache, come out to the Law Building on campus tomorrow, 10:30.

There’s been much in the news lately about the Liberal Ads. What’s with Paul Martin? “I don’t want to have any more of these negative ads.” The next thing we see on TV? A liberal attack ad. (Click on Lisa Laflamme, right side.) Not just any ad, but one which is completely out to lunch (but, “We’re not making this up, we can’t do that”).
A liberal attack ad.
In Canada.
Attack.
In Canada.
And the funny thing? Few of the Liberal candidates are actually trying to distance themselves from the ads.
So, to quote Andrew Coyne, are we in a place where we need to vote Liberal to keep Duceppe out of Stornoway?

On the Greens, they are willing to look into vote reform, keep personal information personal, create a national cancer fighting stragegy, meet and surpass Kyoto, use environmentally responsible energy sources, responsible health care and education, and more…
I like how they are interested in prevention when it comes to health care, not just treatment. They’ve also proposed tax cuts, but only on environmentally friendly items. I guess that is a good way to encourage people to buy green…

…and thus started the first day of the last semester of my degree.

Wow, if feels good to actually be there, and I think I’m going to like all my classes this semester too. Even though I’ve only experienced two of them as of yet, I am hopefully optimistic.

Spent a crazy holiday… too short yet too long. I would have liked more time to chill at home here before I had to head back over to the Lower Mainland. However New Years in Cuba was fantastic. Yes, thats right, Cuba. My first ever warm New Years. So now I am back home, sporting a fantastic tan, and loving making everyone here jealous. Especially those who went back east for Christmas where there is heaps of snow… It is currently 3am Cuban standard time, 11pm for me here in the Pacific time zone – I am trying to acclimatize my body back to this time by procrastinating in putting away my laundry so I can find my bed to go to sleep. I reckon that if I wait long enough before going to bed I won’t wake up at 5am again. That was a little too early this morning.

I was out tonight at a farewell dinner for a good friend who is heading off to Australia for 6-ish months. She leaves Monday. I will be sad. All my friends over there, if you meet a really cool Canadian girl named Megan who knows me, be super nice to her! I’m also kinda jealous ’cause I want to go back to Australia…