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I hope it'll be okay. My average has been adequate, at least enough to be in good academic standing, but at the same time I need more then just an Honours BSc to get a good job. Thing is, I don't feel up for med school or a Master's or PhD just yet. So right now I'm looking at career college.

I visited the Chans with my dad on Friday, my dad took some Cuban rum he had been holding for them so they could fill up their liquor limit. They were telling us about their delays at the airport, while my uncle made Mojitos with the mint syrup he bought while there. One Mojito and I felt the buzz, not being able to hold liquor sucks.

On the subject of visiting relatives, we're going to see some today, it's my little cousin Jessica's birthday. I hope Jonathan's doing well too, he was a bit sick last time I saw him.

Also, my Aunt and Uncle from Sault St. Marie are coming here, it's a 9 hour drive. And it's only for one reason: their pet cat is sick and needs surgery. Since Sault St. Marie is a ******** town that has no good cat surgeons, they're staying here and taking Coco for treatment in a nearby town. I don't know why they didn't go to the place I suggested, but my dad says it's because my uncle simply has to have the surgeon that he wants. Everyone refers to Coco as my Uncle's daughter or baby. My dad and the Chans made fun of how people use pets as substitues for babies these days but I think they're really insensitive because none of them have pets. Having worked in an Animal Hospital, I've seen how people's pets do become family and like children and it's traumatic to lose a pet.

I started taking up Piano again. No formal lessons, just playing again for the sake of playing, which makes me feel good. I'm dusting off old pieces I haven't touched in years such as All I Ask of You, the Pink Panther Theme and Memory, as well as ones I've never attempted, such as Hey Jude and the Charlie Brown theme. My mom says I should go back and try to do more tests at the Royal Conservatory, and maybe I will, but for now I just play for my own personal enjoyment and I'll get around to opening up those exercise books on my own time.

My younger sister is coming back today, with no diploma and an uncertian future. I hope she gets her act together soon. I've been feeling a lot of self doubt about how well I'm going to do in the world. But I guess I could always be worse off.

I feel badly for the people whose homes got flattened by the Hurricane and how terribly their government has messed up in dealing with it. I guess all it took was a hurricane to point out just how incompetent the Bush administration is. I think it also shows the faulty logic of ultra-conservative government. When you take away resources and cut back emergency management from the needy and give them to the rich. When you cut back on environmental protections and let companies drain flood reducing wetlands and industry regulation. When you give important government positions to incompetent, unqualfied chronies. And when you waste treasury money reserved for emergencies on a war with a country that actually bent to your demands for no other reason then a personal grudge. It all collapses and results in a mess when a real crisis comes and people need help.

My driving test is on Tuesday and I'm a bit nervous, my dad says to stay calm at it will all be fine. I hope so, I need to pass and get my G or I'm starting all over again. Gotta bug my dad about my investment account too, he doesn't want to settle it until my sister's back to he can take care of us both at once.

I think I'll apply for job at the Science Center, but I'm not sure if I can handle it right now with classes as well. I guess I'll see how my first week goes and then try for it. I could do it and it pays pretty well, but it's only temporary contract work and the hours are irregular. Who knew finding a job could be so frustrating?