This post marks my first forray back into the blogspot arena since 2003. I feel almost as though I'm some sort of fraud. I've pledged my loyalty time and time again to LiveJournal and it's icons, mood themes, easy to use interface, and communities. Imagine what life would be like without 'ohnotheydidnt'? Dull and tedious for sure. I completely forgot I even owned this little corner of cyberspace until I went rummaging through the 'favourites' list on my forgotten PC. This existed before I swore my oath to the Apple gods and during a time when I thought everyone needed to be enlightened to the freedom of extreme left wing thinking. Who the hell was that person?

I'm still partway through my degree. I've changed majors so many times, and I'm not exactly sure when I'm supposed to be graduating, but if there is one thing I've learned, it is that school will always be there. It may be more expensive, but there is always that chance. People look at the completion of their post secondary education as the beginning of their 'real' lives, as if anything that occurred before it could be something they wrote off, whether it be to the restlessness of youth, hormones, or whatever. But I've learned something very important this past year ... 'real' life ... it doesn't wait. It's always been there. Post secondary education means that maybe you'll be making a bit more money than someone else, but that's about it. It signals nothing. No period of someone's life should be considered transitory.

People die everyday to make sure we have the oppertunities we do. I consider myself fairly lucky ... at least I was warned. I had time to prepare, to adapt, and to think. As morbid as it sounds, tragedy was the only thing that could inspire me to try to become a better person. How sad, considering the transition hasn't been nearly as hard as I thought it would be. I had to lose the most important person in my life because it was time for me to stop being such a brat.

I really miss my dad.