Well folks, it's "spring break" here for me, but that's a bit of a misnomer since it isn't even spring yet. The uni. officially calls this week "Reading Week", but really it ought to be called the "suicide prevention among students week" since that is truly the purpose of its existence up here. After all, it is -20C on a daily basis, with only 9 hours of sunlight at this time of year...
Anyway, this week was supposed to be somewhat of a week off for myself, but things never work out that way, for a number of reasons. First being that I am campaigning for student government at the U of Manitoba. I cannot reveal what position I am campaigning for or any platform points on my blog due to bizarre campaign bylaws that our student union has in place in order to try to make the available resources perfectly equal to all candidates. Now this means that the internet is out-of-bounds except for a small designated webspace, which costs $30 to rent for one month (and you don't get a domain, php, etc...) plus facebook!
This frustrates me, as a long time facebook holdout (disliking that much data in one place), as this essentially says to me that I can do nothing on the internet except talk about things in a very vague manner (such as this post) without disqualifying myself from the campaign. I can't even say that I'd change it if I win, since that would be a platform point, which I cannot release.
So this campaign will keep me very busy, which is fine, it's just that my week off is now crammed with platform decisions and so forth... plus homework, visiting folks that I can't see during regular hours, etc.
Erg! Well, these are not the only things that are keeping me busy over this week: I also need to travel out of town to give a KDE related presentation at Brandon Uni.'s unix group. Brandon is the second largest city in my province, but that doesn't say much as there's only maybe 60K people there (give or take a little...). That said, I'm told the turnout is usually pretty good for talks there simply on account of the fact that so few people bother to give talks there, and so they are starved :)
Also, we (KDE folks) will make the decision sometime this week on the location of the next KDE Americas conference/meeting/shindig... Helio was swamped with work (as usual) so he didn't get a proposal together for Brazil, but we still have two good proposals to choose from for January 2009. Maybe for the Jan. 2010 event, we'll end up in Brazil finally -- There are too many KDE users down there to ignore :)
Lastly, the week I'm back in school will be even worse, with several midterms, papers due, a hockey game, campaigning, lectures, labs, and a trip to Toronto over the weekend to attend a major geosciences convention. Hopefully the hostel there is of higher quality than the one I was forced to spend the first night in when I went to Akademy last summer :)
Cheers folks
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