Who knows what happened? My mom was open to either since she is Christian but not Catholic but it was a no-go then. I hope she gets the placement sorted out - as you said she's a health teacher so that causes problems that wouldn't be an issue if she was a social studies or science teacher etc. They probably would…

In retrospect, I probably should have been hosiptalized due to the swallowing thing during the first week - I lost 12 pounds in those 7 days. I had to quit my part time job and all my classes in the last month of term so I would have a chance of being able to write my finals (which I did and am very proud of that) I…

Wait, she's in the ed program at the U of A? My mom did the after degree program there, graduated in 2000 and I remember her talking about the practicum placement rules. You had to be catholic to have a practicum with the catholic board there. I'm pretty sure that's why one of her placements was in beaumont.

If you want some advice, I reccomend not picking something too obscure. I put a lot of money and time into naginata* and when I moved to another city after university there was no place to train. Moved again for grad school and my naginata is still collecting dust at my parents place.

Well label me Impressed and ship me to Moscow! Two months into mono and I was fighting an auto immune disease it triggered that made me barely capable of walking -plus all the symptoms of regular mono! It took me five months to shake that nasty virus!

She was both a heroine and a visionary. I also recently found out about her and her work with the green belt movement as my first group project of grad school was on the Green Belt movement. We met with Lisa Merton, the director of Taking Root (the documentary trailer is above) a week and a half before Maathai died.…

*rolls eyes* nice to know they're keeping the traditions up.

Just because people use them interchangeably in speech (hence the definition) doesn't mean that academically speaking it's correct. :) May I point you to the first defintion when you google introvert?

An introvert is not shy by definition. We can socialize with people just fine but smaller groups work better than larger ones. Also, it's an energy level thing - does being around people give you energy or take your energy? Hope this helps!

That's how I understand it happened in Alberta.

This sort of thing pisses me off. The pharamceuticals are madly running after a "female viagra" when the REAL sexual disfunctions get the "well there's some indication that this [hardcore] prescription has off label benefits for some people with your symptoms" treatment. It's only been in the last decade that the…

I'm on the opposite side of things - just got my first student loan to go to grad school. But there's a link to click on the loan website to discuss some loan forgiveness.

SenoraLydia may automatically compensate for a weak or tight muscle. That was and in some cases still is my issue and that's exactly how I would describe it too.

I agree with some of the other commenters that reccomend church/faith shopping. I was brought up in the United Church (of Canada) and one of the things that keeps me with them as an adult is that they had the space to let me explore faiths while I travelled. It's liberal (women and homosexuals welcome in ministry,…

I will have to go look at all my metirc cookbooks because I totally use 250 ml of flour in dry measures all the time.

Shocking isn't it? She's at least three steps up the real scale since troweling on the foundation would kill those freckles too.

One of my parents remarked back in grade nine about my best friend "that girl gets more and more like Eeyore every day." fast forward 12 years and she's also had a couple rounds with anti-depressants. At least they seem to be working for her. I hope you're able to get insurance to cover your prescription again soon.

Absolutely. As soon as I looked at it I was like "real skin! summer! freckles!!!"

Sorry, what? I'm too busy enjoying Emma's adorable freckles to pay any atttention.

Um, editors? Even our diplomats can't say something like that with a straight face.