Working For The Weekend

This has been quite the week I have a presentation, assignment, exam and another presentation to do. If you’re interested S. my project had to do with using a component from garlic extract, ajoene as a mouth wash for the treatment of oral pharyngeal candidiasis. Before I get any further I’d like to ask Lala and Chrissy to drop me their blog addresses, they don’t seem to be in your profiles anymore and I like reading your blogs.

Although I have an exam this Friday I’m already looking forward to the weekend. It’s going to be jam packed with fudge, animals and yes even jam. I always look forward to this time of year because it’s the time when the Royal Ontario Agricultural Winter Fair comes to Toronto. I discovered the fair about 4 years ago when I was dragged and it was pretty much literally to something I thought would be hoaky, boring and inane. However, I was wrong, very wrong. I ended up having a good time once I opened my mind to the thing and was coaxed with chococlate. Now I intend to fulfill the circle and take the lovely Nikki to The Royal and make her a true believer. Think of it as my little cult, if anyone wants to go during the week after I’m game!

Now you’re all probably scratching you’re noggins wondering what the heck has this suit wearing molecular biologist so enthralled? Is it the cow pies? Well I have to tell you it’s a bunch of things and I’ll try to run them down in no particular order. They have the best fudge that I’ve ever had in my life. It’s so great in fact that I spend a whopping 25 bucks on this royal fudge. Now for normal people with some sort of income and not spending $15,000 on school this would amount to approximately $1.5 million dollars. Don’t even bother challenging me I have the best business prof’s from Rotman teaching me economics, they’re the ones that tell me I need to pay them $15,000 for a degree (yes that’s a year).

The animals also happen to be a big draw for me. I don’t know how it happened but at some point I developed an affinity for barn year creatures. Seeing all the pigs, horses, chickens, goats, alpacas and lemurs is tons of fun. Yes I have no clue where lemurs became barnyard animals but I guess they have barns in Madagascar. Also at some point I developed an affinity for hoses and would want one at some point so this is kind of like car shopping for me (I also want a mosquito but I’ll get into that in another post).

There’s also the tradition of me getting my photo done with the prize winning pigeon. I’m sure you understand so I won’t even bother explaining. Another thing that is tons of fun is watching the horse show. They do tons of things like dressage and carriage racing but I’m there for the jumping. I know it’s not as cultured as watching a horse with ribbons prancing about to the lion king musical but it’s pretty cool to see something jump higher than six foot four. Now there are also the candy apples and other things which I intend to ply Nikki with.

Now this is getting long but I’m also going to go to the zoo as well as hopefully see the Borat movie. What are you good people doing this weekend?