When I Have a Bad Day

I am having a bad day.

My bad days rarely come around. Usually when they strike it starts first thing in the morning and is constant stream of crappy happenings until bedtime. Today is one of those days.

Normally, I have very strict rules for my bad days.

1. Shut up about your bad day. Nobody wants to hear about it. Don’t tweet or blog about it, seriously there are bigger problems than whatever is going on with your lame excuse for a bad day. Give it up and get over it. You better not make a Facebook post about it, you whimp.
2. Don’t eat everything in sight. Tomorrow your bad day will be over and you’ll fee like crap if you eat whatever. The only thing worse than your bad day today is being bloated and nasty (mean) because you ate crappy food all day yesterday because you were having a bad day. Give it up, show a little self control and eat a salad and a burger. Have an iced coffee and maybe a piece of dark chocolate dipped in almond butter, you will feel better.
3. If you watch Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad or any TV show or movie that deals with crime and bad-assedness you will start a hard as ---- complex in your mind and it will make you want to smoke (gross). Sit and look at pictures of puppies, YouTube videos of people falling or watch Katherine Hiegl movies--- you are soft and malleable (like a teddy bear). Do not forget this or you will start acting like a thug and people will be intimidated by you for the wrong reasons. You are a nice girl, who has never gotten in a real fight and orange would not look good on you.
4. No one should know you are having a bad day. You have not mentioned, so how could they know? 

I’m not crazy. I just polished off the first season of ‘Orange is the New Black’ and I am really into ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Sons of Anarchy’ starts up again tonight. Combine all these bad ass TV shows and a Kate Bruce bad mood and you’ve got a wicked complex. I remember watching the movie ‘Thirteen’ when I was sixteen and having a bad day and having the worst complex afterwards.

Clearly, I have broken all of those rules today... 

So until its quitting time I am spending my time focusing on these things:

And most of all:

Because not only am I having an Eeyore like day, I am super super lame. 

'Get Connected' with Selkirk College, Kate Goes Back to School!

Today I went back to school… again.

Up until a couple of months ago I was a professional student (June 2013 to be exact). I spent 19 years in school systems in one way or another. I spent six years in post secondary school, four years at University (StFX) and two years in Radio and Television School (NSCC). I was SUPER excited to be over that and working this year, but surprise (seriously, I was shocked) Friday afternoon I was informed I would be heading back to school on Tuesday with all the students at Selkirk College’s Castlegar Campus.

I left home with this classic Adam Sandler bit from Billy Madison (one of my favourites) in my head. Yes, I am the kid who sang this every first day of school growing up because my aunt let me watch it when I was way too young to understand 90% of the movie (she got in a lot of trouble with my very overprotective father for watching it with me). I have had it stuck in my head ALL DAY, so hopefully now you feel my pain.

I was not social when I started university, honestly this social butterfly did not come out of her cocoon until she turned 19 (I still struggle with it sometimes and revert to hermit mode whenever possible). My roommate and I survived Frosh Week by putting an ‘A’ (for athlete) on our door and hiding inside.

We were those kids, the two girls who no one knew. It was so nice to see Selkirk College combating the first-day nervousness today with a great day for their students full of activities, food, entertainment and more food. Seriously, I think I would have come out of my dorm room for the burgers Selkirk College was dishing out today, they had bacon for them… who does that? Answer: only people who really care about you and improving the state of a burger; that is amazing in my books.

Welcome to the neighborhood all you new Selkirk College students. I don’t have much time on you here in the Kootenays (if you are not from the Kootenays) or in BC in General (I’ve only been in British Columbia since July) but I am extending my hand to help you get used to this place we now call home. Seriously, lets be friends.

Here I am all packed and ready to go to school today:

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