busy weekend

So, it's been yet another week or so and for once stuff actually happened. On Friday was the ARC Blood Drive here. Pain in the butt though, they wouldn't let me give 'double-red' which means you give 2x as many red blood cells and they put back the plasma. Turns out, you can only give 6 units of blood per year and giving double would have put me up to 7. (but I would have been able to do it on saturday...figure that one out) so, in the end, I gave just the normal 1 pint.
Sunday was a fun day, I had the Polar Plunge (yay for jumping into lake Ontario in the dead of winter) and surprisingly, I wasn't that cold but I think that's mostly attributed to the fact that I was running off of adrenaline. I found it amusing, my friends who were watching me do the plunge were actually colder than I was. I even had icicles attached to my legs and that make me laugh.
Well, today was interesting... I had my OPE at School of the Arts and it turns out there was a 36 car pile-up on 390 yesterday and the only person that died was a junior in that school and was actually in a few of the classes that I was observing. It was a hard day for everyone and you could definitely feel it when you walked into the class rooms. There were tears being shed and hugs all around. It's amazing how such a tragedy can bring together such a great number of people.
Here's to a better week
~Phillip Andrew