Peter Frieswick

In two hours I'm supposed to be handing in an article about how to study for exams, but I haven't written it yet because I'm kind of busy right now. The two guys I live with convinced me that it is more important to watch them play a First Person Shooter. “But don’t worry,” they say. “We’ll help you write the article at the same time.”

Which, if I weren't already an experienced procrastinator, I might actually believe.

Due to a recent blip in my e-mail communication, I've finally learned what the Bcc function of e-mail is for and how to use it.

This will be funny, I promise.

Several weeks ago I woke up with hemorrhoids. I didn’t know I had them, but I knew something was wrong because I had an uncomfortable feeling where, well, the place where hemorrhoids like to crop up. So I did the only thing any self-respecting male does when he knows he needs the doctor: I ignored the problem.

And, of course, I had a lot of good reasons for not visiting the doctor too:

University students are a hard-pressed lot. With a whopping 15 hours spent in class each week, they barely have enough time to get the rest of their important things done with the remaining 153 hours. Sleeping and pointless comments on Facebook may account for some of the time spent away from class, but not all of it. According to RAs, students spend most of their extra-curricular time avoiding their dish-washing duties.

SESAME WORKSHOP - Police are looking for Big Bird, the well known resident of Sesame Street, who has been missing for 48 hours. Though Big Bird has no known enemies, his neighbours suspect foul play.

As if there weren’t already enough ways to deliberately misinterpret the Bible, now there’s one more: the Personal Promise Bible (PPB). Produced by Phronesis International since 2005, the PPB promises customers: “you will read your first name personalized in…over 7,000 places throughout the complete Old and New Testaments.”

Popular media has recently started discussing what shamans have known for decades: the world as we know it will end on December 21, 2012. Researchers and New Age scholars have noted that on the same day the ancient Mayan calendar ends, our sun will align—for the first time in 26,000 years—with the middle of the Milky Way galaxy. These same experts warn that this event will undoubtedly be accompanied by the greatest spiritual transformation of human history—or, alternatively, the apocalypse.

Redeemer’s Storytelling Project changes the lives of children in Hamilton. The project, which just celebrated the completion of its fourth year at Memorial Public Elementary School in Hamilton, works with underprivileged students struggling with provincial literacy tests.