Shima Mirkarimi

North York General Hospital Yellow Waiting Area

After Karate last night I got a voicemail from my dad telling me he was going to go to the hospital (twice this week!). I figure since I was so close to the hospital I would go and wait with him for a little bit. When I got to North York General, I noticed there was no one in the waiting room, which is odd. It was empty! So I proceeded to go into the emergency ward (I know that damn ward like the back of my hand!). I finally found my dad in the “Yellow Waiting Area”. The nurses/doctors were way to busy to answer any of my questions, but what I gather from the sign they had posted in that room is that now when you check in at North York General, they assess the seriousness of the situation and then assign you to three different colour waiting areas. I think yellow was the least serious. I waited with my dad for about an hour, accessed his situation and decided that I could call it a night and make my way downtown.

"You've gotten so pretty tonight"

Whenever I’m home alone I listen to Persian music. If that makes me a geek, I don’t care. Any ways, after talking to a lady who does the Persian Wedding Table cloth thing, I realise that I am the least Persian person in the whole world. I don’t know anything about Persian weddings! I should have probably started wedding stuff earlier, like six months earlier. heh

New GoldFishies

I bought three new goldfish for Persian New Year! And do they ever poop!

Do goldfishies poop more if they are under stress?

Update: I’m not sure how accurate this website is, but looks like my fish are under stress!

Repaying my OSAP loan

Whenever I feel like making a big purchase (i.e. planning a post-grad trip) I consult with Uncle Osap, just to see if I can justify going away for a few weeks or paying him back for all his “help”. Since I haven’t made a big purchase in a few months, I haven’t had a reason to check in with him until recently. And look at that, his website was recently redesigned.

So then I decided to try to calculate my monthly rate if I wanted to pay back my loan right now. I used their handy dandy calculator to figure it out. Things are looking grim my friends.

If I were to repay my loan in 12 months with 6% interest, my estimated monthly payment will be: $3,078. That’s a monthly pay cheque total that I haven’t been familiar with for a few summers! (In comparison, my Estimated Student Loan Interest Tax Credit will only be $336…. $3,078 a month for $336 tax credit just doesn’t seem fair.)

Oh well… I guess I will plan my trip and cross my fingers that a. I get an awesome raise at work, or b. I find a super well paying job that will pay the bills for a year after graduation.

don't text me anymore

after two years of free service with bell, I have to start paying for my cellphone services… so that means text messages will cost me 15 cent a piece, so don’t do it.. and don’t call me either. email me instead! :P

Last Design Class?

I handed in my last design project of this year yesterday. After spending about 48 hours of no sleep we had ten minutes to present our final product. 10 minutes! Ha ha. That’s fine. At that point I don’t think I could have strung together a coherent sentence anyways.

We started with many critiques but eventually by the time our presentation rolled around there were only two or three left, including an architecture prof from Waterloo. I think my favourite most memorable line from him was “Euro Trash”! Think about it. That’s harsh!

my..laptop...is...slow..

You know your laptop is slow when every time you draw a line in illustrator, you actually have time to surf the net. Why? Why? Sigh. Faulty, you can do it. I believe in you, I do. Don’t listen to Ram, I wont get another computer to replace you! I promise.