It's Happening!!! To me?

I'm not sure what's going on.
My hair is Turning grey!!

I'd spotted the lone white hair in my left eyebrow just after Christmas and had shrugged it off.

"Ahh, it's only the stress of exams, nothing to worry about. It'll go away right?" I said smiling, letting tweezers make short work of it.

Wrong!
There has been an explosion.
The hairs on my arms are becoming sprinkled with white. My eyebrows are becoming peppered and worst of all... My head!

I had my haircut yesterday in preparation for my renewed foray with the pro-engineering world. The interviews are lining up nicely but my stress is also building.

"Colum! You are becoming wiser, no?"

I looked in the mirror at Vittorio. The short Italian man was barely visible in the mirror. His head and shoulders visible, floating around me madly as he cut, his smock flying up every now and then like a cape.

"Huh?"

"You must be learning much at work and school, you are showing it now." He said laughing.

I didn't understand. My face must have shown it, for a second later his hand jetted up beside my face, without my glasses I strained to focus on what he held.

"Oh, a gray hair?" I said, smirking. "Ya, they've been creeping in there."

"No Colum My Boy... Hairs! Many of them." He said smirking, knowing he had just rocked my world.

I squinted at his opened palm.

"Holy shit!"

Dozens of white hairs were laid out there, mixed with a few of their darker kin, they stood out like snow against his recently vacationed skin.

He laughed.

The haircut finished and soon thereafter my glasses restored my sight.
"Well holy shit!" I said, brushing my hand through my hair.
Peppered hair!

"This is simply unacceptable." I said.

"You're no spring chick now Colum, no more fooling the girls." He said laughing, pulling my smock off. A good joke, one aimed at the age difference between my classmates and me.

My hair had grown over the past month, but apparently, the layer that had just been removed had been the last of my youth, carefully hiding the truth that had lay beneath. With my 25th birthday just around the corner I groaned, hardly a good way to start off. The revoking of my youth.

I looked down at the floor as I handed over his due payment.
The last of my "kiddie hair" lay in several clumps where it had fallen during the massacre.

Strange though.
I had been excited when I had lost my last of my kiddie teeth and finally graduated into a mouthful of adult teeth. Hardly seems fitting that I should be so unhappy about this advent of aging.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that no one is offering to give me a dollar for each hair that I pull and put under my pillow.

Alright, so It's been a while. But luckily in the near-month that I've disappeared from the internet, a lot has happened.

Here's a photo. It explains a lot of what I've been doing :)
This is one of those pictures where you can actually feel the pain of the person in the shot.

Unfortunately, the person in this shot happens to be me.
I ran the bluenose marathon (10k road race) this past Sunday morning. Despite a strained right calf I shocked myself. My training and dedication paid off.

I finished 39th out of the 967 runners who did finish. Could this be the beginning of a new hobby? :)
Well, I've already signed on for 2 more races in addition to the Historic Tely 10 road race back home.

I'm also back in school. Though I hesitate to say it seriously. Some of the problems with actually believing I'm in school have come from the face that a) The price of my books is roughly equal to half the price of tuition b) I'm in school for less than 10 hours, 3 days a week; c) every weekend is a 4 day weekend.

So, in addition to denying the reality of being back in the clutches of an overprice education system, I've also been thrown back into the co-op placement foray. But things are opening up a lot wider than before. In addition to the Oil & Gas jobs, positions with Research in Motion and other surprisingly 'High tech' companies are rolling in.

Things are shaping up well.. Despite the fact that the plan I had laid out ever-so-carefully has spun out of control.

But whatever, I'm happy... And it'll soon be my birthday
I'm not going to complain.
Big things are happening faster than small things these days.
Hence the poor quality of this post and the lack of time to post :)

Finally, the insanity of work has ended.
But instead of being replaced with a blissful break,
It has been replaced with boredom.

I've spent some of today looking over what I did these passed 4 months. With all of my work laid out before me it becomes a little easier to understand why I feel relieved, yet so exhausted today.

Unfortunately, I've fallen in love with the work I was doing. Despite the back breaking amount and even with the feeling of being entombed in my office under growing stacks of paper, I really loved it.

I know this is a complete turnabout from how I felt a while ago, and the stunning change isn't lost on me.

Fortunately, my fortune tells me the boredom is not here to last.

Which brings me to the question I've been fighting with all day; Can two people's fate be so intertwined that a single fortune cookie can contain both of their.
Two pieces of paper.
One cookie.
Both specific, both different, both almost quotes from an unbelievable weekend.

I'm starting to build my greatest plan ever. One that just won't crash... but one that will never crash.