Leaside Health Centre Vs. Perimeter Institute

	LHC	PI
Mundane tasks	Yes, but varied with annoying ones involving insurance companies	Yes, but varied with interesting ones involving physics
Hours	4 days a week, 8-5	5 days a week, more or less 9-5
Location	In a building with a Finnish senior’s home, no windows, in Toronto	The building has won prizes for architecture, windows everywhere, in Waterloo
Boss	Uptight dentist who likes to hear the sound of his own voice and takes his stress out on me	Young physicist from Australia who doesn’t even find preparing an hour-long lecture 5 minutes before hand stressful
My ideas count	No	Yes
People around me	Secretaries who are interested in boring girly things like weddings	Students who have a passion for physics, math, learning, and life
Opportunities	No	Many
How I’m treated	With condescension and tolerance because it’s the ‘nice’ thing to help out a student	With respect for my input and gratitude for what I do, because menial as my tasks may be, they still need to be done.
How it lived up to my expectations	A let down. It was so much better last summer in comparison to Dominion.	Working at PI was as great as I’d hoped it would be.

WARNING: HP and the Half-Blood Prince spoiler

I finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince last night. I must admit I'm disappointed. Earlier I had been speculating as to who could be the one to die. I was saying that it couldn't be Dumbledore because that would be too obvious and that's who J.K. Rowling seemed to be pointing too through most of the novel. I was hoping for a twist. But it never came. Snape was indeed a Death Eater and the Half-Blood Prince. Dumbledore died. Gryffindor won the Quidditch against all odds yet again. Hermione and Ron got together, as did Harry and Ginny. And while I'm on the topic of Harry and Ginnny, could there have been a lamer break-up?!? "Oh Ginny, I must leave you for your own good as I must be a noble lame-assed pussy." Then there was his whole coming-of-age "I'm going to fulfill my destiny" crap.

Overall, it was predictable, teen-angsty (it's a word now), and lame. This one really was just one big set-up for the last book. All that being said, I still couldn't stop reading it. They're addicting books. So I will, like many other, still eagerly await the final book, despite the Half-Blood Prince.