Not To Be Trusted With Knives

Since clearly I’m way too busy to actually write all those blog postings I said I was going to write, here’s an even shorter summary of what I’ve been doing since my last summary:

• Monday was a (mercifully) low key day, after all the crazy busy-ness of the first several days of my trip. I got to walk my niece to school – late, as she slept in, which she apparently *never* does. Clearly I am Bad Influence Aunt. We did, however, learn the sign in procedure for being late at her school. After that I came back to the house to hang out with Nancy, Jeff & my nephew. And also to work on my guest lecture for Dan’s class.
• I made “chicken” pot pie¹ for dinner and then we went to Ed’s Real Scoop for some freaking delicious ice cream.
  
• Then Nancy, Thomas and I headed off to Guelph. Since Dan’s class starts at 9 a.m., we figured it made more sense to head there the night before rather than try to fight morning traffic. Nancy and the baby stayed at her in-laws and I stayed at Dan’s. We may or may not have stayed up until 12:30 a.m. chatting and working. And he may or may not have introduced me to coconut milk ice cream.
• Tuesday was a day spent in Guelph. Dan & I rocked his class, with my Prezi awesomeness and his stats-y genius. After that we went for lunch at the Grad Lounge², then meandered around campus – where I haven’t been since I finished my Masters there in August 2000! Then suddenly it was suddenly the end of the day. We took a grand total of 0 photos, despite our best laid plans of taking planking and jump shots. We were clearly too exhausted from being awesome all day to arrange photo shoots.
• Next it was off to my sister’s in laws for dinner. Dinner of amazing deliciousness – homemade spring rolls, baked potato, deviled eggs, a huge salad, and steak for the meat-consumers. Followed by banana splits! For those of you counting, that was my third ice cream in a 24 hour period!
• Then it was back to Toronto in time to tuck my wee niece into bed!
• And now I’m writing this blog posting! Go me!

Plans for the rest of my trip include:

• Wednesday = Kalev Day
• Thursday = morning with my mom, Aunt Eileen³, evening = a belated birthday dinner for my dad.
• Friday = my last day in Toronto!

1. Or, as my friend Jody has no dubbed it, “brave pot pie.” [↩]
2. Spicy tofu tacos and beer for me, pork tacos and beer for Dan. [↩]
3. Who are both retired and thus can meet for breakfast on a weekday morning! [↩]

Tags: book learnin', family, friends, Guelph, Ontario, people who are cool enough to invite me to visit them, Toronto, travel

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