Category: friends
As I was looking at my favourite tweets for that last blog posting, I realized that I hadn’t blogged about Cath’s short story, which was recently published in LabLit. For the uninitiated ((Which included me until Cath introduced me to Lab Lit by publishing there.)): “lab lit fiction depicts realistic scientists as central characters and […]
This time I’m on the wifi-less subway heading to see Dan and Rick for dinner, again writing on my phone to post later when I’m in the land of Internet access. I’m running late and have no way to contact them, what with the ancient subway tubes through which I’m riding. Oh wait, just caught […]
Nothing says “Christmas” like a bleak board game where everyone gets turned into a zombie! My brother in-common-law refuses to play this game with my sister because it’s bleak and nearly impossible to win, so Nancy made me and her friend Daniel play it this evening. They look far too happy for people who are […]
Christmas Baking 2013 was a success! We baked a grand total of 9 things: Chinese almond cookies Jan Hangel cookies flaxseed crackers gingerbread marshmallow puff tartlets – which I renamed Hufflepuffs mocha nut butterballs shortbread Turtle bars white chocolate & macadamia nut cookies Here’s Madeline, baking Turtle bars: Some chopped macadamia nuts: Thomas and Grandma […]
Went to Drake 150 for dinner tonight, with my friends Jen and Tanya, who I went to high school with a million years ago. Was so nice to catch up with them – it’s been awhile since I’ve been to Toronto, but they are the kind of friends that no matter how long it’s been […]
Written earlier today, on a plane where they don’t have the Internets. On a plane, heading to see the fam in Toronto for the Christmas holidays. I’m strangely antsy – we’ve only been flying for an hour so far, but I’ve alternated between deciding I should nap, then that I should read and then flipping […]
Half marathon #9 complete! Here’s Alicia and I after the race: If we look a little out of it, it’s only because we are. Thanks to the aforementioned not training enough, both of us wanted to puke. But we did it and our time was better than the last two halfs that I did, so […]
You know your life is in a strange place when the 21.1 km race you are planning to run is the least stressful thing you’ve got going on. I’ve managed to have what is probably my worst training ever for a half – I started late, because I was in Europe for almost all of […]
The other day I came home to a card in the mail. It’s not my birthday and it’s too early for Christmas cards (even for the most eager of Christmas fans), I thought, so what could it be? As it turned out, it was this: A card from my friend Dr. Erika, wishing me well […]
A long, long time ago (i.e., 2009), the King George Highway in Surrey was renamed “King George Boulevard”. And since that time, Kalev and I have been referring to it as the King George Boulevard of Broken Dreams. And every time we did, it made me giggle. Which led Kalev to suggest “we are going […]