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It’s Thursday night and the Aggiettes are ready for some hockey!!! The fans are out in full force! They have cow bells! That’s right — in plural — cow bells to cheer us on! The bag piper (complete with kilt) is ready to pipe us out on to the ice (Aggies know how to make […]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone! Hope you all enjoy some green beer (or green beverage of your choice!) In honor of St. P Day, my hockey team went to the bar and drank beer after our game tonight. OK, in reality we just happened to be at the bar post-game when it turned into St. […]
…is definitely going to originate from hockey equipment. That stuff is rancid! Have you ever smelled hockey equipment? Probably not, because if you had, you would not have survived and, therefore, could not be reading this blog entry. But trust me, it’s disgusting. And speaking of hockey gear, my friends Danielle & Kim (a.k.a. Tenacious […]
“The University has no business being in business”-David Suzuki The last speaker in the Global Citizenship* Seminar Series was David Suzuki. Although I’ve been here at UBC for 5.5 years, this is the first time I’ve heard of him actually speaking here (he was a UBC prof until 2001, when he retired, and is now […]
Today in the Food Microbio course that I TA for, the students were reading an article on avian influenza in which it stated that “intimate contact” with poultry was a risk for transmission of bird flu to humans. Later it talked about “unprotected” contact with poultry. Seriously, did the person writing this article not realize […]
The problem on the “Schedule of Upcoming Doctoral Examinations” has been solved, so I am no longer an anthropologist and/or sociologist. It turns out that Grad Studies had just linked to the info about the wrong Beth Simpson in their database, a Beth Simpson who apparently graduated in 2000.Which is good, ‘cuz I think I […]
Cool People Who Are Coming to My Defence* (in alphabetical order) Jennifer Bedford Danielle Billey Shalu Duggal Kalev Hunt Jenny Lee Laura Leemon Sarah MacDonald-McLean Kim Mayes Dave McLean Larry Mroz Candice Rideout Craig Smith David Simpson Ziba Vaghri Cool People Who Will Be With Me In Spirit Daniela (Whitehorse) Jorge (Toronto) JWo (Toronto) Kaede […]
If you are using Mozilla Foxfire to view my blog, you will see that I now have a snazzy new countdown clock in the sidebar, counting down the days to my defence (thanks to Kalev, my genius friend who did that for me!). If you are using Internet Explorer to view my blog, you will […]
I just checked the “Schedule of Upcoming Doctoral Examinations” on the Faculty of Graduate Studies website and apparently on the same day that I’m defending my thesis, at the same time and in the same room, someone named Beth Simpson is defending her Ph.D. in Anthropology & Sociology on Environment, Economics, and Consumption: Conflicting Cultural […]
Received confirmation today! Dear Beth, Your Final Doctoral Oral Examination has been scheduled to take place on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 9:00am in Room 200 of the Graduate Student Centre. Hooray! But also, “Oh my god!” BTW, you are all invited!