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I just got my pertussis vaccination! Showing off my post-immunization band-aid! In case you haven’t heard, there’s an outbreak of pertussis – a.k.a., whooping cough – going on the Lower Mainland of Vancouver. And, in case you didn’t know it, pertussis vaccination is one of the vaccinations you need to get a booster shot of […] →Read more
So the other day I noticed that you could make a map of all your Linked In contacts, which shows you where you have clusters of contacts and where the clusters connect. Naturally, because I love visualizations of data, I jumped on it. And this is what I got: The first thing you notice is […] →Read more
Remember that time I was in a hockey pool and did terribly? Well, there’s a new pool for the playoffs and guess who is leading the pack? These are the standings as of this morning OK, so I know that it’s early days and that I’m only 3 points ahead of Cath, who is in […] →Read more
While preparing to move into our new place, I called Telus to arrange to have my Internet connection transferred. As luck would have it, they could have a technician come the very same day as we moved our stuff in. As soon as I had the thought, “Wow, things don’t usually go this smoothly with […] →Read more
We had an Easter/Visakhi ((Truth be told, we just wanted an excuse to have a potluck.)) potluck at work and I decided it was high time I baked something ((I used to bake stuff to take to work all the time, but I’ve been so busy, blah blah blah.)). I went for something that’s relatively […] →Read more
A long, long time ago ((i.e., 5 years ago)), an intrepid young graduate (i.e., me) was buried under a mountain of student debt. More than $71,000 of student debt, in fact. Said debt was originally in the form of no fewer than 15 separate loan accounts, which were then consolidated into 3. And for the […] →Read more
After a hectic weekend of getting my taxes done ((By which I mean picking up the paperwork from my accountant, who did all the heavy lifting.)), doing homework, watching the Canucks at a pub, and a crazy amount of unpacking, I decided this evening that it was high time that I christened our new kitchen […] →Read more
Hey, remember that time that I moved to New West? Yeah, well, even though we still haven’t unpacked most our stuff, I have to say that I’m loving our new place! The not-yet-unpacked is a function of having had classes last weekend and not yet having access to our storage locker – the keys we […] →Read more
Just coming out from under a weekend of classes – and a weekend of classes means a week of nonstop homework preceding said classes. To give you a sense of what my weeks are like, I made this shiny graph: Click graph to embiginate, so you can see it in all its embiggened glory. Now […] →Read more
So apparently, just like I did with having a blog, I have been completely ignoring the fact that I’m in a hockey pool. ((I’m something of a gong show lately, what with school and death and travelling and moving and whatnot lately. Do you like how I just threw “death” in there with that other stuff all […] →Read more