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As you may recall, I love Halloween. I especially love dressing up for Halloween. And I thought that I’d have to forgo it this year because working from home means no office costume contest and pandemic restrictions means no parties ((A colleague of mine pointed out the other day that not only did COVID screw […] →Read more
As I mentioned yesterday, for Thanksgiving I made a list of 100 things for which I am thankful, just under the wire to be able to mark it as “done” before my list of 100 things to do in 1001 days expired. I started the list quite a while ago, so a few things had […] →Read more
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I was thinking about how I had “write a list of 100 things for which I’m grateful” on my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days *and* how that 1001 days was coming to an end soon, so maybe I should write that list for Thanksgiving. And then I […] →Read more
Yesterday, Watson and Crick turned 9. I was going to write this blog posting yesterday, but then Crick jumped on my lap and so I couldn’t get up to get my laptop, as it would be wrong to disturb a cat that is happily sitting on one’s lap on any day, let alone her birthday. […] →Read more
It was just over six months ago that the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic and six months ago today was the last day that I worked in my office (which is the milestone in my brain of when the world changed the most for me). Living during a pandemic like this […] →Read more
Because 2020 is the year that just won’t quit sucking, we found a lump in Crick’s neck about two weeks that turns out to be (probably) feline Hogkin’s-like lymphoma. We took her to the vet to get the lump checked out and they did a fine needle aspirate (a.k.a., stick a needle in the lump […] →Read more
I decided to take this week off work. Figured it was a good chance to recharge my brain before I have to really start prepping for my fall classes. Plus Scott and I went to Kelowna this weekend and I got some produce that I want to pickle, so I figured that it’s better to […] →Read more
Somehow, I have been blogging for 15 years. Not sure how that’s possible, but given that in these pandemic-y times a month seems like a year, maybe I’ve only been blogging for 15 months? Who knows, really? It is impossible to tell. Despite my long and storied blogging career, it has come to my attention […] →Read more
I know I say this every year – even years without pandemics – but how the hell is the year half over? The year seems to be flying by, especially given that March was three years long. I recently finished teaching a summer intersession course at SFU. “Intersession” is Latin from “cram a 12 week […] →Read more
Today would have been my dad’s 75th birthday. What can I say about my dad that I haven’t said a million times before? In honour of his birthday, I have named my shiny Pidgey Pokemon after my dad and have made him my buddy for the day. In truth, Pidgey looks less like a real […] →Read more