Things That Have Thwarted Me From Eating Junk Food Of Late

Laziness – I could really go for some gelato right now, but I’d have to walk all the way to my car ((which is directly outside my house)) and drive all the way to Kerrisdale ((which really is not that far away)) Pickiness – I would love a Häagen Dazs ice cream bar right about […] →Read more

Blogathon Debrief

So I’m a bit of a perfectionist. And the speed and sleep deprivation that accompanies blogging every half hour for 24 hours straight does not lend itself to perfection. So there are some things from my Blogathon – things I couldn’t remember in the haste of blogathoning – that I feel the need to rectify. […] →Read more

Happy Pride Weekend!

In celebration of Pride weekend, Kalev, Tod and I marched in the parade with PFLAG: For the record, I’m the short one with the hat. Image credit: Posted on Flickr by vl04. →Read more

Cheating 2.0

As a faculty member1, I get email from the Faculty for which I teach with all sorts of information about the goings-on on campus. Usually it’s about faculty meetings or special guest speakers or reminders to submit your grades. But an item in a recent email update really caught my attention: Student Scam Alert* A […] →Read more

Who Does She Look Like?

Last season, Tod got me hooked on Big Brother. I went from all look-down-my-nose, “Oh no, I’m not going to watch this “reality” television nonsense!” to “I NEED TO KNOW WHO IS GOING TO WIN POV1 THIS WEEK!” after about two episodes minutes.  For the record, I was pretty happy with Dan winning last year […] →Read more

Letters

Dear Gmail, Anything sent by EWjsfnoi@unLKANSWFLK.com is spam. Same goes for gYhlaSdfn@BhcbhjKLjeFN.com. Also, hgoijfvn@ncakld.com. Spam.  Trust me. Spam. Love, Me Dear Guy Driving The Truck Behind, See all that glass around you? That’s called “windows.” We can see through that. We do not want to see you pick your nose, look at your finger, then […] →Read more

Blogathon: By The Numbers

Because today I feel like writing a blog posting about as much as I feel like having my intestines removed with a dull knife… instead I give you: numbers! # Blog Postings: 49 # Guest Postings1: 8 # Hour of Blogging 24 # of litres of diet Pepsi consumed: 32 # Page Views 1720 # […] →Read more

#49 – The End!

Hey, remember that time, 48 blog posts ago, when I thought it would be a good idea to blog for 24 hours straight?  That was good times. Here’s me a fewof hours ago at Workspace, blogging about the important issues of the day: Props to all the bloggers who wrote all day and all night […] →Read more

#48 – My 40th Birthday, Being Planned WAAAAAY In Advance

So, remember how I got a bunch of friends to go surfing with me in Tofino for my 30th birthday?  My *January* birthday.  Well, it was a tonne of fun, but FSM it was cold.  So I decided shortly thereafter that for my 40th birthday, I want to go surfing somewhere warm.  You know, like […] →Read more