OK, I’m going to shut up about my birthday pretty soon, seeing as it was a week ago. Those of you who know me know that I do like to be the centre of attention, so is it really surprisingly that I celebrate my birthday for a whole week? I mean, really, would you expect […] →Read more
Does anyone else see the humour in the fact that this Career Fair poster features a photo of an unemployed graduate of one of the sponsoring Faculties?? In related news, I saw a job posting for a Professor of Potato Storage Physiology. Would you really want to have that as your job title?? →Read more
Cast of Characters (in alphabetical order): Alicia: friend of mine through school and through science outreach work.Beth: um, this is me. But you knew that!Danielle: my awesome roommate and former hockey team captain!Jasmine & Jesse: Danielle’s friends. It was Jesse’s birthday too, so they have a bunch of friends coming on this adventure too.Kalev: friend […] →Read more
Didn’t get a chance to write up a summary of my Tofino adventures today – had to catch up on actual work I didn’t do while I was away for the weekend. Nearly didn’t make it home in time to post before midnight… had a meeting this evening that ran long, went to the grocery […] →Read more
It’s very cold and icy at 6:35 am in Vancouver and my friends who would get up at that ungodly hour to catch a bus to the ferry to the 3 hour drive for my birthday trip totally rock. Ice cream products in the vending machine are extremely cold. BC Ferries have a vegetarian breakfast […] →Read more
Yup, I’m totally phoning this one in, folks. Today’s post is a pic of me and a pic of my niece: But give me a break, it is midnight and I have to catch a bus at 6:35 am. I’m all packed, except the stuff that I’ll neeed in the a.m., like my toothbrush, which […] →Read more
Apparently, it’s National Delurking Week this week*. Why I am always the last to find out about these things?? So those of you who are reading my blog, but not commenting, it is your patriotic duty to leave a comment! According to my StatsCounter, I had 35 unique visitors yesterday! 35**!! Who are you? Who […] →Read more
1 – # of neices I have2 – # of countries to which I have been*3 – # of continents to which my neice had been before the age of 14 – # of blogs for which I currently write5 – current +/- of both of the Sedin twins6 – # of homes in which […] →Read more
Is there anything better than sitting at home, drinking a nice hot cup of tea, listening to the radio where everyone is calling in talking about being stuck in traffic because of this unexpected blizzard* we are having? 30 car pile up** here, traffic backed up for hours there. Apparently the RCMP have issued a […] →Read more
Just over 8 months ago, I watched some friends run in the Vancouver half marathon. OK, in the interest of accuracy, I went and watched a lot of people who weren’t my friends cross the finish line and somehow didn’t see any of my friends cross. While watching people cross the finish line, having just […] →Read more