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Well, I still need a new name for my blog. Only Dave has been so kind as to make any suggestions for far (thanks Dave! You win 50,000 points!), but I have a feeling that “David Emerson is a Whore” might become dated a little too quickly (especially if this minority government falls because I […] →Read more
My sister knitted me this lovely Palm Pilot cozy for my birthday! Isn’t it stylin’? Now I no longer have to worry about my Palm Pilot case getting scratched up (well, more scratched up than it already is) when I chuck it in my bag with various keys, pens, etc. Hooray for Nancy! Now, I […] →Read more
I was checking out the hit count for my blog and lo and behold, discovered a shocking fact about the number of visitors I’ve had this month: Who knew that the devil himself was interested in thesis-themed blogs? In unrelated news, someone on a computer at the Parliament found my blog by Googling “Stephen Harper […] →Read more
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 […] →Read more
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. […] →Read more
…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 […] →Read more
“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 […] →Read more
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 […] →Read more
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 […] →Read more
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 […] →Read more