NaBloPoMo – Day 12 – Happy birthday to my mom!

Got to spend a lovely day for my mom’s birthday! My mom, sister, three of my aunts, and I went to see the Murder on the Orient Express ((My nephew asked what movie we were going to see and we told him it was Murder on the Orient Express and he replied, “Is that the […] →Read more

NaBloPoMo – Day 11 – Surprise!

Tomorrow is my mother’s birthday, so I thought it would be fun to show up unannounced for a surprise birthday visit! The conference I was at in Washington, DC ended today and, unbeknownst to my mom, I had to fly through Toronto to go back to Vancouver. So I decided that instead of having a […] →Read more

NaBloPoMo Day 10 – Hallelujah

Still at the conference, still awesome but totally exhausting, and now dealing with eleventy billion work emails that I wasn’t able to deal with while conferencing. So instead of a blog posting, I’m giving you this video to watch, because we did a sing-a-long of this with modified lyrics and it’s been stuck in my […] →Read more

NaBloPoMo Day 9 – Conferences are exhausting

Brain so full! So many good ideas to apply to my work, new tools to try out, new things to read, etc. And there’s still two more days! →Read more

NaBloPoMo Day 8 – WTF

I’m working on my slides for my conference presentation tomorrow ((I’m not procrastinating. You’re procrastinating!)) and I am searching some sites that provide high quality images with Creative Commons or other licenses that allow their use in presentation ((Yay respecting copyright!)). I just searched “woman thinking”  and a shocking number of them have topless or […] →Read more

NaBloPoMo Day 7 – Washington

I’ll do a more complete recapping of my trip once I’m done with the trip, but here are a few, random, initial thoughts about Washington. This city is pretty cool. It’s got a cool vibe and there are so many freaking things to see here! As much as I’m super excited about the conference I’m […] →Read more

NaBloPoMo Day 6 – Washington bound

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m heading to Washington, DC. Currently sitting at the gate waiting for my red-eye flight. I like red-eye flights going east because I can sleep on the plane, then go about my day when I get there. By the time evening rolls around in Eastern time, because I only got a […] →Read more

NaBloPoMo Day 5 – The Forgotten Suitcase

I’m heading out on a trip to Washington, DC for a conference and since I’ll be there for a week, I decided that I’ll need to take my comically large suitcase and not just my carry-on, because I don’t travel light and I like shoes. The suitcase in question is the purple suitcase that I bought […] →Read more

NaBloPoMo Day 4 – That Time I Was Acknowledged for Contributions To A Museum Exhibit

True story: The exhibit in question, “Bottoms Up: The Cultures of Drink in the Royal City” is on from now until March at the New Westminster Museum and Archives from now until March 25, 2018. You should check it out! →Read more

NaBloPoMo Day 3 – I always remember that I have a bad memory

I read an article the other day about how if you have memory problems, but you know that you have memory problems, you probably aren’t developing dementia. Rather, your memory problems are probably due to something else, like depression or sleep deprivation. If you have memory problems but you aren’t aware that you are forgetting […] →Read more