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Last night I had a dream that I was running a half marathon on the Simon Fraser University campus. A spectator yelled that I was doing great and I looked at my running watch and saw that I’d been running for 1 hr and 45 mins and I was only at 12 kilometres… “Doing great?” […] →Read more
Happy birthday to my niece! I’m glad you enjoyed your crazy sleepover party on Saturday and that you had delicious cake and got some cool presents today. Love you! →Read more
I was searching Flickr for images for my slide deck for the class I’m teaching and stumbled upon this one: It made me smile! Image Credit: Posted by Owen W. Brown on Flickr with a Creative Commons license. →Read more
Today was the Canadian Evaluation Society BC and Yukon (CESBCY) chapter’s conference. Now, I may be biased given that I was the conference Program Chair, but I think we had an outstanding program of presentations this year! Now, before you think I’m being too arrogant, I will state for the record that the outstanding program was […] →Read more
In class today, I was demonstrating a method of data collection formally called “Dotmocracy” (but now being referred to as “Idea Ratings Sheets”). The basic premise is that you are looking to get a group to rate ideas and you have them write their ideas on a sheet and then everyone in the group can rate it […] →Read more
tr0–rehg cdjk n5e3wfdgh That is what Watson typed by sitting on the keyboard while I had WordPress opened to “Add a New Post.” →Read more
As you know, I’m a crazy cat lady. As you also know, I adopted Watson and Crick from the Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association (VOKRA). They are a charitable organization that require donations to do their work of rescuing and caring for strays and surrendered cats and kittens, providing them with veterinarian care and shelter, and […] →Read more
Yesterday during the terrorist attacks in Paris, I got a notice on my phone. An acquaintance of mine is in Paris and Facebook was notifying me that he was safe. I’ve never seen this before. And while I’m relieved that he and his partner are safe, I’m sad that we live in a world where […] →Read more
So apparently I’ve rediscovered that I have a blog. Sadly, I totally forgot that November is NaBloPoMo ((National Blog Posting Month.)) – the month where you are supposed to publish a blog posting every day – until about 2 days ago, which was 11 days to late to realize such a thing. I have, however, […] →Read more
Today is my Mom’s birthday. I was really lucky this year as I got to see my mom three times! First when I went to visit in May on my way back from Halifax, then again in June when she and my sister came for a visit, and then again in September when we went […] →Read more