So some folks think of Friday the 13th as a particularly lucky or unlucky day. When I was a kid, I chose to think of it as potentially lucky but on the whole didn't really react strongly to it either way. As an adult, Friday the 13th continues to be just another day. I mean sure, there are movies named after this date and yes occasionally there are ( Read more... )

I was reflective on my walk home from New Year's Parties in the wee hours of this morning. I realized that it had been 11 years since I began this blog. And that while I sometimes write every day here at other times I ignore it for perhaps months at a time. It is a good interface for longform blogging (in comparison to Twitter and Facebook for much ( Read more... )

... as I'm leaving for New Orleans on Sunday. And slow is the right word. I'm not sleeping terribly well lately (not having issues falling asleep but I'm waking up before my alarm repeatedly, and often not feeling well rested), and took several short naps yesterday. But yesterday was a good day: I got most of what I needed to accomplish done. I ( Read more... )

If you ever watch a movie with me, you'll quickly notice that I get very engrossed with the plot and emotionally affected/involved with the story/characters etc ( Read more... )

Seeing as I work today at the Gocery store, I'm not entirely looking forward to it. Then again it does help to put my wrist brace thingys on... so maybe I ought to wear those more often while doing transcription? (I'm thinking that that was when they got aggravated this time around, though I'm not entirely sure why, seeing as computer use ( Read more... )

This morning I unpacked (yes I didn't procrastinate as much as I often do this time). And now, I'm slowly getting ready for my day in other terms. There is much to do, including research assistantship work, but I'll get it done ( Read more... )

Well, Thursday was the last FULL day of classes (yesterday classes ended in early afternoon), and so after class, I met up with Patrick for dinner at one of his favorite Vietnamese restaurants on Fort Street, called Saigon Night. He ordered all of his favorites, so I got to eat a bunch of really great Vietnamese dishes I hadn't yet tried. ( Read more... )

So whenever I do that "ruining my sleep schedule" thing, it doesn't tend to hit me until a couple days after the fact -- and lately I've been sleeping in a bit to compensate for the Hackathon (among other things) so the fact that my utter exhaustion chose to hit me today and make me rather crabby (comparatively speaking) was pretty annoying (though ( Read more... )

I slept rather late this morning and finished reading the complete Maus (this means I can give Anick her books back). Of course I did have valid reason for sleeping in -- I was up until 4am (well I did read a few chapters of Maus before bed) partially because of my excursion to the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Garneau with HUCO people. It was ( Read more... )