It seems that I am going to multiple workshops in May. This weekend was Edmonton media camp. It was the first one ever and was attended by about 180 people. The event was free and was held at the Shaw conference centre downtown. My friend Darrell drove down from Grande Prairie, so I got a chance to chat and hang out with him, which was cool ( Read more... )

This Saturday, I went to the Edmonton Permaculture convergence, which was hosted at a local community hall. The day was supposed to give participants a taste of permaculture and only cost $35. I've heard of permaculture due to some of my food security courses and wanted to learn more.

Here's a brief definition Permaculture is an approach to ( Read more... )

So I arrived last night at about 6. My day started pretty early because I had to drop Fergus off at Mari's. This was a bit like dropping a child off at daycare, and she pretty much had to assure me that he would be fine. Then I did a few more things before going to catch my sky shuttle. My sky shuttle journey was probably the most eventful part of ( Read more... )

Seriously, this month is just speeding by. I've been crazy busy and fortunately, things are slowing down a little this week. I did an interview with a transgenic researcher this morning and am taking Fergus over to Mari's later today. He needs to meet her and hang out there, since she's going to be looking after him when I'm in Toronto ( Read more... )

Seriously, I've been really busy.

On Thursday, I went to see Last Train home , a documentary film created by a Chinese Canadian Lixin Fan. Fan was a broadcaster who moved to Montreal. His documentary "Last Train home" focusses on the annual trek home for Chinese New Year. Viewers are introduced to a family of migrant workers. The parents work in ( Read more... )

I haven't updated because I have either (a) had company or (b) been company. A came into town for work earlier than planned, so he was able to attend a Pecha Kucha night with me. Pecha Kucha is a Japanese word meaning "chit chat" and it's a global movement that allows for informative presentations of about 6 minutes each. These presentations ( Read more... )

So I spent New Year's at my friend Mari's. We had grand plans to get to several parties but we never got there in time. Mari had received a creme brulee set from her bf's mom, so she ended up making us creme brulee. It was my first time having creme brulee. I'm not sure how that happened. The creme brulee set even came with a little blow torch so ( Read more... )

I've got a poem in this anthology. It's called "north to south saskatchewan" and it's about my journey from Saskatoon to Edmonton and my relationship with the (north and south) saskatchewan river.

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A lot of stuff happened....

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This week's schedule has been- work, watch movies, etc. Really that's about it. I did two days of work related writing, and then spent a day at the alpaca conference at Farm Fair. I attended some really in depth presentations about birthing alpacas and ended up looking at pictures of alpaca placenta and afterbirth. I'm not joking ( Read more... )