Since it's been sporadically warm enough to be outside without having to have on too many items of clothing, we've been spending some time on the back deck. On Tuesday evening we were having an early dinner outside (because I had basketball), just enjoying the warmth, the sun, and the intense green-ness around us. I guess the ridiculous amount of ( Read more... )

I'm a little bit achy-breaky right now, but we had a fantastic time. It was short and sweet, which is good since school is still on, and three days is just right for doing a relatively strenuous activity.

Tuesday evening we had a volleyball game at 9pm, which was part of the reason we'd originally planned to leave early Wednesday morning to get to ( Read more... )

So my Singapore cell phone number has finally been cancelled. I can't really remember when exactly I got the phone, but it may have been in 2000 or so. I'd had the same number for over a decade. And it was a pretty good number, too. It only had four discrete numbers, and was easy to remember ( Read more... )

When I got out of the house this morning, it was about -15°c. Now I have friends living in Saskatchewan and Yellowknife, and all these crazy places on our fair earth, but I'm not them, and I don't live there (yet. famous last words? ugh..). They'd probably laugh at me for posting this, but I did spend an unwarranted amount of time standing in front ( Read more... )

Hey, hey! It's one of the best times of the year, that magical week between Christmas and the New Year, once again, and here we are, getting ready to head for Singapore for the New Year (and more!) after a great Christmas weekend in Richmond Hill at the May house.


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Over the weekend we were up at the Mays', and kicked off the December season by going out and looking for a Christmas tree. It's been snowing quite a bit further north of Toronto, so it was nice to have a chance to tramp about in the snow (of course when we came back downtown after that the snow seemed to have followed us and we now have about half ( Read more... )

It's really easy to get sucked into the mundane everyday work-and-plan (and spacing out when I've a bit of time). I'm terrible at planning things in the future. But things are going to be happening, and planning needs to be done (even though many times somebody else is doing the bulk of the planning ( Read more... )

It's getting cold(er) out here, having turned to November (Rain, being the Season of Mists, and all that jazz). With our erratic heating and schizophrenic apartment temperatures (when the radiators start going, they don't let up until you open windows at 3°c to let the stuffy out; when they turn off you wonder worriedly when they'll ever turn on ( Read more... )

So, work has been rewarding (I do actually love to teach), and fun, and actually quite stimulating. It's nice to have variety for my brain to feast on rather than festering solely upon the topic of my thesis. Still, it's no less hectic, and busy, and stressful. Teaching a course for the first time is really hard work. Right now we've just bumped ( Read more... )

Let's see, we had a few requests, so I'm bringing them out. These ones are mostly from Gerald's camera, I think.


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