Still moving
Travelled to Oakville on the weekend for my cousin's wedding. The two of them seemed beamingly happy, it was nice to catch up with fourteen of sixteen of my cousins, and the party was really classy and fun. The bride's family was a little religious, but then so is my cousin (by my family's standards, anyway...) there was some talk in the speeches of us seculars running down the couple's Christian marriage at every turn and how God will give them strength, etc. ... some people just don't get that we value and love our family without any sacred text telling us to: Jesus was worried about family distracting folks from his Dad, after all. The other damper was the fact that this was the eldest son of my aunt Kathy, who died last year. They quietly lit a candle for her without any explanation right at the start of the ceremony, and she was remembered in many of the speeches. I think she'd be happy and supportive if she was there.
Got into the new office... it's much like the old one in bareness, big windows, concrete columns and visible ducts. We're at the end of a hall, in with the other graphics and GIS.art types. Only a little gear got delivered to unplanned destinations, and it's all accounted for. Plenty of cabling and bureaucracy to deal with before we're completely settled in, but it's coming.
Last night, went to the Divers-Cité kick-off parade. It was lower-fi than I'd anticipated, and a little late (would've been fine by Central time, but...), but fun and encouraging. I suspect getting it off Monday night will be the biggest problem facing the Montreal queer activist community, now that the feds are playing nice, Harper's his own worst enemy and things are generally civilized here.
Photos from the wedding and Divers-Cité to follow.
Figured out a few bits of registration stuff... there are still a pile of TBAs and some questions about repeated material there, but it's falling into place. At the very least, I have a sense that there are enough relevant courses on offer to keep me busy. I'm really gunning to do some category theory and logic, which aren't available, but that's what reading courses are for.
In other news, I stretched the wrong way and threw out my shoulder again this morning. I was face-down, basically pinned with my arm outstretched. Really uncomfortable, if a little funny to be pinned by no weight at all. Had to slowly bring it around to my side and pop it back in. I hate that aspect of my body.
Got into the new office... it's much like the old one in bareness, big windows, concrete columns and visible ducts. We're at the end of a hall, in with the other graphics and GIS.art types. Only a little gear got delivered to unplanned destinations, and it's all accounted for. Plenty of cabling and bureaucracy to deal with before we're completely settled in, but it's coming.
Last night, went to the Divers-Cité kick-off parade. It was lower-fi than I'd anticipated, and a little late (would've been fine by Central time, but...), but fun and encouraging. I suspect getting it off Monday night will be the biggest problem facing the Montreal queer activist community, now that the feds are playing nice, Harper's his own worst enemy and things are generally civilized here.
Photos from the wedding and Divers-Cité to follow.
Figured out a few bits of registration stuff... there are still a pile of TBAs and some questions about repeated material there, but it's falling into place. At the very least, I have a sense that there are enough relevant courses on offer to keep me busy. I'm really gunning to do some category theory and logic, which aren't available, but that's what reading courses are for.
In other news, I stretched the wrong way and threw out my shoulder again this morning. I was face-down, basically pinned with my arm outstretched. Really uncomfortable, if a little funny to be pinned by no weight at all. Had to slowly bring it around to my side and pop it back in. I hate that aspect of my body.