apps.facebook.com/smugetcloserHEY! Folks making SMU "Get Closer" ads! Read this. Please ( Read more... )

Someone in Winnipeg doing a survey about higher education on behalf of the Maritime Provinces asked me what province Halifax was in.I couldn't believe it. I exclaimed, "It's a provincial capital ( Read more... )

K. and I watched the Pirates of the Caribbean series this past weekend. It was a tour de force, and one that stays with you, but as Hollywood blockbusters go, I’d have to say it’s kind of frustrating. And the third movie - Geez! Could they have done any more talking? (Or, I mean, could they have done more and talked less? That would have been ( Read more... )

Wow, what a game!

For those of you who missed it, the Saint Mary’s Huskies (the home underdogs in the most literal sense of that phrase you’ll ever hear) just defeated the heavily favoured Laval Rouge et Or 24-2. SMU’s defence is the star of this game, forcing five turnovers and scoring their own touchdown. There’s no better way for a defense to ( Read more... )

Whoof. What a day. I’ve been busy running all manner of mundane errands, which I need not go into. But my search for a copy of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood took me to the library at King’sKing’s, with its picturesque, sometimes ornate buildings, and its reputation for nurturing students who become almost arrogantly self-assured of ( Read more... )