Kolkata was good.  Well, the meetings/workshops went well, didn't actually see much of the city.  Think I made it out of the hotel twice ( Read more... )

On Saturday had lunch with a friend visiting from Canadia, who brought her new spawn.  There was other-friend-spawn also in attendance, and one in-waiting-spawn!  Soon we will be surrounded!  SuperGeniusBrainiacCouple (who live around the corner from me) are expecting in a few weeks.  My officemate has one due about the same time.  (Also BigSis ( Read more... )

• Had meeting in The 'Ber last week.  Kinda went ok.  Stayed at quite posh hotel.  Bang & Olufsen tv's!  The remote was like a solid block of metal. 
• Would've been nice to stay for weekend to catchup with people...
• Saw two quite acceptable houses on Saturday.
• Had dinner at Polish/Russian vodka restaurant Sat night as part of a Huck's (Hens+Bucks) night ( Read more... )

• Just found out the word limit for an abstract I'd already written, checked and found I was 3 words under.
• Housemate is doing a course here on campus for a couple of days, we totally didn't think to carpool this morning (or more accurately, we didn't think for me to get a lift).
• Have been in field for a couple of days, all went ok.
• Went to a Food and ( Read more... )

As mentioned over there, I had dinner with K and her bro last night at Gingerboy.  The ambience was quite nice, but yes, that may just have been Myf,  Adam and Alan [1].  I quite enjoyed our stingray stirfry and baby chicken thingo, but I think they were a little sweeter than necessary.  I found the wagyu dumplings a bit bland and disappointing, ( Read more... )

• A few weeks ago I booked a fancy dinner at a fancy restaurant (the monthly Long Table dinner at Bar Lourinha) for next week as a birthday prez for a couple of friends (Loud and the Chef), and the restaurant said they'd ring me back to get my credit card details in a week or so.  I didn't hear from them, so I rang back yesterday and they charged my ( Read more... )

1.  Reminiscing.  Yesterday I had a short but quite massive catchup up with someone from PhD days (works at Other Uni but comes down here occasionally and was down yesterday to give a seminar, but haven't managed to catch up in the 5+ years we've both been in same city).  Was good and kinda funny.  Lots of stories about going back west, avoiding ( Read more... )

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• On Friday night (before one of the MIFF films) we happened to pass by the Little Creatures Dining Hall on Brunswick St.  Hadn't heard anything about it, so we had to go in and check it out.  Now I'm seeing reviews everywhere.
• On Tuesday night we tried the "first Tuesday of the month" Long Table dinner at Bar Lourinha.  Q's friend M had recommended ( Read more... )

Should I have sushi or pizza for lunch?