LJ Interests meme results
I grew up on a small college campus / seminary. I'm still attached to places of higher education - teaching, research. If I couldn't finish my PhD, I'd get a job in admin / services.
I help out with Community Bicycle Network (events, committees). I go to the occasional City Cycling Committee meeting and the occasional Critical Mass. I bicycle almost everyday, as practical transport. I stop at red lights and signal turns.
Bacon and eggs and homefries and toast and passable coffee, reading the morning paper (and sudoku) at the local diner four days a week.
Since the strike I haven't listened half as much. Still my choices include Wiretap, Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap, The Current, Andy Barrie, and As It Happens. I used to listen to Ideas more. I wish they had let Shelagh Rogers go to NPR.
I'm doing my studies, my teaching, my research at a business school. The mantra of the business school is "maximize shareholder wealth". My critical management studies perspective puts me at odds with that and I look for the ways that the organization constrains human potential.
I am a pen snob - sort of. I will tense up if you hand me ballpoint pen (whether Bic or MontBlanc). I recognize that you need roller balls for writing cheques and filling out forms. But I am now pretty much an everyday fountain pen user. Not the fancy ones, but the everyday ones, like the Lamy Safari or the Waterman Philéas. Pens for writing, not as accessories. I use bottled ink. Havana Brown is my current everyday color. Sometimes I go with purple. Lately I bought some red ink for grading.
I grew up in Halifax. I don't have plans to go back. Which doesn't mean I won't someday.
I came across the magazine Spacing last summer. I didn't realize I was such an urban geography geek and that there was a whole community out there that now supports a magazine and movement here in Toronto.
This is where my ancestors are from, about six or seven generations back. I lived there for two years as a child. I've seen the foundation of the house where my forebears lived. I've stayed with my cousin Peggy, who still lives on the that land, as a crofter, who upon meeting her, I felt like she was an aunt I'd known all my life.
I live in a neighborhood that has a small town feel to it, even though I am a twenty minute walk from the main commercial and business districts of Toronto.
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