So, it was a decent weekend. I read a lot, I drank in a lovely courtyard in Old Montreal, I danced at 80s night (which was underwhelming in terms of the music/atmosphere - see Saturday's comments from archdiva and rubythirtythree - but fun in that I danced and partied and evilsocks is totally awesome) and I watched a whole. lot. of LostWho else likes to dance around here anyway? ( Read more... )

We're working out our summer Friday schedule in the office right now. I'm going to work the last Friday in July and the first Friday in August. But I get the Mondays after those off in their place.

YAY THREE- AND FOUR-DAY WEEKENDS (or three- and four-day workweeks, however you wanna look at it) ALL SUMMER LONG ( Read more... )

Mmmm... garlicky zaatars with cheese, how I have missed you!

At various times, many of you have seen what rent is in Montreal in my journal, when I've written about the places I've lived, and you've been surprised and maybe a little intrigued. Well, I'd say you might want to let this story from this week's Mirror give you the other side. Required ( Read more... )

Ohmigosh, my life is getting so busy! But I'm getting organized, and I think this will be very good for me. It's been a long time since I felt like I was living with real purpose - maybe not since I was last in school, and that ended in '03. I'm using the amazing Google Calendar - how did it take me so long to become acquainted? Seriously ( Read more... )

How many of you (those of you who are roughly my age) have held a job for five years? I could be wrong, but I suspect there aren't many 27 year olds in this day and age who have. At least, not a full-time job. There are exceptions, but it's fairly rare ( Read more... )

So, I'm indexing the 1966 Sir George Williams University yearbook right now. On page 55 is information about, and photographs of, the Student Christian Movement's Sir George chapter ( Read more... )

One of the things I occasionally have the opportunity to do in my job is a kind of historical detective work. It's probably the thing that I have the most fun doing. For instance, just now I was given a name and a graduation year (1927) and told to find everything I can on a particular guy. And now I go through old documents and books and such, and ( Read more... )

...but working in the archives does this to me: Whenever I hear that someone Concordia-related has died, my first thought is about all the work it's going to mean for me.

The news media is all over my workplace this morning, looking for anything they can get on this guy.

I should've gone to work today. I was unbelievably bored all day long. I will definitely have more to say tomorrow, though.