So the careful eating of the last week has gone well. My weight tends to oscillate quite a bit but if the average is to be beleived I've lost about 1.5 kilos in the last week, so I will attempt to continue apace. I don't actually see a difference on my body (how much should I expect to see a 2,5% drop in weight?), but I'm having fun playing with ( Read more... )

The first time I remember hearing about the resident schools used for the 'aggressive assimilation' of First Nations kids was when Chretien said something along the lines of: "That was too bad, eh?" At the time I wasn't really aware of how much trauma these centres where responsible for, so when those comments where criticized for being a slap in ( Read more... )

I feel like I'm doing research again, which is nice. I don't get to do that as often as I like anymore. There always seems to be a conference on the horizon. I have a lot of fun at conferences, but talks need content and that means research. Trying to squeeze out results between writing abstracts, writing the talks themselves, and actually going ( Read more... )

Right wingers are often derided by 'normals' as idiots. Any mistake that gets press, urban myth statis or goes viral is used to show how out and out dumb they are. Now sometimes it's justified, and sometimes it isn't ( Read more... )

Just thought I'd wander back on here for a minute. I miss blogging, though my life now is arguable more intense and less exciting than it has been in the past, making posting a good deal harder. I don't know if the last few weeks of silence indicate a life cycle or a death rattle, I'm after all no doctor... yet ( Read more... )

The thesis was submitted as scheduled at 10h30 on the first. My sincere gratitude to all of you who chipped in and helped with the proofreading ( Read more... )

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Big news! My thesis is due in 10 days on February 1st between 10:30 and 11:30 AM, no exceptions. It is by and large written, needing only to be 40 pages of text body, and I am currently circling the battlements, shoring up the defense of my arguments here and there. However, I am concerned about the fact that no native English speaker has ( Read more... )

Quikchange pointed me towards this little game online that is meant to test your English vocabulary skills ( Read more... )

I should probably figure out how many long weekends Japan has. Because it feels like quite a lot. I remember in highschool beginning to think that we couldn't go 3 weeks without running into a statutory holiday or a ped day (Interesting aside: the term ped day appears to maybe be an Anglo-Montreal regionalism. No really, try googling it.). It ( Read more... )