Went to the Hawksley Workman show tonight (early show – I think London is the only place on the current tour that got two shows because of high demand. ) I might do a full review later but I'll just say that Hawksley Workman is awesome in concert and if you've never seen him before, […]
Spending the afternoon at the Grad Club yesterday with a bunch of first-term students got me thinking about what my first week here was like, what my first semester was like and ways that both could've been better. 1. Have a “Destressor” at the end of the first week of classes This way, each semester's […]
…is probably not how you should describe the MLIS program to your mentee when you meet with her for the first time. Of course, I've just had it described to me that “Microsoft purposely buggers their code (figuratively and literally)” so I guess it's all a matter of context.
Not really but Gord Nickerson made a joke in class today about how he'd probably go home and read all about how he was the Worst Professor Ever on people's blogs so I thought I'd oblige him (with my post title anyhow.) I'm pretty sure there are other profs beside him in the Department who […]
It's not quite 3am (aka “bedtime”) so I'll do one more, based on a meme-thing I found on Kathleen's blog: 10 Favorites. —> Favorite Color: red. —> Favorite Food: pizza —> Favorite Band: Beatles —> Favorite Movie: lots but “Trainspotting” was the first to pop into my head —> Favorite Sport: to watch? Hockey —> […]
Got the list of peer mentor assignments today and I'm going to be paired with first-termer Kathleen Crowley. I've got to say anybody who names their blog “Princess Cosine, The Cunning Linguist” is cool with me! (Maybe she'll change it to “Princess Collocation, The Depth-Indexing Librarian.” But that doesn't have the same ring to […]
Anybody watch Kenny v. Spenny on CBC? Great show. Here's my version – Shea v. Jay. (My wife is a cardiac nurse for anyone who doesn't know.) Shea: Has concerns about the noise of the students in the building affecting her ability to work the following day. Jay: Is usually one of the students causing […]
I've gotten so many e-mail forwards in the past few days about how I should wear red on Fridays to support the Canadian troops in Afghanistan, how the liberal media isn't telling the truth about how Canadians really feel about the situation, how it's the right decision that President Harper imposes a media ban on […]
…is that she lets her fans decide how much and when they want to pay for downloading her music. How cool and progressive (and Canadian) is that? This is in contrast to the Red Hot Chili Peppers who issued some lower case poetry to expression their concern that fans may download an inferior sounding digital […]
My Five Favourite Nationalistic Holidays 1. Robbie Burns Day 2. St. Patrick's Day 3. Cinco De Mayo 4. St. George's Day (tied with Guy Fawkes Day) 5. Not really an “ethnic” holiday but I always thought the February “Family Day” in Alberta was a good idea. Canada needs a couple more national statutory holidays to […]
