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A Weekend of Athletics (Other People) and Socializing (Me)

This weekend was probably my busiest social weekend since getting to London… Friday night, we went to Christina's party as I believe I already mentioned.  The athletics of

A Week of Learning at FIMS

Here's a sample overview of some highlights for a random week at FIMS…MondayI don't have class on Monday which means it's technically the day that I work on

Five Things That Make Me Insanely Happy

Stealing a meme from my mentee's blog:Name five things that make you insanely happy for absolutely no fathomable reason: 1. Sticky notes (and office supply stores in general)2.

Lunch Bucket/Film Series Double-Header

Our first Lunch Bucket speaker of the summer will be on Wednesday July 19 from 12-1pm.  Jean McKay is a local author and creative writing instructor who has

A Very Efffective Use of PowerPoint

This was the second slide in a presentation that Linda Schneider of the FIMS Graduate Resource Centre gave to our “Collections Development” course back in early June.  She

Randomness (Happy Canada Day & Fourth of July)

How Hot Is It In Ontario Right Now?“It's hotter than a bull's balls when the summer stalls” as we say out west.  (Actually we don't say this out

Half-Done Part II: My Statement of Intent

A week ago I blogged about how, since I was half done my second semester of three, I was half-done the program.  But in my head, I've always

Half Done!

Math is apparently not my specialty because when I wrote an entry or two ago that the summer semester was half-over as of Friday, it took a conversation

Classmate Mike's Top Ten Ways To Annoy/Astonish Your Profs

Tomorrow marks the halfway point of the summer semester.  I'll be at the Grad Club around noon to have a drink and to celebrate this milestone in “flimsy

CLA Conference – Paul & Kelly's Take

Here's the report that a couple classmates sent to our class listserv with their take on the CLA conference… —The good:The 2 best presentations we saw were on

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