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I'm home. And it's a place that I can call my own, full of my own clutter (I feel like I ought to be doing a TONNE of cleaning right now — JD has likely been a good influence on me in at least that area: wanting to clean, organize and do dishes on a… Continue reading Home sweet home?

DHSI is over for the year. DHSI 2011 looks to be pretty rad though — not sure if I'll attend, I certainly doubt I'd have the luck to get nearly as great of funding as I did in winning the ACH scholarship in addition to the SSHRC scholarship to attend. I haven't asked for or… Continue reading My so-called vacation winds down

So last night was the banquet for DHSI. It was an evening of REALLY slow service (honestly we didn't get fed until 9pm or so), but we ate with our class and had a good time overall. I got to meet Cindy's husband, and have some good discussions re: the state of the post-secondary education… Continue reading Okay on a more positive note… Banquets and board games!

a.k.a. why exactly did she block me on Twitter? I mean she's a brilliant scholar, a wonderful person with whom I've been taking class this last week and a great person with whom I've socialized and yet though she's one of the more active twitterites, she's blocked me from following her. It doesn't make sense,… Continue reading The perils of becoming connected online

So, today at DHSI was pretty excellent. Sure, yesterday was pretty awesome too, but today was somehow just as good or better. Heck this bodes well for the week — although I'm not sure I should be awake right now… I'm pretty tired. The first day I arrived here (Saturday) I got settled and then… Continue reading My phone thought I was in America…

So my stay in Montreal has come and gone. It was a great conference (sdh/semi as part of Congress 2010). I did finally post my pictures to Facebook. And I made it to Victoria (en route I ran across my friend Jordan because of our mutual use of twitter/foursquare. Yay for social networking tools! Anyhow… Continue reading From Montreal to Victoria…

*sighs* I'm closing in on my final days in Oslo. I've been something of a hybrid tourist/resident here almost: visiting the sites and doing more normal day to day things with J.D. I even put in a few hours of RA work on this trip (alas, not as many as I would have hoped, but… Continue reading Holy wow, Oslo I'm going to miss you

So I've been in Oslo for well… one and a half weeks I guess I could say… meaning that I'll be leaving far too soon. I like this city — yes I find the Norwegian hard to read/understand and yes I do thing some things are strange about this city but I do rather like… Continue reading A little Oslo update

Gosh, well… I find that a fair number of movies that I enjoyed as a child have aged remarkably well. Those that haven't, for the most part I don't much remember. Then again I think my impression of the Land Before Time isn't as good as it was when I was a kid, and Who… Continue reading Writer's Block: I'm off to see the wizard

So after an interesting plane flight experience (including two children kicking the back of my seat, a homecooked Lebanese sweet (similar to a donut but nothing like one), kids comparing Norway to Canada, kids being friendly, and whatnot), an interesting yet brief connection at Heathrow, and a fun arrival in Oslo (I rather like the… Continue reading Arrived in Oslo, spending time with J.D. = awesome!