We had quite a big day today! Most of it was completely wonderful. I woke up kicking myself that I forgot to take pictures of R and Connie and me. I had the camera with me precisely for that reason and never even thought of it. And by the way,
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wmtc: paris, day three
We are back in our cozy room after a long, fun day with R… who I very much hope is now on the train to London! Connie and I went to – you guessed it – Au Tramway for breakfast. We had the lovely petit dejeuner complet, with baguette, butter
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Connie and I were both dead to the world by 9:00 p.m., and when I next opened my eyes, it was 8:30 a.m. Yes! That’s an unheard of amount of sleep for me, and I needed it. We had breakfast in the hotel and were soon back on the Metro.
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Nous somme ici! Connie (my mother) and I got tired of killing time in her apartment and decided to have dinner at the airport. Somehow we managed to stay awake until our 11:30 flight, but my mom was asleep soon after takeoff. I, of course, was up all night, as
Continue readingwmtc: tablet update and off to paris
I’ve had a busy and wonderful couple of days visiting family and friends. Today my mom and I are planning our sightseeing, packing, doing last-minute errands, and generally getting in vacation mode. What i’m writing on I’m loving my new Nexus 7 tablet… with reservations, or perhaps just a learning
Continue readingwmtc: in which I go to paris… with my mother!
From my Flickr page My mother said, “I want to go to Paris. I want to see Paris one more time while I’m still healthy enough and mobile enough to enjoy it. But…” – here comes the good part – “I have no one to go with.” My mom’s best
Continue readingwmtc: help me buy a tablet, part 2
Three months have passed since I asked you to help me buy a tablet. Money is tight – thanks to past and upcoming travel! – and I squeezed a few more months out of my dying netbook. But now I am serious about replacing it. After that last post, I
Continue readingwmtc: whither wmtc
I feel so disconnected from this blog, and from writing in general. I hate it. I love having this blog. I love that when I do want to write, and have the energy to do so, and have something to say, I have a place to do it. But writing occupies
Continue readingTerahertz: You can’t get experience if you don’t have a job…
There was a PSA on TV in Canada in the 90s, which looped “you can’t get a job if you don’t have experience… you can’t get experience if you don’t have a job.” That about sums up what’s been flipping through my head for the past six months living in
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I think I’m finally up for buying a tablet. I bought a little Lenovo IdeaPad netbook for school. I loved it, and I thought if it made it through four years of grad school, I’d consider it a good buy. It did, and it was. By non-tablet standards, it’s light
Continue readingwmtc: happy new year from wmtc
On January 1, 2013, I was still in library school, and working as a library page. Allan’s book proposal was still sitting on a publisher’s desk. We were living at G’s Court, and had no thought of moving.In 2013, in order of appearance:– Allan got a book contract,– I got
Continue readingwmtc: wmtc winter break goes low-tech
Every year I seem to break the holiest commandment of the holiday season: I’m not busy. I always hear how “everyone is so busy this time of year” and “this is such a crazy time of year, you can’t get anything done,” but that never reflects my experience. We don’t
Continue readingA Novelist's Eye: Lilian Nattel Online: Richness
I was trying on a jacket at The Bay. It cost twice as much as I’d normally spend, but there was a 50% off sale. H said, “You look like a rich lady, Mommy.” I was out for the day with my two daughters. I didn’t need the jacket. I
Continue readingwmtc: thank you, 2013 red sox! thank you, david ortiz!
This was a magical season, and the most exciting postseason I’ve seen in a very long time. David Ortiz – the only man to play on the 2004, 2007, and 2013 Red Sox teams – will be a hero to the city of Boston and to every Red Sox fan
Continue readingTerahertz: Blog Updates
As you can maybe tell (if you aren’t reading this from RSS), I updated the theme a few weeks ago when I started blogging more consistently again. I tried to go for a cleaner theme and I’m open to suggestions or criticisms. Additionally, I’ve added some commenting options. People have
Continue readingwmtc: how to pursue something you don’t really want
Since the day I decided to go to graduate school and change my career(s), my mind has reeled with questions about the future. When will I be able to quit my horrible law-firm job? When will I get a professional position at the library? When I get it, will I
Continue readingTerahertz: Skeptic with an Eh?
Seeing a gap in the Leed’s Skeptics in the Pub event for September, I volunteer to give a talk on the skeptical movement in Canada. Here are the details if you want to come stalk me in person: Monday, 23 September 2013 19:00 at the Victoria Hotel (28 Great George
Continue readingTerahertz: Moves and News
I think it’s far past time for me to drop fully back into blogging. I’ve posted a few updates over the past couple weeks but I want to aim to really start building this forum again. So where am I now? Nearly four weeks ago, Sonia and I left the
Continue readingwmtc: personal update, our new (rental) house, and why we’ll never own a home
We’ve moved! We’re renting a much larger, newer, and more comfortable house in central Mississauga. We’ve lost the huge backyard of our old rental home, but the backyard here is still a decent size, the largest of any house we saw that we’d want to live in. (The choices were
Continue readingwmtc: joni, my idol, redux, plus personal update
A few months ago, I wrote about my idol, Joni Mitchell, and posted a number of links to in-depth, lengthy interviews with her. I wasn’t able to listen to them at the time. Today I am relaxing on the patio, drinking iced coffee, listening to Joni talk about her life,
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