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Last night it struck me that for the first time in what seemed like ages I felt lonely, truly lonely. It made sense of course, as it had been a week since I began living alone again, and it is a pretty significant adjustment. As I long ago realized, I do much better if I… Continue reading The joys of having more free time… and the loneliness of living alone…

I guess the new year behooves me to make a post of some sort regarding what I've learned in the past year and what I guess I can foretell for the coming year. I don't always do this, certainly, but it's a decent idea. 2011 in retrospective – I lived with a current significant other… Continue reading Looking back at 2011 and forward to 2012…

… and while I guess I need not type about all that's going on at the moment, it's not necessarily been a bad one. Very emotional, but that's the nature of the beast. It was good to see a friend of mine who lives in the UK these days. It was good to eat some… Continue reading It's been a significant day…

So it feels great to have such awesome family and friends around Christmas. And as I've always thought: Christmas is for time with family (Tim Minchin's White Wine in the Sun isn't my favorite Christmas song for nothing!). While my brother is currently in South America, and won't receive his Christmas presents until he returns,… Continue reading A Christmas recap of sorts…

So, while I occasionally manage to finish essays and assignments (one left for the semester and then it's just RAwork and thesising all the way!), Christmas happenings have started to overtake the month — I guess as per the usual. Yesterday I volunteered at the South Edmonton Kiwanis Club's Christmas Tree lot (I ran the… Continue reading Christmas List (and other musings)

Tim Minchin's White Wine in the Sun is my favorite Christmas song I think as of late: Anyway, that aside… lately I've been trying my best to get healthy. I honestly don't have much of an appetite — though I've been eating. I've been drinking tonnes of tea though and water and other beverages. I've… Continue reading Writer's Block: Chestnuts roasting on an open fire

What else should I say? The title of this blog post really does sum up what I want to be saying here. I won a Tassimo last night at the work Christmas party (JD got a gift basket so we made out rather well, considering). I'm getting new glasses, which will be pretty awesome. I… Continue reading So much happening that I haven't had much to blog…

So, this was the fourth year that we have run a Buy Nothing Day Free Market to coincide with Buy Nothing Day on Friday and Saturday. And this year was by far the most successful. Not only did I get to see/talk to many great people including classmates and my uncle and aunt, but I… Continue reading On Buy Nothing Day 2011

To be honest right now I would want to sit down and chat with Hermione Granger as a post-secondary student (or the equivalent) to see how she handles her time management. I find that while I'm good at time management in general, work-life balance issues are at issue, and I feel that she as a… Continue reading Writer's Block: Tea for two

… I find it pretty interesting how my reaction to different types of presentations change depending on what the intended audience is. Today was the first of three days of Bibliographic Instruction presentations in my Reference course. Certainly I was reminded of Sean's critique of the blind use of PowerPoint just as Tufte critiqued it… Continue reading I'm not sure if I'm getting more critical about presentation styles, but…