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…until now? I finally took the time to get an account set up. You can find me at http://twitter.com/AliKira if you're interested. It'll take me a while to get used to the technology, I imagine, however the learning curve won't be too bad, after all, I've been reading tweets for quite some time. I'm actually… Continue reading So you know how I had been avoiding Twitter…

I feel like I'm some sort of huge wimp. I'm not, of course, trying to wimp out or anything, but the fact that falling down a mere 5 steps at the Legislature on Wednesday causes this much back pain is just ridiculous in my mind, particularly since when I fell I was most concerned about… Continue reading Posting because I need to do something productive

Today has been a good day. I hurt (primarily my ankle and elbow and arm and shoulder) but that's just my luck of falling down the stairs as we exited the Alberta Legislature building. But let's backtrack a bit. So my day started with my 9am class as usual and it was a pretty great… Continue reading May your life be interesting… IS a curse (but would I have it any other way?)

This week I've been musing a lot (in my head not online) about my personal ideas of comfort, happiness, accomplishment and well the opposite. While I've had quite a few LJ-posts I've wanted to make, I haven't had the time to work them out just yet (they probably will still come), and delayed posting to… Continue reading What is comfort… what is accomplishment… what isn't…

Instead of having the normal work break, I am filling this out, seeing as Beth emailed it to me: 1. What is your occupation right now? Graduate Research Assistant, and Customer Service Specialist Front End/Health and Safety Co-Chair 2. What color are your socks right now? Red! 3. What are you listening to right now?… Continue reading Quiz from Beth

So I survived the Winnipeg adventure. Not that that should be a surprise to anyone, really, it being CKI and that having been my life for many years. Regardless, it was a FTC, people attended from THREE schools (yes that's right, three!), and Louis provided some great entertainment in his winning the Softball season to… Continue reading Brief Update Post Winnipeg

Yesterday was an adventure. Poor Louis wasn't having a terribly amazing day (unfortunately) though we certainly did have a great lunch and dinner. I was amused at the quality of food available at the lunch place we went to on campus — in fact it even had lots of yummy vegan options. I had some… Continue reading In Winnipeg at the UofM

Watching the movie, Evangelion: 1.0 at Scotiabank Theatre this evening, I was reminded of my animé watching experiences from my youth. The plot for this first movie pretty much mirrored what I watched at that point, and fulfilled my expectations in that respect. Certainly it was interesting to watch it again, with the overly expressive/dynamic… Continue reading On Evangelion: 1.0 You are (not) alone

Check out my guest post on the LibraryRoad Blog! This time it is about my group's field trip to the NorQuest Library. Thanks again to Maria for creating this avenue for blog posting about our library adventures.

Teresa Dobson presented The role of multimedia in critical literary and literary education on September 24th as part of the Humanities Computing Colloquium series. The electronic world has given us the opportunity to create texts that act in different manners than those provided in the codex or book format, and/or are simply linear in progression.… Continue reading On Teresa Dobson's Talk