Yesterday after work and before approximately 7.5 consecutive hours of very enjoyable (and necessary) socializing, I went over to Cheap Thrills, which is right near McGill. I can’t believe I’ve been working there a year and only now gotten there. I’ve been sorely in need of a record store to call my own, and I …
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Blog? What Blog?
Sorry to be so absent lately. September is the new February. By that I mean it is now the busiest month of the year for me, as February once was. A lot has to do with various fellowship and university deadlines, but some of it is also my fault. After all, I am inbetween the …
Time Flies When
you’re starting the school year. I’ve had six continuous nights of socializing (before tonight) which were absolutely outstanding, especially a labo(u)r day party which perfectly started off the school year/ended the summer. But the reality is that I’ve been having a blast every night since the fun started last Wednesday with a birthday party. Which …
The Most Canadian Thing Ever?
I arrive on campus this sunny afternoon to witness the spectacle of the first day of school. Undergraduates everywhere, corporations hawking their logos and free food, one sorry frat trying to get people to eat hot dogs. As I walk up the hill toward the Arts Building (which houses my office), I pass the giant …
More New Content
The syllabus for my Seminar on Repetition Seminar on Repetition is finally complete and on my courses page. You can view it here, complete with pretentious irrelevant blurb and bad puns.. Right now, I am listening to the Swirlies, who are like a bouncier My Bloody Valentine.
Chat Radioactif
As the picture suggests, our cat Tetrys(1) is radioactive. He’d been having digestive problems for some time and when we took him to the vet she said all indications were that he had hyperthyroid. Hyperthyroid is a condition that eventually kills cats, and can be treated through a regimen of medicine that will deal with …
Canadian Bankruptcy Politics and other news
Weclome to the first of a double-post Tuesday night. I have been busy learning the intricacacies of curriculum revision at McGill and it turns out that well, it’s complex. Kind of reminds me of scientology, like if I get far enough into it, someone’s going to take me aside and tell me that aliens actually …
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