and really I’m only “east” if you ignore the fact that Canada goes really far east. This semester is really kicking my ass. I use that phrase advisedly. Every semester beats me up, but this one is special because I have insisted on doing more of what I want to do on top of what …
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That’s the number of unread blog posts in my little rss feed on Safari. Yes, I have been neglecting the internet for other things. I’m thinking I need to get rid of some rss feeds and just go back to reading my friends. But enough on that. So here we are in 2007 and I …
New Book Arrivals and More
New Books: Andrew Crisell Understanding Radio — has it constantly checked out of the library, decided to buy after a recall Creagher, Lunbeck and Schiebinger Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine — mostly history an anthropology, a good collection. Again, purchased after a recall Peter Szendy, Sur Écoute: Esthétique de L’Espionage just came in …
Quick Updates
Sometimes my life here feels like a series of events planned by other people. Which is absolutely wonderful — there is always something going on — but of course one important part of life is maintaining friendships on one’s own time and in one’s own way and not under the rubric of an “event.” In …
Timex Computer
Steven writes in the comments to the subway chord post: OMG, you had a Timex Sinclair? It had a tape deck? I guess I didn’t know those things had any accessories. Okay, I remembered wrong. Looking at the pictures, I most clearly had a Timex ZX81. I actually inherited it from some friends of my …
In today’s mail
came our permanent residency cards. We can now officially leave the country and return (as well as stay in it). Some facts of note: –the card expires. In 2011. I don’t see anything about renewal though obviously that’s an option. But by 2011 we could be dual citizens. And Carrie will have tenure. And the …
“I love it when Americans immigrate”
Permanent residency (or “landed immigrant” status as it used to be called) is a big step in any immigrant’s life in Canada, but a lot of people don’t know exactly what it means. Basically, it means that we get all the rights of citizens except for the vote. The vote comes with citizenship in about …