Well, I had an absolutely fabulous day! I ended up winning an NSERC award! And a fairly sizeable one at that. It's the PGS-D-3. Which means that the federal gov't will pay me $21 K per year for 3 years to do my Ph.D. Not too bad at all. It gets even better though! The Toxicology Centre is going to also throw in a "you rock" top-up to my pay- ( Read more... )

Just thought i'd say that. Just in case people hadn't figured that out.

Hahaha. Maybe I'm a sick puppy, but I found this story terribly amusing. Apparently Karla Homolka has reproduced, a healthy 7 lb baby boy. The story mentioned that the birth was a complicated one where the umbilical cord wrapped around the baby's neck.

I couldn't help but think that this some sort of crime perpetrated by the school girl killer.

Anybody that hasn't been watching The Mercer Report should go to www.cbc.ca/mercerreport and watch the clips from this weeks show. Some priceless gems - almost all of which are exceptionally antagonistic to Stephen Harper and the Conservative facist regime. Some of you might be a bit confused - because Rick Mercer typically takes shots at ( Read more... )

Very cool news. Cupid.com has connected me with another vegetarian animal-lover! Her name's Agnieszka - Aggie for short (all Guelphites will get a laugh at that). I'm trying not to get ahead of myself here - we haven't even met yet - but, she's obviously very interested - but not in the psycho stalker way like that last one. We had this ( Read more... )

Yep...that makes it official...things with Steph are kaput. The reason? I'm not passionate enough apparently.

That's a new one.

Heh, whatever.

-Anacharsis out.

Had my 24th Birthday today. It was good - a great day. Slept in. Dim Sum/Chinese Food with good friends. Talked with Nicola. Headed to Fringe festival. Ran into Jocelyn (a really sweet girl from Tox)-she bought me an ice cream. Headed to a friend's place for movie (Freedomland) and general good times. They made me a cake - I can't remember ( Read more... )

I met Steph's family yesterday - and they're fantastic! Such a warm and welcoming place with so many cute critters and artwork (paintings, sketches, scuptures-both concrete and bronze) by at least three generations of artists in the family strewn everywhere. There's an overloaded bookshelf around every corner, and art from every corner of the ( Read more... )

Soooo, I was reading an article in The Star about how a paid police informant has come forward to describe his role in the arrest of our home-grown terrorist cell. I'm not too concerned about the informant compromising the case, or whatever. But, a parphrased quote from one of the lawyers of the accused really stood out to me ( Read more... )

Anybody else here catch the France vs Italy match? Enjoyable game - some good end to end action that was largely without the blatant diving and faking of injuries present in most Internationals. But, I could not believe the Zidane head butt!!! There was no significant physical contact prior to it that he was retaliating for - which suggests that ( Read more... )