Seniors at the school I'm at graduate this Friday, and I've just realized how little I've actually taught. You'd think I would have expected this, considering the circumstances under which I was hired, but the whole situation with the previous teacher scared away most of the seniors and left me with just the three in the AP class: Dan, Danny, and ( Read more... )

Hello, my Scandinavian brothers and sisters. You've got a new Assistant Librarian, and guess what? It's me. In case you don't know me, I'm Chris and I used to be the Ugly Duckling. Fun times ( Read more... )

Here's the story: Ubi was going to transfer me again. To North Carolina. I don't know anyone in North Carolina. What's even in North Carolina? It'd be different if I were going back to Québec City or Montréal, or even some place in Europe ( Read more... )

About 4 p.m. Easter Sunday.

Why are we in Ottawa?

Spend Easter Weekend in Montreal with my Roman Catholic FamilyORGo to that Big Tale Wedding that everybody is talking about

Choices, choices.

( Picture taped into Compendium )

Do you ever feel like you're at a place in your life where you're not moving? Like you're standing still while everyone around you speeds past?

I did, so I downloaded a citizenship application. I don't know what that would change, but it's something.

Used to be that I was flattered when people told me I didn't sound French. I thought it meant that I had a good American accent. Somebody from work found the YouTube video from the South Park episode when they went to Canada and, crisse, did they get it wrong. Just look up "South Park French Canada" in the YouTube search box and you'll find it ( Read more... )

My legs, are they great or are they great?

Leo, I offer you my deepest apologies for that collection of awkward moments last night. I'm not gay, I swear.

There were four separate school shootings in the news recently: On the eighth, a nursing student shot two women and then herself in Baton Rouge; a kid in Memphis shot another student in the school gym; a fourteen year old in California committed a premeditated and deadly hate crime against a gay student; and in the most recent one at Northern ( Read more... )