most weekend-productive satisfying day ever ( Read more... )

I. CAN'T. WAIT. FOR. UBC ( Read more... )

I bought a tent!!! That means I AM getting back to camping. I'm going to Quetico this summer. And I'm going on at LEAST one overnight hike at sleeping giant. possibly two. And car camping too.


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This is not prompted by anything in my own life at present. just something that I have thought about sometimes ( Read more... )

1. Earl is going in for his spring make-over/tune-up tomorrow! He needs a new muffler and wheel bearings fixed somehow. And brakes will be checked to make sure I don't go careening down a mountain in August. And oil changed. And then I will properly inflate his tires myself cuz they're a little soft and I've been letting it go for too long like ( Read more... )

1. A is for age: 27. wow ( Read more... )

I got OGS. :) I can't accept it, because it's only for tenure in Ontario. And I kinda suspected that I would since I got it last year. but that means in the past month I've been offered $78 000 in scholarships.

*grin*

love. this. shit.

wow. as paul just came down the hall towards me, dressed in shirt and tie for his flight down to T.O. I just had a thought flash into my head that he looks like a dad! Then had a rather shocking mini-vision of me shooing a small child towards him saying "say goodbye to your dad!"

geez. wow.

Now that I'm slightly calmer...and because I'm still awake and Paul went to bed and I just opened another beer, I thought I'd update ( Read more... )

I GOT NSERC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I HAVE TO WRITE THIS WHOLE THING IN CAPS BECAUSE I AM STILL SHAKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS MAKES MY WHOLE NEXT 3 YEARS POSSIBLE! OR AT LEAST COMFORTABLE!!!!!

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