Tonight's toaster oven cooking adventure: roasted red peppers.

It's like the sky is sprinkling powdered sugar on top of Montreal. It's very festive and all. In other news, I have four final exams in two days starting tomorrow, so I'll be spending all of today studying. My post-exam plans include lots of carefree-ness and fun.

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...when I'm in a Lebanese restaurant at 4am and I understand some Gabonese guy tell his friend "Je m'en fou de merde du Maroc, je me torche avec le Maroc!" (I don't give two shits about Morocco, I wipe my ass with Morocco ( Read more... )

Had dinner in the Plateau with American and Canadian Killam fellows, biked home through the brisk fog, met a marvelously nice Cameroonian in the elevator. I'm going to miss this place ( Read more... )

My family is visiting. I had expectations of chaos, but wow, they have surpassed my expectations.

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Went to a nightclub last night, discovered the amazingness that is Lebanese food at three in the morning, and got hit on in Spanish on the bus home. It strikes me more and more that I would really like to live here.


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The many meanings of the mysterious phrase "ça va" continue to unfold. Last night I was talking with a friend and when he asked me for about the fifth time "mais sinon, ça va?" (roughly "but other than that, how's it going?"). I asked him, as I often end up doing, why he was asking me for the fifth time how it was going. I finally got out of him ( Read more... )

Shwarma poutine.