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Oct 04, 2004 14:32

Back from Cowtown. Was in Calgary on Wed/Thurs/Fri of last week, attending an oil & gas conference. It was...interesting...kind of...
Can't say I'm a big fan of the city (sorry rhiacat). I found it sort of stuff. And dull. Not really what I pictured Calgary to be like ( Read more... )

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fireeater October 4 2004, 20:45:23 UTC

I am jealous of your trip to Africa. I wanted to put in for a grant to go to Burma on the CIDA's means, but the boss vetoed on the grounds of "not being able to do without me for a week."
Damn my indispensability. And my boss's utter cheapness, since not being able to do without me was partly needing to replace me for a week.

mulberry October 7 2004, 17:18:57 UTC

...an advantage of being the boss, I can foist my work onto others... ;)

artichokehearts October 4 2004, 23:33:49 UTC

Congratulations Jake! That's awesome. Make sure you get to Sossusvlei if you can. It's one of the most unreal places in the world--watch the dream sequences in The Cell which were filmed there.

mulberry October 4 2004, 23:42:46 UTC

Thanks. (um...who is this?)

artichokehearts October 5 2004, 01:09:27 UTC

Sorry. It's Mike Chaiton from King's and livejournal lurker. ;)

mulberry October 7 2004, 17:09:32 UTC

Oh...hi Mike! How are things going? Are you still in Toronto breeding the ultimate biological weapon? I mean...going to school...that's what I supposed to say, right?

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nonethewiser October 5 2004, 01:30:22 UTC

I don't like it there either. See posts from July 24-August 15.

lollerk8 October 5 2004, 04:15:49 UTC

I didn't even know you were going to Africa. Rock.

mulberry October 7 2004, 17:08:03 UTC

I didn't either until last Wednesday...It's a journalism fellowship through CIDA and the CAJ. I'm going over to do stories about diamonds.

So what city are you in now?

bonjourananas October 5 2004, 13:18:15 UTC

you're going to africa? when?

p.s. pick up the lonely planet travel healthy book - it is the best book you can find when travelling in africa. and you can diagnose yourself with all sorts of tropical diseases.

mulberry October 7 2004, 17:02:27 UTC

I think I will go in the second & third week of January. It's through the Canadian Association of Journalists/CIDA. I won a fellowship through them, and so am going over to do stories about diamonds.

The healthy book is good? Okay, I'll pick it up. I've got the "Africa on a shoestring" just to get some basic info from.