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Remembering...
Tomorrow is the 1st year anniversary of the suicide of one of the students in my department.
A lot of students were deeply affected by the loss and some even dropped out of school because they just couldn't deal with the tragedy ( Read more... ) -
One smile makes a week.
One of my profs (Janette) lost her keys last week and was distraught about the whole thing - having to pay for replacements, etc., etc.
So in a bid to cheer her up I rebuilt an old poem to suit the circumstance. (DCA is the acronym for the office where she thought she misplaced her keys) The poem (doggerel, really) made her laugh so I call that a ( Read more... ) -
Papillon? Quel drôle de nom pour un pape!
So the other day I went out and got a salad for lunch because I'd come to realise that salads won't kill you, ya know?
Anyway, I thought I ordered a salad but I ended up with a toasted bagel with smoked salmon, cream cheese all on a bed of roquette and capers.
I love capers but I felt a bit like an idiot for misreading the menu. At least I came away ( Read more... ) -
just snippets that I don't necessarily want to forget just yet.
Driving back from Thanksgiving at Dad's chalet we encountered the following road-kill:
a fox
some skunks
and a trout.
Had I actually stopped to retirieve the trout it would have been the biggest fish I had ever "caught". It was at least the size of a keyboard, maybe larger. I can honestly say I thought it was about three bananas in length ( Read more... ) -
I am a font of comedic inspiration today
I work in the Faculty of Fine Arts at a renowned university. We have set up our lobby area to function as a gallery space for student and faculty exhibits. The September exhibit is slated to come down soon and the faculty member in charge sent an email asking when he had to dismantle the show ( Read more... ) -
Sailing away...
A super serene moment shared with the gulls coasting above the boat.
We were in Gananoque a while back and took a 2 hour cruise of the thousand islands. Fortunately for us there were no passengers by the name of Gilligan, Mary-Ann, etc. so we knew we would be back in time for elevensies.
The waters were very high, flooding out a bunch of really rich ( Read more... ) -
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I've been teaching my neighbour's 10 year old daughter a few drum rudiments over the past couple of years. It's fun to see someone take what you show them and run with it, make it their own.
A few months back a friend of the parents had a child-size drum kit that they no longer wanted (I know, right?) so offered it to "M" (the daughter).
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So there's been some turmoil.
Sweetie's mom was buried in late May, then her sister died suddenly a week and a half later. We hadn't even received the credit card bills for the trip to bury her mom when we received the call. Fucking Hell. What a double whammy to my poor sweetie. :-(
It's been almost a month since this happened and she's less likely ( Read more... )
