Time flies when you're a busy bee. I'm not exactly batting 1000 when it comes to my goals of reconnecting, but I've decided to stop apologizing. Mostly because it's probably boring, certainly not because I'm not sorry to be so incommunicado lately. I'll keep trying ( Read more... )

As perhaps you can tell, I'm trying to emerge from my winter blahs and reconnect with the world. I mean, if all the little crocuses around town can push through and shake off their earthy winter prisons then by golly so can I ( Read more... )

It sounds odd perhaps, but lately I've become convinced that a giant problem in the world today is a simple lack of reading comprehension.

I first started noticing it in my course at UBC when people would totally miss the point of a case study. They'd read it, but not understood what the issue was at allThen I started to realize that frequently ( Read more... )

I used to work with a woman who, whenever someone would say: "I can't wait until Friday!" or, "Man, I wish it were summer!", would warn against "wishing your life away". And while I'm sure it's true that lots of great things will happen between now and my eagerly anticipated future points - I still can't wait for the weekend, totally look forward ( Read more... )

So, I'm thinking of going out to this for my birthday. Personally, I can't think of a better way to turn 30 ( Read more... )

I've been having some pretty intense moments of clarity lately.

One, where I more deeply understood my generalist nature, was interesting. I've always known that I am a generalist - which manifests in me getting bored easily - but have always struggled to really understand how that can be when in many ways I know so many specialist things. I work ( Read more... )

Life is, generally. And even specifically ( Read more... )

Okay, so you know what is totally weird? Weirder than my usual picking up of things ( Read more... )

It suddenly dawned on me that I have a jillion things to do between now and the end of the month... I'm not sure how this fact didn't dawn on me earlier - but it didn't ( Read more... )

Food poisoning ( Read more... )