February 18
I thought I would add some new photos. I don't have
time to add all the ones I'd like today, but these are from when I was
recruiting and travelling all over the province a couple of years back. Some of
these pictures are gorgeous, and I want people to see what a beautiful province
we live in :o)
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February 12
If
you talk to me on msn, you know that I often pop up messages saying
"hello?" because I'm wondering if you're there. You're probably now
wondering if I'm there now. I've been so insanely busy the last little
while, I have hardly the ability to share it all--and really, most of it is not
interesting to most of you, so there's no sense in going into too many details.
I'm sure I've bored you enough already.
I
spent a lot of my week working, which is just a one-month, full-time job at my
mom's office to help them out with some backlogged work there. This is great
because it'll see me through until March, when hopefully more hours will start
adding up with my job as a research assistant in the Department of Occupational
Therapy at the university. Much of my free time in the week was spent out with
one of my friends, as I have been working with him on some stuff for school. He
is starting a master's program, and I get to share with all my
"wisdom" that I gleaned from being a grad student. Hurrah! But it
does help, though, I guess. I learned a lot of tips from my friends doing PhDs
when I started my master's program, and there was a lot of good advice to be
found. I also found another job last week, another part-time job, in which you
will find me working as a Mental Health Therapist in the children's psych ward
of the Glenrose Hospital here in town. Hopefully I won't have to black out this
info in the future due to potential legal implications!
I
also went to the opera last week to see the Barber of Seville. I must say that
it was the most brilliant opera I've seen in my whole life. OK, so I haven't
seen that many, but I've probably seen about 10 or 15 in my lifetime, and this
was the best one so far. The director added just excellent twists of pop
culture into the performance to make it more entertaining and relevant to the
audience. The man that played the Barber was also just an excellent actor and
singer. He did the character so well that I wished it were his personality in
real life!
So
it was a hectic but enjoyable week, but I am so exhausted now that it will
probably take me a couple of days to catch up on sleep. Early nights it is for
me right now!
In
the meantime, I must comment on something horrible I heard 2 Fridays ago. Any
of you Canadians out there, have you ever heard of any jokes about dead babies?
I joined this Spanish conversation club on campus, and we were talking about
typical humour in our countries, and this Canadian girl said that she thought
Canadian humour was the most vulgar in the world because most of the jokes are
about dead babies! I'm not joking, kids. When it was my turn to speak, I
pronounced it a shameful thing that there are any such jokes and that I had
never heard any my whole life. I didn't want people to think she was
representing our country. I'm polling people now to see if they have ever heard
these jokes. I am notorious for being ignorant to most of the current jokes and
slang and idioms, so maybe I'm just missing something here--other than my
marbles for thinking these jokes are so abhorrent. Only one Canadian out of
about 10 I have polled so far had ever heard one, but she didn't think they
were prevalent in any way. Mmm...does anyone NOT find this disturbing?
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