Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.
…a soundbite from a speech by Justice Abella that I just got back from. all the bigwigs were out, including Justice Fish, bernard shapiro, dick pound, heather munroe-blum, and other hotshots in the mcgill community. Dean Kasirer as usual showed off his ever-bilingual canny speech-giving abilities. at any rate, it was wonderful to meet justice abella afterwards and see how … Read More
S and I got our hair cut at tornade today. she asked a few of us if we were up to getting our hair cut for six bucks, and apparently I was the only one up for it. so it’s either an asian thing or an engineering thing, we both aren’t sure. mentor/teacher, coiffee, coiffeuse-in-training anyway, tornade is a hair … Read More
who could not be in a good mood today, a sunny spring day? on my way to pick up some chocolate croissants (the best I’ve had in the city) at van horne bagel on victoria, I saw my first scraggily squirrel scampering about… and this pic, on my way to school: setting up tables outside! (so what if it’s on … Read More
I really miss this kind of food–there are muslim restaurants all over beijing, whose specialty is lamb, lamb, and lots of lamb. After I came back I tried an older xinjiang restaurant on côte-des-neiges, and was refreshed by the waitress and her distinctive accent when she greeted us in chinese: the xinjiang people are both beautiful and multilingual (as most … Read More
mount royal: it’s funny how 34% having english as a mother tongue constitutes a “large anglophone population”. 45% are immigrants. most probably a sure liberal riding again — guess Cotler’s office at the law faculty will remain empty… (cool, I didn’t know he helped start up project genesis)
not just an exercise in physics… so the other day it was freakout everything covered in sheets of ice. but I, taking the metro, had no problems getting to school, much to the amazement of anyone I ran into there (I’m still making my way around town with a cane, which everyone loves btw). all to say, it was rather … Read More
just came back from a great dimanche du conte — québécois storytelling in a nice little bar. to be able to tell a story over two hours is quite the skill indeed… I’m going to try to go more often — an interesting way for me to improve my french listening, as opposed to the mainly academic french in class. … Read More
so this month’s en route (that air canada magazine) made me laugh because of two things: 1) someone’s made a cocktail (the, uh, “Buttstrip”) including as one of the ingredients ¨¦mile bertrand’s spruce beer. (man, it’s been too long since I’ve had a burger and spruce beer down on notre dame…) 2) one of “canada’s best new restaurants” I know … Read More
who knew I’d be slower without crutches?! yes, yesterday I finally got rid of the damn things. the doctor said to go cold turkey: no cane. I’m wearing this walking boot (about as big as a ski boot) that doesn’t let me bend my foot past 90 deg. and moving very… awkwardly. So I need to get used to walking … Read More
The first thing anyone says about my crutches is “at least it’s not snowing!”. grrr. My next orthopedics appointment is tomorrow.