sugar sugar
homemade sugar pie is just fabulous. so are roommates that make homemade sugar pie. met this really… uh… interesting person at work today. was eating in the lunch room and he was just having some tea as he was feeling ill: “no offence, but because I ate chinese food yesterday”. huh?? ok, whatever. but then he just couldn’t believe I … Read More
4.5-hour dinners
…are the way to go. To see K and S off before they go to Tanzania this weekend, a dozen of us went to a fabulous byow french restaurant called les héritiers, on de Lanaudière and Laurier. they have this wonderful 5-course menu dégustation, with an interesting trou normand of grapefruit sorbet in vodka. I’m always a sucker for duck … Read More
crossing the border from HK to shenzhen
finally posted some pictures of the few days spent in hong kong over new year’s.
back in mo-town
spent the whole day … eating. arrived by bus around 5.45 am, slept a few hours, then met up with a largely law student crew for some dim sum at kam fung (and although most of us were asian they still charged us tax, hmmm). followed by grocery shopping in chinatown, bubble tea, and sitting near place-des-arts under the sakura, … Read More
moments musicaux
I am so happy to be not doing something crazy this summer, so I can get back into things I’ve neglected lately… one thing that has been sadly lacking of late is music. I’ve been lucky to be able to play (an out-of-tune) piano while in new brunswick. a bit (okay a lot) shaky at first, but reading gets easier … Read More
backyard
while trying to get the dog to walk a little out back, it took me about ten minutes to realize that the tall trees I was staring at–now twice my height–were the short 2-foot high shrubs from my memory of ten years ago. (tiny fireworks of green bursting forth)
café d’europe
May 9 is Europe Day. “Europe has been searching for years for something to inspire a new generation of citizens – a generation unimpressed by 60 years of peace and the ending of the continents’ Cold War divisions.” aha. pastries should do it.
john kenneth galbraith
catching up on news: jk galbraith passed away last week. unbelievable how many books he wrote over his lifetime. “Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.” as I keep intending to go to the bookstore–but consistently fail to do so–my list of … Read More
my dog
…is old. I’m back in nb for the week before I start my summer job as what z aptly called an insurance flunkie (more about that later). it’s a bit distressing to see my dog, who is completely different from when I last saw her in august. she usually is excited to see me for the first time, but now … Read More
the luxury continues…
“Even in this world, of course, it is the stupidest children who are the most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.” what is better than spending a rainy day reading in bed? the jesus metaphors in the chronicles of narnia are over the top, but it is still a wonderful adventure! book six down, only one left… … Read More