I know, I know

I haven't posted in a while. You guys must be sad. I'll come up with something soon....maybe some pictures or a story. I should post a picture of what my room looked like at the height of it's mass disorganization. I can't even remember why it was that messy. I must have been in the middle of cleaning it.

This past weekend I went to a London Knights game. I got some free tickets for the corporate box. It was pretty fun, although they lost in the shootout. Missed a couple of fights too. Those young testosterone fueled boys! Reminds me of when I was in high school and went to the games religiously. For the hockey of course. Some of those guys were so ....not academically inclined. At least at my school.

Last night I went to a housewarming party, except that they've lived in the house for a year now. So no real need for a gift. I just brought some wine. They never managed to open it while I was there....tempted to just take it back haha. After that it was off to Prince Albert's Diner for some late night grub. Walking through downtown London made me feel really old and conservative, given the young, scantily clad university kids that were there. And by scantily clad, I mean really scantily clad. You know, even though it's 8 degrees outside, doesn't make it okay to wear a piece of fabric that is smaller than my jacket.

Anyways, tonight I was reading this article about funny Japanese to English translations and how distorted they can turn out to be. For example: Tokyo Sewage treatment plant: "Dirty Water Punishment Plant"

Anyhow....bed time. Good night!

E=mc2

This past weekend I went to Kitchener-Waterloo to be "recruited" to the community as a family doctor. Wined and dined. That's right. I actually went last year as well, and didn't really learn much more than before. Except that there are a lot of geeks in town (haha j/k). Some people won blackberries. Yay. We went to the Perimiter Institute where people just "think" all day about theoretical physics. The building is equipped with floor to ceiling chalkboards where people just write mathematical equations. I'm not sure if they were just there for show or people actually contemplated, "What exactly IS gravity??"

We had a nice dinner on the second night and, funnily enough, me and another girl were the only two single people attending the weekend. And they sat us together at the same table, WAYYY at the back. So I turned to her and said, "You'd think they would pick up on that and sit us next to some eligible bachelors"....and she just gave the tiniest laugh. (uh....oops....maybe she's a lesbian, and they think I'm one too?)

The person sitting on the other side of me was a guest from the Perimeter Institute. I don't think he was one of the think tank guys though. Maybe he was a janitor. Halfway through the dinner, he leaned BEHIND me, and asked the girl beside me, "Hey, some of us were heading to a party aftewards, do you want to come?" (WTF as if he just asked someone two people over and completely ignored me).....then......."It's at a physicist's house." (me - pretend you're not listening, pretend you're not listening).

Ode to a Sundance (Part II)

So my dad sold my car to our neighbour across the street for $1000 as is. Sweet. I still get to see it from time to time and check up on it. His daughter better treat it with respect!