Author: Dan Dickinson

Kinda-stranger in a slightly strange land

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Forgot to mention: just after I printed my exam (I was one of the few people who typed it, which I think led me to type twice as much as anyone else wrote) I walked back to the computer and closed MS Word…which promptly crashed the computer. Like, Blue Screen Of Death crash. Good thing I printed first. That would have been a suck.

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It feels good to be home. As soon as I got home I went and grabbed some lunch, and I realized it’s the first time since we moved that I had to chance to actually look at any of the new neighbourhood. I know it well enough so it’s not like things are a mystery,  but I like the idea of discovering all the shortcuts and back alleys and hidden spots. Now I’ve just gotta find some time…

[tags]blue screen of death, st. lawrence market, toronto neighbourhoods[/tags]

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Okey doke, class is over. At some point tonight I’ll try studying, but probably not before I head over and order pizza. Today was another Subway day, bringing us to 3 outsourced lunches out of a possible 4.

Brave, brave Nellie got trapped at home again today, fighting off an overflowing toilet. I’ll get home around noon tomorrow to relieve her if it should start up again.

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Just about to kick off day 5. In a few minutes we’ll give our presentation, and then it’ll be coasting (apart from a little studying tonight, I suppose) to the finish line tomorrow.

[tags]mba[/tags]

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Presentation’s done, so now I just have to study a bit and get some real work done before our run-through tonight. Lunch was off-putting again today, so it was Subway for me (and four classmates). I’m hoping for better things at dinner.

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The gym hasn’t been open all week, so I’m feeling awfully lazy. I really wish they’d open it up, even just tomorrow night so that I can shoot around for a few minutes.

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Poor Nellie had to deal with some condo issues this morning. A toilet overflowed, so our hardwood in the hallway and kitchen is likely ruined. I’m glad we had our insurance arranged for the day we moved in and didn’t wait.

Yay for home ownership.

[tags]mba, condo, toilet back up[/tags]

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The Raptors barely held on last night, sending the series back to New Jersey. After watching the first quarter, after which Toronto had a 20-point lead, I figured it would be walk. Instead, Toronto’s two point guards got injured and the Nets clawed back into it, missing their final shot of the game to let the Raps sneak out of the building with the win.

The problem now will be playing in New Jersey with, potentially, your two best point guards in street clothes.

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Nothing brings out the histrionics of Toronto city councillors and merchants like a proposed streetcar right-of-way. “Restaurant could go bankrupt”, Adam Vaughan? It’s a two month test! Drop the inflammatory statements and find some statistics.

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Christopher Hitchens and I have not always gotten along, but I think I need to buy his new book called God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

[tags]raptors, king street streetcar, toronto city council, christopher hitchens, god is not great[/tags]

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My blackberry just forced me to change my password. I don’t like mandatory password changes, so I chose to make “fuckyou” my new password. I am raging against the machine. Security restrictions suxorz.

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Day 2 is now done. I have a little work to do before Heroes comes on, and then I’ll meet with my group to figure out what needs to be done for our Thursday presentation.

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No sooner do we move away from Hayden Street than a woman is found murdered (presumably) in a TTC stairway there. We walked by that stairwell every time we took the subway, as the exit’s just a few steps from our old place, but never actually took the stairs as homeless people camped out in there and it was usually pretty foul-smelling.

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Time Canada has an article about Porter, the airlines flying out of the Toronto Island airport. It doesn’t seem to be the best-researched article, but it caught my eye because we’re starting to consider Porter as an option. If we want to fly to Montreal, the prospect of a quick trip from our condo to the island airport is more attractive than the $50 cab ride and 90 minute wait involved in flying out of Pearson. And if Porter starts flying to Halifax (which they plan to do) and New York (which they’re applying to do), the idea gets even more attractive.

[via Spacing]

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OK, must brush teeth and head off to class. I think today we’re talking about teh internetz. I believe it is a series of tubes.

[tags]murder, hayden street, porter air, toronto island, city centre airport[/tags]