Henry Porter of The Guardian contrasts his experiences in America with his week in Toronto, and says the US should pay attention to us to see how to act. It’s oversimplified; too bad he didn’t have another thousand words to really get into it.
And all this talk of The Canadian Identity ™…do we really still do that?
The list is light on novels, but heavy on the history.
We started the exam yesterday at 9:00; by 11:00 I’d finished, checked out, caught a cab and walked in my front door. The cats were happy to see me. I was happy to see the couch.
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My computer decided to melt on the same day I returned from a course called, “Using IT.” Who says irony is dead?
I’m watching last night’s ER. It had Parminder Nagra in a paramedic uniform *and* a Serena Williams guest appearance.
Lord have mercy.
There are big fat snowflakes flying by my window as I type this. There were some flakes in the air yesterday but nothing that stuck. This stuff is already starting to cover the courtyard. How depressing.
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A few of us went over to the TV rooms in the bar last night to watch The Office on DVD, but there was a huge crowd of supremely drunken idiots in the bar singing (and I use the term loosely) karaoke so loudly that we had to crank the TV to have any chance at hearing the dialogue. It was painful. I considered shoving a pencil in my ear just to end the torture.
Like I said, some of them were crazy drunk. Like, screaming into the microphone, have to held up by my friend/boyfriend/skeevy-guy-who’s-about-to-take-advantage-of-me drunk. I can’t imagine it’ll be awkward come Monday. Not at all.
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Right. I’m off to the exam. Shouldn’t take me too long, unless I’ve forgotten how to write. Yep, that’s right: we have to *write* the exam, avec pen and paper. No laptops for the IT exam. No irony there.
All set to go for the post-exam cab ride home tomorrow:
The presentations are over, so all that’s left now is the exam. I don’t have to study much at all, so I think I’m going to do a bit of work, flip through my notes and have a few beers.
The Raptors are now 0-8. Look out ’99 Clippers.
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We finished working tonight before most groups. We stopped working at 10:45; some people seemed to think they’d be there for *quite* a while.
As of this minute we’re 70% done this course. We’re also 30% of the way through the MBA.
Sorry about not posting anything this week. I’m away on training and have been too busy to watch a movie, listen to music, read a newspaper or even check up on my usual feeds. When I get home Friday or Saturday I’m sure I’ll have something deep and inspirational to share with y’all.
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