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July 18, 2008 at 12:28 pm · Filed under In the News
I don’t know if I want to celebrate caviar so my celebrations of food days may have to start tomorrow with National Daiquiri Day. Unless I extend caviar to mean any type of fish egg…we’ll see.
But in other food news, there has been another molasses spill!! I mentioned the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919 before. Well, this time it was in Texas and get this – it spilled near Sugar Land. I know spills are generally a bad thing but I do have dreams of witnessing a molasses spill one day (“oh no….it’s….spilling….very slowly…spilling”), armed with a bowl of oatmeal and buttermilk.
To provide a bit of me catch up after several months of nothing – things are very good. I spent May getting used to working life. In June I lived in False Creek for a bit and dreamed about owning a boat. The later half of June was a pseudo-holiday while I enjoyed the visits of friends. Now it’s July and I sort of feel like this:
My camera can take credit for that picture but I can’t. Jemma took it of Berny on a trampoline at a bed & breakfast we hit while they were here. I had forgotten all about trampolines.
Life is generally more free and bouncy (in comparison to the past 5 years of grad school). I may get back to writing more.
May 7, 2008 at 8:43 pm · Filed under In the News
From HPV vaccination program raises concerns in B.C.
A. H. has three daughters in the age group being targeted by the program, but she says none of them will get the vaccine.
“I [postponed] my sexual activity as long as possible, and I’m hoping our children, our daughters, will as well,” H. said.
Big big SIGH.
And a completely unrelated picture:
October 15, 2007 at 2:36 pm · Filed under In the Kitchen and Foodstuff, In the News, Movies&Film, Travels, 日本語
The strike is finally over and garbage collection resumes this week. We were just starting to consider alternatives to get rid of waste piled up over the three months. Hopefully this experience will lead to better recycling practices for all.
travel
I read about a place in Chile called Punta Pite and it has finally given me an definite answer to the question I always ask others: “if you could leave on a trip tomorrow anywhere in the world, where would it be?” It’s likely my next big trip will not be for another year or so but in the meantime, I will read up on Chile with a possible side of Easter Island salad.
news
日本語
From my Japanese language exchange over an ever-delicious Elysian cappuccino on Saturday: you know how we say that we want to “brush up on …”, for example, brush up on my Japanese? You can use the same expression in Japanese: 日本語を磨く (nihongo o migaku) – brush my japanese. The same verb (and kanji) is used for brushing ones teeth brushing. We also discussed 不器用 (bukiyoh) and a translation – clumsy; both the physical and mental uses of the word. Then I inquired into a Japanese version of quote / unquote fingers but my conclusion for the night was that it doesn’t quite exist. If you know other please let me know.
food
On Friday after drinks at Koerner’s a few of us went to Topanga Cafe on W 4th for some dinner. I had been inhaling cider for the few hours previous thus this was the most incredible thing to eat:
the chicken burrito. On reflection, I might have preferred beef or bean but…it was good. Can you believe that cheese and the sauce…? On further reflection, or after getting this picture of my camera, I realized that I had eaten something that spent half its plate-life staring at me.
pets
I was also cat sitting this weekend which was good given my limited interaction with pets. Seven months old, she was quite the active cat and I played with her; tossing mice around and animating string. I wondered if I was entertaining her and then I wondered how much she perceived these things in motion as being moved by my hand. Was I creating an illusion or did she need to use her own imagination? How do cats play?
movies
I saw The Darjeeling Limited last night and while it may disappoint those expecting a new favourite Wes Anderson movie, I enjoyed the faces and expressions of all the actors, with all their flaws, made beautiful.
mobile phone
I am still without mobile phone but it’s hard to want to spend the money on the ones available here when I had Orange Juice in Japan. I sort of want to wait until I have a (more) highly paying job and then I can invest in one of them fancy phones. But moments like coordinating meeting at a movie theatre and saving seats could have been made easier if I was connected. We could have made the balcony!
July 18, 2007 at 10:26 am · Filed under In the News, It's Science
Something seems wrong about this article and the research it talks about:
Obesity carries risks, but can boost survival from heart attacks: study
(subtitle: findings do not give green light for being fat, doctors say)
July 12, 2007 at 12:48 pm · Filed under In the News
Yesterday Pink Tentacle blogged on two news stories in Japan.
1. Job-hating maring officer kidnaps himself: (summary) man found bound and gagged at edge of forest north of Miurakaigan station (this is actually sort of in my ‘hood). Investigation starts with questionning man. Police become suspicious as man has no injuries and his hands are tied in his front, not back. Man admits it was a setup motivated by his hatred of going to work.
2. Mystery money turning up in gov’t office restrooms across Japan: (summary) 10000円 notes (little less than 100 CDN) are being put in envelopes with a handwriting note and placed in stacks in the washrooms of government office buildings. The note asks the finder to use the money to pay for some kind of studies or training. It seems more than 280 of these envelopes have been found.
To 1 – man wants attention.
To 2 – what kind of attention does man (or woman) want?
I don’t have much more to say about these stories. Just that they were interesting but also kind of spooky.
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