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We went to the Chinese lantern festival at the Montreal Botanical Gardens. Hand made silk lanterns from China depict traditional Chinese folk tales. Spidey came along to see them. Now he’s back to doing homework!
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For all those concerned, Spidey will be coming home shortly. Although he forgot to come along for poutine, he will hopefully remember to come out on a few more outings in Montreal, perhaps to school with me. He is excited to take his anti-malarials and go to Cambodia.
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(not the actual poutine I ate)
I finally had poutine on Friday night, at this cool cafe called “Shed”. It was the best night of my life. The poutine was so amazing. Luckily I shared it with someone or I would probably be in cardiac arrest right now. I went with a bunch of library people, and afterwards we went to this bar called “Brewtopia”. They had lots of cool kinds of beer, I had Raspberry Blonde beer and Apricot wheat beer, both very good. They also have Chocolate Stout, which I tried and liked; it has a hint of bitter dark chocolate flavour. So now I can buy the t shirt I saw that has a picture of poutine and says “Poutine c’est bon!”
On Saturday I went with a bunch of library people to the McGill Redmen football game. Doesn’t “library people” make it sound like we are some kind of sub-species of human? But it’s so much simpler than saying “the other students in my Library Information Studies program”. Anyway, the football games are at the Molson Stadium where the Alouettes play. It wasn’t the most thrilling game, although there was a band that played whenever we got a touchdown. Which wasn’t that often, seeing as we lost. The cheerleaders were also somewhat disappointing. They didn’t even have pompoms! It’s been very warm and humid this weekend, feeling like 30 degrees.
I don’t have class on Mondays; today I have to stay home all day and wait for my new desk to be delivered from Staples, or “Bureau en Gros” as it’s called here. I am now a pro at assembling IKEA furniture. Today I put up new curtains and installed new shelves in the bathroom. This week I resolve to start doing homework. Really. Grad school is really hard. [Insert sarcasm here]
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Last night I went with my roommate to the “Moksha Yoga” studio for Karma Friday. That means it’s only $5 to drop in, instead of the usual $16 (ouch!). It was super packed in there, we got there early and barely got spots. They do hot yoga, which I’d never tried before; the room is quite warm and very humid. I actually really liked it, although I can’t remember the last time I sweat so much! Actually, I do , it was when I climbed to the top of the volcano in St.Vincent (Caribbean) last year. That was worse. You can tell you are really sweating when you can feel it dripping down towards your unmentionable areas. This wasn’t that bad. Overall, I felt quite refreshed afterwards. My pores are definitely cleansed.
On the way home we walked past this bar called “Pi”, or actually the symbol for pi ie. 3.14…… It’s a Russian bar where you can play chess! Well, I’m not sure if it’s actually Russian, but I assume it is. Also pretty close to my house is the famous Schwartz’s deli, which I haven’t been to. There’s always a long line of people outside waiting for a table. Not sure I’m a big fan of smoked meat anyway. Tomorrow my roommate’s boyfriend, aka the French Bulgarian, is making us crepes!
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I got a new job yesterday, working at the Schulich library of Engineering and Physical Sciences. It’s just crappy paging, and the pay is really bad. I’ll be doing the night shift on Thursdays, just 6 hours a week. Thus my new idea for survival: to become a subject for scientific research.
There are quite a few studies that anyone can volunteer for on the McGill classifieds website. I’ve inquired about joining the word recognition experiment, hid and head speech study (?), and the music listening study. If I had sperm I would definately donate some for the sperm motility study. Actually it seems that having a penis pays pretty well, as there are quite a few studies on measuring male arousal.
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Today I could not for the life of me figure out how to spell “raisin”. As in rum raisin pudding. I had to look it up! How did I get into grad school???
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Yesterday Spidey and I went along with our roommates up Mont Royal. This photo is looking out over Old Montreal. In winter the trails here are supposed to be great for cross country skiing. There’s an old hunting lodge at the top of the “mountain” with a little cafe. Inside they have these scary squirrel statues that go along the beams on the ceiling. There are tons of squirrels outside as well; they are really huge and have no fear of people, obviously fed by tourists.
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Today I’m walking down the street, and there are these three guys sitting in front of a little (Turkish?) restaurant smoking a hookah! Seriously, straight out of Alice in Wonderland.
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Recently overheard at my house:
“The night before school starts is like the night before Christmas!”
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I’m officially a McGill student! So of course when I go to get my student card it never occurs to me that I’m going to get my picture taken. Then I’m thinking, oh well, it’s only good for a year. But it’s 4 years! Urgh. Oh well. No one really sees it. Except you people.
