Halloween en francais

This year I flew to Montreal for Halloween weekend.  Montreal (and its lovely inhabitants) always seem to take my favorite holiday way more seriously than Winnipeg does, so I just couldn’t bear to miss it.  I had a hard time coming up with a costume idea – I eventually went with Gym Teacher – and [...]

Vacation Highlights

After realizing that my dreams of sandy beaches and fancy drinks with umbrellas in them were not meant to be, I thought that my summer vacation was kiboshed.  But, always the amazing friends that they are, the lovely folks in Montreal responded to my desperate, last minute e-mail request for a possible Montreal retreat with [...]

Tropical vacations that will never be

After planning and talking and getting excited about our trip to whichever cheap, all-inclusive resort we could find, my tropical vacation with Meg has been cancelled.  After finding out yesterday (10 days before we were supposed to leave) that Meg can’t go, I’m left scrambling to try and salvage the time I’ve booked off and [...]

The Canadian Cities Tour

Hoooo doggy.  I’ve been recently enjoying the travel-related benefits of my job, having returned last week from a two week jaunt to Montreal, Ottawa, and Halifax.  It was fun, tiring, boring, exciting, and refreshing.  Now I’m back, I’m starting to slip back into my regular routine, and I’m writing this from work when I should [...]

Classic Convocation

This past weekend I flew to Montreal to partake in one final au revoir to Concordia and all things MA-related.  Convocation was on Monday, and the weekend was spent catching up with friends, and catching up with the city that I’ve always felt I left too soon.  It was glorious, albeit far too short a [...]

Ben’s Deli

I recently found out that a photo I had taken of Ben’s Deli in Montreal will be featured in the Schmap Montreal Guide. I had posted the photo on Flickr, and someone asked that I post it in a Montreal-related group, and a while later someone else contacted me from Schmap.  I feel special.

This [...]

Sleep tight, don’t let the little bastards in your mattress bite.

Easier said than done. Fuck me, we have bed bugs.
I’ve had a weird rash/random pattern of itchy bumps on my arms, upper shoulders, and sometimes my face for a long time now. It started in September 2006 when I moved to Montreal – my skin is very sensitive, so the move and resulting [...]

Tam Tams

Rather than provide some lengthy explanation, get a load of this:

Joie de Vivre

It’s amazing how long it takes me to get back on track after being away from the grind.  Good, in some senses because that means that I have obviously had a really relaxing time, but not so good in the sense that it’s taking me FOREVER TO GET BACK ON TRACK.  Yeesh.
I left for Montreal [...]