I found the perfect work environment, but it takes at least 6 people to pull off; two to work dilligently next to me, and 4 to have an interesting conversation in front of me that I can jump in to every 10 minutes. And coffee.
Thanks robot coffee machine, but when you call it "REGULAR HEALTHY DRINK" It's not too hard to choose.
Until next time, keep fit, and have fun!
Sad Candidates
Sullay has spent a fair bit of time on this blog lately, so he knew why I was taking his picture. He said emphatically that I should use the word "Team" in the post because in his native language it also means "fight". But I've never seen him even want to fight anything other than contempt for imagination. And maybe fighting itself.
I decided to quit computer science when I realized in Japan that I had way more fun learning Japanese than I did sucking at programming. Today I realized that by the same logic I should quit linguistics and just blog full time. Since my life will be blogging, though, from now on my Life in Pictures will all look like this one.
After a free extra month of fall, Winter decided to come suddenly on Tuesday, with serious snow and ferocious -17C temperatures. Koji's response is to dress equally ferociously.
Dorothy is one of the few people I know who could get their mom to show up to their (successful!) Masters' defense. She is also the only person I know whose mom does "poultry research".
I wasn't going to get a mumps shot until I saw this, but I went the hell in and got one today. They don't even need the basketballs; they could just write SEVERE TESTICULAR PAIN in big letters and they could get me to do whatever they want.
It turns out Jackie wasn't content to just build her own room in our house - she had to build the rest of us out of it too.
I love Edmonton. We were moving Alison's stuff today, and we stopped in a _fairly_ urban area to drop it off when I took this picture. If we had driven further away from the centre of town, things would only get less rural. And less awesome.
Compliments to the chef. You can tell how good a meal is going to be by counting how many colours you can see in it.
The bad news is that when the plumbers tore our wall off they found out that the shower wasn't just leaking from the bottom, it was also leaking from the top, so the mould wasn't just on the floor, it was in the walls, too. The bad news is, they fixed the top but they aren't even going to bother fixing the bottom because what's left of the shower is a piece of sh*t so we'll have to have the whole thing replaced.
Two of the people in this picture are pretending it's not exciting to get a package from Australia.
Vianey heard of my plight, and offered to donate her old camera to the blog. Here's the first picture I took with it, of Kristina giving her what she deserves.
I love skating. You can drag me around an over-sized mall shopping for every member of your family ever born and some that aren't, you can ask me which gift your friend I've never met is likely to prefer, you can even put your finger right in the middle of my blog picture if you want, as long as I get to go skating at the end of the day.
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