Seasonable

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.

How Many Linguists?

Of course it's the day the whole meeting is supposed to be about presentations, and the day the
meeting is being extended by an hour already, that the projector bulb burns out.

Best Lab Ever

You know you're in a good lab when you have pizza for the meeting and it's all vegetarian. And it's 5 different types of gourmet vegetarian. And you live in beef country.

Variety

Jingxia had over Albertans old and new (see below) for dinner tonight. I don't think we expected a 9-dish feast: red bean, eggplant, tofu, cashew, mushroom, beef, pork, chicken, and shark-fin soup. You can see how amazing it was.
(you can also see how few people obeyed my silly-face directive.)

Hard at Work?

Here's what the dorms look like. 3 of the 5 of us Albertans are in this one, so I hang out sometimes too.

O-ho!

I guess you can never really escape this place. Koji graduated today, and went right from the ceremony to the lab to get back to work. As you can see, though, at least he came back with a little more aplomb.

Farewell

Today was Debra the All-Knowing's last day. She's not going far, though; Modern Languages and Cultural Studies hired her as an APO, which means more money for doing one person's job instead of four. We got a free lunch out of it, but I think we're losing on the deal.

We're all in this together

Looks like I'm not the only presenter who stayed up late last night. Or, maybe Koji's just enjoying the sun. Look! The snow is gone!