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Archive for September, 2008

Stings like a bee

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

I got my TA assignment last week. I am working with Mohammed Ali (yes, that’s his name) in the “History of Africa” class. I didn’t have to wait long to be put to work either. I have a nice stack of map assignments that I guess he’ll want back in a week or two. It’s [...]

Traitor

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Saw an awesome movie last weekend. “Traitor” starring Don Cheadle. A film that focuses on a lot of the hot-button topics of today, terrorism, nationalism, patriotism, Islam… Some of the same things that were featured in Jamie Foxx’s “The Kingdom“, but this film and that are separated by a very wide chasm. I don’t want [...]

The village that thinks its a city

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

So Ottawa is the capital of Canada. Interestingly its not even the capital of its own province. That honor goes to Toronto. Fittingly so in my humble opinion. Had an interesting experience today with Sheema as we tried to find a late 1 pm breakfast that illustrates the desperation with which Ottawa clings to the [...]

the swing of things

Friday, September 12th, 2008

It’s been a long time since I was here. The garden has quite a few weeds and is in desperate need of tending. Ah. I’m back in Ottawa, back in school and for the first time I have only one thing to do. This is the second year of my MA program and I have [...]