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Archive for December, 2008

Let it snow

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we’ve no place to go,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
No place to go indeed. The storm has been raging since morning; -28°C with the windchill; burr! It looks to be slowing down a little bit now, so who knows, maybe [...]

Proctoring

Monday, December 15th, 2008

I’ve spent the last week, give or take a few days, proctoring. It’s not the most fun activity. The pay is minimum wage, and it’s pretty mindless. You go in a class get it ready for an exam, let the students in, read some stuff, say “start” then a few hours later you say “stop”, [...]

Yuletide

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

The Christmas tree is up! Yay! The holiday season is now upon me and after sitting in Starbucks over the weekend, I realized that I had been quietly brainwashed. When I came home and wanted to put on “Let it Snow” I saw how quietly the holiday spirit had come and invaded my consciousness. The [...]