November at a Glance

Since this is obviously a backlog (It's actually the wee hours in the morning of the last day of January 2007), I had to search into the deepest parts of my memory to remember what happened in November. That month seemed to have passed by so quickly! I ended up having to actually look in my agenda to see what I actually did! Well, here it is in brief....

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November 1st, I got internet connection at my new place!

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I worked, worked, worked! After moseying around in Europe and Toronto, I came back to a motherload that needed my attention.

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Still in the process of settling into my new place! That is, still sleeping on a mattress on the floor and staring at ugly white blinds with no curtains. The doorman came to clean my windows on the weekend and he made fun of my white mini-lights after knocking them off the ceiling.

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Visiting Grandma in the hospital at regular intervals. The poor woman was more bored than anything, due to the fact that she was often the liveliest and healthiest one in the ward!

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Ooohh! I went to Québec city for one night and two days to present a poster at the Québec Diabetes Association conference. This is my third time to the same venue for the same conference, so excitement was sadly wearing a bit thin. But I met a nice gal who I will be working with in the near future as she is joining our lab. The funnest part, of course, was accepting the final payment of my scholarship. They have a little ceremony for us, with wine and cheese and all, then call up the "boursiers" one by one like we are at graduation day.

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One Tuesday evening in late November, me and Rachel from my improv course went to check out a jam session at Nyks to see the Alex Bellegarde (locally known jazz upright bass player) and his gang, to inspire us for our upcoming concert. Our own bass player from the course had recommended it since Alex is his own personal inspiration. Their first set though, was so completely out-of-this-world improv that Rachel and I just could not grasp what the heck was going on! Later in the night I asked Alex what kind of structure they followed for that set, and he said absolutely none! Fascinating! (By the way, it turns out I'm performing with Alex from time to time... go see the January blogs when they come up!) I took a quick video of the amazing show on my cell but I feel bad putting it up on the web until I ask permission to do so.

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Speaking of, the other thing I did in November was sing, sing, sing! And damn loving it!

So there it is. November at a glance.

Time Warp

Hello to one and all!

As usual, I'm writing this at wee hours in the morning since I'm not catching any zzz's anyway. I also feel compelled to start catching up on my blog. Enough apologies for not writing and promises to keep writing - it's time to take some action! I'm sure that most of you have stopped believing by now that I would ever update this thing, and I certainly don't want you to lose faith in me nor do I want to lose your loyalty as readers.

Because it's been so long, I feel obliged to do some serious backlogging. Many things have happened that I still want to share with you even though it's weeks later. You may notice that I've decided to share only random and special events that might peak your interest, rather than narrate the events along a traditional timeline. I have, however, divided things up into their general dates of occurence. Also, because blogging takes time and care, I will be backlogging one or two entries at a time rather than all at once. The consequential time warps that appear in this blog are expected to confuse you. You're just going to have to browse through the archives all the way through to the beginning of October on a regular basis.

Thank you for your patience and for caring enough to read my blog!

With love,
Susan