Dan - quiet(ish) saturday

Dante's last soccer match of the season, following by lounging and crankiness. Spent this evening upgrading my windows box and recovering files from the childcare hard drive (it died, but contains a big pile of photos and stuff). Nearly bought an AppleTV. Will probably do so once mt-daapd can serve video content.

Evelyn - Still hanging onto the Festival

I'm determined to get more out of the festival while its still going, work not withstanding. So Monday, we went and saw Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Thursday we took Dan to the Heresy Project - even funnier than the first time, and last night we went and saw John Waters: This Filthy World at the film festival.

Becstarr : Mystery day

Picked up the Iku cookbook Nourish for $5 at a garage sale in the morning. Score! (it's currently out of print). Pottered for most of the day. Evening: watching a 1980's skate movie Joel picked up this morning called The Search For Animal Chin. Duuuuuuude.... :)

Jen - Soccer Saturday

Today consisted of soccer, tantrums, and a quick dash out to Spotlight to get some wool for a new baby cardigan pattern I got.

Ben - Tired

Been judging Tournament of Minds. It was fun. Now I'm tired. Very tired. I used to wonder why teachers drank so much coffee; I've since found out. And I'm coming to the profession with a hideous caffeine addiction already in place.

Hm.

shoshe - first day of class

Yesterday I went to four classes and a lab; today I went to two more classes. I'll only end up taking three subjects, but I'm not sure which yet (hopefully I'll be able to ditch both quantum classes). Mineralogy lab was fun.

In free-food-and-drink news:
1) The local SUPRA-equivalent held an Ice Cream Social last night. The mango sorbet was particularly good, but I don't recommend 2 bowls of ice cream as dinner.
2) The department had a party this afternoon to celebrate the 4th "birthday" of the Spitzer space telescope. Free cake and Bellinis. We also had free cake and pizza on Wednesday for a welcome-to-the-department lunch -- and half the cake was chocolate and half was vanilla. Genious!
3) The grad student union-ish building had its weekly cheap beer and free softdrink and snacks this evening. Beer was $1/cup for domestic and $2 for imported (with a total of 3 beers to choose from). I pointed to the darkest beer and asked what it was; the answer was "a dollar". After tasting it, I agreed that it was one-dollar beer. Not tasty, but hey. $1 beer!

falsedan - what a way to make a living

Been working on my CV; got (b'_')b & d(^_^d) from Tancred and Evelyn, so have applied at Rockstar North & Blizzard Europe. Yay I can go to the pub now!

Jen - Another quiet Friday

Just another day with Atti and Elora - she slept lots (making up for yesterday), he made me laugh. Did some sewing this evening.

Evelyn - Back at Work

So my holidays have finally come to an end and now I'm back at work. I wish I had more holidays.

Festival tickets in hand - it's raining, but no matter, it's time to rock out (I'm gonna get so wet).

Marina - sorry state of affairs

Less than a week to go and no birthday shennanigins planned. Count them - none...

Becstarr : Nutrition and nausea

Had a great afternoon meeting with Beth & Natalie (new RA) from Nutrition where we talked through their awesome learning flow diagram for the nutrition case studies (a project I jump back into in about 3 weeks). We're getting case studies from RPA ICU and some from North Shore. Excitement!
The rest of the day was a bit of a write-off due to the flu, but the meeting made up for it!

Ben - Too much *&%^#@ 3d geometry

Not much happening, except I keep mentally classifying everything all polyhedrons I see. I've decided that there are far too many rectangular prisms about.

The Subway on Maitland road is an octagonal prism, and its roof is an octagonal pyramid. Why can't more buildings be like that? It's made of lousy rectangular prism bricks, though. I think a nice hexagonal tessellation would really set it off.

Jaime: Stress to the max

Fighting immigration for their mistakes. P*ssed off about how everything is going. Still packing the house, lots left to do before we move Saturday week. Going to roll the dice and hope that they don't kick me out of the country next Tuesday.

Anna : Dancing in the Street

I was on my way home from work last night and as I was walking down King St I see Leon's friend Steph/ven Medway walking the other way. He's in his usual garb, black sleeveless t-shirt, black pants, goggles, and he's walking down the street making these expansive hand gestures. As I get closer I realise that he's rocking out to whatever he's listening to so when he catches sight of me I do what can only be described as an "Answering Boogie Hustle" down the street. He smiles and as we pass each other there was no awkward "Hey we kinda know each other, guess we should have a chat" conversation, instead he gently reached out, squeezed my arm and we both went on our merry way.

Jen - Girls' day out

Went to the Stitches and Craft show with my mother, mother-in-law and Elora. Bought some stuff - resisted buying a lot more stuff!

becstarr : Should have stayed home

Went to work, caned it, didn't stop for lunch (3rd day in a row), didn't twig that I was getting sick until I fell asleep on the couch and had to be put to bed (very grumpily).

Dan - nothing to report

Pretty average day. Woke, wrangled little people, worked, wrangled little people, sat down. Work was actually interesting. New ADSL is fast even though I haven't got the better modem working.

falsedan - oh crap

I am very mad because I went to see Henry Rollins last night and also while waiting to get in I realised that pints are different to schooners so all my reasonable drinking calculations are way out of wack >_<

Joe - You know say daddy me snow me-a blame

Busy, busy, busy. Weeks worth of work at BMRI coming to a head with the big move. Note to self: Find person who decided that med computers should be named by their room numbers and punch his face. Wrote an essay on medieval ivory carving. Utterly failed to tempt workman over to repair leak in our back room. Bezley staying over for the next couple of days.