Well You Can Put Your Hands in Your Head, Oh No!

This morning I had many a wacky dream, as I often do. At one point I woke up, then went back to sleep, and dreamt about retelling my previous dreams, and created further wacky dreams while talking about the old ones. My dreams tend to bleed into one another, or are separated by brief awakenings where I shift my body position.

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Lint Jets in the Hot Tub

So I got on the train today and sat down beside some girl. After about 10 minutes of the wifi not working, and the guy across the aisle having the same problem, and one of the Via staff restarting the modem, and having looked over the train safety pamflet, I turn to Brigette and introduce myself. She goes to McGill, she’s in a science class, she’s on the rowing team—WHAT?

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Fitter, Happier, More Productive

Laura and I are becoming quickly and surprisingly proficient in ASL, which is fantastic. Pat Dumoulin, it turns out, can fingerspell incredibly quickly. Once I saw him do it on Friday, I realized I had seem him do this before long ago but figured he was making jibberish signs. Not so.

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News and Olds

In the early afternoon today Laura suggested I use Amazon’s wishlist system to keep track of what I want to purchase, and allow others the chance to possibly get those items for me. So I started a list and added four items I could think of that I either need or want right now. They were, in order of most urgent and necessary to least (coincidentally also in order of least to most expensive): an external hard drive, a printer/scanner, a Wacom Cintiq, and an iMac 27″.

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