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Category Archives: Academia

headache

Winter so far has been strange for Vancouver. Lots of cold, clear days. That means icy roads, and I bike to work every day. Today was my first ice-related crash, and now I have a bruised hip and elbow and a headache. I think I had a pretty good winning streak though. Plenty of my [...]

DELETED

UBC is off my list… they require a 3.75 for the final two years. 3.75!! I was good enough to get a blue cord strung around my neck at commencement, indicating to all that I was between 3.5 and 3.7 (it was 3.49 actually, good thing they round up) but a coveted yellow cord eluded [...]

sleepy boy

When I finally dragged James out of bed this morning (it takes several attempts) he slouched over to the computer and googled “my girlfriend wakes up too early.” I phoned up Dalhousie to see about applying there and I think I will not. They don’t really have anything to do with linguistics at all, and [...]