Autumn here has been lovely so far. I’d gotten used to Vancouver’s leaf sludge and feared more of the same here, but it hasn’t been so. A couple rainy days and that’s it.
I do still miss Vancouver - you don’t get that combination of sea and mountains here, for one. I miss [...]
James and I typically like to keep things pretty tidy, have discovered a new way to keep things ship shape.
Now I already subscribe to the minimalist school, having less stuff means having less stuff lying all over the place making it untidy. But certain things you might have considered essentials?
Take a dish rack, for [...]
Friday, September 25, 2009
This’ll be a brief post, since I’m internetless and reliant on the library for the moment. Anyway, I found a nice flat in Stoke Newington and moved in on Tuesday. A few thins that still need to be taken care of are all the utilities, and a good chunk of the furnishing. Utilities are almost [...]
Sunday, September 13, 2009
I arrived in London on Wednesday the 9th, and have been pretty busy since then.
One dilemma that newcomers can face is finding a flat and a bank account. A lot of people may find they need one to get the other. I popped into HSBC and found it fairly easy to get an account there [...]
The thing that has been occupying my mind the most is housing. It’s really not the first priority (that would be getting visas) but I’ve started spending ridiculous amounts of time combing through housing ads. Here are some things British housing ads feature that Canadian ones generally do not:
rents are generally listed weekly; the monthly [...]
James and I landed the sweetest apartment ever. It’s the main floor and (finished) basement of a nice old house, on a quiet street near Commercial drive (fun neighbourhood, plenty of my friends live there), near a community centre and library.
It has:
- big kitchen
- dishwasher
- living room with pocket doors leading to the
- formal [...]
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
- got my learner’s permit (with the minimum score allowed! sweet!)
- forgot my lunch
- had an excellent potato-pistachio soup with pretty much the best falafel ever
- learned a brief history of the Japanese stock market
- yawned excessively
- examined spreadsheets for errors
- talked to a couple professors at University of Guelph
Busy week. I came home Monday (New Years Eve). Got up at 4:30 EST, had a crappy flight, stopped in Minneapolis, and had an even CRAPPIER flight since I always get sick when I’m on the rag. Throwing up on an airplane is embarrassing. Lucky the second row from the back [...]
Saturday, December 29, 2007
My mom had a vitrectomy (eye surgery) today to repair a macular hole. They suck out half your eyeball fluid and inject a gas bubble. She has to stay face down for 10-14 days so the gas bubble will stay at the back of her eye and push the macula back against the [...]
Thursday, December 20, 2007
James is home from Korea which is great since I missed him a lot.
Also, the metallurgy lab sends us a nice Christmas basket full of delicious chocolate every year, which we received this morning. The two main perks of corporate bullshit are office lunches (2 hour lunch at a posh restaurant on someone else’s [...]