THAT'S gonna bruise.

Hi, McGill? It's called gravel. Please use it.

ah, CBC, how unintentionally amusing you are

Exhibit A:



I love the urgency the all-caps of "HAIL" conveys. Also it makes me think of "FAIL." Also why is the hail graphic the only one that gets text? Even if it may be difficult to graphically represent hail differently from snow, rain, sleet, etc., none of them really need text, especially if they are described on the right anyway. And it's a good thing they elaborate, since you might not know what "HAIL" is, but, phew, okay, just "ice pellets."

If talking about the weather were an olympic sport

Soooooo, it's zero degrees Fahrenheit, and probably colder with the wind chill, though CBC ever so metrically says it's -18 degrees, which scared me for about 3/5ths of a second as -18 is an entirely different ballgame of cold in Fahrenheit. Although Canadians are generally better-acquainted with cold than the residents of 49 out of 50 states, when a Canadian says something like "It's so cold out! It's going to be minus fifteen today!" I find myself wanting to reply, "Oh yeah? You think that's cold? You should try minus fifteen in America!"

And yet somehow it is a rather tropical 74 degrees in my apartment, though I have yet to turn on the heat this year. There is nothing coming out of my radiator. But even if I were to crack a window, the temperature would go down temporarily but spike right back up in an hour or two. WHERE IS THIS MYSTERY HEAT SOURCE? I barely needed blankets last night which is really not what I migrated north for.

I just printed out a Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion chart, so BRING IT, WINTER.

Merry Christmas, here's a new government

To be perfectly honest, I'm more concerned about CBC Special Reports interrupting Coronation Street than the overthrow of the Canadian government. But it's still pretty interesting to watch, especially since I am not invested in the outcome whatsoever. Except to say that, democracy or no democracy, it would totally make a better movie in ten or twenty years if the coalition takes over. Though I think Justin Trudeau would be much better for box office sales than Stephane Dion.

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Things That Annoy Me

- Use of the word "dialog(ue)" as a verb

- When students grunt earnestly in class. Hi, I can learn without making noise; can you? I don't mind understand the odd nod of interest, feigned or not, if the professor is looking straight at you. But so help me, if you actually say "huh!" out loud, I may have to draw blood.

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Here is library school in a nutshell:

Week 1: Assure students that their training will not become obsolete by graduation
Week 2: Stereotypes of librarians
Week 3: Wikipedia is not a valid source
Week 4: Wikipedia is a valid source
Week 5: Presentation of three- to seven-year-old technology as cutting-edge (Wow! Online encyclopedias! Second Life! The butter churn! Amazing!)
Week 6: Wikipedia is usually a valid source but nobody will admit it
Week 7: "Indigenous knowledge" aka "People Who Don't Live in the Western Hemisphere Sometimes Know Stuff Too But They Need Help Writing It Down"
Week 8: s s1 AND slow(w)painful(w)death
Week 9: Sixteen references to the printing press in one lecture
Week 10: Exam: Please recite all Dewey numbers 001-999 from memory.