Tonight is the end of my first week in Montreal training for the new position as technical documentalist. So I celebrated (so to speak) by eating at a kitschy eatery named Santropol. The décor is splattered with bold and muted colors (fuschia next to olive green) with old school charm. The mosaic table I sat [...]
Read moreWell, I managed to get myself out of bed in enough time to take the bus/metro this morning. Unfortunately, I didn’t think enough to get exact change for the bus fare. The bus driver was kind enough to let me on for free without paying since I was going to the Subway. Merci beaucoup, monsieur! [...]
Read moreBien, le jour deux de la formation est terminé. I’m slowly picking up some Québecois French. It’s been fun reminding myself that I need receipts for everything. And managing to walk through 25 cm of wind blown snow for dinner tonight. Freezing rain woke me up three times last night by pounding on the hotel [...]
Read moreThis whole moving thing still isn’t quite sinking in. In 48 hours I’ll be sitting on a plane on my way to the frozen wonderland of Montreal. The week is gone. The paper is submitted for grad school, although I wasn’t happy with the final product. I’ve made plans, reservations, got my allergy medications for [...]
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