Longest week ever!
The first week back from holidays is usually either absolutely insane, or incredibly dull. Sadly, the later applies here. Most of my floor is gone on vacation or out of the office for various reasons, leaving me with not a lot to do. When I went away, I'd pretty much managed to tie up any loose ends I needed to, so now, well, I guess it's blog time. I'd consider going home, but people have been setting up 1 important meeting a day, and with everyone else already gone, I really shouldn't be too... seems like a bad plan to have no representation from anyone in our group.
On to other things, the week in Ontario was nice, lots of time spent sitting by a lake and reading books. I finally read one of the Margaret Atwood books we bought at the Calgary Herald book sale a while back, I think it was The Blind Assasin. It was pretty good, must have been considering I made it through 600 pages in about 3 days. I'll have to take a stab at some of her other books now. Maybe that'll be a good winter time project... We did a bit of canoeing, went swimming, even got a chance to go into Kingston for a few hours. There are a lot of new buildings on campus! The new ILC building is pretty cool, with all the cutouts in the floor and walls to show how it all works and the new buildings where the old chemistry buildings were have gone up. They must have kept some limestone from somewhere to match the rest of the buildings, the new ones fit in really well. Mike got a new Queen's t-shirt to replace his old on that had way too many holes in it to keep. The next step will be convincing him to throw out the old one, and I don't like my chances there...
Otherwise, all is well, and things are starting to wind down. We get to go the fireworks show this weekend. I've heard it's pretty cool, so I'm looking forward to seeing it for myself for the first time.
On to other things, the week in Ontario was nice, lots of time spent sitting by a lake and reading books. I finally read one of the Margaret Atwood books we bought at the Calgary Herald book sale a while back, I think it was The Blind Assasin. It was pretty good, must have been considering I made it through 600 pages in about 3 days. I'll have to take a stab at some of her other books now. Maybe that'll be a good winter time project... We did a bit of canoeing, went swimming, even got a chance to go into Kingston for a few hours. There are a lot of new buildings on campus! The new ILC building is pretty cool, with all the cutouts in the floor and walls to show how it all works and the new buildings where the old chemistry buildings were have gone up. They must have kept some limestone from somewhere to match the rest of the buildings, the new ones fit in really well. Mike got a new Queen's t-shirt to replace his old on that had way too many holes in it to keep. The next step will be convincing him to throw out the old one, and I don't like my chances there...
Otherwise, all is well, and things are starting to wind down. We get to go the fireworks show this weekend. I've heard it's pretty cool, so I'm looking forward to seeing it for myself for the first time.
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