One of many reasons why I like CBC Radio!

Don't tell my mother, but I absolutely love CBC Radio One! If she knew, she'd smirk and say, "Well, at least you have some good taste. You inherited that from me." At our house the radio was always tuned to CBC 740 (Edmonton), and I've grown used to it. I'll listen to CBC 2 and occasionally CBC 3 (but that gets pretty weird at times), however I prefer to listen to Radio One on its original format on the AM dial (it sounds grittier and more interesting). I usually try to catch "Q" as wells as "DNTO", "Blue Sky" (in Alberta - "Wild Rose Country") and of course, no Saturday is complete without "Quirks and Quarks". Hey, I think the CBC should pay me a cut for promoting their programs!

Anyways, driving back from Yorkton last night we managed to catch a replay of Jian Ghomeshi's "Q". They mentioned a really neat website: www.sleeveface.com. Here's an example:



Neat huh? They've also got a really cool one from Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album. I like the ones from Peter Frampton and Pantera (funny) albums. By the way, if you've never heard of Cibo Matto, you should check them out, they're really good!

A new theme for this blog?

So, Kris thinks I should write about my exploits with the wickedly awesome sport of geocaching?

For those of you who are unaware what it is, it's essentially a high-tech treasure hunt. People place tupperware containers full of dollar store junk out in the middle of a bush (or if they're really sneaky sometimes in an urban center), take their GPS, create a waypoint, upload said waypoint to www.geocaching.com and have other people use their GPS's to find it. That's it in a nutshell! The "treasure chests" can come in a variety of sizes from 50 calibre ammo cans to small watch-battery sized containers (called nanos). Very geeky, huh?

Thanks to a couple of profs within the Department (that's irony for you), my boyfriend and I have become geocaching addicts. I won't say to the detriment of our theses (just in case anyone is reading this), but we've become addicted enough to choose geocaching over other more pertinent pursuits at times.

Of course, we've had a number of interesting close calls while geocaching. Unfortunately we're used to that by now. As for stories, I'll post as they become available. Due to the extreme cold this week, our usually hardy geocaching team has decided to hibernate inside until the weather is better under the pretenses of "writing". I'll let you know how that goes... :)

Happy New Year?

I absolutely love these comics! Frighteningly true at times. Thanks to K for introducing me to them through her blog (The Illustrated Freier).

I swear one day I will post an actual blog, but like all good grad students I'm an excellent procrastinator and am actually trying to get the big T out of the way now that I have time to work on it!

And to everyone out there, I wish you a very Happy New Year with much health, hope and happiness in 2008!