Its been a busy week so far. This past weekend I did a lot of errands and made my first trip to Marché Jean-Talon for vegetables and fruit. Its mostly still indoors but nice to get good produce at good prices. Yum.
I took a half-day off work today so I worked late Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and have just about made up all the time. There’s about twenty things I’m doing right now which makes me incredibly busy. I’m supposed to be spending 1 day a week doing computer analysis but so far since I’ve returned from TO I’ve spent about a day and a half doing so. Must try to make time!
Today my new assistant (who is really great) commented that I type really fast. I guess I do … after all, my first computer was a 286 with WordPerfect 5.1 and I didn’t even use a computer with a mouse until 1995. I’ve always been a fan of the keyboard and it’s so much faster than clicking. For example, making things in Flash has always seemed to be really slow to me and back when I was doing my internships there was a lot of clicking and very little keyboard use. I see newer versions have more keyboard shortcuts, but more please!! And it seems that most bioinformatics software is either hard-core unix text-only or completely point & click – it would be nice to use some software that does a bit of both and in a way that makes working with the astounding amount of data I handle reasonable.
Our friend David Backhouse played at a café on Sherbrooke last night. It was really good – he is an excellent song-writer, guitar-player and singer. Nice café too, but Dan wasn’t happy with the coffee. And at the café last night I found out another one of our friends who lives in the Plateau started biking to work … in Laval!! I’m seriously impressed.
So I just found out our friend Tyler has a girl-friend!
Today Dan went to get bombarded by x-rays at the hospital so I went along and it was all over really soon. He had taken time off school but it was so quick that after we went out for lunch/supper, he went back to school for his last class! We ate at Jolee restaurant, a southern Indian restaurant in CDN that Lisa has been telling us about for a year. I had a nice Lassi (yogurt drink) and we had thalis and pakoras. Yum again.
On the way home I waited about 20 minutes for the bus. This would have been ok if was 11 at night or something, but it was at 4:30 PM in the middle of rush hour. I was the first in line and the line was so long that it went almost half-way around the metro station! Finally two busses came and we were off. And then we passed one of the streets in my hood and there were 4 police cars there and a whole bunch of people standing out in the street. I’m wondering if that affected the traffic or not. I don’t know what happened yet – nothing on the news. But this week there was a potential homicide in my hood! Um, july can’t come soon enough.
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GAH! I’m so embarrassed…well, not really. It’s not like everybody doesn’t already know. And if they don’t know, they will.
March 31st, 2006