I am feeling a little old today. Not so much in mind, but certainly in body. On Friday night, Pokey's Dad organized a little dodgeball action at an elementary school that his sister works at. It was very fun, and a pretty good workout as well. But, as many of you know, I am not a huge fan of the sports where one throws and catches things (the one obvious exception being ultimate frisbee - but I maintain that my primary role during that game is actually knocking the frisbee down as a defender, not actually throwing or catching it). And so, because I don't typically play sports like that, my arms are a little sore. But, what really did me in was this crazy game we played using these trolleys:
As you can see they are pretty close to the ground. The game involved two teams, all on trolleys. It was kind of waterpolo-ish, with one team trying to knock over the other team's pylon with a rubber ball. You had to pass the ball back and forth, and manage to stay on your trolley at the same time. Also, if you are carrying the ball, members of the opposing team are allowed to try and knock you off your trolley. So picture a bunch of 25-35 year olds pushing themselves around on these things on a Friday night. Hilarious and lots of fun - but I am so sore today! My back, my neck, my arms - ugh. My knees are also killing me, but I think that is largely a result of my soccer game yesterday (which we won - hurray!). So yeah, I am feeling the aches and pains and am wondering if I will be crippled by 40. Let's hope not.
In other news, I may soon be a Montrealer again! Nothing is for sure yet, and I am trying not to get too excited, but I have applied for a post-doctoral fellowship with the CRLMB to work with this guy. I have no idea how many other people have applied, but I think out proposal looked really good. So cross your fingers everyone. Also, if I don't get the fellowship, Fred has hinted that we might still be able to work something out, if we can find some smaller grants from other sources, and if I maybe teach a course per semester at one of the universities or CEGEPs. That would be fine with me - so I am saying there's about a 75% chance I am moving back. Woohoo! One of my high school friends pointed out to me tonight that I actually moved from Montreal 10 years ago. Amazing how much has happened in those 10 years. I have completed a BA and an MA, I have lived in 3 other provinces, I have had numerous roommates, I have been to many weddings and met many new babies. And while I have certainly enjoyed my time here, and will miss many, many people very much - I have to say that the idea of a change is pretty exciting! I am currently thinking of living in either the Plateau or the NDG/Westmount area but am open to suggestions from my more knowledgeable friends...
But in the meantime, I really need to finish my thesis. I am trying really hard to spend more time working on it, and things are starting to move a little faster, but my is it a struggle. I think it is a combination of teaching 2 courses, still having data coming in, and just being kind of tired of the whole process. I mean I even know what I want to write for most of it. I just can't make myself sit down and actually do it. But I am trying to be disciplined, and I give myself ridiculous little rewards for accomplishing things, like watching The Amazing Race (I CANNOT believe that Rob and Amber were eliminated this week! I guess now I am cheering for Ozzy and Danny), calling friends, eating chocolate...whatever works at the time (I need to watch the food rewards though or I am not going to be able to play any sports at the end of it all!). I am handing in a chunk of it to my supervisor tomorrow and I think I will feel good about that. It's kind of like running a marathon I think - and I just have to make it through the final stretch - and I know there will be people cheering at the finish when I get there :-) Oh, and speaking of races - congrats to StephK from the 'Guay for finishing her first ever half-marathon! She was faster than her expected time and seemed to come out of it none the worse for wear. Woohoo!
I know I had a few other things I wanted to blog about but they seem to have left my mind at the moment, so I will sign off for now. Hope you're all enjoying the extra hours of daylight...I know I am! I even had to wear my sunglasses for about an hour this evening while sitting at my computer - but I am certainly not complaining. And here is a funny clip from The Daily Show about all the hoopla surrounding the change to daylight savings time, aptly titled Aclockalypse Now. Teehee!
Night!
me and julio
Edit: Okay, so the Comedy Central link does not go right to the segment I wanted it to - but you can find it if you scroll down the right side. That whole episode was pretty funny, so really anything you watch from there should be good - but then again, I am kinda biased...
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Great work.
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