Tough Choices

ukrainian coke or polish coke to make coke floats for our canada day celebrations?

Summer Project

Declutter! a place for everything and everything in it's place.

Predictions for 2008

found in neil's basement yesterday:

Predictions for 2008
June 18, 1998

general predictions for 2008

1. some of us will be married

   everyone but me is married.

2. nobody will have a kid over 4 years old

   everyone but kevin and i have children, none is over four years old.

3. we'll be spread across the world

   neither cathy nor i live in toronto. although i don't know that the us and germany really count as spread across the world.

4. quarter to half of us will not be in the field we started in -> neil however will still be a comp

   less than a quarter i would say

5. some of us may still be doing degrees

   no one is doing a degree. although some of us have unfinished degrees (see: kevin and kristin)

6. somebody will be a professor (probably cathy or kevin)

   dave is the professor.

7. we'll still be clueless as to what to do next in our lives

   somewhat true for me anyway, can't speak for anyone else.

8. some tragedy, divorce

   luckily, as far as i know, although there have been some rough times, this hasn't happened.

9. someone will be living with their parents

   has also not come true.

neil, cathy and i wrote these roughly 10 days after convocation. we also made vague predictions for each person. sadly lost is a similar survey we did amongst ourselves the summer before with fun questions such as "who would be most likely to forget their children at a gas station?"

Rhabarberkuchen mit Baiser

k: i made a cake yesterday. do you want to come over for a piece?

t: oooooh! sure, what kind?

k: a german cake from my german cookbook.

t: ah, well, then i don't think i can.

k: no really, it's good!

Word of the Day

Retro-futurism: scientific prophesy and vintage cultural nostalgia

Copycat Changes

pursuits of happiness had a makeover which i decided was an excellent idea. the changes here are minor but it was a good exercise anyway.

it really is spring cleaning time: new haircut, new glasses, new project, new blog template.

Potatoes and Lychees Anyone?

or "why i shouldn't go grocery shopping without a list."

there was a can of lychees already on my shelf. expiry date: 08.07.2009. so you can imagine how old that can probably is. of course i forgot the quark i wanted to go with it.

the kilo of potatoes already in the larder were brought here by tiffany for easter dinner. since they were not brought home by me they didn't really register in my mental inventory.

'scuse me while i go figure out a way to eat potatoes everyday for the next two to three weeks.