Occasional musings from a Left-coast Canadian ExPat in Oxford.
The cashier at the drug store was the most sour-faced person I’d seen all day. She was slamming things around, muttering under her breath and looking like there was nothing worse than her particular lot in life at that moment. Then it was my turn. And I placed my midol, tampons and chocolate bar on … Continue reading Bad Day
How awesome is my boss? So awesome that after the whirlwind of work travel, she gave me (in addition to a nice cash bonus) new running gloves and socks, as some incentive to get back into my running routine, since it was interrupted and had basically died. I test-drove the gloves and socks on Monday … Continue reading Speedy
I made it back on Thursday from “Fabulous Las Vegas” and am so incredibly glad the crazy travel time is over. Now we can get on with crazy running time and crazy moving time and crazy wedding time – hopefully in that order. Vegas was good, though was really all work. And while I love … Continue reading Home Sweet Home
Do you (bloggers) ever get to that point where you realize you haven’t written for a while, and you want to, but because it’s been so long you have no idea where to start – you want to apologize for not writing because it has been so long, but you’re not actually sorry because you … Continue reading Catch-all
My one and only Champagne Birthday is coming up in two short days! I’ll turn 27 on the 27th. Even cooler (at least I think it is) is that I’ll turn 27 on 27-07-2007. I was going to throw a big party! Until I was informed that there is something else in store. All Neil … Continue reading Building a Mystery
The past week has been an absolute whirlwind – and a complete 180 from the 13 weeks beforehand. I’ve been interviewing like mad (5 work-days, 5 companies, 7 interviews) and find myself presented with two offers (well, 3, but one is totally unsuitable, and the other two companies just haven’t replied yet). In any case, … Continue reading A Nice Problem to Have