Wow! What a Game!

Whoa! I didn't see that coming! What a Grey Cup! First time since 1961 that it went into overtime! Man... Did you see that fumble by the Alouette? He looked like he messed upa touch down and then we find out the ball was thrown twice by the same guy. Weird play! Man crazy! Anyway, I was lucky to be at a friend's house and watch the game ona big screen. The girls didn't like sports, but the dad did. He was happy someone knew a bit about the game. Crazy!

Grey Cup Time!! :)

Ok. Who would have thought the Eskimos would make it to the Grey Cup? I certianly didn't! I went to a CFL game in Sept. Edmonton played Calgary. I routed for the Stampeders. I dunno it's goes back to the Doug Fluttie days. (Apologies for spelling his name wrong). Edmonton sucked! Well something changed and by some fluke the Esks made it to the Grey Cup. The Montreal Alouettes I guess also were a bad team this year. Oh well it will be a good game. Here is my prediction for the game: The Edmonton Eskimos will win 34-18. Umm yeah. I have to go with Edmonton now. I have no choice-the locals would hate me otherwise. lol :) Anyway I can't beleive I am saying this, but "Go Esks! Go!"

Life as a Student

Ahhh Xmas just around the corner. Yeah! Just one final exam (3 weeks from today) and my semester is over. :) I can't wait to see everyone.

The Last Night of Fun

Last night I went to a house party, hosted by my friend Zoe. As people were coming in Zoe was introducing me. At one point Zoe said "This is Cheryl" and one guy replied "Porter from Horton?" He was from my home town; it was Ernie Buist! I didn't know him very well. I knew his younger brother. But it was great to see a person from home! I always meet someone I know in unexpected places. Lol My life is interesting!

The Winds of Change

Well, Edmonton's weather is certainly strange. One day last week it was
-15 C! Yikes! I was certainly glad to live across the street from work. Today it's 12 C. I think I'll take advantage and go for a walk down by the river valley. It's beautiful there. We have had many wind storms. Two days ago the wind was gusting at 70km/hr. It awoke many of us Edmontonians! lol

A month from today I will be flying home to Nova Scotia. I wasn't sure if I could this year, but I think it's important. I hope to have a relaxing vacation and return to Edmonton with a new perspective. Master's has certainly been demanding and I need to refocus.

What's green and says "Hi I'm a frog"?

A frog. lol That's a silly joke I saw on the sitcom "Friends".

Smashing Windows...

This past year I have changed from being a PC user to a Mac user. I enjoy my Mac much more than I thought I would.

Microsoft vs. GM

At a recent computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,

"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five-dollar cars that get 1000 miles to the gallon."

Recently General Motors addressed this comment by responding, "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?" And . . .

1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.

2. Occasionally, your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart, and drive on.

3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to fail, and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.

4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more seats.

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.

6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.

7. The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.

8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.

9. The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.

Do you have a palmaris longus?

Yesterday my prof and I were discussing an upcoming surgery on a person who required one of their tendons (palmaris longus) to be taken out of their arm and used elsewhere in the body. As we were discussing it he showed me which tendon. I didn't have it! That's right some people do, some people don't (13% of the population). It's a vestigal nerve muscle. Quite interesting. They told me not to get any nerve or spinal cord damage. You see it's easy to just take the vestigal tendon and use it in another part of the body, but if you don't have it too bad. This tendon is the most graft tendon for the hand.

For a depiction of this look at this website:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~anatomy/wrist-hand/surface/surface3.html
http://www.rad.washington.edu/atlas/palmarislongus.html
So if you can see two nerves running to your hand then you have a palmaris longus! Congrats! If you don't you can just smile and say that you are more evolutionally advanced than your friends who have it. lol

Cal-garrrr-eeee (garr is held for at least 2 sec, best with a drawl)

I decided the title was appropriately spelled considering that's how a lot of the locals pronounce their city. Calgary wasn't too bad. Didn't see much considering I was working on my paper. Alas, the paper. Yawn... It's an interesting paper, but yet I'm getting bored of it. Fall break is quickly approaching. My break is only one day-Friday. Sigh.. It's different being a grad student- you hardly get time off.

This weekend I am again off to Calgary to hopefully see the city this time. I'm takign the Greyhound. It's about a 3 1/2 hour trip, but it goes really fast! I guess I'm used to wasting my time on buses due to last year's comute. The bus driver puts on two movies and this also helps to apss the time. Last weekend's bus trip was great. A Cape Bretoner (from of course Fort McMurray) sat beside me. Keith was a biker, going to ride his Harley one last time. His bike was being housed in Calgary. We talked the whole time. He scared at me at one point, telling me that Stephen Hawkings had died a year and 1/2 ago. I didn't beleive him, but he was insistent. I'm always reading the news so I couldn't see how such an event would get by me. It wasn't true. I think he mixed him up with Christopher Reeves. Anyway on my way home I met a nice woman from Saskatchewan. I love meeting people. The bus is the way to go!

Je vais voyager a Calgary

If you can't get a hold of me this weekend it's because I'm in the cowboy capital-Calgary. Yee-haw! I'm hopping onto the Greyhound bus tonight after work. I need a vacation. Yeah I know I should wait until fall break(which is next weekend), but the vacation is desperately needed. I'll go to the mountains next weekend-perhaps Banff. :)

Did the Time Warp!

I celebrated Halloween by going to a small get-together. We watched "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". Very interesting! It wasn't as bad as I thought. I didn't know it was a musical! I would never have guessed that Susan Surrandon would be one of the main characters. Overall it was worth seeing. Puzzling, bizzare for sure, but worth seeing at least once.