Saturday, November 26, 2005

Halifax... Fun for Old People, Too!

So there's a guy in my program, Mark, who obviously thinks that I'm a grandmother or something, because any time he says something even vaguely related to age, he blushes and apologizes to me. Who the hell lets 23-year-olds into a graduate program anyway?! In fact, there are quite a few (read: almost all of them) under-25s in my circle of colleagues-who-are-becoming-friends. (Fortunately for me, Mark is the only one who seems to think that I'm over the hill.) This means that I am now hanging around with people younger than my little brother on a regular basis. And yes folks, I am keeping up with them. Danced until 4 a.m. last night. Drank beer like a true Haligonian. It's actually kind of a surreal, regressive experience, considering the rate at which you Edmontonians are "settling down," having babies, getting married, living in houses with billiards rooms.

Man, you guys are old!

Friday, November 11, 2005

About "Haligonian..."

It's been a really busy last few weeks. Had a really great visit with Heidi--she and I conquered the cell phone salesman conference at the Lower Deck. Then, after she left, I went to Toronto for the GSAC meeting. Did a little bit of toristy stuff up and down Yonge street, at the harbour, and bought Trent a souvenir at the hockey hall of fame. Then, when I got back, I got to spend a week with Trent. It was great--we went out for dinner, he met the other Englishes, we bought a house. The realtor explained that residents of Halifax, NS are the only ones that call themselves "Haligonians." Apparently, residents of every other Halifax call themselves "Halifaxians." So, although he couldn't tell me why they went with "Haligonian" as opposed to "Halifaxian" or "Halifaxite," I do now know that we are alone in using the term...
Yup, that's right. We bought a house! YAY!!! It's really cool. It's really really cool. And we take possession on Decmeber 11th.