Sleepless in Winnipeg

Here I sit, wide awake, playing on my laptop with the lights out so I don't keep K awake, at Midnight. It is snowing out there, apparently going to dump a lot of snow on us over the next day or so, and for some reason people have actually listened to the advice to stay home and not drive.

I need a break from work I think, a break when I don't have to think about work. But that will not happen for quite some time. I want to sit up and watch trashy TV all night and sleep all day.

Life isn't fair sometimes.

Further blergh

Still working on the lecture. Nearly done, and I have watched two movies while working on it, the Black Widower, and now Sleeping Beauty. Is that sad enough?

Blergh

Back, uneventful flight, arrived a little early, which is a bloody miracle. no probs getting through immigration this time either.

Now I am sitting here, knowing I have to give a lecture on Tuesday and I only have today to complete the slide deck, and I really can't be bothered! I really can't.

As it is a nice day we will take the Bunts for a walk soon, which will alleviate some of the boredome of the hemodynamics lecture, but I will still have to get back to it when I come home again. Blergh!

OMG

Sitting up watching trashy TV when I should really be in bed. I have to be up in a few hours to drive back to Charleston to get the plane home again.

At least I have a travel mug now.

We had a great dinner, went to some southern cooking buffet, and had some more down home cooking. The waitresses were hilarious!

Then we went for peach ritas at Mexicalli, before coming back to the house to rest up before bed. I was so stuffed I couldn't breath propoerly. Robyn was so stuffed she can't sit up! LOL!!! Much fun was had by all, esp over the pee stick discussions.

Ah well I guess you had to be there.

Up with the cows

I was up with the cows this morning, it was still dark outside, which was a little depressing. But that is ok. I had a good strong cup of coffee. I might go get some breaky as I am rather hungry, then again, I might just and I did, go for breaky. The buffet is pretty good, and I have a plate of fruit, which I really feel that i need this morning. With bacon and sausages of course LOL!!

Not too many people around today, one of my colleagues just said that a lot of people are coming for the day, and not staying, which I find weird, but anyway. That might explain why there aren't so many people around. I am surprised at some of the people who aren't here quite frankly, but I guess you have to pick and chose your conference these days.

Once I have eaten I will return to the room to ablute, and then pack and then leave for sunny Georgia!

Student presentation

She did a great job, people were very surprised that she was only a Masters student, she did good, she answered the questions well too. Good job! Mike and I were very proud of her. So we went for a celebratory dinner. As you can see below, it was a good dinner.

Looks like we are off to Atlanta on Thursday, praps to the Cyclorama? No idea what that is. We will see.

Later

Dinner

I finally got my chicken fried steak, I also had fried okra, some more she-crab soup and collard greens. Not necessarily in that order. It was good lowcountry food. Yum yum.

Now I am kicking back getting ready to go to bed, might play a little Fate before I go to sleep, but then I am also watching some show on fugitive captures.

Off to Athens tomorrow, after a working breakfast.

I need meat

I feel like that cat, I need meat! I am done with all this seafood, shrimp and oysters, I need meat, I need a nice juicy burger.

I will make every effort to get one tonight, food at the hotel is far too delicate, little flat beards with whimpy bits of god knows what on them, baked in a wood oven.

Gotta go, the student is presenting in 20 minutes, and probably almost passed out with fear. Can't get into my shawmail, but will try again tonight to let you know how it went.

Blergh

OMG I am dead tired. I worked till about 1am then went to bed, dropped off about 2.30 listening to some stupid hollywood gossip show, and then was woken by Mike texting me to tell me he was done and going to bed, this was at 3.50am! I couldn't get back to sleep, was too hot, my neck was sore, my back was sore, and I finally dropped off again about 5am to be woken by room service at 9.15!

OMG. I feel like I am hung over

:(

Bloody Hell

Here I am trying to get some work done, I need to email a file, well ok so it was huge, which I realised, so then I started to FTP it to a site so my tech can dl it from there, and the damn provider boots me because i am using too much bandwidth! It is only 27MB! Anyway, I then had to convince the guy I wasn't doing anything illegal, like dling movies, and then listen to a long lecture on all the things that I was doing wrong, before I just agreed with him and got off the phone. Damn me!.

Now there is a Billy Ray Cyrus movie on and I am wide awake from all the frustrations of the day! I didn't even get my lobster dinner.

Blood hell.

I am a mug

I have spent the most part of the day working on someone elses grant!!!!!!!!! I just realised, there I am working my arse off, and what is he doing? On the fucking golf course!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More fool me. I will get my own back, and I am co-applicant, so it isn't a total waste of time LOL!!! Still. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just wanna pay

Damn just let me pay for the damn drink! I had to wait while she washed glasses, and now she doesn't want to let me pay and leave!!! ARGH!!! more frustrations.

ARGH!

So they have a form online that you need to complete for your application, BUT it is not an interactive form! So you have to phone them to get a copy of the interactive form emailed to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Time for lunch

Just about to go in to the women in neurochemistry lunch, judging by the saddos that have already entered the room it will be pretty dire. Oh well. I will let you know. LOL

Catch up

I was just reading back over some old posts. Bunty is still with us, she has been with us for just over 4 years, a week over. Considering she had 6 months to live that is pretty impressive. And she is as cute and energetic as ever, she sleeps a lot, and doesn't seem to want to play as much, but she still loves to run.

And we found a great vet.

That is all.

End of the day

It is the end of the day, and I have just had supper on the terrace watching the sun go down over the water, watching the herons, pelicans and geese fly by. WHo could ask for more? Well I could ask for my wife to be with me, but that is not to be on this trip.

Now I will watch CSI Miami, do some work, and maybe get some sleep tonight.

Signing off for now.

Final seminar sesson of the day

That was an interesting talk on the role of MBP in the myelin membrane. will add to my RTT grant. Joan Boggs, she of the crappy grant review LOL!!!

Just saw Herb Geller (shudder). No sign of Jim Goldman, which is a surprise, I was hoping Liz would come too so I could borrow her eyebrow tweezers LOL!!!

Ok ok I am getting back to work.

Woof

WB gave a pretty good talk, interesting, and not at all controversial or stupid. The previous speaker got into an argument with a questioner about the validity of someone elses work, which had a lot of the audience laughing because the questioner was basically saying that OP express PLP. Winsome was laughing too, and everyone was asking who the guy was, P seems to think there is a poster to the same effect, so I will seek it out.

RG has been quiet in the discussions, and the room is not full, unlike nextdoor where there are about 5 people in the room altogether! LOL

Oh well.
Later

Random thoughts

OMG that dyke I saw in Chicago is here at the meeting! Well I am assuming a dyke, as I can’t stare LOL But if it is a man then I am geeling sorry for him.

Just had breakfast, buffet, not too good, the hotel coffee is shite. The sausages are too spice for my tastes. And I just saw RG walk through the foyer, dresssed down more than I expected, greyer than before, but looking just as miserable. I didn't look up to see if she saw me! LOL!!! Oh life is but a dream shh boom.

Back later

Sunday blahs

I couldn't get to sleep last night, I lay there wide awake for hours. I tried reading, I tried watching Lockup Raw, I tried everything. Last time I looked at the clock it was 3am, which was really 4am because the clockes went forward, then I was woken by room service at 6am which was really 7am! So i just went back to sleep. Missed the introductory session, and the welcome speeches (uhuh). Now I am sitting here, and I couldn't care less about the meeting at all. The coffee isn't helping either, which is unusual, but they gave me cream instead of milk so I didn't put much in.

At least I don't have to iron a shirt for today.

I guess I should try to get going, although I feel like crap.

Blergh

Later

My hair looks like crap LOL!! I must try to find a haircut place.

It is a nice day, we sat outside and watched a wedding party have their pics taken. I thought they were mormons to start with because there were three young men, in matching suits. Then I saw a bunch more men in the same suits, and realised it must be a wedding LOL. They had the cutest little flower girl too, I couldn't get a pic, but she was about 3, and all in frothy pink.

Saturday morning

I was woken up by room service, and have drunk my OJ, eaten my croissants, and had a half cup of coffee and am now thinking of going back to bed.

Well I do have a few hours to kill. Of course I didnt' sleep well, the pillows are far too big and I was too hot, I felt all twisted up for some reason too.

I see it is -20 back home, I have no idea what the temp is here, but it looks like a nice day, blue sky etc out of the window.

That's it for now.

Flamin Nora

These time zones will be the death of me! Flight too off 5 minutes ago, and will be here in 10 minutes! I don't understand that at all. But anyway. I am at the wrong gate, but I needed to find a plug so I could at least try to get some work done, and all I did was wander round the flamin airport looking for a functional outlet! Finally found one, only for the damn flight to be almost ready to board!!!!!

ARGH!!!!

Update on sleazy neighbours

After the junkie moved out, we had a nice native family from up North move in. There were a lot of them, but the son was happy to shovel the driveway for us for $20. There were a lot of coming and goings, but essentially they were quiet and friendly. Then they disappeared. Turned out they hadn't paid the rent in a while, and the landlord had been trying to get rid.

Then ayoung man move in, friendly, went to some effort to clean up the place. Was away a lot as he worked in construction. After a few months we were startled out of our seats by loud shouting in the back, and cops arresting some guy who had a gun. They broke in to the house and searched looking for someone else to arrest. Turns out it was another grow op!!!!! Can you believe that!??!?!

Anyway, things only got weirder, a family from Florida, in a brand new hummer (organge) husband, wife and two kids. Seikhs and very friendly. Too friendly, they couldn't get their story straight! He said one thing, she said another, they had come from a huge house into a house that was smaller than their kitchen had been. They had nothing, no furniture, no sheets towels or anything like that. They had to go to walmart and buy it all! They stayed about 3 months before finding a bigger place in the country. Leaving just before we called MPI because they hadn't reregistered their car.

Bow we have a very nice quiet, couple in there. We haven't seen them other than as they shovel the snow, or she walks to her car at the back. They have two HUGE satellite dishes, so I guess they watch a lot of TV.

So all is peaceful and quiet. Minnie and Goofy don't bother us at all, we haven't heard from Misery and Heffalump in ages, and all is right with the world.

Later the same day

The flight is delayed for no apparent reason, but as the plane is still in Dayton Ohio, I wonder when we will get out of here.

I just bunmped into my graduate student too. Gave her some work to do LOL!!!!! She is chatting to some random guy. I guess now she knows I am nearby if she needs to be rescued!

I have now eaten all my provisions, and a packet of chips that I purchased from the nearby greasy burger stand.

I should have got a beer, but to be honest I don't really feel like one.

More to come, stay tuned.

Blogging from the airport

It has been so long since I blogged. I don't know why I suddenly thought to start again.

I am thinking of setting up a blog for the lab. I should. Anyway, I am at the airport, Chicago. My flight is delayed by over an hour, which is a bitch because I was hoping to get some food once I got to the hotel, it isn't likely that room service will still be operating when I get there. Sucks for me.

I am either having a hotflash that is lasting hours, or I am so acclimatized to Winnipeg weather, that now I am in a climate that is over 0 degrees I am dying of heat!

Random thoughts, there are always weirdo's at airports, there is a guy with incredible acne sitting starting at people and doing weird things with his mouth. I bet I get stuck next to him on the plane. Oh no, he got up to board his plane~! Talking of planes, I got stuck next to a HUGE woman on a teeny tiny plane getting here. I had to move, there just wasn't room for us both in the seat. She had already put the arm rest up, but I was jammed in between her and the window.

More random thoughts, the woman sitting opposite me has the most AWFUL hair that you can imagine. She is young though and probably thinks that she looks nive LOL!! Oh well.

As no doubt no one will read this blog, I will continue to post through the week. You never know what might happen of interest. Probably nothing. In the meantime, I should try to find some money!