Archive for December, 2007

Winter and snow and Christmas, oh my!

Monday, December 17th, 2007

What a crazy time of year winter is. We just got dumped on with about 30cm of snow. It was an adventure to get the car out of the drive way. Anyway, I’m in the midst of exams so that’s why this place has been so quiet. Just as soon as I get some creative [...]

Paying homage to God

Monday, December 10th, 2007

There’s a line in the film Braveheart that’s said when William Wallace (Mel Gibson) arrives at a battle, he goes out in front of the Scottish force and one of the Scottish lords pipes up with: “This is our army, to join it you pay homage.” Wallace returns that by saying: “I pay homage to [...]

Which path?

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

You walk up to a mountain that has two paths. One leads to the other side of the mountain, and the other will get you lost forever. Two twins know the path that leads to the other side. You can ask them only one question. Except! One lies and one tells the truth, and you [...]

Kitty

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Bureaucracy

Friday, December 7th, 2007

I want to recount something that happened to me, it has to do with this curious thing called bureaucracy, at least as I perceive it. On 9 November I applied for two official transcripts from my university. One was to go to the graduate school I’m applying to, the second copy was to be for [...]

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