Pennsylvania Poutine

Yesterday after work I stopped at a little shop in the Market and picked up some 'Fresh Cheese Curds,' then I called Mum to ask her to pick up some french fries for tomorrow (Wednesday) and said that I had gotten a packet of dehydrated instant-poutine sauce at the grocery over the weekend.  

Pennsylvania Poutine!  Joey liked it, but The Timmy seemed to like it even more!

Thanksgiving Snow

Sunday night into Monday it snowed, and continued snowing all day Monday.

Looking up the incline of the museum grounds.  (They set up a new temporary Plexiglas wall where there had not been one before, to help prevent the killer wind gusts that sweep between the gallery proper and the curatorial wing.)

Somewhere in southern Ontario, on my drive back to Pennsylvania today.

Another shot of the snowy, but still lethal, spider.

Rahm Emanuel: Let's See Another Pirouette Please!

Our soon to be Obama Administration Chief of Staff.  And former ballet dancer.

I don't think this is a real photo, but he really was a ballet dancer.  Apparently he got a scholarship for dancing...  Any way, a spokesperson for the American Ballet Theater commented that, "We're very proud to know Mr. Emanuel was a dancer... in a small way, he's put ballet on the world stage."

Mikhail Barishnikov.  Just because.

Cyclic

Today I stayed late at the museum to attend a lecture about the bizarro photographic processes invented by Hippolyte Bayard circa 1838-1840.  The lecture was really enjoyable and I'm glad I stayed, but it was pretty late by the time I got home.  I was too tired to cook anything (so no Polaroids).

So my day began and ended the same way: cream cheese on a cinnamon raisin bagel.  Just like the Lion King and the Circle of Life, but with Breakfast Foods.

Sweet New Layout!

I decided that everything looked too brown, so I changed it.

The above photograph is one I took of my palette during a project I was working on a few weeks ago.  Conservation in action!

Why the Silence?

You may be asking yourselves, "Why no sharing?  Is nothing going on up there in Canada?  Has Canadian winter set in and become so cold that the electrons have slowed down so much that the Awesome Mac Laptop can't get any juice?"  No - I've just been busy at the museum and catching up via the interwebs with the Daily Show/Colbert Report.  I'm completely up to date now, so life can move along. 

I also cooked polenta: it was instant polenta and I only had to stir for two minutes so don't be too impressed.  I took this Polaroid of it, and while it looks pretty awful, it was actually awesome.  Almost as awesome as the Italian grocery a few blocks from the NGC.

Why did I take a Polaroid of it?

That's weird.

Not really.

I had an Idea that seemed like a a cross between an art project, a journal, and a recipe book.  It starts with the basic principle of always having the Polaroid One600 Instant Camera around (as opposed to the Polaroid Peel-Apart Camera).  Life being what it is, every now and then I cook something awesome.  The Idea involves snapping a Polaroid of whatever was awesome, noting the recipe down into a blank book, and then attaching the Polaroid of the item below/next to the text.  An important part of this project is to take a non-repulsive Polaroid of whatever I cooked, a goal that can be achieved more easily when being able to properly focus the camera.  Here's to wishing that the Polaroid One600 had a manual focus: a Polaroid SX70 it is not.

I've also been knitting.  Usually sitting on my bed listening to Canadian Public Radio with a hot water bottle sitting on the tops of my feet.  I really need to work on my circulation - another thing to add to the 'Stop Whining and Be The Change' list.  (Perhaps all Americans should have a 'Stop Whining and Be The Change' list.  I think it's a grand idea.)

Anyway, I made this awesome hat in preparation for the no-doubt terrible and soon-to-arrive Canadian winter.

I also made a sort-of-mod green dress.  Which can also be worn over pants, which is what I did on Friday.  This picture doesn't really do it justice, but I like it, and since I am the ruler of this little prose universe, it gets to stay.  It's polyester, which doesn't breath, a factor that I considered would be advantageous for me and my poor circulation in cold Canada.

I got this pattern a while ago because I liked the sleeve options.  The pattern I used most was the blah-yellow colored top left drawing.  Good sleeves, but I though the darts sucked, so I totally changed it, making the front out of two pieces, putting little darts in and totally nixing the darts (which sucked, trust me).  And making a sash like in the bottom right drawing.

You can see the bodice-alteration a little better here, and the little darts.  And the sash and the awesome sleeves.  The sleeves are even better in real life.  I'm still debating as to whether I should keep the hem where it is or make it a little longer.

The Problem with Teleportation

Flatmate Steve has introduced me to my New Favorite Show (TM) [TV], since TV no longer has shows about archaeology and/or medical oddities.  So I guess, really, this is my only favorite TV show, since I can't stay up late enough to watch the Daily Show/Colbert Report because of this eye twitch thing.

(My eye has been twitching sporadically throughout the day, every day, since I moved to Canada.  It may be a lack of sleep, or stress, or maybe Canada is just trying to make me go crazy.  But either way, I'm trying to sleep more so that it will stop.)

Anyway, the New Favorite Show (TM) is the Big Bang Theory - where geeky scientists are the main characters.  Sounds like the family.  

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