I'm sitting at Calhoun's right now, drinking coffee and availing myself of the free wifi*. I'm sitting on the patio. In the sunshine. Wearing sunglasses. No jacket. In FEBRUARY!!
I was lured out of my dark dank basement suite by the sounds of birds singing! I'm not making that up. Friggin' birds were friggin' singing outside my friggin' window. In the sunshine. In February. The Weather Network claims that it is 9 degrees out**, and Environment Canada would have you believe it is 8 degrees. This is complete bullshit. It must be at least 15. It's gorgeous. I'm pretty sure this is a conspiracy to keep the rest of the country from knowing how amazing it is here, as we have no room for any more people to move here.
Also, I'm going to a blogging conference tomorrow - Northern Voice! It's two days - tomorrow is Moose Camp, the unconference and Saturday is the more conferency part. I'm volunteering because I didn't have the $50*** it costs to attend. I'm really looking forward to it - it sounds like there is going to be a lot of really cool sessions, and it's sold out and so I'll get the chance to meet lots of really cool people. My friend Phillip is going, so I'll at least know one of the attendees. No doubt you'll be hearing all about it from me over the next couple of days.
*Free because UBC made a deal with fatport where anyone with a UBC Campus Wide Login (CWL) can use any fatport in Vancouver for free. Apparently it is a one-year trial. Of course, being UBC, they didn't bother to actually advertise this, so hardly anyone I've talked to knows about it. I only know about it because I have connections.
**That's 9 degrees Celsius. For my American friends, that's 48 degrees Fahrenheit.
***Yes, I'm aware that $50 is a fantastic deal for a 2 day conference. But I'm ungainfully unemployed, so to me that it a prohibitive amount. Thankfully Darren & Cyprien, two of the organizers, took pity on me and are letting me volunteer.
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A blogging conference? How cool is that?
I doubt there will be a conference around here any time soon. Most people still don't know what a blog is. When I say I have one, they look at me like I've just said, "I pooped my pants."
(Not that I've ever actually said the latter, however.) Ha!
You heard actual birds singing?
Are you sure you're not in a disney movie?
The only bird I've seen lately was frozen to the driveway. I'm glad I'm not the one who shovels.
Courtney - you just need to move to Vancouver. We have hot naked men showering in public AND blogging conferences. What more could you need?
Jay - I kid you not. Friggin' birds were friggin' singing.
Ahem!
FOOTNOTZ!
Have fun at the conference!
;)
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