Oh snap!

Last week was an interview for a possible post-doc position. The research is awesome! Just the timing is crappy. I'm not giving up the ghost with this lab as of yet, and play the wait n' see game. In the meantime, sending off more emails to more labs for more possible positions. So nothing fruitful so far in the job hunt. But the trip to the city was a fruitful one on a personal note. I got to visit three set of friends in 36h. If anything was successful it was the laughs over the table chats.

Hockey wise, I had my first injury of the season. There was a scuffle in the cease which resulted in a pile of women on top of each other, with me at the bottom. The picture here isn't from the night, but it's a close approximation. Most times this is alright, providing that everyone lays pancake-wise. But this time, an opponent's elbow dove right onto my spine and I swear I heard a "crack". We did end up winning the match, however afterwards I did required a few chiro appointments, a bottle of muscle relaxants, and 8 days of no hockey. This meant 4 games I was sidelined. But all the recoup did me some good as I can play pain free (knock on wood).

In other nuances... I started to play with Wii again. I'm slow on gaming consoles and current hot games. Me, I'm just happy playing Legend of Zelda:Twilight Princess, which came out 4 years ago (Yeah, I'm THAT slow). It's a good game being the level of slash n' dash is equally balanced with logic n' puzzles to solve. I haven't found a game that brings back memories like Super Mario Bros 3. Man, I played that game morning, noon, n' night. A lot of my childhood was spent/wasted learning jump sequences and the gaming soundtracks are embedded in my head for eternity.

Speaking of music, a lil' Moby with his "Honey" classic. I rewatched the video for this one, it's how I feel these days, just wandering around trying to figure out where my life is going.

Laterz!

Me and my camera...

By now you know that my #1 hobby is being a hockey goalie. If you don't, you haven't been reading this blog much haven't you? I do love hockey, but it always amazes me that my personal/work life rarely overlaps with my hockey life. None of my close friends play hockey. In fact, come to think of it, I'm probably the only person in my close friends circle that actively plays a team sport. I could go off and analyze this til' I'm blue in the face but it's obviously not a dealbreaker. I just became more aware of this fact when my mom visited me a few months ago for my PhD convocation and attended two of my games. It's nice to have someone on the other side of the rink cheering you on. Maybe this should go on my "future-mate" list somewhere: item 9 = must like hockey.

Speaking of hobbies, there's another one of mine: photography. I really really want to take some courses to learn how to get cool pictures. Of course this will involve the investment of an awesome Leica or Cannon camera. So it's on my list. As mentioned above, my mom visited me a few months ago and we headed out to Jasper/Banff for a few days. I brought my camera along:








Yeah, nothing groundbreaking. I think I do have an eye for the interesting scene. It's just the matter of being able to have the skills to capture it. Something I shall work on.

Music wise today: Edwyn Collins peeps with his classic "A girl like you." I'm outta here!

New Year, New Decade, New You?

I rarely make new year's resolutions, but seeing how I get weekly "you haven't written in your blog for AGES" comments, I decided to to resolve that I'm going to try to post more and consistently throughout this year.

But as most resolutions, this will be broken at some point.

Eh... at least I'm honest?

ANYWAYS, Happy New Year, New Decade, New Job-title! No, I don't have my dream job as of yet, but this is the year of a bunch of first and new territory. The first being that 2010 marks the first year in 27 years that I will not be enrolled as a full time student. I say this with a cautionary air as I've been eyeing some photography and sign language courses. Right now hockey and job hunt trumps those, but who knows in the twilight months of 2010. So perhaps a night-course student in the fall, but for the moment, I'm enjoying not worrying about essays, reports, and exams.

My contract of my casual job has been officially extended til' June, so I continue my hunt for the post-doc. It seems to be on the minds of everyone I talk to. I'm not sure if it's out of concern for my well-being or rather "what else do I say to the scientist?". Yeah, I'm a geek, but an informed geek. I have interests outside of geekhood peeps. Anyways, I look, I hunt, I apply, I wait. Nuff said.

The first two months is hockey central for me. January alone I have 19 games. These are scheduled games and not including pick up hockey that I'm an on-call goalie. I get a lot of those emails as well. It's just the luck of the draw that I'm free that night OR that the games are at least 4 hours apart.

Plans for this blog... I like the music tabs, so expect more of the same. For Something Sciencey Sunday, I'm going to try once a month, maybe Something Sciencey Second Sunday (there you go Claire!).

To reboot things, a lil' Red Hot Chilli Peppers and their "Roller Coaster of Love". This was the "official unofficial theme" for the Shanty Raidio group. Whenever I'm having a good work day, I think about this song and the Disc Jockeys who made even the scientist smirk in front of the beakers. Enjoy folks!