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I spent Friday night hanging out with my roommate (henceforth known as MasseyPrincess) and a bunch of Francophones, including a couple from Quebec. It was an interesting evening, or at least what I could understand of the conversation was interesting. (There was only one other Anglophone there, so although they tried to speak in English for our sake, they often forgot and drifted into French.) Things I learned: 1) French drinking songs are fun; 2) The Quebec government really does teach students that Quebec gives more in equalization payments than it receives, while Alberta receives more than it gives (and ten years later, they still believe it); and 3) Eleven years after I stopped studying it, I've retained more French than I expected, but not enough to carry on a conversation.

We spent yesterday constructing our Ikea shelves for the kitchen and washing floors and walls. Two weeks after moving in, I finally feel like the apartment is almost clean. And our kitchen is now organized and usable! Last night we went out again with two of the guys from the previous night (let's call them FrenchWriter and AmericanAnglo) and went guy watching at a couple of the local gay bars.

Tonight we're celebrating the onset of autumn and the reconstruction of our kitchen with pumpkin curry for dinner and pumpkin loaf for dessert.

My new favourite pen

I bought a Uniball Signo and I absolutely love it. I love it so much, in fact, that I went back and bought three more so that I will never be without one. It's almost enough to make me want to write notes by hand instead of typing them. ;)