To the hills!

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Ah, snowboarding. It had been almost two years since I'd been snowboarding on a real mountain. I'd forgotten how much fun it was. Ah, well, I won't waste much time with words. The pictures tell most of it (although not all the fun little details, you'll have to ask about those).

On the lift















On the mountain















Just resting . . . really


















The ninja

















Lunch!















Supper!



















Stranger things have happened















Waiting for the girls














Warming of the toes



















Top of the world















Last day














The one that made it all possible: tribute to Farlonika

Valentines Dress Up

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Yep. It's true. I got dressed up and went to a Valentine's banquet. Crazy, huh? I haven't worn a suit or tie since . . . well, I don't even know how long. I think a couple of years. It was a fun, but . . . I'm planning on not wearing a suit or tie again for at least another two years if I can help it.

my head vs. the pool

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So, a couple of weeks ago, I was swimming in the pool here at Union. Unfortunately, I had forgotten my goggles in my room. So me and Keri and Mel shared goggles for a while. And it just so happened to not be my turn with the goggles when I decided to try to learn the butterfly. Just a note, it's probably not a good idea to try to learn a new stroke without goggles in a pool with hard sides. I was concentrating so hard and getting the stroke right, that I forgot to think about where I was. Oops. Fortunately Keri, with her quick thinking, saw the blood running down my face, ignored me (so as not to freak me out with exclamations such as, "Oh my, you're gushing blood!"), and went straight to the lifeguard. The first picture is how I felt for a little while afterwards. The second one shows the actual battle scars in detail. The left half of my face only stood out an extra 1/2 inch for about two weeks. It's mostly gone now :)

Random Saturday Activities

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Just some friends hanging out. Sometimes we do crazy fun weird things.

Meta

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According to wikipedia "In epistemology, the prefix meta- is used to mean about (its own category)"

This is one of my favorite prefixes, and I enjoy trying to find new ways to apply it. Here are some that I and some friends have come up with. If you come up with any others, I'd be interested in hearing about them.

metadream - a dream about a dream
metalaughter - laughing about laughter
metameeting - a meeting about meetings
metajoke - a joke about jokes
metalie - a lie about a lie
metalist - a list of lists
metacognition - thinking about thinking
metaspeech - a speech about a speech
metacommunication - communicating about communicating
metafight - fighting about fighting
metadeja vu - deja vu about deja vu
metablog - blogging about blogging
metamenu - a menu of menus
metamemory - a memory about memories
metaresearch - research about research
metatheory - a theory about theories
metasearch - a search of searches
metasong - a song about songs
metarhyme - a rhyme about rhymes
metapoem - a poem about poems

Well, those are a few. I think my favourites are metadeja vu and metalaughter. I'm sure there's plenty more out there.