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Jour de l’action de grâce
…or in English, Thanksgiving Day, the day where we historically gave thanks for the harvest and now serves as yet another family dinner holiday and a day where we should all step back and think about the things that we are thankful for. I am thankful to live be a citizen of a country whose [...]
Time Management in the Workplace
Disclaimer: The following post represents my opinions and usage of Microsoft OneNote 2010 and in no way is an advertisement for Microsoft or its products. One of the biggest challenges I always found on co-op terms was that every 4 months, you were starting over again and you needed to find a new method of [...]
Microsoft Office 2010: Small, but Awesome Features
I’ve been using Microsoft Office 2010 Beta for the last couple of months at home and I recently started using it at work, where I’ve definitely been noticing some awesome new features. Most of what I’ve noticed are small features that just make things so much easier. For reference, I was previously using Microsoft Office [...]
Shoes and Your Confidence Level
I’m going to go out on a limb here and hypothesize that your shoes and your overall dress affect your confidence level at work. I’ve noticed over the last few weeks that my confidence level varies quite a bit and one of the factors I think is what I pick to wear in the morning. [...]
A Woman’s Last Name
First, I’ve been adjusting the theme ever so slightly, so if you find any issues, please let me know. My Globe & Mail Life RSS feed seems to be providing much food for thought lately. Today’s article is “Married women should say ‘I don’t’ to changing their name, study suggests”. The article starts off on [...]
Grown-ups, continued.
When I first started using Google Reader as a feed aggregator, I subscribed to the Globe & Mail’s front page news feed. During one of my feed-clearing sessions, I realized that I usually only scanned the headlines, reading a very small number of them at that, and the only articles that I actually read were [...]
To buy a car or not to buy a car
…that is the question of the day. I’ve been debating this back and forth for awhile now. Earlier today, I emptied my box of pancake mix that doesn’t require milk and eggs. When I first moved here, almost two months ago now, I bought two boxes of pancake mix – one with the slogan “just [...]
Grown-ups
I recently entered the Real World, starting work full-time as a Software Engineer. This means that I now own real furniture – I did not venture to Ikea at all, nor am I sleeping on a futon or using a twin-size duvet on a double-sized bed. I also have a real apartment and a desktop [...]
Being an Arts Student for a term
For my last term at university, I chose to be an Arts student for the term. Of particular note, I enrolled in courses of only one discipline, French. The verb “chose” in that first sentence may be a bit misleading, since I didn’t consciously make the choice to be an Arts student for the term, [...]
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