Stephanie in the morning sun
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Monthly Archives: July 2008
field school: shopping in Eastmain
Part of my work for the field report was to do a survey of common items that tourists would be looking for (i.e. matches, flashlights, food, etc.) and their price/availability in each community. For instance, if you need to stock up on Cheez Wiz, well…Eastmain is the place to be.
As you can see, they sold a lot of products in king size.
After all, you never know where your next Nutella sandwich might be coming from.
After all, you never know where your next Nutella sandwich might be coming from.
This is a little something I like to call: truth in advertising
Because it’s always a “sweet morning” when Taz is about to attack your face.
mmmm…
Mock Chick Meat Loaf – for your sandwich!
Note his reverential posture, almost like…is he praying?
Evidently, they decided that subtlety just wasn’t going to work.
And the pièce de résistance:
(see lower right-hand corner larger)
The Formerly Bald Bunny known as Rex
This was Rex before he started balding in January, this was his fur loss at its worst, and this was generally what he looked like for several months afterward. You’ll need to see those photos to fully appreciate that this is what Rex looks like now:
Rex has been slowly but steadily improving over this past month. I credit the nutritional changes that were suggested by the helpful member of the Rabbits Online Forum, namely Pam Nock, who recommended a regular dose of Nutri-Cal. I also began feeding him a high-quality show feed alongside his regular pellets at a 50/50 ratio.
Without the Nutri-Cal and show feed, Rex loses weight and begins to lose coat condition, eventually leading to baldness. But even on such a high-calorie, high-fat regimin, Rex is *maintaining* a healthy weight and of course he has a much fuller, healthier coat. We still don’t know what, if any, underlying conditions are leading to his requiring such a change in nutrition. My gut is telling me that it’s probably just old age taking its toll. At any rate, I figured it would be good to give an update on the old man.
diehard twi-hard
I’ve been happily geeking out lately, reading comic books and singing along with Dr. Horrible (two weeks later? still in my head. no lie.) I think that Monty Python meets Star Trek is just about the best thing ever, and how the frak have I not seen this before? My last two Facebook status updates were: “Emily wants to believe” and “Emily is on Team Edward” (current status: “Emily embraces her geek side”)
The object of my most recent obsession: Twilight.
Hannah got me hooked (like any good sister, I pawn most of the blame off on my siblings). A couple weeks ago, I was having coffee with Dad and bemoaning the fact that my book pile was continuously growing without so much as a dent being made in it. While I really wanted to spend more time reading this summer, I had no motivation to sit down and read anything. Just a dry spell, I figured. And I needed something to snap me out of it.
A few days later I bought the first book in the Twilight series for Hannah. I had never read the books myself, but they came highly recommended, and I knew she would love something new to do during the long summer days. She finished the 500+ page Twilight in less than a week, a personal record for her I think. Then she was on to New Moon, and she said I had to read Twilight, I just had to.
Well…why not?
(fyi: in literary terms, that first paragraph would be considered ‘foreshadowing’)
I finished the book in a DAY, and suddenly Hannah and I were competing for time with New Moon. She would stay up to read it at night, and I would read it while she slept in the next morning. After four marathon days, we had finished it (608 pages this time), and Hannah wanted to give her eyes a break. Naturally, that was fine with me. It gave me a chance to finish Eclipse (under penalty of death should I reveal any key plot points), so she could have it to herself when I was done.
Now I’m biding my time (just 3 more days…) waiting for Breaking Dawn to be released on August 2nd, and we’re counting down the days to the premiere of the movie Twilight on December 12th. To our family’s chagrin, I’m sure, it’s been the topic of most of our conversations lately. What can I say? The books have managed to get myself, a person who is generally reluctant of fiction, and my fourteen-year old sister, a person who is generally reluctant of very long books, completely and totally invested in these characters. So it may not *great* literature, but I’d say it’s good enough.
