silva rerum

driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing

Today, I finally had a chance to appre­ci­ate the cherry blos­soms as they cas­caded down on me while I was walk­ing to the bus stop to go buy a Mother’s Day present for my grand­mum. It was rather magical, I would walk under a cherry blos­som tree and the wind would mira­cu­lously shower me with a flurry of small pink petals, urging me onwards. Riding the bus was amus­ing as I watched clouds of petals lift off the ground and fol­low in the trail of the bus, dash­ing furi­ously along to keep up!

I arrived at Crystique, slightly breath­less, but the salespeople were very kind. I think they must be, see­ing every­one buy­ing beau­ti­ful gifts for their moth­ers – I asked for their recom­mend­a­tion and they were more than happy to oblige. It’s really nice to see people work­ing in retail who aren’t surly or mean-​spirited (*cough* Please Mum *cough*) but hey, I’m biased.

G and I will embark­ing on our pho­towalk at UBC, weather per­mit­ting, dur­ing an unsched­uled break dur­ing my work­day. I also have to print off posters so I won­der if she’d be a sport and let me print them off…Copyright is so darned expens­ive though, don’t I get a break for being an AMS ser­vice coördinator?!

Thanks to every­one for the input about my blog­ger­card design (see that? I made up a new word!) – I’m rather fond of it, mostly because I used Helvetica Neue as the typeface! I’m a bit of a dork for typo­graphy (I kern fonts by default in Microsoft Word) and I love Garamond. And I’ve said this before but it does bear repe­ti­tion, I implore any­one read­ing this to never use Comic Sans. Even for com­ics, there are bet­ter typefaces nowadays. Please, just let it die.

I noticed that Windows 7 Release Candidate has been, well, released unto the masses. I think it’s highly dubi­ous, how­ever – once the timer runs out, you have to reformat entirely? I don’t like the sound of that, I like to keep my files and things just as they are, thank you very much. Why couldn’t they have integ­rated some of the nice parts of Windows 7 into Vista? Oh wait, that’d make too much sense! But I won’t harp on about Microsoft – I’m equally com­fort­able in Mac OS X and Ubuntu and yet I still man­age to res­ist the urge to be a fan­boy of either.

I’m still not done read­ing Third Girl but it’s finally got­ten inter­est­ing. Mrs. Oliver got thwapped over the head and went to the hos­pital while Poirot does what he does best – reflect and think. I sup­pose I’d be a rather dead easy sus­pect to wind up, just push a few of my but­tons and I’ll be talk­ing all day long. I do have a rather short tem­per, that could be my down­fall! I don’t sus­pect I’m up for murder though…but still.

I ended up watch­ing Take the Lead (towards which I am par­tial because Youthink gave me a press pass to review the movie when it first came out!) while I was busy­ing myself with the SUS budget which took me the bet­ter part of the day to com­plete. I made it from scratch using an old ver­sion of the budget so I didn’t get the lux­ury of copy­ing and past­ing the per­tin­ent data. Ah well!

I notice now that I have a good many num­ber of pages on this blog (FAQ, About, Schedule, etc.) but I won­der how many of them are actu­ally useful…if you’re read­ing, please let me know in the comments.