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 coordinator?!

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.