No longer free

It had worked for years: visiting the outdoor section of the Montreal Botanical Gardens was FREE after 6PM on summer weekdays. You could enter at 6PM and stay until sundown (~9PM).

This is no longer the case. Ticket sale now closes around 6PM, and no one can enter the gardens after 6 PM. If you're already inside, you can stay until 7PM max before they kick you out. Early morning free admission no longer exists either.

I'm still fuming about all this. I don't know who is the stupid person who came up with this. Why can't the city inhabitants keep enjoying the gardens until sundown?

Coffee

I used to say "I never drink coffee". Or "I've only drank coffee three times in my entire life". Well, it's the end of an era. Last summer, on the last day of my mediterranean islands trip, I drank a large mochaccino. Now I drink Mochacchinos several times a week, and on some days, more than once a day. Ah well. It had to happen one of these days.

World Map

I've been wanting to put up a world map in my apartment for a while. At first I figured I'll just buy one at the annual poster sale (Imaginus) in September. Then I decided that I wanted something better. So I went to the online National Geographic store, and looked at their "Earth-toned Atlantic-centered World Political Map". It turns out this map is available in 10 different formats:

• Paper (46X30in,$12.95)


• laminated (46X30,$24.95)


• mounted (46X30,$249)


• Postersize (24X36,$12.99)


• Postersize and laminated (14X36,$24.99)


• Postersize and mounted (26X38,$149)


• Enlarged (70X49,$29.95)


• Enlarged and laminated (70X49,$59.95)


• Enlarged and mounted (73X48,$499)


• Mural (116X76) $99

I did not get a framed version because they are very expensive. But I did get a laminated version, and I can't wait for it to arrive!

Clocky Runs and Hides

They've now created an alarm clock that runs and hides so you won't be able to hit the snooze button!

A Good Wednesday

Lots of good things happened to me today (Wednesday):

** Little Peter Chum has arrived!!!! I was soooo worried about him. The package he was in was a week late. Peter Chum is a 5-cm tall amigurumi character =o).

** I had a very very very very satisfying kickboxing class. Too bad it was the second to last class of the semester. I am definitely taking it again in January.

** I had a full "knot" of "twisted" cheese, with tons of good bread and brown apple juice. I was in food heaven for the second day in a row (yesterday I was at restaurant "Aleppo").

Note: I just looked out the window and it's all white outside!! First snow storm of the season (not counting the watery flurries we had yesterday). Clean white snow is very pretty, but I'll sure miss going to school while wearing my comfy running shoes.

Giant Lego Man

I found this in August and I thought it was funny! I have always liked Lego.