White snow... white squirrels... okay.

Photo blog only for you tonight, since my EYES ARE FALLING OUT OF MY HEAD and I have to go pop them back in. Seriously, I'm so tired I feel nauseous. But it's the best kind of tired, because it comes from several straight days of late nights, early mornings, and deep, dead sleeps in between. I keep writing different sentences and then deleting them because I'm too tired for this right now. Tomorrow and Friday are going to be the craziest days of this whole week, so I'd better call up the reserves (which means bust into that Froot Loops box that I got for $2.39 at the IGA last week!). I've been consistently eating fruit, veggies, and meat for the last week (and a chocolate every day from the advent calendar), trying to keep energy high. I'm getting desperate now, though. Also I'm having a wee party here on Friday night which promises to involve ridiculous amounts of junk food, judging by the emails that have been circulating in the last couple of days. Nothing like a sugar high to end this week with a bang! And then a sugar hangover on the train the next morning... oy...

Anyway... this photo blog has a suspicious number of words in it already so I will reign myself in. It's already 9:17 and I promised myself bed (or at least bath&book) by 9pm! That's how dead I am. This evening I invigilated an English comprehension exam for new students, and you'd think that would be a nice, easy time to get some marking done and perhaps a wee, head-on-arms nap, but noooo... it was a "drop in" exam... so students were streaming in and out the whole four hours, and I had to keep track of who arrived when and kick them out when their time was up... luckily I got paid for doing it so you all get Christmas presents this year! Also there was a delightful woman working with me, an ESL teacher herself, and we spent some time reminiscing about last year's Canada Reads debate. Always great to find a fellow CBC addict!

ON SUNDAY i did my reading... which went amazingly, ridiculously, side-splittingly well... but more importantly... it snowed! I was holed up for most of the day before the reading working on my India Lit essay (which I handed in on Monday, praise the lord). I took a break at lunch though to walk through Parc La Fontaine because it was just too darn beautiful to stay inside! Hence the photo essay:



Notice the bright orange path marker poles in that photo of La Fontaine???? Those things are higher than my shoulder! Is this what I need to be prepared for?

White squirrel!

Brown squirrel (for equal representation)!


Tycho, who had declined my invitation to come for a walk in the park because he had "some serious zzz's to catch" (his line), heard he missed out on the squirrel parade and bites my toe in frustration:


Right now I'm listening to the organ-y part in Beirut's "After the Curtain" and it's blending so seamlessly with my mood that I have to wonder if that song has existed all this time just waiting for this one moment to arrive. five minutes from now on the CD, Midlake will be playing and the feeling will only be a memory immortalized by my blog. but right now it's REAL as all these tumbleweeds of tycho fur!

SLEEEEEEP!