A Tale of Fifty Cities

According to the magazine Canadian Business, I currently reside in the best place to live in Canada. I do like this city, but you wouldn't think it was the best after living where I have for the last year, i.e., the heart of darkness, AKA Cracktown. It's especially embarrassing since Parliament Hill is about a ten minute walk away. Tsk, tsk.

On that note, I just found out today, after a long and nerve-wracking two weeks, that I've been approved by the managment company renting out my prospective apartment. I'll be moving back to the area I first lived in when I came to O-town. I move in about 26 days, probably the day after my comprehensive exam, so it's going to be an interesting end of the month! Call me picky, but I look forward to living among relatively normal people again (again, call me picky).

(FYI To Dr. J: I'm currently looking at the reception and use of the Bard in the 1790s vis-a-vis the French Revolution for an RAship . Interesting stuff).

Following the Footsteps

I only discovered today that Edward Sapir, one of the giants of 20th century linguistics and co-founder of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, spent half of his intellectual life in Ottawa. Turns out he was appointed head of the Anthropological department at what is now the Museum of Civilization, about a ten minute walk from my pad. He didn't, however, have any university affiliation while here (Carleton U did not exist yet and U of Ottawa was probably more like a small college in those days). Still, it's neat to know that I've already probably trodden on the same ground he did. Hopefully this will give me some much needed inspiration for, uh, stuff!