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Jan. 8th, 2008 12:59 pmWin #1: according to the email I got yesterday, I won a phone (a Samsung m510) from a contest in Eye Weekly. This is cool because a) it’s a Virgin Mobile phone, b) I’ve been wanting to get a phone-with-mp3 player ‘cause it’s annoying to cart and charge two bits of technology and c) contracts suck and I’m so ready to leave Bell and its $25/month plan that never costs me less than $55 every damn month. System access fee. 911 fee. Extra for caller ID, voice mail, text messaging. Plus tax. Grrr.
Am investigating. At any rate I’ll have the handset, to do with what I choose. It has a camera. (Phones can do that now? :P)
Win #2: in Slings and Arrows, the not-Stratford theatre festival is called the “New Burbage” festival. Thanks to this Shakespeare class, I get the reference! James Burbage built the first proper theatre just outside the London city limits in the late 1500s. It was dismantled after a few years and its timbers were used to build the Globe theatre. Shakespeare’s theatre, therefore, is the new Burbage theatre.
Win #3: thanks also to this Shakespeare class I’ve now read The Tempest which means I get the Sycorax joke at the end of that Doctor Who episode.
Oh, Shakespeare references.
Lose #1: the normally-competent woman at Tim’s in Seneca made my coffee with sugar. *shudder* What part of “coffee with milk” includes the phrase “and sugar”. Yuck. Even worse is cold coffee with milk and sugar.
Lose #2: my thesis advisor is AWOL. Haven’t heard from him in two months. Problem is, it was back then that I asked for reference letters for grad apps. The first two grad apps are due next Tuesday. I’m going professor-stalking later today.
Am investigating. At any rate I’ll have the handset, to do with what I choose. It has a camera. (Phones can do that now? :P)
Win #2: in Slings and Arrows, the not-Stratford theatre festival is called the “New Burbage” festival. Thanks to this Shakespeare class, I get the reference! James Burbage built the first proper theatre just outside the London city limits in the late 1500s. It was dismantled after a few years and its timbers were used to build the Globe theatre. Shakespeare’s theatre, therefore, is the new Burbage theatre.
Win #3: thanks also to this Shakespeare class I’ve now read The Tempest which means I get the Sycorax joke at the end of that Doctor Who episode.
Oh, Shakespeare references.
Lose #1: the normally-competent woman at Tim’s in Seneca made my coffee with sugar. *shudder* What part of “coffee with milk” includes the phrase “and sugar”. Yuck. Even worse is cold coffee with milk and sugar.
Lose #2: my thesis advisor is AWOL. Haven’t heard from him in two months. Problem is, it was back then that I asked for reference letters for grad apps. The first two grad apps are due next Tuesday. I’m going professor-stalking later today.
