Worth another visit

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This is the view looking east from the beach at Rebecca Spit Marine Park on Quadra Island. I think, of all the places we visited, this was my favourite. The beach was full of shellfish -- oysters, clams and scallops -- but even though hubby has a current shellfish license, we couldn't gather any thanks to a Red Tide closure. Sigh.

Where am I?

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Originally uploaded by triviaqueen

Actually, it's a trick question. This photo shows some minor alterations to the campus; there is a production company filming a movie of the week miniseries ("Impact") at UVic for a few days.

I don't usually get over to this area, but I am attending the Digital Humanities Summer Institute this week, taking Issues in Large Project Planning and Management -- wOO! (Actually it is much more interesting than the title suggests.)

The really interesting thing is that the DHSI brings together people from across Canada, the US and around the world -- well, at least from the UK ;) Learning about the projects they are working on has really made me think about where we are (at work) in our digitization ventures. Overall, I think we're in a good spot, but I am starting to see where changes need to be made.

For those of you keeping score....

There was no post yesterday, November 13th. This is because I spent the day trying to coax the lining out of my stomach. Nuff said.

Here, look at this pretty picture of some earrings I made, photographed with some maple leaves when the sun briefly appeared on Monday....

Lurking in my garden....

When I was moving containers around and stripping back some of the [expletive deleted] english ivy (you know, I love the look of the stuff, but it is so tenacious!!! -- I guess that's why it's considered an invasive species. Hmph.).... anyway, after stripping that back, I found a snail lurking on a planter! I have seen many slugs in my garden (grrr, don't like them eating all my plants) but never a snail before. I had to take a photo, of course:

Ridiculousness.

in the news:

1. Hockey player fired for not signing flag for troops. (CBC.ca)
2. I'm TIME magazine's person of the year! And so are you, and you, and you. (TIME.com)
3. Rosie O'Donnel is "sorry" but still ignorant. (Vancouver Sun)
4. Bob Dylan throws a wobbly -- actually what's ridiculous about this is the press that the movie (which may or may not suck) is getting for free. Really, when will celebs figure out that sometimes it's better to shut up.
   

and then there is this weird/disturbing "Carrie" cake I noticed on flickr....

It might be one of those weeks.