I haven't been posting so much recently. My life has become super stressful, and right now there is a lull which will last a very short time, but I will use it anyway. I hope you're not on dial-up because today is all about PICURES! (No spelling error here.) And a one, and a two, and a one two three four!
*LUNAR ECLIPSE!*
There was a total lunar eclipse a few weeks ago. This was my attempt on caputring the magical moment, but I have a very shaky hand and its difficult to get a good picture of the moon standing in the street of a light polluted city. To describe it to you instead, it looked red. That was mostly it. I didn't stay outside to watch very long because it was FREEZING cold.
*MOUNT ROYAL!*
These are taken from a lookout a little more than halfway up mount royal. Inthis picutre you can seen the Olympic park with its crazy tower. The white dome beneath is the Biodome, which we will get to in a few pictures down.
This is just a picture of the city scape. I've seen it in the summer and it looks a little more lively. I'm still not super familiar with Montreal's skyline, and if I'm way down south down town it takes me a while to figure out where I am. Its not like Toronto where all you need to see is is the CN tower or the BMO building and you're perfectly oriented. (Notice the use of oriented rather than *orientated? That's because orientated is not a word, since there's already a word for that, and its called oriented.)
*BIODOME!*
Some friends came for their March break, which of course means doing touristy things you wouldn't do otherwise. This included the Biodome, which used to be the Olympic stadium, I believe. I actually have been once before, so I think I'm all Biodome-d out, and if you come and visit, I probably won't go with you. The picture above is supposed to be of some adorable tiny monkey on the branch. You can kind of see them behind the branch. Click to make bigger.
These are some pretty pretty parrots. I think the sign said the kind of parrots whatever they were were the largest parrots in the world.
This is an alligator (or crocodile, I have no idea, did you know the Spanish word for crocodile is a text book example of metathesis?: cocodrillo) with a little buddy tortoise by its tail. The tortoise was cuddling up, inch by inch, to the alligator and I began to fear for the little guy. But I'm guessing they let the two types of animals in together b/c it was safe. The shell of the tortoise is probably to large and hard for the alligator to get through anyway.
The three above picutres were from the rainforest area of the dome. You walk in and its super humid and warm. I had issues with my camera lens fogging up.
This little treasure was in the Laurentian forest section, which is right after the rainforest. This means, you go from tropical to cold winter Canadian woodlands. I don't know what the point of having Canadian type forests in a biodome in Canada is. Anyway, there's a porcupine, just in case your dog has never tried to bite one and you're unfamiliar with the porcupine concept.
I think the bidome is probably most well known for the penguins. Here in the arctic section this little tub-a-lub just lay on the rock, and once in a while wiggled his legs and wings as if he were trying to swim. But clearly, he had to move an entire metre to make to the water where he could actually swim.
*MICROWAVE!*
I got a new microwave. My last microwave was bought in August, but it decided to short out and stop working a couple months ago. Since my friends came with a car, they were nice enough to drive me to Canadian Tire to get a new one. People are often like, "What do you need a microwave for? Don't you cook?" Well actually, I do cook, thank you very much. Do none of you know the level of difficulty involved in reheating food without a microwave? Its ridiculous. So you may not judge me for needing a microwave.
*SCHOOL/DEPARTMENT SPIRIT SWEATER!*
We got sweaters. They say "McGill Linguistics". Totally awesome.
*VIEW FROM MY WINDOW!*
Dinah recently posted the view from her window, and mine is pretty cool, so I'm sharing it.
I can see Mount Royal from my window, and when I'm falling asleep there's the Cross that lights up at night. I like it.
Have you ever read an Archie comic book? If you notice, every sentence that does not end with a question mark (or a ... I suppose) ends in an exclamation mark. I dare you to find a single sentence that ends in a period. Trust me, I've tried.
This is the end of the Super Mega Post.
2 comments:
I enjoyed your super mega post. It was very entertaining for me! Oh, and guess what? I'M BAAAACK! Have you gone to my blog and watched the video that I posted of Finn playing air guitar? It's sweet!
I have never thought of looking at archie comics in that way. But I think I might try it! Also, I heard a funny linguistics joke yesterday:
a lecturer is standing at the front of a class and explaining that "a double negative has a positive meaning, and a double positive also has a positive meaning and can never have a negative meaning" and a guy from the back of the room said "yeah, yeah"...
hehehe it made me chuckle so I thought i'd share it. You shall no doubt now poke many holes in it and its faulty use of "linguistics", but I think you should know it anyway, if you didnt already. This is a really long comment!
Happy Easter Sunday!!!
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