Time is running rampant! Someone needs to set some boundaries.

I can't believe that was nine days! That kind of makes me mad. Anyway, here's a couple of things that happened during that time.

We went to see some standup comedy Friday night at a fundraiser for the Nova Scotia Community College. One guy was quite funny, some of it was amusingly bad, and the emcee was just awful. We were supposed to have seats reserved for us in the second row, but there was a mistake and we ended up at the very back. It was just as well, because I couldn't possibly have feigned amusement at the "jokes" that were coming out of this guy. The bit about an alleged serial killer who is still on trial was the low point, with not even a sympathy chuckle -- very uncomfortable. The weirdest part was that I had actually known the comedian in junior high school. Of the group of us who hung out in the computer lab at lunch every day, he was the one who was too nerdy.

Al Tuck arrived back in town, after touring in Ontario and Quebec for a few weeks, so I played the regular Saturday matinee with him at Gus' Pub. Alison, Johanna, Krista, and Matt all came out to see the show.



Matt left the next day. His internship at the Herald was over, and now he's off to visit Laura in France for a couple of weeks. Then I guess he'll be going back to Toronto to look for work. It's really too bad. I was sort of hoping the Herald would just ask him to stay on in a paid position. But unfortunately scenarios where cool people end up not leaving Halifax after all are the exception. There's a reason why "Farewell to Nova Scotia" is our theme song.

On Sunday morning we went out for brunch with Krista and Steve. After getting all hopped up on caffeine, we decided to check out the reptile exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. To be honest, it was not a great exhibit. I think there were more plastic models of reptiles than living ones. However, there were some pretty cool lizards, and it was worth sticking around for the "Roundup," wherein museum workers take a few of the animals out of their tanks and let the kids touch them and ask questions. Those kids were really entertaining with their mouth-breathing excitability and databases of half-truths. A show worth checking out.


Of course, the same old dioramas that have been there since I was a kid can still be seen, which is the only real reason I ever go there. The moose and deer one is always spectacular, but my favourite is the puffins and other sea birds on the rocks. This photo doesn't really do it justice, but there are a lot of different depths, scales, and types of rendering going on, with some pretty neat tricks of perspective. I always get a little thrill of vertigo looking at this one.


After that were the first ice cream cones of the year! The weather didn't REALLY warrant it, but it was close enough. I ate my single scoop of coffee in a waffle cone in about two minutes, including initial drooling.

- Andrew