Beer and Chin

I know it's a bit much when it's big like this, but I really enjoy this photo as my little profile picture thingy.... Chris took this photo at a rather labyrinthine bar in Halifax.

Halifax

Chris and I went to Halifax this weekend. And had a pretty good time.

The trip seemed to last a long time (in a good way). I feel as though I haven't been to work for a month.

We spent most of our time hanging around doing not much - in the sense that we didn't really do tourist attractions. We overindulged a fair bit: rich food, much booze, too many books. Which is a good kind of vacation.

Some things of note that happened:

1. We went to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, which currently has an exhibit of ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman things. The old stuff was pretty affecting, and I was freaking out a bit over it (Chris asked me about 5 times whether or not I was ok as we wandered through the exhibit).

2. I started work on a poem that I think will be alright. I was interested in writing about Halifax, but I ended up writing about Toronto. I did use a formal, game-like thing to get me started: I wrote out all the words I could think of that contained/were made of the sounds TO, OR, RO, ON, ONT and went from there. At a certain point I set it aside because it was getting long and I was writing in a rather small notebook, so I couldn't really lay the whole thing out in front of me. Hopefully back home with a computer I'll get further.

3. We went to the top of the Citadel walls and got yelled at by a security guard.

4. We had dinner with my brother, who was in Halifax with the Navy.

I enjoy Halifax a lot and am looking forward to going again.