I hated that about winter when I lived in London & Ottawa - no sign of the orb for weeks at a time. People bitch about the weather here, but at least you're at much less risk of SAD than just about anywhere else in Canada.

This is completely OT, but I'm so chuffed I have to tell everyone I can. (Posting here is keeping me from buttonholing strangers on the street.)

Dan (my husband) has been nominated for both an NNA and a Michener Award! It's a really big deal and I'm thrilled to see him recognized for good work.

Dan (my husband) has been nominated for both an NNA and a Michener Award! It's a really big deal and I'm thrilled to see him recognized for good work.

Congrats, Dani! Uh, what field of endeavour is that?

Journalism. [NNA=National Newspaper Award]

Very nice! Is there a trip to Ottawa (second prize: TWO trips to Ottawa?) in it for you if he wins? Where do they present?

Congrats to Dan! I guess I now know why he was covering the budget yesterday.

it's SNOWING here. Didn't mother nature get my memo? No snow after March 20th! I asked a coworker to make it stop but he said he's busy with other miracles.

Is there a trip to Ottawa (second prize: TWO trips to Ottawa?) in it for you if he wins? Where do they present?

We get 2 trips out of this - Ottawa in April & Vancouver in June - just for being nominated. Woohoo!

The Michener reception is held at the GG's residence. We both are going to need new clothes.

Just ask Adrienne to buy you something. She's got some money to burn, apparently.

Yes, but she doesn't spend it on clothes. She always appears to be dressed in a burlap sack with sleeves.

We get 2 trips out of this - Ottawa in April & Vancouver in June - just for being nominated. Woohoo!

Excellent!

Just ask Adrienne to buy you something. She's got some money to burn, apparently.

Meee-ouch!

(It's just her turn in the barrel. The Neo agenda needs someone to club, and the government is thinking, hey, if it keeps them off our back, the GG can look after herself.)

She always appears to be dressed in a burlap sack with sleeves.

Somewhere John Raulston Saul is going, "Honey, where are those claw marks appearing from?"

False alarm on the Minister's reception, Megan. It was ostensibly to thank a bunch of us budget/policy nerds for the work we did on a recent initiative, but it has been postponed. That is to say, this is all the thanks we are going to get, save for the apologetic email to follow, cancelling the whole thing. Not that I need any thanks, hey, it's like my job and all, but I've been around the block, I know how this stuff works.

That's designer burlap, Dani!

Congrats to your husband!!