More on my social life, she says

Brenda/Mom (my mother, in case you haven't met her) wants to hear more about my social life. I have 15 minutes before my next class starts so I thought I'd try and add something here.

In short, it's short. Social stuff here at this point seems to be a lot about integrating work into the other things that you might rather be doing. The working lunch, the working dinner, these are common features. Even when we have breaks during 4-hour lectures, most of the conversation in the washroom (the first place most people go) and the coffee machine (the second place) revolves around the class topic: agreements, disagreements, frustration, etc. Inasmuch as you've always wanted to integrate your social life into your work life, I suggest that one of the most effective ways to do this is to completely subsume one into the other!

But really, I overemphasize the point. This is true in large part, but on both Friday and Saturday evening last weekend, I went out on the town and quite enjoyed myself. Like most new experiences, I did get it somewhat wrong: I drank too much on Friday night, when I had an 8am class in Economics, and as a result of this rather rude shock to my system, I didn't drink enough on Saturday, when I had plenty of time to rest and sleep in on Sunday morning. Folly. Thankfully, on average (as a classmate here) I stayed out considerably later than the midnight that I actually went to bed at, because a number of people went out dancing and stayed in gyration mode until 5am. I have yet to figure out how.

The other aspect of social life thus far is the simple pleasure of enjoying my surroundings. Here are some pictures of a lovely sunset (taken from my living room window), some local (towering) trees, and the lake on Sunday afternoon.