Plates of sushi travelling past your table on a conveyer belt = eating way too much sushi
We don't usually go out for supper on a weeknight, but I was particularly tired because last night I got back from a conference in Melbourne where I presented some of my study's results. Since I spend most of my time in front of a computer, having to talk to a large number of people about bloodborne viruses for three straight days was positively exhausting!
In spite of the whole having to talk to people thing, it feels pretty good to finally have some results to talk about after two long years of slogging. For this week's conference, I prepped by giving a presentation to the staff at a local needle exchange program the week before, which I was much more nervous about. As a researcher, it's always a little nervewracking to present your findings to a group of people who spend their lives providing services to the population you're studying. But it went well, there was plenty of good feedback and questions and no one seemed to think I was way off track in my interpretation of the results (and they would have definitely let me know about it if I was off track, they're a good reality check that way!).
To reward myself for a job well done on that presentation, I ducked into a Thomas Dux Grocer on my way home. Num, num, num. I brought a grocery list specifically so that I wouldn't be tempted to pick up any of their way overpriced, but way delicious specialty items...and yet I still ended up bringing home a package of Donna Hay chocolate chip cookie dough mix. Oh my lord, they were delish.
Gus, tucking into a still-hot Donna Hay cookie.
3 comments:
did you get lots of people asking you to repeat yourself at the conference because they couldn't understand your wacky Canadian accent?
Love the Sushi Train! I miss it! Can't wait to open my own in Montréal!
Hi Neil! ...hmmm, maybe that's why there weren't too many questions.
Michelle: that was the second time we went back to the Sushi Train since you and I went there. Gus loves the concept but not so much the food, he's thinking of opening a pizza train, maybe in Montreal next to your sushi train!
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