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In my Thursday morning class on the European Union, the professor asked who was in favour of trade liberalization.

I was the ONLY one who stuck his hand up.

The ONLY one.

I am starting to feel sorry for Samuel Huntingdon and others who go against the flow in the ivory towers.

In other news, La Presse offered profiles, yesterday and today, on the candidates for the leadership of the Parti Quebecois. On chappy's claim to fame is that, during those crazy 70s, he called for the imposition of one *unique* salary for all workers, irrespective of the type of work done.

Luckily, we still can choose between Pauline Boisclair, "the has been with an MBA" (who happens to be the only woman in the race), and the snobbish, coke-snorting gay former minister Andre Boisclair who never summoned the strength to finish his undergraduate degree but who went on to do a master's at Harvard. Thank goodness for us, he heard the calling, and chose to stay here rather than immigrate to the Switzerland of the North with the fine folks at McKinsey. At least he showed the moral fortitude to snort coke while he was minister and not before. Wouldn't be cricket, would it now ?

The coke sniffer was actually speaking at the University one day when I was there. I was tempted to spread a little liquid paper under my nostrils and go to his speech, but I had better things to do, like work. Something the cokesniffer knows little about.

Slept a total of 22 hours over Friday and Saturday nights. Would have slept some more but that would have likely trashed my sleep. Spent a nice quiet weekend with HCW™, which in lieu of spending time together on the evening of our anniversary due to a mid-term exam (how classy of me! ... ugh!),  which did a body good.

Off from the school this week so, in theory, taking it easy. Projected end to the strike at work means I should have some more free time. Much appreciated. This is definitely the last time I take 2 courses in one term, in any event. :-/

Watched "Batman Begins" on the weekend, as well as the movie SAW, which I thought was actually quite well done. I had expected to be more freaked out than I was ... along the likes of Ringu (or The Ring for the gaijin (short for Gaikoku-jin) reading this missive.

Just solved my first ever Sudoku puzzle. Verified my results on a software program I downloaded for my PowerBook. Cool!

Yesterday, I tried rock climbing at my gym for the first time. Scampered up about 2 feet before I realized I had not practiced coming down via rapelle. Had to climb down 15 feet then practice a little drop from 5 feet up. Hehe.