Dear bloggees,

I will unabashedly post about my most recent trip instead of uploading photos of the trips to Austria and Norway.  Deal with it. :D

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Last year, Tam and Colin thought it'd be a good idea to ring in the New Year in Montreal by overpopulating a Les bons matins apartment.  That was, on the whole, a pretty darn awesome time -- so since Tam and Colin were taking care of Jeni's cat there over Christmas, Brigette and I went up again for NYE.  Brigette was pretty jet-lagged (having flown in from Vancouver) and the rest of us had quite a bit of work to do, so it was a quiet trip, but thoroughly enjoyable.  I think Colin's a bit disappointed that we didn't totally cut loose, but I can't think of things having gone any better: we spent almost every day waking up embarrassingly late and eventually wandering out to a coffee shop in hopes of being productive (I submitted a paper for publication!). Later, we'd descend upon some unfortunate, unsuspecting dépanneur, exhausting its supply of beer, wine, pizza pops and ice cream.  On NYE, we went to what can only be described as a somewhat awkward goth swinger party near the Olympic stadium.  Last night, we stayed up until 6 in the morning posing for various photoshoots with Jeni's cat and celebrating the fact that, this time, we only managed to waste a third of a bottle of expensive dessert wine by pouring it all over Tam's face and splashing it all over a makeshift milk-crate table.  We are classy folk.  Dress us up and take us anywhere.