Today I touched down in Halifax. My job is awesome in that it allows me to travel across the country every now and again to discuss drug studies (www.cnodes.ca). So I’m here in this great seaside city for a meeting and workshop tomorrow. It’s been a while since I’ve had the opportunity to wander a new city, so once I checked into the Marriott Harbourfront, I was off to explore.
I grabbed myself a coffee from Starbucks and then headed to the Halifax Citadel, onward to the Public Gardens, admired the Dalhousie campus (I love wandering university campuses!), bought apples at the Farmer’s Market and then walked along the Halifax Waterfront Boardwalk.
It was a lot of walking, but the weather was pleasant and the air had a scent of the ocean. I miss the ocean. A lot. I also realized that while I like to visit and wander cities on my own, it’s a much more enjoyable experience with someone. When my co-worker arrived, I met up with her and we wandered around for a bit more, chatting and laughing about this, that and the other.
We retired early since we were both exhausted and had some reading to do for work. But instead of reading, I indulged in room service while watching I Robot on TV. It seemed much more exciting than reading papers for the workshop entitled “Minimizing Confounding Bias in Observational Studies: Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting (IPTW).”
HIKES & HAMSTRINGS 