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How to escape the rat race
By Richard Nantel | August 5, 2008
Are you suffering from information overload? Are you drowning in email? Is your voice mailbox full? Are you totally stressed out? Here’s a potential solution I spotted in the window of a real estate company while vacationing in St. Andrews, New Brunswick:
Best to read up on local history, though. Samuel de Champlain and his colleagues didn’t fair too well on nearby St. Croix Island during the winter of 1604-1605. You might want to bring lemons along.
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August 5th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Sounds like a lovely place to throw a party actually ! And yes, the lemons will be important… for the Whiskey Sours
Or then again, perhaps Brandon Hall can rent it for the 2009 Innovations in Learning conference!
August 5th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Kristina:
What a great idea to hold our next conference there. Unlike last year, we wouldn’t need to end the opening cocktail reception at 10 pm because the noise was too much for hotel guests. We could party all night long.
Plus, we wouldn’t have the problem some conferences have of having guests take off to visit the local sites and casinos.
August 5th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Looks like a lovely island. I hope it survives Global Warming.
That said, I support the idea of someone purchasing the island and holding conferences there. In the summer.
August 5th, 2008 at 11:03 am
You’ll be happy (or horrified) to hear we’d serve dulse, a local delicacy, for lunch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulse
August 5th, 2008 at 11:04 am
I’m a bit worried about the bathroom situation for this future event.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Instead of pre-conference workshops, we could have a ‘bathroom raising’ workshop like this.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I’m glad the “Conference Island” idea is taking off! I think if someone bought it and turned it into a conference resort, they’d quickly make back their cash. However, they’d have to invest in plumbing and just general revamping of the facilities.
And yes Richard, we could have Canadian-style party receptions as long as we wanted!
As for the dulse, don’t knock it just yet! I regularly put dulse flakes on my popcorn, a healthy alternative to salt.
PS - Janet, your link doesn’t work and you’ve got me curious (do I really want to see this?)
August 5th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Kristina: Glad to see someone is eating dulse. It wasn’t exactly flying off the shelves in the St. John city market.
If they could just figure out how to remove the seaweed taste…
August 5th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
You don’t like seaweed? But what about sushi? I guess Nori is less fishy tasting then Dulse, especially when roasted.
Hijiki is also an awesome sea veggie and it great with shredded carrots. Arame is an awesome seaweed in soups!
Seaweed is a rich source of calcium, zinc and iodine. It is also a good source of Lignans which help fight cancer.
Ok, so I volunteer to handle the caterers at Conference Island
August 5th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Yes, I love sushi. Perhaps my problem with dulse stemmed from trying to eat it out of the bag like M&Ms.
Sounds like you should present a conference session on the topic.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Oh I’d love to talk all day about food and nutrition! I think if I weren’t an educational technologist, I might have been a chef, like my brother. Maybe he and I will have a joint project one day - an online cooking school