7:35 - stumble out of bed
7:50: start making the 45-minute walk to campus to meet with advisor. I think the walk will wake me up. It doesn't, but Guelph morning is rather lovely.
8:35: meet with advisor. We agree on my paper outline, we hack out a timetable, he explains to me why the Toronto Island airport is unethical. Efficiency central.
9:00: Breakfast in the UC food court combined with catching up on some emails. Accidentally send an email meant for Zara to a charitable society resulting in some confusion and major embarrassment, but I am able to see the humour. Resubmit research ethics forms, get bus sticker, check some Barthes out of the empty, empty library. Bus home.
11:00: Arrive home. Drink tea and finish reading Josh MacDonald's Whereverville (a play about Newfoundland ten times better than those damn Mercer plays) on the porch.
12:00: Begin reading Josh MacDonald's Halo. Interrupted by arrival of roommates, and roomate's annoying girlfriend. Call Bell to activate our phone line while roommates loudly discuss stuff and holler things at me. An epic 45-minute phone odyssey of annoyance.
1:00: roommates clear out of house. Curb Your Enthusiasm and grilled cheese with bacon. Larry David buys a lot of sponge cakes.
2:00: leave for gym (now a half-hour bus ride from my new home, but I've got the time). Elliptical 30 minutes, treadmill 20 minutes. All while watching Desparate Housewives.
4:30: get home to roommate strumming on guitar with Flight of the Conchords in the background. Sit on couch and talk about how I should shower.
5:00: actually get up and shower.
5:45: leave for McCabe's. Leisurely dinner and drinks with roommates and Zara. Loud argument about the alleged necessity of actually buying drinks while in bars. Theme park analogies abound.
9:00: leave McCabe's for the Albion. A couple games of pool.
10:15: home. realize I am going to be in Halifax in a few days - maybe I should be getting my ducks in a row?
10:20: meh. That is tomorrow's challenge task.
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I don't know why your advisor considers Toronto City Centre Airport unethical. I can tell you why I consider it ethical:
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2) Aviation imposes environmental costs (noise, air pollution). I do not believe aviation imposes high environmental costs; the pollution emitted by aviation, locally and globally, adds up to a fraction of that emitted by, say, light surface vehicles (cars, minivans, and SUVs), but as with any beneficial activity, the costs do exist.
3) Toronto has two effective choices: "concentrate" all of the aviation activity, with the attendant pollution, at Pearson International Airport, or share the burdens, to at least some degree, by allowing Porter Airlines to operate out of Toronto City Centre Airport.
4) Concentrating aviation and attendant side effects has the effect of dumping pollution on a population with about one-half the household income of the households on the waterfront (by the Canadian census), and a much higher proportion of children. I see this as a manifestation of privilege, not of ethics.