idle musings

The world, and the people in it, and the animals … today has been a bad today. First, the front page of the Vancouver Province shows an SPCA officer cuddling an adorable puppy that someone put in a plastic bag, tied it up, and threw it in the garbage. I almost started crying at work [...]

I really like the dress that Tyra was wearing at the finale runway show. Pretty Chinese gown – I wonder if I could pull off that look? I also really like the dress that Chantal was wearing at the last judging session, the silver one. Pretty! Not one that I think I could pull off [...]

At kickboxing last night, my ankles were feeling a little off. I’m used to my joints hurting, especially if the pressure is changing. I’ve had built-in barometers in my ankles my whole life. Doing the jumps and runs at class, I felt my right ankle twinge and thought to myself that I should take it [...]

I found this through Dooce. All About My Dog – Marimo. Probably don’t watch this if you are at all sentimental and in a public place. It made me cry.

Senior Animals In Need Today From their “About Us” page: SAINTS was started in December 2004 after volunteers at other animal shelters saw many senior animals spending their last days in a shelter or pound. From the time we opened our doors, the number of animals in need has been astounding and ever-growing. When SAINTS [...]

I handed in my take-home exam and term paper for Celtic Mythology today. I wrote both of them yesterday. They sucked a whole lot. Huge amounts of b.s. Now I am sitting in the library at school again, trying to motivate myself to write my last paper, for the philosophy class that I hugely enjoyed [...]

I’ve been covering some shifts at another store this past week and it has not been the greatest experience ever. Not that it’s been bad for me, per say, but it’s more seeing another store that is in such terrible shape and seeing all the employees bitching to me about how they hate it there, [...]

I was hanging out with my brother and his girlfriend last night, watching Pittsburgh and Sid the Kid play my Canucks, and my brother and I started talking about minor hockey. He said that he recently heard that now, to avoid any potential lawsuits for abuse, coaches are not allowed in the dressing rooms without [...]

I’m up at SFU, sitting in the library, writing a bunch of b.s. for my Celtic Mythology class take-home final exam. The window that I’m looking out of faces south, and I am watching the sky change colours, in the small space where I can see the sky and not the terrible architecture that is [...]