idle musings

I was exhausted last night – I was lying in bed and reading my book but I kept falling asleep while doing it. You know when the book falls and hits you in the face? Yeah. So I thought, I may as well just go to sleep. It was 6pm. I slept almost all the [...]

The scene: I’m at a restaurant with a few people I know fairly well, and one guy I’ve just met. I’m discussing hitting up Linen ‘n’ Things tomorrow with one of the girls. Me: But we’re only going to go there, right? You know me – I don’t have the patience to go shopping all [...]

I’m going through a phase right now where I just don’t seem able to turn out the light at night. I’m tired but I want to finish my chapter or do a sudoku or check my email one more time. Seriously, how did it get to be 12:40am without me noticing? Time for sleepies.

*** Trigger warning *** Over at Shakesville, Melissa asked the question, “In what ways has the idea of sexual assault and/or street harassment affected your daily movements?” The comments made me cry and made me furious. The one comment that really stuck out for me, amongst all the stories of rape and assault, was someone [...]

You know what really chaps my ass crimson?* When people who are serving me cannot be bothered to say thank you, especially when I have just thanked them. Twice this happened today – once at McDonalds (shut up – I had a brutally stupid meeting that lasted four hours with no break and I was [...]

No seriously. It’s so bad.

Things to do today: get coffee deposit GST/carbon tax credit cheque buy milk buy meat return library books empty vacuum bag vacuum house laundry snuggle my cat go to bed early Is it weird that I consider this a day when I  have nothing to do, compared to my normal days?

For my birthday my good friend, who I refer to as George Costanza the Boobologist, took me shooting. It was awesome. See more pics at my Flickr. Big happy grin. So much fun. This is the gun I shot. It’s a Colt 9mm, an old US military gun because it is easy to use and [...]

I can remember loving the penguin antics at the Vancouver aquarium when I was little, even as I was feeling uncomfortable about them performing for me to watch. They have always had a special place in my heart, though, and this story restores a bit of my faith in humanity. Flying penguins are unusual. Especially [...]

I tried to watch the Pres debate last night but I couldn’t do it. McCain just kept spinning the same topics again and again (making it obvious that he and Palin got the same lessons) and Brokaw was such a biased fuck that he made me angry. Considering that it isn’t my country and I [...]