Five years of pain, defeat and humiliation later, and I still think he would have been the best choice for Prime Minister.

I must admit, yesterday was certainly the best day I've had in a long, long time. God only knows, fate owed me that after the last six months or so, but it was incredible! I exercised, found all of the books I needed in the library, collected all of my cheques, cleaned my apartment, had delicious food, finally figured out that whole bloody Path ( Read more... )

• Take a fifty-dollar cab ride to my apartment
• Empty out perishable items I missed from my refrigerator.
• Change my garbage bags
• Reinflate the tires and oil the chain of my bicycle
• Eat a quick supper at Dairy Queen

In about two hours, I will be flying back to my little green island at the end of the world. I had honestly not been planning to stay in Winnipeg for as long as I did, but one thing led to another and so, here I am. I did work while I was here though; not nearly enough probably, but I did work nonetheless ( Read more... )

Can you think of anyone, even a single person, whose intelligence you genuinely respect, who has used the word "LOL" in an online discussion? Because, having fought many battles across the Internet, I have noticed that it is an immediate way to denote stupidity.

That, I'm afraid, would be me. I have been working for the last month and a half; I have almost nothing to show for it. Why is physics so haaaaaard?

Is there a proper name for the psychological condition of being pathologically incapable of admitting that you made an error? 'Cause there ought to be.

Alright, I think that by this point, I have fairly well-established my Harper-hating cred. But the fact of the matter is (though I've got to wonder what my countrymen are smoking), he was given a majority mandate through a legitimate exercise in the democratic process; which means that even though I have absolutely no respect for the man (scheming ( Read more... )

One of the great things about committing yourself to writing stories is all of the little tidbits of information that you need to research in order to make them coherent. Last week, I was researching the proper method for scrying as it would have been done by scholarly magicians in the renaissance. This week, I am researching the customs of the ( Read more... )

It has occured to me that one becomes an adult at the moment when they start to care about politics. That's why political indoctrination of children is so monstrous.
Well, that and the fact that the idea of creating people for the express purpose of serving as soldiers in a sort of culture war is one of the most evil things I can imagine.