Did you know I'm training for the Vancouver Sun Run ( Read more... )

There has recently (like, 10 minutes ago) been a very important addition to Andy's and my wedding ( Read more... )

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The first line of the first entry of the month last year. It went by so so fast, huh ( Read more... )

Yes, indeed. I'm a thirtysomething. How did I get this way?

You Are 33 Years Old

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Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe ( Read more... )

Ah, the life of a clarinetist. Transpose like a mad woman, and then you don't even get the juicy parts. C'est la vie ( Read more... )

The constant subzero temperatures, that is. It snowed again this afternoon. About another inch on top of what we already had, and it was soft and dry; pure powder. Made me wish I was swishing down a mountain ( Read more... )

There is a piercingly bright sun setting right now. It's spilling out from between a tiny crack in the slate gray of the cloud cover. Hot and urgent enough to impart a feeling of warmth, even among all the snow ( Read more... )

So I'm finally back up here for good. And for the last time. It's still hard to wrap my little brain around the fact that I'm not coming back here in the fall. 2005 will bring my very first September without books and classes and the unbearably satisfying newness of it all. I think it will break my heart just a little. I've always been a bit of a ( Read more... )

I took a holiday from the holidays today and brought some lunch and some music and a book down to Stanley Park, via the SeaWall. It was a good, long, head-clearing walk on a perfect West Coast winter day. I love that it is the middle of December and I didn't even need a sweatshirt over my longsleeve t-shirt, even though I was right by the water all ( Read more... )