Sun-kissed highlights, short skirts, sassy strides, incognito shades, bright white smiles, the stretch of cotton over taut muscle, shades of butter yellow painting my room, my back warm from the caress of the sun, the smell of charcoal and gurgling meat wafting up to my 2nd floor window. The warmth streaming on my face as I sauntered down ( Read more... )

For those that care and take pride in it: Happy Canada Day! What an amazingly awesome country we have ( Read more... )

It's another rainy day and fat, wet drops are exploding on the window. I feel like cursing the heavens for the worst summer weather I have ever encountered. But I know better than to mess with the feelings of an all powerful being. In fact I apologize for even thinking about cursing...

&& Movin' into my new pad tomorrow and looking forward to a little change. I'll be closer to the library and downtown in general, therefore less time is incurred riding my cycle around and more time is dedicated to the impending weight of my thesis. Ugh ( Read more... )

My Canadian friend took the day into his own hands and went to explore the city on two wheels. I am supposed to be working on the thesis, but boy oh boy, I'm on a quiz kick...don't mess with me.


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How to make a aceofwands
Ingredients:

3 parts anger

5 parts courage

3 parts joy
Method:
Layer ingredientes in a shot glass. Add a little cocktail umbrella and a dash of wisdom

Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com

Hamburg was uneventful...aside from Ben Harper...who was fan-f&#"ing-tastic!

Training for 21K is uneventful...as I have only managed to run about 14K non-stop...it took me 2 hours...

Birthday was uneventful...aside from the unbelievable Indian food I had for dinner!

Thesis is uneventful...that is why I must go work on it now...

It's a blustery saturday morning and I'm starting to wonder whether summer is ever coming to this country. It has been grey, rainy and cloudy for weeks. Not a very uplifting atmosphere. Ah well. Everything is a mess right now as I get ready to move to another apartment tomorrow, to then live out of my suitcases for 2 weeks until I move to yet ( Read more... )

Ben Harper + Me + Hamburg = 12 days ( Read more... )

Ok, last week Denmark was in the throes of "wedding madness" as the Crown Prince wed his princess. Apparently, the same thing is happening at Spain in this very moment and it is dominating the airwaves on over half the tv stations. Even BBC News...the channel that I have the utmost respect for has let me down as its correspondents in Madrid are " ( Read more... )