So recently I've grown increasingly disillusioned and frustrated with the ideology of straight edge. The more I seriously consider it as a personal choice, the more I realize how problematic and weirdly judgmental my reasons have been. The more I consider it as a cultural and political movement, the more I realize how fundamentally I disagree with ( Read more... )

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Today I awoke at the ungodly hour of 6am in a last ditch crafting effort. Unfortunately, those efforts have been sidelined as a result of, sworn enemy of all those who labor manually, wrist strain. Yesterday I swore up and down that I would arrive at Emily and Cynthia's wedding tonight with her completed gift if it was the death of me. Even if I ( Read more... )

It is Friday night and I am at home working diligently on crafts. Some days I get really wrapped up in doing manual tasks. Today is one of the days when it just feels so right to make knots in yarn and sink my hands in bowls of sticky dough and fold up my laundry and get soil under my fingernails. Some days I just need that tactile relationship ( Read more... )

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Someone stole my bike! I left it locked outside for an hour, and when I went back to retrieve it it was gone! If anyone in Montreal sees someone around on a blue cruiser with reflective hearts all over it, please PUNCH THAT PERSON IN THE THROAT! This sucks. Someone please take me bike shopping in the morning, because even though it was in rough ( Read more... )

Last week I went to Edmonton and I came back on Monday. Here is a graph roughly representing the trip:


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I am currently sitting on my balcony with my ibook balanced atop the armrest of my chair. I spent my entire day this way, waiting impatiently for the Canada Post delivery person. Only, the Canada Post delivery person never actually arrived to deliver to me all of my worldly posessions. While waiting, I tediously edited my menstrual suppression ( Read more... )

Last night a dude called me beautiful, and I turned around and shouted at him, "FUCK OFF!!!". It felt like a minor, but important victory. Context ( Read more... )

ATTENTION OTTAWA!


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