I'm sorry, but I really love Valentine's Day! I don't care that Jack Layton is the closest thing to a valentine I've got this year*, because the one year I actually did have a valentine? It kind of sucked! All subsuquent years have been much more fun. This year I've got Of Montreal records, I've got chocolate, I've got head to toe pink clothing, I' ( Read more... )

Do any other East coast kids get a homesick feeling when you're away and pass by the seafood section in the supermarket ( Read more... )

Why do people have to be so hateful? There is so much sadness in the world and we all go through more than enough adversity from day to day. The least we can do is show kindness to the people in our lives, am I right? It seems to me that a crucial part of making the world a nicer place to live is to love, respect, and treasure the people around us ( Read more... )

I could use some cheering up these days ( Read more... )

As many of you know, the Canadian government will soon vote on whether to legalize Same-Sex Marriage nationwide. Most of us had the feeling that it would pass with a comfortable margin. Now that the matter has been declared as a "free vote" for non-Cabinet Liberal MPs, that isn't so clear any more. There is a lot of opposition to this, which is ( Read more... )

Last night I fell asleep while listening to the sweet sounds of an Australian botanist talking about the effect climate change has on germination. The sleepytime selection the night previous was a Czech radio special about the most important celebrity figures the country has produced ( Read more... )

In my mind there are two kinds of cleaning. One kind is the friend-coming-over-in-an-hour kind, where you shove things under your bed and in the closet and hope no one notices. The other kind is when you sit on the floor covered in sweat and your own life grime. Yesterday our landlord came over for a most ambiguous "inspection". I figured it would ( Read more... )

The unthinkable has happened! Tonight I instinctively pulled out a ball of yarn and my favourite pair of bamboo needles only to realize that I have run out of things to knit. I looked around, stunned, and then announced with great dismay, "I have run out of things to knit!". It won't be long before I'm one of those grandmotherly types with her ( Read more... )

Currently I am baking the most delicious coconut/oatmeal/chocolate chip cookies. Dietarily this was a horrible idea. While delicious, the cookies are are laden with wheat flour and sugar and I can't help but rationalize eating the ones that get broken when I take them off the pan. This cleanse has me convinced that wheat and sugar are basically ( ( Read more... )

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