man, spending a night in a crazy airport at christmas time is not one of the things i had planned on doing this year. it's around 3:30am pacific time and i'm stranded in vancouver. the air canada lady i talked to almost laughed at me when i asked about flights to the island. "kid, just take a ferry ( Read more... )

pop montreal starts tonight. i am catching a greyhound to the big eastern city in an hour's time. i haven't packed yet and only just found myself a real place to stay. (max, you are a lifesaver). it is going to be an adventure. it is going to be awesome.

right now i am completely & totally enamored with eat skull. i just wanna play this trash over and over again, all day long. play it loud!

last night, after the CHUO funding drive kickoff at zaphod's, i caught the 14 home and somewhere along elgin these two kids, my age or a little younger, got on the bus and took seats behind me. i had my headphones on but through the fuzz i thought i heard the boy say the word victoria. i didn't think much of it till i got off the bus at the corner ( Read more... )

yesterday, the snow finally stopped and the sun shone bright. it must've almost broke zero for the first time since fall. it was so beautiful that nathan and i propped open the door to the record shop with milk crates, just to let in the fresh air. i went to the chip-truck around the corner and saw the boy at the bus stop, all sunglasses and shaggy ( Read more... )

it still won't stop snowing. i just want to hibernate, close myself into this second story apartment and not come out till the whiteness is gone.

Sometimes all it takes to improve things a hundredfold is a really good record. Listening to Times New Viking makes me feel like I'm alive, for once.

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I think I'm in love.

I'm done - whoa! This past while has been crazy. Stuff's been happening. More later. But for now, I'm just relieved to finally be finished with this semester. I can see the finish line from here.

Why is it that on the rare occasion I actually get a sufficient amount of rest I only feel more tired than I did before? Last night I slept eight hours and now all I feel is complete and utter exhaustion. I'd like to add sleep to my list of allergies, please.

One paper down, three to go. One exam. I'm still working six days a week. Cool!

Today was the first day that my extremeties hurt because of the cold. Ottawa finally broke into the negatives: bicycling home from the radio station, my fingers stuck to the metal bits on the handlebars. As soon as I got home I made peppermint tea, fresh from the west coast, and drank until the warmth spread from my insides out.