TODAY I HAVE INTERNET IN MY HOME!


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The cactus has been well watered, to continue the metaphor...also literally. The drinking has to stop! I think the nerdy hermetic phase is descending. This is where I avoid people and get physically glued to books and papers. So, out of the past 3 weeks...what have I accomplished? (breif overview ( Read more... )

I just want everyone to know that I have at last managed to leave old Ottawa. Not without a tinge or two of regret. But there are some things about not being there that make me feel like a watered cactus. Maybe a cactus doesn't always need water, but it's been a damn long time and the sun's been hot ( Read more... )

And so-begins my 3 week assignment in the most archaic of institutions. It appears. Archaic: what means this word ( Read more... )

There is a russian expression that goes something like, "if you're being beaten, run. If you're being given something, take it." This is especially true of russian immigrants, who do ridiculous things like stock up on years' worth of canned soup when it's on sale, or grab up hand-me downs and crub-side furniture with no shame, or, whatever. I tend ( Read more... )

I don't understand how they can let me do this. It is just about 11 am. I have spent 2 hours at a desk in an empty office. I have answered about 4 telephone calls, in which I politely informed our valued client that everyone is gone. I have cost the company $38 (of which 22 is mine, as I am hired out as a commodity). Over the course of the week I ( Read more... )

I'm all alone at the office. Nothing could be more beautiful. (Except perhaps the dewey parks along the rideau river, so early in the morning that even the canada geese sit unblinking by the path. The water moves slowly, multicoloured and shiny with the low-angled light ( Read more... )

Perhaps just to break the tradition of never posting ultra personal things on your lj--I just wanted to write about how my boyfriend is so darn fantastic. If anything, this ode is right to precede what is probably going to evolved into my "here I am in scotland" chronicle, because it is for the sake of scotland that I'm about to abandon him for a ( Read more... )

Why I left last summer? I could idealize it and pretend, I knew I had to leave, I just did not know why…something….something pulling me away. As much as I would like to believe in transcendent consciousness, higher forces, mysticism…life is more low-level and human than that. And I’ve benefited from realizing that life is what you make it. How much ( Read more... )

The human system has a number of internal rhythms it can follow. The human society has an even greater number of structures it can impose on you. I hate structure and rhythm and I hate control and I am happiest when I can do whatever I want when I want. It's so simple really. I like taking walks at midnight and sleeping in the afternoon and going ( Read more... )