I'm banned from work today because my co-workers are now avoiding me like plague after hearing my little dry coughs and stuffed nose yesterday. My boss even tried to talk me into *not* going to work tomorrow, which I (staunchly) refused ( Read more... )

So I spent my first "Canada Day in Ottawa" seeing the GG (too pale and too thin) closed-up twice, doing my first journalistic interview shivering in the freezing wind on the lawn of Rideau Hall with my guest sniffing her nose due to the cold, hanging out with new OMG-Where-Have-You-Been-All-My-Life friend Rachel (who sadly has relocated to the ( Read more... )

So, I went to see this Danish movie, "after the wedding," by myself and cried in the theatre like a retard*. It also reminded me how much I used to love Scandinavian movies (highly recommending; 'Festen'(cCelebration), "rekjavik 101', and "together") and used to see them again and again on sunday afternoons in my room in Seattle. It was also a ( Read more... )

I met a Quebecois girl called Swan last night. Like, her real name. It's probably to her advantage that she also happened to be really pretty, with her hair dyed jet black and bangs cropped fashionably short. Otherwise, I guess it would be quite an ironic name.

I'm watching Radio Canada's weekend flagship program, Toute le monde en parle, cos ( Read more... )

AAARRGGHH I just logged on the website of Citizenship and Immigration Canada to change my address, only to realize that my application for my permanent resident card was rejected!! I won't even know why until I receive the letter. They apparently rejected it on the same day as they started processing it, so I'm hoping that it's because of those ( Read more... )

Tina Fey in 30 Rock is just so unbelievably hot. I love her combination of low-cut blouse, nerdy glasses (which is not the same as the thicker kind of pseudo hipster glasses), offbeat eccentricities, intelligence, and the effortless hotness. The show is funny, alternatively witty and acerbic. Awesomeness all-around is Ms Fey ( Read more... )

1) Went to this conference on topics that really only politics and law geeks would be interested in by getting a media badge even though I have no intention to 'cover' it. Even managed to get Chris a "Invité/Guest" badge all on my own (i.e. without my boss vouching for us like last time at this other conference. Discovered that the key is ( Read more... )

I'm running out of songs to play on our show. Suggestions??? I need song titles! Albums! Canadian artists/groups strongly preferred. It's actually kind of limited to its availability in the CD library in Radio-Canada, but if I can have a longer list I can check if they're in the discotheque. Preferrably not the current batch of sort-of known ( Read more... )

This is what I'm watching on IFC right now. This guy who creepily resembles the title character in My Name Is Earl is living on the minimum wage with his girlfriend/wife for a month in Ohio ( Read more... )

On the first note, after having moved in for seven months, I finally managed to put up curtains yesterday for my 9-feet-something-wide window in the living room (it's ridiculous that it took me so long, I know). It's a strange size and it took me a while to gather the curtain and rod with the correct size. Not having a ladder also means I'm pretty ( Read more... )