Today is the second all-French party (as in, everyone else was francophone and there was no English spoken except the occasional sentences for my sake - as in, "are you ok?") I've attended. The first one was last February/March-ish, sometime during the rigid winter before I started working. I don't know was it because we just ended up smoking pot ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2006 that you've never done before ( Read more... )

Since a month ago, I have a deranged neighbour who yells and shrieks on top of her lung in the hallway whenever she's drunk and feels like to yell at her boyfriends. She likes to play the victim, and thinks everyone is against her because she's a woman and an "immigrant" (she seems to be from the Carribeans somewhere). Being right next door, I've ( Read more... )

... thus spoke Nigella Lawson just right this minute, on CBC Newsworld ( Read more... )

I`m totally enjoying my time staying at the castle-like Hotel Vanccuver downtown with a king-sized bed, using the highspeed internet that costs $15 per night, and taking cabs or being chauffered around all on someone else`s money ( Read more... )

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ok so my last entry was totally a lie. it totally sucks when it's a miserable day and i don't have chris at home with me. it's like i almost just want the day to be over, fast. when it's sunny and warm i could stay out and read and have coffee and take a solitary walk or something, but when it's cold and miserable i just want homey conversations ( Read more... )

I'm sitting at my desk listening to a recording of Belle and Sebastian's 2001 show in Vancouver from the awesome, awesome website of CBC Radio 3 (radio3.cbc.ca and then go to "Concerts and Sessions"). I am smiling to myself like an idiot, trying to refrain from big dancing movements and thinking about the Belle and Sebastian in Coney Island and my ( Read more... )

I miss home. I miss Enoki, I miss feeling at ease. I'm sick of lugging my luggage around because I can't settled down somewhere, I'm sick of feeling bad about my 'eccentricities' (which apparently include that i get up and go to the bathroom early in the morning, i'm not proper and i talk loud and fast), i'm sick of proper european girls that i ( Read more... )