More frequently now I'm finding that drinking strong coffee gives me crippling stomach cramps which can only be alleviated by laying still on one side for a while, then switching to the other side. It can take hours for this to go away, so I will either sleep, listen to the radio or stare at the wall. Tonight I've been staring at the wall worrying ( Read more... )

Every day an old man hauls his banged up acoustic guitar and mini-amp to the discount P.A. Supermarche on Parc, and he sits there and plays from morning until night. People know him because he's a very accomplished player, distinctive with his cart full of stuff- including a couple of large ice cream buckets to sit on and what I assume is a prop ( Read more... )

Plans? Scattered, yes I have them all over ( Read more... )

He also biked across Canada twice- the second time alone on a tandem bicycle, pulling a trailer so he would be able to accommodate guests on his journey. All money raised went to a foundation for Huntington’s disease; an illness his mother has lived with for many years. He specializes in solar energy innovation, which could apparently be applied ( Read more... )

At some point I came across the phrase ‘sine qua non’ for the third time in my book and had to ask the hippie who was rather 'perched' on a booth seat at the table across from mine whether he spoke French. He answered in French so I said: “can you tell me what this means?” and showed him the line. He informed me that it was in fact Latin and meant ( Read more... )

Since the CPR Railway was purchased by an American Company, we no longer enjoy a free cup of coffee compliments of the Crown…but thankfully we may purchase a $9 coffee voucher card, which allows us 6 cups; a savings of $3 given that each cup is regularly $2. So I sit on a stalled train with a steaming cup of savings and stare out into the still ( Read more... )

I'm so busy that I just want to puke
....sorry for not keeping in touch in this, the Christmas season

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Today in my Canadian studies conference we were all sitting around this large oval table discussing the possibilities of a coalition government and I just burst out laughing...seriously- tears welled up in my eyes for, like, half a minute because I was trying not to lose it and then I just exploded with laughter. It was really weird, but for some ( Read more... )

For months I have spent most days alone in my room studying; reading and writing, completing problems and formulas and relearning basic math and science concepts that were long left somewhere in the classrooms of Evan Hardy Collegiate eight years ago. And everything can be translated silently, thoughtfully, as predicate logic becoming sentences or ( Read more... )

The love of my life is a scientist; he studies algae and salmon, builds rainfall simulators, uses lasers to measure sediment in tubes of water, and sends me images of bacteria seen through microscopes in response to descriptions of my favorite paintings ( Read more... )