In the olden days I used to party until the sun came up and I could still function the next day. Sorta. I swear that it's taken me a week to recover from my grad party last Saturday. It was the bottomless martini syndrome. Helpful friend tops you up all night so it always seems like you're on the first drink. While I consider myself a lightweight ( Read more... )

I really hate ironing. I like the effect, I just can't get the hang of handling the bloody thing. I tried to iron my nice crisp cotton shirt, a hand-me-over from a friend, for a pre-job-interview test I had today at the Faculty of Law. It took me forever to get through the whole thing and then to iron out the creases I'd made without making more of ( Read more... )

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So now that I've had great feedback on the first (and sounds like the last) draft of my informal caregiving article for the Torch, I can get pumped about it coming out right as I graduate. And it's way long. Longer than the 1000-1200 words we agreed to. I've probably gotten it expanded to 1800 or so, which is great news when you're contracted to be ( Read more... )

There's a three-foot-wide strip of soil in the three-foot-high rock wall along my driveway. I knew the landlady had planted organic stuff in it last year, but other than noticing kale and some edible plant that looks like swiss chard, I hadn't really taken a good look at it until today ( Read more... )

We'll finally be rid of shag carpet when we move Dec 29. I'm so relieved we found a place now rather than the end of January when I'm back in school for my last semester. Kyle's mother Irene is moving into a room downstairs, which makes me a little nervous. We all talk about respecting each other's privacy and space, but we'll see what happens when ( Read more... )

When the landlord comes to your door with an armful of roses, his wife, his daughter-in-law and his two-year-old granddaughter, it is not a good thing. We have to move. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Our place is big and cheap but it's also cold and in need of many repairs. The timing, however, stinks. We've been here five years and it's ( Read more... )

Crikey. I haven't posted here in forever ( Read more... )

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