I should be in bed because I am so very tired, but instead I am here - listening to a band that I actually heard on the radio originally. Yes, the regular, old-fashioned, in-the-car radio. This is unusual for me, in case you don't know. I tend to say scathing things about listening to the radio. But these guys are like a sexy, less suicidal version ( Read more... )

Well folks, I am happy to report that my surgery went well and I appear to be in one piece, so far as I can tell... I have to say that the residual pain in my shoulders (apparently a side effect from the anaesthetic) is worse than the pain where the actual surgery took place. And the codeine they prescribed for the pain was making me so ill that I ( Read more... )

First of all, apologies to those of you that haven't heard a peep from me in the last little while. The kids went back to school, then I went back to school, then the kids got sick, then I got sick... Yay for new school years and new germs ( Read more... )

Or, how to restore your good mood when external forces have conspired to ruin it.

I decided to test this hypothesis this week.

First, you take your significant other (SO) - or a reasonable facsimile - and you go to see a movie. Not just any movie. You go and see Little Miss Sunshine, which stars Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carrell and ( Read more... )

You'll have to forgive my weekend melodrama - I was in a pretty horrible mood and unable to post anything that didn't involve an inordinate amount of swear words, so I opted for poetry instead. It's an older poem but one that more or less summarized my mood ( Read more... )

Damage

I am driven to this ending
this edge of everything
my reason turned to ash
memories stripped away
laid bare before me
matte black and empty
like your eyes

you broke me
twisted me
splintered bones
and pushed them inside me.

Don't ask. It's been a bad day.

Boy, it's been a while since I updated ( Read more... )

I have to say, all the stuff going on in the Middle East amazes and depresses the hell out of me. Is it just me, or does Israel get away with a lot more than its neighbours and other places, such as North Korea? I agree that they have a right to defend themselves, which is what Canadian newspapers and our beloved Prime Minister keep saying. But I'm ( Read more... )

Well folks, I am about to wrap up at the Senate for the summer, which means I will suddenly have a lot more free time on my hands. It may also explain why those of you that may have emailed me in the last 24 hours or so haven't heard anything back. I have been working like crazy for the last 2 and a half days (side note - Senator Grafstein is ( Read more... )

This is really cool. It's an area that is starting to get a lot more coverage, which I think is awesome.

No Longer a Mind of Our Own