The bookstore is closing. :( Sooooo bummed. September 18th is our last open day, and then we have to be out by the 1st of October completely. So sad. There goes the second best job I ever fucking had. The good news is that BlogTO may pick me up as a photo-essayist to do gallery openings and cultural events in the city. They pay about $40 an ( Read more... )

 I am never going to finish this thesis. Never! Why must it be this constant plague on my life! Why must it trap me indoors and prevent me from seeing friends and hurt me so? Why must it be this god damn boring to write? Why can't I force myself to care about it at all?

 Two days ago I got bitten by a spider at 1AM. It was one of the most painful things I have ever felt. I actually shrieked and jumped up and put my foot under running cold water while shaking and trying to sort out what just happened to me, because it didn't look like anything was even there. closer inspection revealed two tiny holes, like ( Read more... )

I would very much like a partner ( Read more... )

Happy Canada Day?!?
I think not.

Allegations of Assault and Threats of Gang Rape by Police During the G20 -- CBC NEWS

"Four journalists have filed complaints with Ontario's police watchdog, alleging physical assaults and threats of sexual violence by police during the Toronto G20 summit, their lawyer says." ...

"the Montreal-based freelance ( Read more... )

I am going to go broke buying Pad Thai this week...

I'm in a thesis BUNKER and I am afraid, I will not be surfacing for the protest tomorrow. I want to. I really do. But the one on Monday just broke me... and it was really healing walking up the street, but it's after I get home, alone with what I heard and saw, that I cannot deal with... and I ( Read more... )

 I am deep in thesis land still, and have not left the house for anything but Pad Thai and a magazine about Vancouver's literary heritage, and representation in fiction. I love SubTerrain, and wanted a magazine because I am on a rotating 15 minute break ever 3 hours writing schedule, and I can read an article in about 15 minutes, and there are lots ( Read more... )

This is a new friend I made over the weekend, being arrested.

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cross posted from my facebook wall:
I walked and talked with the girl in this video at the rally tonight. Her face was all scraped from her arrest. She was put in solitary confinement. The police at the Eastern jail mocked her while she was behind bars. She was smaller ( Read more... )

 I will write about the G20 when I am less enraged, defeated, tired and disappointed. We have no rights at all if they are eroded the minute that we need them the most. The force used against peaceful people this weekend was deplorable. The riot officers were aggressive and the most violent people all weekend. The sensationalizing about the "black ( Read more... )

 Well, my boss decided in lieu of the store being right smack dab between the "designated protest zone" and the security fence that we are not going to be open this weekend. This means 3 things 1) I'll be extra broke next week as the G20 just fucked me out of $150... 2) I can actually attend protests and general bedlam that will be happening 3) I ( Read more... )