I'm back here and yet still unsure of what to write about. I don't know if it I'll keep up this journal now that I'm back, though I sense I need something like it. I need a space for sharing and learning and communing with others. The internet used to be a half-decent place to do all three! I recently had my partner change my Instagram password, to ( Read more... )

And I can't believe it's been about 17 years since I posted here. Well, I can believe it. I remember that by fall of 2007, around the date of my last entry, I'd begun a relationship, one of my first long-term relationships in Vancouver, which at the time meant it lasted more than a year. That relationship found me picking up a pattern I'd begun ( Read more... )

Friends, my LJ has become a mere place to post of other places, rooms and homes in need of good folks to fill them. And such appears again to be the subject of both today's post, and an email of yesterday. Do read on:

Hey pal ( Read more... )

My roommate, Alison, will be moving to Toronto this fall to begin a graduate program in Communications at York. Does anybody have a room available for September 1 for a radio-geek-cum-grad-student? If so, please email me at mono.nucleosis@gmail.com, and I will put you two in touch. Maybe not literally, although that might help you two get to know ( Read more... )

I set sail eight blocks south this month, and so a room will be opening up at our East Van House, available August 1. Here's the detes ( Read more... )

Slavoj Žižek was at UBC yesterday, talking from behind one of the shelves in the Reading Room when I got to school just after noon, there for a talk slated especially for the members of the English Department who signed up for a lottery that it turns out everyone won. Lunch with Žižek! Although I had not fairly entered the draw (I had thought I ( Read more... )

We moved too. Total continental drift this month, huh? Maybe twenty-four simply means moving in aught-but-September, rather than not moving as much as twenty-one. I kind of had a hankering it would mean less moving, but really. Fierce attachment to the Littlest Hobo? Stint reading the Beats in early adolescence? Gay youth? Coastal living? All signs ( Read more... )

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Okay, I cracked, pointed and clicked my way into the future (both immediate and distant) and here's what the internet came up with ( Read more... )

monomania \mon-uh-MAY-nee-uh; -nyuh\, noun:

1. Pathological obsession with a single subject or idea.
2. Excessive concentration of interest upon one particular subject or idea.