I have the horrible suspicion that I should be reducing my coffee drinking. I've been having wild heart palpitations lately; they feel like extra or missed beats that make my cheast pound. So I'm slowly coming to accept that maybe 4 large coffees a day is stressing my system. Though I just looked it up online and stress, anxiety, caffeine, nicotine ( Read more... )

I just saw Children of Men. Bleak and beautiful. It's refreshing to see a country other than the United States at the epicentre of the bid to save humanity.

I found it difficult to watch and impossible not to.

Very different from the book. But in a good way.

I love Clive Owen. He's my new hero.

Being sick sucks. I feel sorry for myself.

I started taking French classes through work last week. I've only had 2 lessons and already things make so much more sense. My eccentric and hilarious teacher put it all into perspective when someone said "You're not like my other french teachers... you explain more about why." and he said "Of course I explain. You're adults. You're not students, ( Read more... )

I don't feel like updating, but yet here we are ( Read more... )

It is currently about 25 degrees celsius above normal temperature. We should be freezing in our frozen wasteland hell, but instead our grass is still green and the earth isn't remotely frozen... So messed up.

To give you an example, this is what it looked like last winter, on December 27th, 2005:


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Rang in the New Years with friends and poker. I lost, but I popped the champagne at midnight, and managed to avoid hitting any of our lights or the three giant aquariums with the cork... I was a little worried that it would break something ( Read more... )

Strep throat. Merry christmas to me. Can't wait for business hours to resume so I can see a doctor. Swallowing, speaking, coughing, hickupping, breathing... They all make my life hell.

'Godfather of Soul' James Brown dead at 73
Updated Mon. Dec. 25 2006 1:30 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

James Brown, musical innovator, inimitable entertainer and self-prescribed "Godfather of Soul," died early Christmas Day at the age of 73.

Brown's agent Frank Copsidas said the singer was hospitalized with severe pneumonia on Sunday, and died ( Read more... )

I had my family over for Christmas eve dinner tonight. It was really nice. It was Alec and I, Avery and Jakob (alec's son), my sister, her boyfriend (or ex... I no longer understand or ask questions), their two kids, my mom and my dad ( Read more... )