I just finished signing up to sponser a kid through World Vision. It's only $35/month, or roughly half a Saturday night. I figure I can put some of my money to better use than beer. At least some of it, anyways. Wouldn't want to cut out the beer completely - now you're just being silly.

I watched "Born into Brothels" last night. Despite my last post about hating kids, documentaries about kids seem to have the unusual quality of making me blubber like a baby. Seriously. Children of Leningradsky? Will fuck you up. There were about four of us who had to leave the classroom after and deal with our puffy, mucus-y crying faces. That ( Read more... )

I just bumped into an old coworker - the assistant manager back when I worked in a grocery store - at another grocery store of the same chain, where he works now. He mentioned that my aunt Karen mentioned me yesterday, and I corrected him, saying that Karen's my stepmom, not my aunt.

And he gave me that look. You know, the oh-this-is-dreadful- ( Read more... )

In my inbox:

I am please to advise our students, employees, partners, supporters and community, that BC’s Premier Gordon Campbell has announced that the BC Government plans to introduce legislation that will establish Malaspina University-College. The new university will be named Vancouver Island University ( Read more... )

I just finished my last exam ( Read more... )

Happy Earth Day ( Read more... )

I kick ass at reading lately. Which, of course, isn't helping the whole study-for-your-finals bit, but JESUS H CHRIST if I have to read ANYTHING MORE about anthropology I'm gonna go ape shit (pun totally intended ( Read more... )

I'm super excited for this Saturday. I finally get to see Geoff get all up in his rockstar bidness. It's kinda bitter sweet, because about a zillion local bands are playing to comemorate the loss of their space, The Chrome Horse - the lease of which is up ( Read more... )

I seem to be getting better at the emotional landmines amongst the rubble that is my new house. Pictures? No prob. Fabric swatches for bridesmaids dresses? Toss 'em. I'm moving up and moving on ( Read more... )

I'm reading Cereus Blooms At Night for my Eng Lit class right now. It's kind of an unpopular book - not in the sense that it got bad reviews, but that it didn't really get much attention at all. I don't know why. When I first read an introduction to it, I was yawning and thinking there was no way Mootoo could make the whole "colonialism = rape" ( Read more... )