I'm back online -- the computer was wracked with spyware and had to be serviced, and I have (miraculously!!) not been out of Stanhope for several days (I think Tuesday was my last time in town ( Read more... )

Another one of those weeks where I land two jobs at once. Holy frig. This is the way things work for me: I can have a drought of nothingness for eons in spite of best efforts, and then a few pieces of good circumstance will usher in multiple things at once. I call it "Erinian luck ( Read more... )

Monday, July 11, 2005 Updated at 1:33 PM EDT ( Read more... )

I am preparing for my federal government General Competency test tomorrow morning. I am not worried about the reading-type questions, but math scares me ( Read more... )

The lovely media have already coined a buzzphrase for the terrorist attacks yesterday: 7/7

Because even a tragedy needs a brandname.

Musee des Beaux Arts

About suffering they were never wrong ( Read more... )

I am enjoying the attention paid to my cheap yet funky purse a little too much (looks like a small metal lunchbox, shaped like a drum and with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band logo). The best advertising for the little indie shop I found it in, because I am constantly asked where I found it.

I watched some of the news coverage on the bombings in London today. I got annoyed quickly, however, with certain stations which were much more focussed on the state of their own public transit than on what actually happened to people today. CBC Newsworld was the most tolerable ( Read more... )

** The computer at home seems to be ill with some kind of viral infection, and so i find myself paying to use internet at the seasonal canteen about five minutes away. If it is a virus, I blame my brother. I love my sibling, but he can be such an idiot when it comes to downloading very bad things ( Read more... )

Why is my dad keeping his beer in the crisper, with the carrots?