First, I must say "yay!" to the $0.80+ loonie. Right now it is up by the better part of a cent.

Now, this. I have to be happy, once again, that I am not American - and so does this guy, or he may have lost his head.

From BBC:

Google 'saved' Australian hostageJohn Martinkus was working for Australia's SBS Television ( Read more... )

I had the greatest experience with a black squirrel, which I was suprised even existed, today ( Read more... )

Well, most of the big hassle has been finished. I have a nice little apartment in a pretty quiet neighbourhood. Only problem may be that noise seems to travel a lot in this apartment, as it is a basement. But, it is something that shouldn't be too big a downside ( Read more... )

Tonight was my going away sort-of party. Was more like a gathering of good friends. All with good intentions to see me off. I am not a good one for goodbye speeches and saying stuff when I see someone for the last time. What does one say, really ( Read more... )

This is an interesting little article I found on CBC's website. Perhaps I will have an interesting experience. An interesting fact to note is that about 2 million of the cities 4.7 million are immigrants. Second only to Miami.

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Toronto lands second on list of migrant citiesToronto - Toronto is second only to Miami, Florida ( Read more... )

I have decided that, given my new situation, I should use this more. I will be leaving for Toronto in a week, and there should be more exciting events (adventures?) awaiting me there. I've neglected this journal for a while, but I may have some reason to use it now ( Read more... )

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http://members.rogers.com/procyin/scene (momascene*)

Today I went downtown to buy a coffee ( Read more... )

Today, I checked the status of my UofT application, and it changed from "Not yet reviewed" to "File complete and currently under evaluation". So, let's hope I get a good birthday present this year.

There's this new lawyer comedy/drama show on CBC that I have looked over for a while as another attempt for decent Canadian programming. However, I found myself surprised at how interesting and funny it was ( Read more... )