A year ago today(well, tomorrow by the calendar, but MLK day) I started my job here. New country, new city, new job. I lived in a (suite)hotel for 6 weeks until I found an apartment. I actually was dating someone when I moved here; he had moved from Ottawa 4 months earlier(an odd semi-coincidence, i didn't entirely move here to be with him). We ( Read more... )

The Framingham exit was backed up onto the highway today, so I went all the way to 495. A truck carrying small light blue rolls of foam padding must have dropped some of its cargo. For a couple miles, there are strips of blue foam woven around the guard rails and in the bushes. Some rolls are still rolled up, some are halfway undone, some are all ( Read more... )

in my family, christmas is mostly for reading(also, puzzles, and the christmas crossword, and skating) :) when i arrived home my little sister showed up with a stack of books for me to borrow while i was there. and i got some as gifts. and i read other people's gifts!

( the original trickster, poetic monks in the rockies, teen vampires, clairvoyant crossdressers, astrobiology, and bagpipes )

i went for a walk. in a t-shirt and a unzipped cotton sweater. it wasn't cold. it was humid and intermittently breezy such that the air felt like caresses. i lay on my back on the top of a playground structure and watched the clouds move. i tried to do pullups on the monkey bars. not much luck. so i came home and worked out :p ( Read more... )

This is fun, I think. And fairly well put together.

But... the woman in the video was elected leader of the Green Party in Canada. ( 2 months after this video was made.) The Green Party doesn't currently have any seats in Parliament, but they're trying pretty hard. On one hand, this kind of thing doesn't seem like a very professional move if they' ( Read more... )

or slushing at least :) look quick, it will probably turn to rain!

this is an odd thing to be posting about in the middle of the night, when i'm a bit buzzed. but i just got home and found out that my favourite candidate won the liberal leadership convention(in canada). this means, if the liberals win a majority in the next election(likely in the spring).. he will be prime minister ( Read more... )

i really really really like christmas lights! it's so dark in this northern part of the world, we need sparklies in the depths of midwinter. makes the drive home a bit more pleasant and colourful. blinky lights.. i'm easily amused ( Read more... )

( where everyone knows your name )

heh, my explorations the night of Decom turned out to be of use while looking for a TJMaxx with Jennie on Tuesday. :p I'll figure this city out eventually ( Read more... )