I almost forgot, Happy Summer Solstice--best day of the year (closely followed by Groundhog's Day and that day you can stand a egg on end (spring equinox?)).

I should have known surrounded by all these three car garage homes that someone would leave an unsecure wireless network.

What a neighbourly thing to do.

I went to the library today and picked up a pile of books including two by Miriam Toews (ok, I just read a complicated kindness but I really loved it), two by Banana Yoshimoto, The Story of Zahra by Hanan Al-Shaykh, and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. I'm already on page 74 of Persepolis--It is completely fantastic. I've also been reading Fire With ( Read more... )

It's pouring rain...a perfect day for internet scrabble.

Anyone?

We're going to run off and be fisherpeople together.
Johnny used to club seals (!!).

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Just in case you didn't get the inter-office memo
It's my birthday.

I'm officially a cougar.

Also, yay for not labelling burnt cds, or labelling them things like half-wrecked-son-of-a-bitch-cd-why-didn't-you-burn-right because I completely forgot about the existence of many great songs. Folks songs about words that rhyme with the colour maroon, followed by Short Music for Short People's Don't Use Dirty Needles and Tom Jones' Sex Bomb. Even ( Read more... )

Also, I wish more of my friends were allowed to hang out with me because I really feel like going bowling.

I'm either excited or nervous--I can't really tell. Mostly I think it's because I've drank far too much caffeine today for the drive back to Medicine Hat and it's tickling my insides ( Read more... )