I just went to the local movie rental store (Vidéotron 2000; you wish you lived here), perused their selection at length, called a friend to ask her about the merits of a particular title, found it to be checked out, chose another title, found that I needed proof of residency to establish an account, went home, picked up my lease, headed back, ( Read more... )

The last time I asked who actually reads what I write was, I believe, last September ( Read more... )

I find that every time I try to start a Livejournal entry, I am inevitably and instictively driven to start with "It's been a weird/amazing/interesting/unusual/crazy/hilarious day/weekend/week/month/year/fortnight." I'm not sure what that says about me. Maybe it just says I'm uncreative, but I am actually leaning towards my life just being ( Read more... )

It is a privelege to draw your attention to the following U.S. Customs and Border Protection Services publication, entitled Distinguishing Bolts from Screws. Apparently, a number of Customs officers, in their daily duties, encounter the pressing and timeless question, "Is this a bolt or a screw?" The consequences of a bad call could be dire; in ( Read more... )

I've come to realise that no amount of procrastination can make a homework assignment seem more possible. Tragically, I have come to realise this only minutes ago ( Read more... )

Five weeks from today, I'm going to be halfway through this year. That is totally unacceptably fast. (Also kind of cool, though, because as much as I don't miss Connecticut all that much, I do miss a lot of its people ( Read more... )

If you're a fan of cinema, or if, in my case, you often occupy your newly deautonomised commute by reading free newspapers that cater to fans of cinema of a calibre which I will never achieve, you are probably aware that there is some pretty controversial stuff coming out right now. Let's have a look.

Death of a President: This film gives a ( ( Read more... )

The past month has simeltaneously been one of the most and the least real I've ever experienced ( Read more... )

...the story of the best concert ever ( Read more... )

My entire life just changed and I'm still trying to work out exactly what it all means. It's simeltaneously quite a bit and nothing at all, simeltaneously inevitable and a total shock. I feel at once completely right and utterly wrong, totally exposed and totally protected ( Read more... )