it's like my senses are heightened. either that or the bus station canteen was using way too much bleach to clean with, and the soap in the public bathrooms i used were all extra grossly scented, and something was HORRIBLY WRONG with the grocery store, and the woman in front of me on the bus secretly had a cat in her knapsack (she smelled like a ( Read more... )

class starts tomorrow.

old english
psycholinguistics
literature and social change
greek & roman mythology

dread, dread, dread, dread.

something silly just before i leave for edmonton, TRAFIKSMAGASINET:

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i love everything about this. the punchy music, the car crashes, the handsome (HANDSOME) man in his parka demonstrating how to switch on a lightbulb using only a boxy 1980s volvo and an electric fence, everything.

and with that, i'm off to edmontonia. see you next week!

a little educational video what i made with my silly new laptop's silly little camera.

big thankies and respeck to my beautiful sister-in-law nicole for getting me hooked on the making of preserves. she recently gifted us a KILLER peach raspberry champagne jam, that's absolutely stunning on toast. ohh baby.

when i was last in upstate new york, i was fortunate enough to find a stand at the ithaca farmer's market selling prunus ( Read more... )

sparked by memories catapulted to the surface, an anonymous open letter:

i know it was years ago, and it was late, and you were drunk
and i was too

but i'm still in love with you.


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ladies and gentlemen

everything ok!
everything ok!
everything ok!sorry for the adverts, and i know it's my journal so i can advert if i want to, but still. mostly i just need people to buy stuff so i can pay for my 2008 rock and/or roll academic tour OF AWESOME to edmonton without going into hideous amounts of debt. fuck, it's expensive ( Read more... )

HOLY CRAP ( Read more... )

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scroll down to wednesday's barbecue phone-in; i'm about 15 minutes in. rambling like a douchebag.