" As the U.S. confronts Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, Greg Mortenson, 45, is quietly waging his own campaign against Islamice fundamentalists, who often recruit members through religious schools called madrassas. Mortenson's approach hinges on a simpe idea: that by building secular schools and helping to promote education - particularly for ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, I take over as museum assistant. for a boy who understood the fall of the soviet union when he was seven. and knows the geography of australia and can list every dialect of every language and did so today without me expressing any particular interest. as intimidating as he is, he's been a great person to work with for the past month and a ( Read more... )

like thomas, G, etc....i too have been missing the live journal. never in my life have i succeeded in writing an actual journal. in fact, i tried to start one this month and i failed quickly. so what is it that i like about livejournal? in so many ways, i consider myself such a private person, but for some reason....it's always been easy to write ( Read more... )

 I never write in here anymore. but i do check it when i am procrastinating from writing essays ( Read more... )

i am home. which is incredibly wonderful, since i hadn't seen my family since october and hadn't been home since late august.

it feels weird not to be working this christmas for the first time since grade 11. for some reason working in retail really did improve my christmas spirit.

i'm really not feeling all that christmasy...but we dont have our ( Read more... )

 i thought life was crazy last week.  it's even more this week...and i don't even know what to do about it.

just trying to focus on getting my shit done for school and then worry about the non-school stuff.

sometimes i am kind of overwhelmed by my life. and i'm not sure if its good.

I keep my head on straight and my eyes wide open
I try to move ( Read more... )

apparently, i am a woman of mystery.

kylie, apryl and i went to toronto this week for a concert. during the cab ride, we begin talking to the driver, who actually got his psychology degree in Egypt  and is a 32 year old virgin getting married next year and says his life is "EXACTLY" like the movie 40 Year Old Virgin - "That shit isn't funny - it's ( Read more... )

it has been a long time since i last updated this thing. and as i look back over that entry, it's just hilarious how fast life moves and how fast things change. it's pretty amazing. i've been thinking about how different i expected my life to be and seem to have gained some perspective on things that have happened. hence, i feel like i'm handling ( Read more... )

feels kind of lame to not update for a month and then update to complain, but whatever ( Read more... )

What a great two weeks....Fraser's visit was amazing. We played Bingo at Club Regent, went shopping, went to Gimli for a day, watched car races at Victory Lane Speedway, got drunk with my parents and G at the LaSalle Summerfest Beer Gardens, learnt how to make a bunch of martinis and bellinis, went canoeing, played on the slip'n'slide, went on ( Read more... )