I have experienced being rude by another person on the other line of the phone, but never as rude as the 2 people that I encountered this morning. I made an online taxi reservation the day before so that a friend of mine could get to the airport by 5:30 am. We waited by the door at 4:15 am for its arrival at 4:30 am. As 4:30 rolled along and no ( Read more... )

I don't check my LJ that often... but when I did check it today, there wasn't even ONE post in "View Friends Page".... I guess everyone moved to Facebook or something....

Anyhow, hope everyone is doing okay. I'm fine and dandy here in Edmonton.

"Packaging is Rubbish"

Lush co founder Mark Constantine leads the public on a revolutionary insight into the consumer power over packaging; and what effect, and cost packaging has.

Part 1

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There are 3 parts to this documentary, but I couldn't figure out how to attach the other two.. yet. So, here are the links instead:
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I haven't done much posting on my LJ but this deserved to be posted on all my sites. It might be one of the silliest things I've done... I've posted this entry in my Multiply site, so it's just a copy + paste thing...

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Ok...As I'm new to the city, I have to ( Read more... )

Team WOLA stands for "Team Walking On Landscape Architecture" and was concieved by one of our team members, Sun. The intention of the name was to give people a sense of who we are as a group in terms of our background (landscape architecture students) without excluding other team members who are not in the same field of education ( Read more... )

Science Panel Calls Global Warming ‘Unequivocal’
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL and ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: February 3, 2007
The report said warming and its harmful consequences could be substantially blunted by prompt action.

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As most of you might not know, I'm currently a Teaching Assistant for a class. I've gone out of my time to set up a website (through U of M) so that I can post lectures, assignments, announcements and have students post messages if they have questions... which I think is crucial to help students understand course materials better and to assist them ( Read more... )

I BEG people to watch a documentary called "Earthlings" and be concious of what most of us are blinded from. Be open to this and watch it until the end. Great ending ( Read more... )

I did 14 laps... which is equivalent to 2 miles! I'm halfway to my goal.

I ran at a slower pace. 7 laps, walk, 7 laps.

Pretty happy with myself!

I'm back in the gym! I've been running with Migo in Gritty Grotto at the U of M. It's been good so far... I'm happy that I'm not making anymore excuses for not going to the gym. My aim is to lose a good 7 lbs...(the more the better... I'm saying 7 lbs. just as a lower goal) and to be healthy and strong.. to turn my fl(ab)s to some form of (ab)s. ( Read more... )