Archive for May, 2009
sweet georgia
I love being a nanny to Georgia. She is great and I love her more and more. She talks constantly and says such great things, it’s generally entertaining to be in her presence. Also she has such nice manners and is extremely affectionate with me…
Apparently last weekend she was sick, her mum wrote me [...]
to do list: friday
-Eat breakfast
-Clean kitchen (wipe all the bugs off the surfaces)
-Attend to warts (it never ends)
-Do laundry
-Check weather
-Go to No Frills and buy things necessary for lifestyle
-Continue preparing study notes for exams
-Go to the post orifice
-Go on the internet
-Luxuriate in the ineffable beauty of Ralph I love you Stanley’s heartache singing in my [...]The Bluejays
Yesterday I went to a baseball game with my pals Rani, Jacob and Andrew. We watched the Toronto Bluejays play the Chicago White Sox. The Bluejays totally slayed Chicago. I’ve always loved how the team is called the Bluejays and I’ve always loved their logo. So I was glad to actually engage with the Bluejays [...]
Feminiminism 101
A while ago I started talking about some feminist issues. This might have seemed to have come out of the blue. But I actually had a bit of a revelation. A personal revolution. I’ve been meaning to write about it but I haven’t got around to it until now.
When I was younger I was [...]damn, you so talented
If being poor
is my
life’s
crime
my body’s
prison’s
eastern standard timeThese are lyrics by Simone Schmidt of the band $100 from the song no great leap by $100 about a young woman who fantasises about jumping in front of the subway train to escape her poverty and factorywork life and dare I say I do think this is as [...]
a couple of things of interest
I found a podcast called “Ouch” that is from Britain and hosted by the BBC. It is all about disabled people and by disabled people. They talk about disabilities and all kinds of interesting stuff that you wouldnt think about if you are not disabled and they make lots of jokes. There is a guy [...]
…abortions…
This is part of an email from my friend Serena from a while ago that I wanted to put on the blog. Part of an ongoing “conversation” if you will.
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Okay, so i love your recent feminist analysis on the blog, and i love your hatred of movies about male sexuality and trying to bang. [...]$2 more
So I asked for a raise on Monday – for my $12 an hour job. I asked for $14. I said the thought and energy I put into the job, etc etc, time to review my wage. They got back to me today, they said yes. I said “thank you” and they said, “Don’t [...]
one-time tallest tower
We had dinner at the revolving restaurant at the top of the CN tower on Friday night. Thank you in-laws. It was awesome.
This could have been us if we had pursued this photo opportunity:
It’s really too bad we didn’t, because this bunch looks amazing. You Go girls!
re s-dog
I realise my last blog post was rather inflammatory. It was an extreme and self-righteous viewpoint.
I was overcome with rage one day after viewing the preview and then I talked to a friend who hated it with a passion (he’d actually seen it) and I felt duly compelled to offer a perspective other than [...]
