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Monday, March 27, 2006

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 02:12:10 GMT

And this is one of the most beautiful things I've seen lately. (Click on "Hoppipola." Threads of thought about the closing years of life (the falling action? any denoument?) keep falling and intersecting in my mind these past few weeks. I don't find any easy patterns...

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:37:46 GMT

One of the most lovely things I've read this year:

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 06:19:22 GMT

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

--Quentin Crisp

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:59:17 GMT

Kristin tagged me. So information you may never have wished for is now forced upon you....

4 jobs I have held (not in order)
1. filler of woodbox-- $1/fill-- (my commune had woodstoves)
2. bread baker for 50-something people at said commune
3. receptionist at a medical clinic
4. mars'hiller

4 movies I can watch over and over
1. BBC's Pride and Prejudice
2. The Princess Bride
3. Amelie
4. Crash

4 places I have lived
1. Haliburton, Ontario (home of Bernie Nichols)
2. Brantford, Ontario (home of Wayne Gretzky)
3. Hilltop, B.C.
4. Mary Kay, 2A

4 tv shows I love(d) to watch
1. i have shallowly indulged in Friends
2. and That 70's Show when at hotels, etc...
3. does the History Channel count?
4. can't think of anything else... it's been a couple years

4 places I've been on vacation
1. Alaska
2. California
3. the twu pond
4. the mail room

4 favorite dishes
1. KFC(i'm internationally renowned for my 10-pieces-in-one-sitting in September 2001)
2. angel hair pasta with peppers and chicken
3. grilled chicken ceasar salad
4. chicken, cheese, mushroom and tomato pannini melt

(note emerging theme above)

4 websites I visit daily (in order)
1. gmail
2. globeandmail
3. xanga
4. students.twu.ca

4 places I would rather be right now
1. shopping for baguettes in Normandy
2. in front of my parents' stove, making eggs benedict
3. in the fifth row of Szabo's Am. Lit. class on Wed., with my completed paper on her desk
4. making out with someone scandalously in Fraser Lounge (kidding, please)

4 people I'm tagging
1. Zachary Dwight Bulick
2. Dawn/Crystal/Hannah-- (H. girls are really one entity)
3. connorman
4. miss rahbeeeen grant

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Tue, 07 Feb 2006 02:41:28 GMT

When I was about 7, I would plan the P.S.'s on my letters. While engraving my pencilled way firmly through paragraph one, before my compressed lips had become really white, I knew exactly what the clever little after-thought would be. I even went through a heightened phase of P.P.S, and P.P.P.S--- for all your after-thought needs.

This had completely left my memory, until it dropped neatly into one of the empty brain slots around 4:23 this afternoon.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:36:59 GMT

I was sad today. Inexplicably sad, and then it was explained.

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=16614147&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=why-23-january-is-unhappiest-day-of-the-year-name_page.html

But the fact that I repeatedly sucked at the float jump serve in volleyball today might possibly have contributed as well.

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:42:12 GMT

When you eat one of those little yoghourt cups, do you

A: scrape every bit of milky-berry goodness off of the underside of the peeled-up foil cover with your spoon, or

B: toss the empty cup with milky-berry goodness still on the peeled-up foil cover into the closest trash receptacle as a kind gesture to any dumpster divers who might need some nourishment

I'm more of an A type, myself.

Saturday, January 14, 2006

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:15:17 GMT

The following opinions expressed by the speaker are not neccesarily those held by Rose, Inc., or its parents or affiliates.

While recently crumbling my granola bar into a bowl, I was illuminated by the revelation that Focus on the Family is attempting to wipe out every vestige of women's rights. Verily, their ultimate goal is to reverse the chain of events back to the point when the weaker sex wiped up the slop from the mead halls' wooden tables, while the menfolk speared the wild boars and raided the northern villages.

I uncovered this scheme through my famed razor sharp cunning, the logic of which is as follows:

I listened to the Adventures in Odyssey, produced by the nefarious Focus on the Family, when I was a kid. For those of you not familiar with said series of radio drama, the very noble Jason and Tasha of the low, sultry voice have a brief, torrid relationship which is sadly extinguished after 3 episodes. The reason for its premature demise? Tasha (who so happens to be a savvy CIA agent) wants a condo close to her cubicle, and, hence, chooses her job over her man. Bye-bye Jason.

Most definitely, Focus on the Family's obvious underlying message is that the woman's place is in the home. If Tasha had been by a stove, instead of off galivanting about with the CIA, she and Jason would be married today with 4 children and one on the way.

I believe that the reasoning I have laid out here is strong and absolutely infallible.

(Oh, and humble apologies for the ridiculous amount of time in between my posts....)

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Sat, 10 Dec 2005 05:54:04 GMT

I always pass this black curvy car in the MacMillan parking lot. It's got a sticker diagonally stuck on the top left corner of the rear window: SO * CAL.

But this morning, the glittery fuzz made the little willow branches all thick and cumbersome, and I desperately wanted my feather duster... and a vacuum for the grass. It had even sneaked a fuzzy layer of itself onto curvy black car's rear window. The "L" had peeled off and flopped over in a most undignified manner.

Not SO * BC I guess.

Friday, November 11, 2005

Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:16:22 GMT

Rose's best slip of the tongue this week:

(Talking with one of the girls in my dorm about lifestyle affecting identity. Third word, of course, meant to be "what".)

"Yeah, because who you do is a huge part of who you are."