Archive for March, 2006
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
spaz attack
i have a confession to make: i just emailed my favourite author. please compare this to say, anyone normal meeting their favourtie rock star. because yes, in my little world, my authors are rock stars.
i am writing a paper for my book history course on a canadian author. its basically a case study with […]
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
now i know how prometheus feels
i am trying to go on vacation. and to leave this wonderful country (especially if i want to come back) i have to bring my passport. now, i have a passport. i have lovingly carried it across europe, collecting stamps and treasuring them almost as much as my beloved blankie (they both get carry […]
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Sunday, March 26th, 2006
i think i can already feel the humidity
the thing that i hate (love?) about spring is that it always makes me want to shirk all my (rather minimal) commitments. there is nothing that i would rather be doing right now that simply wandering about, sun on my face, carrying some kind of coffee/tea, hand in hand with jarrod (he’s the only […]
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
Before reading this, you must preface it with this…
Before reading this, you must preface it with this. this was written by a friend of a friend, in response, actually, to her original post. which you can find here. quick overview: discussion of monogamy and how it has evolved into somewhat less pure state (ex. open secrets about drunken mistakes, etc.)
as a […]
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
palindr-o-mania
i think i might be nerding myself out, but i think this is neat.
once, i read an Encyclopaedia Brown short story in which he knew where the key was because it was under a word that was also a palindrome. the thing is, he found it under an eraser. and it has perplexed me […]
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
not single but perhaps a little funny
as per my last post, about the correlation between being single and being funny, we joked about it at work tonight and came to the sad conclusion: once you’re paired off, you are no longer fun.
actually, i completely disagree with this statement. i mean, i like to consider myself a teensy tiny bit fun. […]
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
question of the day
why is it that the best, funniest, cleverest, most insightful blogs are written by single people?
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Monday, March 20th, 2006
you will note my resume is now taking up a large p…
you will note my resume is now taking up a large part of this blog. unless you plan on hiring me, i suggest you just skip over it.
second, you will also see that my handy drop down comment function is now dead. see, i guess while playing with the html, i deleted my “posted […]
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Monday, March 20th, 2006
Resume
Allison Larsh
EDUCATION
2005-PresentUniversity of Toronto Toronto, ON
• Master of Information Studies, Collaboration in Book History and Print Culture• Completed first year of two year program
2000-2004Carleton University […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2006
knitting day 2
yesterday was a fun night: girls, knitting, wine and some indian food.
with my newly learned skills, on my wonderful nine hour shift today, i have completed a roughly tea doily sized swatch of knitting. i am actually really really proud of myself. because, although there is one hole, oops, there is only one. […]