Archive for July, 2006
Sunday, July 30th, 2006
gone fishin’
i set off to work at the information commons today quite happily. the pay is great, the job is cushy, and i had decided to do a bit of extra work on my indexing because the server was down for a few days this week. plus, i really really like the idea of making over […]
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
the little brown dress
my mom sent me this link this morning:
The Little Brown Dress
Check it out before you continue reading, otherwise you’ll have no idea what i am taking about for the rest of this post. i can give you a brief synopsis, but it won’t be the same. a woman decides to make and wear […]
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
i’m sleepy
i’ve been up since five this morning.
today was jarrod’s first day at a new place of employment. we live downtown toronto. it was located in richmond hill. on saturday, we tested out the commuting water. it took a long time. so jarrod decided he’d just take the go train, even though it is slightly […]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
i’m halfway to fifty
yesterday was my birthday. i both hate and love my birthday. not for getting older, that doesn’t bother me yet, but because, and i know some of you aren’t going to believe this, i don’t actually like being the centre of attention. i mean, when i’m cracking jokes, of course i want people to laugh. […]
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
things i learned while reading reader’s digest
the word mendacious means untruthful
you need government permission to commercially produce eggs. you have to buy “quota” (to participate in the system), which works out to about 175 bucks a bird. the high cost keeps many people out of the egg game and leaves a nice monopoly for those who can afford it (under the […]
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
the reason that i choose to sit at the starbucks a…
the reason that i choose to sit at the starbucks at st. george and college is that it is close enough to campus for me to still reside on the university of toronto’s network. and i get to sit in a coffee shop. i do need an internet connection to complete my indexing (which must […]
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
when i should working, i am reading…
i spend a lot of time browsing the internet. i work from home. what can i say? my reward for doing a good half hours work is to read a blog. i set up a bloglines account, which i thought would streamline my blog reading, but i found that i missed reading blogs in their […]
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
doin’ my part
i love when people find stuff like this.
Check out “My Great Idea” from Why don’t we get drunk and blog?
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
delicious!
i wanted a ginger molasses cookie from starbucks. they are big and soft and coated with a light coating of white sugar.
its been a long day. first of all, i had to get up at ten o’clock this morning. now, remember, its all relative. i usually work till about midnight, mimicing jarrod’s hours, and so […]
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
“i just wish you didn’t know each other”**
my brother and i pride ourselves on being sneaky. it is a pride that is completely not earned, and worse, it is not accurate–we are not sneaky at all. i think we like to think we look sneaky, but mostly, we spend our time looking over our shoulders. its all that damn honesty mom built […]