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Thanks to Glee and this video, this song has been in my head ALL...

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:56:31 -0400

Thanks to Glee and this video, this song has been in my head ALL DAY. (Single Ladies, Pomplamoose)

(via wootam)

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:02:12 -0400

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The Underground City on Governors' Island

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:54:56 -0400

The Underground City on Governors' Island:

Since January, Belgian archaeologists have been working strenuously to excavate the ruins of a former Governors Island hamlet called Goverthing (a bastardization of a Dutch word). With a 400 year history dating back to Manhattan’s first settlements, the hamlet was the last civilian colony on Governors Island by the 1950’s. In 1954, the town was forcibly evacuated by the city of New York, who had deemed it a safety hazard for a variety of reasons, and effectively had it condemned. As demolition was not an option at the time, the hamlet was simply buried under tens of feet of soil and forgotten.

#836 why I miss Halifax: The Halifax Chronicle-Herald twitter...

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:43:29 -0400

#836 why I miss Halifax: The Halifax Chronicle-Herald twitter feed.

Glee. Watch it. It’s awesome.

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:16:04 -0400

Glee. Watch it. It’s awesome.

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Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:20:21 -0400

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The best coffee mug EVAR.

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:24:29 -0400

The best coffee mug EVAR.

Stuff White People Like: #122 Moleskine Notebooks

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:04:56 -0400

Stuff White People Like: #122 Moleskine Notebooks:

So when you see a white person with one of these notebooks, you should always ask them about what sort of projects they are working on their free time. But you should never ask to actually see the notebook lest you ask the question “how are you going to make a novel out of five phone numbers and a grocery list?”

Something about this picture makes me very happy right now.

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:57:01 -0400

Something about this picture makes me very happy right now.

jeannr: I made a flow chart, that we might better...

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:12:19 -0400

jeannr:

I made a flow chart, that we might better understand.

Once upon a time I was falling in love, and now I’m only falling apart.

A Record Price at the ClockTower Building - The New York Times -...

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:52:00 -0400

A Record Price at the ClockTower Building - The New York Times - Hello, I wish I lived here. (See also the related article.)

"It is sure to be enjoyed by those whose movie appreciation is defined by the ability to discern that..."

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:30:34 -0400

“It is sure to be enjoyed by those whose movie appreciation is defined by the ability to discern that moving pictures and sound are being employed to depict violence. Nevertheless, it is better than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. There is never any clear sense in the action of where anything is in relation to anything else. You get more of a binary action strategy. You see something, it fires. You see something else, it gets hit. Using the power of logic, you deduce that the first thing was aiming at the second thing.”

- Roger Ebert’s review of “G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra”

Someone explain to me why someone thought making a movie about...

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:29:37 -0400

Someone explain to me why someone thought making a movie about the most depressing part of life was a good idea? Seriously. I am sitting at home unemployed, looking for work after avoiding doing the very same thing after my first degree. And you think I want to go watch a movie about a better looking version of me doing the same thing? I don’t think so. Perhaps I’m not their target audience.

A Softer World: 465

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:07:53 -0400

A Softer World: 465

theglobeandmail.com: I want to divorce my cat

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:05:42 -0400

theglobeandmail.com: I want to divorce my cat:

I wanted out of the relationship, but couldn’t bear to think of myself as one of those people. You know, the type who chuck their cat as soon as they become inconvenient. Beaker has been inconvenient the whole time.

Indexed » Scary dairy.

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:02:50 -0400

Indexed » Scary dairy.

Free Algonquin Provincial Park Map

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:47:09 -0400

Free Algonquin Provincial Park Map:

This man created his own map of the backcountry in Algonquin and its available for free online to download in chunks. We just booked our first trip (hiking the Eastern Pines Trail) and having worked at the reservation centre, I knew that I had to have a map in hand and sound like I knew what was happening or they’d pull the ol’ “call the park for trip planning help” and I didn’t think I needed to do that for a hike (as opposed to a canoe trip which would be all new to me). So I googled until I found this lovely website, and I thought I should share. Thanks, Jeffrey McMurtrie.

Now, onto the food! We need two full days of campfire friendly meals. Any ideas?

These carousels make me nauseous but I love this picture. It...

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:48:41 -0400

These carousels make me nauseous but I love this picture. It makes me think of summer and soft warm air and sunburns from staying out at an amusement park all day long (photo via wootam).

Real life update: I don’t have a job yet but things are...

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:26:00 -0400

ladybug hat for michayla

suki with a cone

hat and booties for victoria

hat and booties for audrey

Real life update:

I don’t have a job yet but things are looking up. I’ve found at least two postings that are willing to hire a new call, and one emailed me back after I sent my application Friday afternoon, saying they would be in touch next week. I am dropping off the second application on Monday. Other than that, it’s still a lot of cold resumes and emails and calls and hoping and praying.

Having nothing to do and unable to afford a gym membership (if I could I would work out six hours a day but instead have to find something else to fill my time), I decided to re-learn how to knit, and hopefully accomplish more than I have in the past when trying to knit. I purchased “Knitting for Dummies” at the suggestion of my sister, and mastered several new things right away. Thus far, I’ve managed two sets of hats and booties for friends’ babies, and this week finally learned how to knit with more than one colour (see hat above). I have wanted to learn how to knit like this for at least 15 years after watching my mom create countless beautiful, intricate sweaters. I never really had the time or the patience before, and as much as being unemployed can suck, it is giving me time for things like this which I am grateful for.

Also related to not having a gym membership and not having a job, I’ve been getting out a lot in the city. I have more of a tan than I remember having had in years and it’s just from exploring. I’ve even started riding again. Hopefully it will stop raining for long enough to let the trails dry out and I can check out the trails close to the city. I’m feeling good and my clothes are even starting to fit again (woohoo!)

Lastly, we (well, mostly I) finally gave in and took our cat to the vet because she was overgrooming to the point of having sores on her sides. The vet diagnosed anxiety from the move and prescribed anti-anxiety drugs. I was surprised how readily I agreed to them, having said the night before that I would never put our cat on anti-anxiety drugs because she’s just a cat. They weren’t very expensive though so I agreed to give them a try. She also got a cortisone shot to help with the sores on her mouth and they’re completely healed now. The downside of this visit is that the cortisone shot lowered her immune system, allowing her side to get infected and she got a bit of a respiratory infection, leading to a call to the vet, a prescription for antibiotics and a cone on her head. The cat is most displeased but at least she’s finally (hopefully) on the road to recovery.

Comments now available (again)!

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:55:15 -0400

I finally put the comments code back in my design for this site - so comment away!

Also, I realize I haven’t posted a lot of actual words to this site in a while. I will try my best to do that soon. Stay tuned for the continuing adventures of my job hunt, my knitting, and my sick cat. Sounds exciting, non?