Reading Week + Year of the Tiger + Olympics Pride = sounded pretty awesome, until my crazy aunt wrecked it with her existence. She's slightly better today and earlier she could talk civilly with my mom (albeit about how she wants to have dental surgery and how the Evil Computer offered her $32,000 to marry the guy next door, aka our new neighbour, ( Read more... )

Tickets are purchased, days off work are booked - but somehow I don't quite believe this long-gestating vacation to the Land of Oz is really happening until I get on the plane next month. I feel rather ambivalent about this trip to world's end. I should be more excited but right now I care more about the fact that I'm going to miss the Lost half- ( Read more... )

Spoilers for "Truth & Consequences!"


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At various points since my last update, I made mental notes to blog about things that happened, events that transpired, narratives that merged, but it was too damn hot to go through everything in my Who Cares File, so I'll just go with a conversation Katie and I had on our way back from Kensington. While trying to de-stickify, we spoke of ( Read more... )

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Heh, my mood was "cold" last I updated ( Read more... )

So, apocalyptic story of the day. My horoscope was all like, you're gonna get some exciting news that you've been waiting for. Then my aunt gets fired from her job. Finally. I've been wondering for years when they were gonna swing that axe ( Read more... )