No pictures lately. I've been doing like the cat - too hot, just lay around. It already takes so much effort to be productive and get work and writing done. Extra stuff is unnecessary ( Read more... )

The saddest part about the summer solstice is that because it's the longest day, for the rest of the season the days will be getting shorter. I really love that it's bright at 5.30am and still sunny at 9pm. I want it to be like this all year ( Read more... )

Went back to volleyball last week. I'd been tired and frustrated, and inactivity in particular was really getting me down. Had been feeling blue for awhile and just needed to get back out, be social and active. Played ok, though I had to ice my ankle when I got home ( Read more... )

We walked out to Kensington Market yesterday. It was a long walk made slightly unpleasant by the wind gusts. It wasn't cold - the temperature probably hovered between 8°c and 10°c, but the wind was unbearable and made me quite miserable.

We also went to The Raveonettes concert last night. It was fun (although my ankle started hurting again from ( Read more... )

Baseball season started yesterday. Since we don't subscribe to cable anymore, and opening day game tickets were sold out before we got around to looking them up, we went out to Gabby's down the street on Sherbourne. It was a quiet-ish night at the pub, considering it was Friday evening. The Jays did well last night, hitting 4 homers and driving in ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if this phenomenon is familiar to many, although I do know other people who have this problem. It's some kind of paralysis; a do-something-else paralysis, wherein I find myself unable to do something else that I want to do because I always feel like I haven't written enough yet today ( Read more... )

Finally submitted the final draft of a book chapter to the editor on Monday evening, so I guess I haven't been unproductive. Now to concentrate on everything else that's been waiting ( Read more... )

(subtitle: obligatory valentine's day post)

Happy Valentine's day!I had a post about heteronormativity and expectations and all that, but it devolved into a rant about misogynists, which is not the sort of thing I want to be talking about, so I deleted it ( Read more... )

nilmandra doesn't see it, so here's the evidence. There's a story here, one that begins with... before Kitty came along, J never really had the opportunity to pick up and cuddle cats before. He had previously lived with cats (in his final year of university, and one summer when I was in SEAsia doing fieldwork, a roommate had come with the adorable Mila, a ( Read more... )

I can almost see the light. Teaching for this semester is practically over (I still have a tutorial this coming Monday, but it'll be mostly exam prep for their mid-term on Tuesday, and then I close my course on Wednesday). I'm trying to ignore that this also means that I'll have two stacks of final papers and a stack of mid-terms to mark next week ( Read more... )