Some women will put a slice of wedding cake under their pillow.

They hope to dream of the man they're going to marry.

I tried this.

On the third night, I dreamed of uplinking to a multigendered five-person hubmind.

I swoon just thinking about it.

 (posted with one glaring typo on Xtra West's website)

Section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada forbids being in "Any kind of conjugal union with more than one person at the same time whether or not it is by law recognized as a binding form of marriage" and also prosecutes anyone who "celebrates, assists or is a party to a rite, ceremony, ( Read more... )

[This is not about current events in my life, but refers to a general trend that I have noticed over several years - one which I have sometimes exacerbated]

Online dating takes communication out of the nest of reciprocity that defines most of our social world.
Confer: Ursula Franklin's "Real World of Technology"

This specializes it for specific ( Read more... )

"the way you function in this orientation exercise is the way you function in real-life teams."
    - Sam Bradd

A loooong walk around South Van at night gave me space to peer inside my baggage.

In Europe in the Summer of 2004, I was angry at my companions: I returned to the hotel to learn that they had decided to dissolve our plans and travel ( Read more... )

Happy New Year all.

Nineday is the close of week zero and a good time for summaries and resoultions:

This year was a trial; the second part of a lesson about Work and Love that began in 2005.

1. - An unsuccessful experiment at returning to school. Later, a more successful attempt at returning to school. I really do enjoy school, and learning, and ( Read more... )

Something's shifted recently, I can see into what I'm doing, why I'm doing it. I can see where the problems with how I'm living my life are, and what I need to change them. I can even see them on the fly, while I'm erring, and hav ethe impulse to fix it ( Read more... )

I'm convinced that it should be illegal for people to drive while high on phenyethylamine: it inhibits critical judgment and tends to cause distraction, but there's no test for it. Although touted as a "natural" high, there's no cure for it and I hear it's been linked to the blues.