To the guy with the persistent, nasty nasty phlegmy cough: I know it's not your fault. Evidently you are sick and can't help it. But must you come in, day after day, and peruse the books in my section for hours on end? Your cough started out merely annoying. But now, seriously? It is so absolutely disgusting that listening to it is making me sick. ( Read more... )

Wow. Today was nothing but go go go. Last full Saturday before Christmas, whee. At least you don't get a chance to get bored. And surprisingly, I've had very few holiday jerks. I mean, there's been the occasionally slightly snotty or huffy person, but nobody's been truly obnoxious, or made me feel I had to call a manager to escape.

( The Tales )

I had the funniest conversation with an American guy last night while waiting for the bus. It was awesome. He started by asking me about the buses, and then comments that we Canadians sure do it cold up here. So I asked him where he was from, and he said Maryland, which apparently is a lot warmer than I'd realized, cuz he said they actually have ( Read more... )

They know you well enough from a somewhat more removed place than inside your own head that when you go, "I've been bloody exhausted all week for no reason and I don't know what's wrong with me," they can say, "It's because it's been all grey and icky, and that always saps your energy." Which makes piles of sense. So much that if I weren't ( Read more... )

Ugh. Didn't sleep well at all last night. It was crazy windy, which made the windows rattle until Fuzzy managed to calm them down. Worse than that, though, was that periodic gusts (presumably through a window we realized this morning was open a bit) caused the door to shift a little in its frame or something, making the same delightful, sharp sound ( Read more... )

1. 20 hours on a bus? Sucks ( Read more... )

Wow. From 20 degrees to snow overnight. What a crazy bloody city.

So, my mysterious toe ailment is acting up again. Anybody know what could cause excruciating pain in the third and fourth toes when pressure is applied to a certain spot on the bottom of the foot ( Read more... )

Another shitty thing all about this snow? The demon spawn next door don't go to school, so they're home all day, so I have to listen to them all day. Grrrrr.

I love snow. I really do. Anyone who knows me knows that. It reminds me of Christmas. And we all know how I feel about Christmas. But right now, I am royally sick of it (The snow, I mean, not Christmas). I mean come on. Three major snowstorms in a week? This is not Newfoundland, people! Of the course, the Newfoundlanders probably don't think the ( Read more... )