Wow, I'm unhappy. If you saw me you wouldn't think I was acutely ( Read more... )

You know what frustrates me? I feel I can't talk openly about my actual feelings surrounding the referendum. Even the posts I am posting feel treacherous, particularly since the opposition is making no such missteps ( Read more... )

Well, so much for that experiment. Freeshell appears to be dropping my e-mails without warning yet again. Earlier this year my e-mail was practically unusable for two or three weeks ( Read more... )

I went to a public consultation put on by the Ontario Human Rights Commission the other day. There were not too many people in attendance, partially because few people had heard of this thing, and partially because it was way out in RIM park, which was a half-hour bike ride away from the university. It was a great way to exclude the poor, but the ( Read more... )

Today I am having an emotional breakdown. So far it has cost me $230, but there's a reasonable chance that amount will go up ( Read more... )

Dear Internet ( Read more... )

One reason why institutions become corrupt is because the members of the institution abandon truth in favour of conformity. The institution decides upon an institutional message, and anybody who defies that message has a limited set of choices: shape up, shut up or leave ( Read more... )

Sorry for the flood of posts, but I have to vent (and what good is the Internet if I can't make my readers feel bad?). See, I hate looking for places to live, so naturally I do it as little as possible. Because I have to move now, I came up with a plan: find a place that would give me a 12 month lease and not a 4 month one. Simple, right ( Read more... )

Apparently my time is worth less than than 27 32 39 cents an hour ( Read more... )

It's here, apparently. Maclean's cover story for May 01 2006 is a "Guide to Privatized Health Care". Reading the article (in the doctor's office, natch -- or should I say, the walk-in clinic office, because I don't have a family doctor, double natch) I got pretty scared. The article was totally unironically positive about the prospect of people ( Read more... )