Vancouver is now the most expensive city in North America, and we have a major homeless problem. It's no coincidence. And with the high cost of living, having the lowest minimum wage in the country until a year ago*, and low rental vacancies, even people with jobs are at the risk of being homeless. Get sick or lose your job, and you're fucked. ( Read more... )

It's Christmas Eve, which means, I survived working at retail during the Christmas shopping season. And I survived without crying or punching a customer in the face, although there were a couple of times where I nearly cried, usually after a customer yelled or swore at me because they were too fucking stupid to understand how lineups work, or ( Read more... )

I am just so fucking fed up with men. I know that not all men are horrible and disgusting, but seriously, there is something wrong with the men in this city. I've ranted several times about the fucking men who message me (just click on the "online dating" tag for some of my rants), but after posting an ad on Craigslist yesterday and getting the ( Read more... )

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE MEN IN THIS CITY?!

1. Guys don't approach women they are interested in/find attractive and attempt engaging her in conversation. Either they yell obscenities as they pass by (I don't even understand the point of this), or they swagger up, usually with baggy jeans, a sideways baseball cap, and a gold chain or two, ( Read more... )

On Saturday I was bored and feeling depressed, so I made the mistake of reactivating my OK Cupid account. After about 10 minutes I was ready bored with OKC, but OKC has a stupid policy where you must wait a period of one week to deactivate your account if you have just reactivated it. OKC has no idea of the bullshit women go through on that site ( Read more... )

Bagels are a popular food item, and most people prefer their bagels toasted, some being more particular about this than others. So if toasted bagels are common, why is it so goddamn hard for the bagel place in my school's SUB to figure out how to toast a fucking bagel?! I hate untoasted bagels, and all I ask for is my bagel to be toasted, but ( Read more... )

A few minutes ago my phone rang. It wasn't a number that I recognized, but I picked it up anyway. I said 'hello?' a couple of times, and the person hung up. Pissed off, I called the number back to see who would answer, and some guy answered in Chinese or whatever, and I hung up on him without saying anything ( Read more... )

For the past two years at UBC, I have busted my fucking ass at school, making goddamn sure that I am taking all the courses required for my degree, and have been passing everything (just barely at times, but 51% is a pass). It may have taken me an extra year to do, but in April, I finished third year, and next year, my last year at school, I ( Read more... )

So OK Cupid just pulled a Facebook. Once again it changed, but made things worse.

For those of you not familiar with OK Cupid, at the top of your profile, there is was a sentence that you can fill in with three adjectives that describe yourself: I am _____, _____, and _____. Most people fill it in with run-of-the-mill adjectives, such as I am ( Read more... )

I really like linguistics, but my LING 200 class is really annoying ( Read more... )