Something magical happened today. Despite having stayed home from work because he was feeling ill, Raph (mah boifrend of fairly recent vintage) came downtown to hang out with me for a bit this afternoon. We ended up deciding to go to Lola Rosa for coffee before the V-Day meeting I (thought I) had at six (uh, apparently I'm an idiot because it's ( Read more... )

I am currently dwelling on how much I miss my septum ring. The "how much" in question is a considerable amount. I don't think that I'll get it redone (I am ridiculously impatient and don't do very well with healing time) but I definitely wish that I hadn't taken it out ( Read more... )

I am now going to be lame and make a memorial post of sorts for Heath Ledger. I don't usually do this. I will probably never do it again ( Read more... )

I have been meaning to do laundry for a ridiculously long time. I hate doing laundry. It takes such a long time and is expensive. It would probably go a lot more quickly if I would just do it instead of agonizing about not wanting to and putting it off until later. While the pile of clothing builds up. Usually on my floor. So now I am faced with ( Read more... )

In the course of research for my Bible and Western Culture paper on Jezebel I discovered jezebel.com, which is a fairly vapid celebrity/pop culture/sex blog. However, it has just redeemed itself in my eyes by bringing me LOLVogue. http:// ( Read more... )

Two hot beverage-related incidents today ( Read more... )

Having mountains around is really odd. I'm used to my landscape being very suburban and flat, possibly incorporating a lake. Mountains have never really been part of the equation. It's very peculiar now to be living partway up one and to be able to see two more from my window. They're not even very large mountains, just little-ish rounded ones, but ( Read more... )

The Sunday before Halloween something completely ridiculous and unexpected happened. I was in Royal Victoria College, where Christine resides, and we went up to the seventh floor (where she does not live but this other girl who needed to get her coat does) and happened to encounter two Sophies that I know from outside McGill. Actually, I only ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the final day of Arts Frosh. We did a scavenger hunt that involved us going to six or so different locations around Montreal fairly quickly. Our group wound up with twenty bucks each in Peel Pub money for arriving first at two of the places. One of the spots was in a little cobbled pedestrians-only street near a fountain and near the ( Read more... )

I just got my room assignment for next year at McGill. I'll be in McConnell, which is fine. I would really have loved to be in Douglas, which is the oldest residence (it was built in the twenties) and has a Harry Potter-esque Great Hall for meals, but because McConnell has the same meal plan I can eat there if I want to ( Read more... )