There is no script. Not even a scene list. Definitely no one calling cues or blocking movement in advance. It is therefore impossible to rehearse. So improvise, girl, improvise... forget feeling around for a role or the perfect phrase or action. Just perform. Naturally. But with feeling. And don't be boring. Disregard the butterflies inside ( Read more... )

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"10 years later, Mel Lastman proud he called in army"

From The TO Star, January 11 2009

As Environment Canada predicts more snow this week and temperatures plunging to -22C, Mel Lastman is warmly recalling his decision 10 years ago to call in the military to fight a snowstorm.
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Perhaps most fondly, Lastman ( Read more... )

The take off is the hardest bit of the return trip. Maybe even harder than the actual physical goodbyes and movements apart, before I enter security and my people can no longer see me and I can no longer see them. These are the small, incremental degrees of removal ( Read more... )

Snow ( Read more... )

From The Guardian

"Islanders who look forward each New Year’s Day to participating in the grand old tradition of the New Year’s levee will have to wait until next year to make their rounds. Thursday’s blizzard forced the cancellation of virtually all of the major levees in the province and indications are that only one is being rescheduled."Merde ( Read more... )

The Cutting-beam

Imagine this blur of chill, white, gray, vague, sadness ( Read more... )

Yesterday, the same day that this was posted at Seth Godin's blog, the manager of the local Starbuck's visited our office with two containers of complimentary Espresso Truffle specialty beverage and cups for sampling -- a mid-afternoon pick-up. I'm not much of a Starbucks person, or at least my tight budget cares little for it, but it was tasty ( Read more... )

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First of all, I suck at being home sick. I can't help myself from playing with the laptop, while lying on the couch and underwhelmed by TV. One can only nap for so long. I could read, but my attention span is not great. I hate being home doing nothing. So I crawl the interweb looking for mind candy, like a good geek girl ( Read more... )