I love the library ( Read more... )

I keep thinking of things to natter about during the work day, but then by the time I get home and can access lj, they have all gone out of my head and I have nothing to say. My life is not really as drab and uninteresting as this makes it appear.

... my cat just stole my bag of crackers. Excuse me. 

 2009 was a pretty lousy year for me and mine. Our cat died and our friend died, and it's hard to tell which was harder to deal with (does it make me a horrible person to say that?). I got called back to my old job after an exciting and far-too-brief term elsewhere, and my desire to actually do the job decreased dramatically. There was family drama ( Read more... )

I have been a very poor blogger/journaller of late. I wish that I could say it was because I was spending all my time working on my writing projects, but that would not be entirely true. I was going gangbusters for a while this fall, but then I fell off the wagon a bit and have been much more erratic ever since.

Part of this is because work has ( Read more... )

So today I have learned (or re-learned -- really, I knew this already, but let myself forget) that one should never ever try to use the easy one-step idiot-proof solution for anything. How did I learn this, you ask?

Well, having finally given up on Bell's Internet service after many many years (fairplaythings has a concise summary of the story, if you're really ( Read more... )

 Inspired by Abi on Making Light, I decided to photoblog my commute to work. It then rained for two weeks straight.

But this week, I finally managed to do it. So here, for your enjoyment, is my commute to and from work, on a chilly October day.

(Forgive the picture quality; I had to borrow a small enough camera to fit in my pocket, and I'm not used ( Read more... )

…is that, if one doesn't blog promptly, one is liable to lose track of what one has read.

Er.

I had a list. It even had little notes on it to remind myself of what I wanted to talk about when I got around to doing the write-ups.

The list is missing. I am trying to re-create it, but since I have outsourced significant chunks of my mind to little pieces ( Read more... )

Easter for a Canadian federal government employee is a wonderful holiday - four whole days without having to work. And this year, we had gorgeous sunny weather the entire time. I had planned to do all kinds of work around the house, rake the leaves that didn't get raked in the fall due to sudden snowfall, and start prepping the garden.  I had ( Read more... )

Last night, we had "auditions" for people who want to sing solos with the choir. They're not really auditions, as the whole point of the choir is to be inclusive and welcoming and encouraging, so it's more of a "let me hear you sing" kind of thing, so that the director can, in her words, "match the right voice with the right song". In the old days ( Read more... )

The buses are back. I've seen them on the roads, in motion and with passengers. I'm sure the novelty will wear off shortly ( Read more... )