so, i bought a car and learned to drive it about a year and a half ago, at the ripe old age of 31. it was only really last winter when i finally got my "driving legs"; funnily enough, it was one of the worst winters for snow and ice i can remember. i know embarrassingly little about how my car works, and as a result i often visualize a bike drive ( Read more... )

So, I've been totally negligent with the garden this year. It feels like the summer went by with hardly any down time, or that my down time was otherly occupied. In any case, it didn't yield much in the way of food; i managed to kill most of the seedlings before they were plantable, and half of what actually got into the ground bore fruit which ( Read more... )

but why didn't i know about ernst haeckel til now? i feel like i just heard Focus' Hocus Pocus for the first time.


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http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Blaze+destroys+condos+under+construction/1484797/story.htmlRead more... )

my favourite new word of the 1980s

Ok, here it is: it's 2009 and I'm back on lj after an extended absence. Boy, has this town changed. I hardly recognize the landscape. If you're reading this, chances are we used to be friends who kept in touch enough to comfortably comment on each others' lives. Who knows what we are now: i've shed my skin a few times in the intervening years, so ( Read more... )

if i haven't replied to your comments or posts, it's because i got caught up in internet slackerdom and then fell off my bike and broke my collarbone. hopefully i'll be able to reach the keyboard with both hands in a couple of weeks ( Read more... )

2116 amherst

arrive between 10 and 11 if you can

dress is formal/semi-formal, and the theme is time-travel or something . . . as in wear something from another era

bring music you want to play/want us to play

and you might want to get down like never before, since "suggestive dancing and music" is being banned in canada these days.

from cbc.ca:
Surgeons in Montreal have successfully implanted a long-term mechanical heart in a 65-year-old man, making him the only living Canadian with no pulse.
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wah! my math exam starts at 7pm tomorrow at loyola and the shuttle ends at 7pm!