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mid-January thaw:
roof leaks for first time in years
mom blames bad feng shui

There was also a 90-minute metro stoppage. Maybe I jinxed myself by saying the week was looking up. XD;;

Nevertheless: in what some might consider an act of public service, sesame_seed sent me all(?) of Diana Wynne Jones. (And my sister thoughtfully piled them in the order ( Read more... )

GOOD: having an excuse for coming in late (although the only reason I was later than usual is because I was making my Hideously Green Hijiki Salad for potluck - next time I'm putting in a green mango btw, it's spicy enough to warrant it ( Read more... )

What do you call those monster servant things the kirin have in 12K? Names in Taiki's case? ...This show would be so much easier if I could remember the actual kanji for anything ( Read more... )

Someone just gave me a few pistachios from Iran, and they're delicious. Should've taken more. ;_;

Last thought on that Anna Freud thing (sorry for not answering comments but I was honestly more interested in hearing what other people had to say ^^;): marici mentioned Phantom of the Opera as a story in that mold/mode (not foregrounding the m/m aspect ( Read more... )

It's thundering and pouring buckets outside. Should've gone to Jazz Fest last night. ^^; Also, I'm tremenjously hungry and only really need to be here for another thirty minutes, but have no umbrella and thus am stuck.

Having finished RAM2 [1], I'm reading Exaudi Nos. It starts with Naoe visiting Irobe-san in the palliative care ward (his ( Read more... )

At least it's Saint Jean-Baptiste weekend, so I can go in tomorrow to fix Gord's computer (for value of "fix" equal to "reinstalling Windows") instead of having it hang over my head like Damocles' sword until Saturday. =_= Not enthused. Despite common misconception, computers do not "just" screw up by themselves, someone must have done something ( Read more... )

Editorials warning against the noxious effects of heat and smog appear in newspapers just as the storm breaks overnight, and the temperature dips to a rainy 17C by morning, like a miniature of autumn following summer. The rain lasts all day, skirt-soaking gusts in the morning and prickling mist in the evening. It's cruelly pleasant - for some ( Read more... )

The air in Côte-Saint-Luc smells like lilacs. Lilacs, apple blossom, those pink and white flowering hedges, fresh greenery basking under the sun... The Hasidic girls wear the long, softly flounced bohemian skirts in style this summer, in bright prints, with colourful flat sandals. In groups they resemble flowers with dark centres.

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Traditionally on Victoria Day I go to the Botanical Garden, rain or shine, with friends or family. Monday it was rainy and hideously cold - 10 degrees Celsius, more March than May - but I went with Tania and Lorraine anyway, bundled up in coats and hats and umbrellas. The apple blossoms were delayed this year, so we took the latest hanami ( Read more... )