I woke up this morning to the kind of phone call you never want to wake up to.

My brother had been calling my cellphone, which was, of course, dead and downstairs. There'd been an accident. My father is dead.

My father is dead.

It's true, but it really doesn't seem like it should be. Of course it doesn't.

I woke up this morning, and found myself in ( Read more... )

One of my co-workers, who is generally a cool guy, is talking about how when is new baby daughter is older he's going to be the dad driving around looking for her in his car with the high-powered searchlights.

May I just say that I don't get this cultural leitmotif? I do blame the patriarchy for it ( Read more... )

Landlords want to rent their apartments to people with stable employment situations who will pay the rent on time and not run noisy businesses out of the premises. They ask about prospective tenants' employment on the application forms for rental properties. They phone employers, to make sure prospective tenants are not lying about their employment ( Read more... )

Mr. Rosario Marchese, Trinity-Spadina ( Read more... )

It's official:

A willing partner to "rough sex" could not legally consent to be choked into unconsciousness and sexually violated, an Ottawa judge has ruled in a bizarre case involving a couple whose eight-year relationship featured a raunchy sex life.

( Cut for not everyone's cuppa )

I really should make that my mantra.

When we interviewed with Mad Mary for this apartment, she stressed that she wanted nice people who were going to stay here a while. We're nice. Some of us might arguably be described as wholesome.*

So now she's told sabotabby that she's selling the place. Or, if she doesn't sell the place, she wants to renovate the ( Read more... )

Dear Publisher,

I received the solutions that were missing from the ms of the Teacher's Guide chapters I copyedited for you last week. I will be happy to check these solutions for you, and return the edited files to you by Monday.

However, it would be helpful if you sent me copies of the questions, which appear in the Student Book ( Read more... )

Made it to Boston at 08h30 yesterday morning, after completely re-packing sometime in the wee small hours (neequdrazil, the more-or-less completed sewing made another bag imperative, so things got redistributed ( Read more... )

Note to the friends and relations of Mr. Gomberg,* and anyone else who thinks that setting up a Facebook or MySpace profile, or a LiveJournal for someone who has died is a good idea ( Read more... )

To Whom It May Concern,

sabotabby and I are not the same person.

We share several things: our cats, sometimes a hair colour, some favourite boutiques, the coffee budget, our books, a cleaning roster, some friends, the odd garment, a cafepress store, certain political views, a cultural vocabulary, a penchant for kneesocks and garments decorated with ( Read more... )