parking fail Originally uploaded by randomthursday. i am trying to feed twee but she has crawled behind my monitor to poop, and i just dropped my digital camera in the cup of water i was using to feed (er...quench?) her and i am supposed to be doing work, because i decided to bring it home instead o...

i'm feeling very disconnected. more so than usual. i guess it's a combination of things. the standard issue alone/loneliness and generalized feelings of being stuck. add to that the fact that i'm sick and haven't been out of the house for 2 weeks. and sprinkle on top pms which just magnifies everyth...

Marko has another post up about the joys of taking pen in hand. There are a few dissenters in comments; unsurprisingly we're looking at things from the other hand. Literally. I’m left handed. I’d rather write 130wpm with both hands than drag the heel of my hand through graphite or wet ink… -Va...

It is really hard to make decisions about summer employment with the specters of all my academic employment experiences hanging over me. I cannot see what's going on except through a lens of "how employment works" that has been entirely distorted by the academic market. And through tha...

I got nothin'. If I wasn't one of those cynics who lumps psychology in with those other "-ologys" like phrenology or astrology, I might even say I was "depressed". I've been stuck in the house by the weather, and I've been fairly broke-ish for the last couple weeks, which has amplified my cabin feve...

And so the misery continues....this vertigo/earache and all the other fun facial pain is making me very slow and sad. It comes and goes, it doesn't matter if I am standing up or sitting down, it just shows up. Today I was out and about this morning, and I ended up having excruciating ear pain for ab...

Wow, Ruthie had such the meltdown at bedtime tonight. I am exhausted. These two statements are related, but perhaps not in the immediately obvious way. I think that both Ruthie and I are suffering some major sleep deprivation due to the current state of our sleeping arrangements. But I'm too tired t...

does anybody who reads this use Twitter? I started using it thanks to Kevin and looking to expand my followees list. Canada gets Obama for a few hours, US gets Kevin for a few days. Moscow gets Tamara, Montreal gets me. Now we just need somebody who’s coming for a visit to Toronto from Moscow ...

Well, the cries of "The West Wants In", have died down, now that we have a government that understands the west. Poor Iffy, only back in Canada for 3 years and he thinks he understands the west. HA! Iffy wants in! He can come here to Edmonton and some transplanted Liberals will go hear him speak, bu...

So, still don’t have the replacement stuff for my Rock Band 2 guitar. Sort of afraid to go to the EA website, for fear of discovering that this RMA has also failed. We’ll see. The upside is that with everything packed up to move, I’m not really playing Rock Band 2 right now. Talked...