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Posts from ‘January, 2010’

Beat the night

I pulled an all-nighter last night, for work. It’s pretty rare for me these days, since as I get older, the more it really fucking sucks to recover from it. I think it’s been years since I stopped working when it got light outside. Disregarding eating, going to the bathroom, and commuting, I was working [...]

Arts education plus prescription painkillers

(Strange things happen when you combine a BA with codeine-like substances.) Man, I usually don’t need a news article to make me feel like an inbred mutant, though up until reading it I had considered my grey-blue eyes to be rather nice and that despite being nearsighted were my best attributes when my tits aren’t [...]

Friday Cat Blogging: My soul mate

I am destined to marry this guy: Yes, it’s just a commercial, but without hope, there is nothing. So I’ve been sick with a cold for nearly 2 weeks now, and despite having the alarm clock blaring as loud as usual in the mornings, I’ve been sleeping through at least half an hour of it [...]

Music Suggestions

I gots some. Yeasayer is one of my favourite bands, making indie rock with a world music vibe and a healthy emphasis on percussion. I’ve probably mentioned them before, but now they’ve got a new album coming out and I totally didn’t get a leaked copy and listen to it and think it is awesome. [...]

The mention about moisturizer is not a joke

I’m referring to the current tagline on my blog, ending “now in the temperate desert of the Okanagan where moisturizer is much more important”. A few people have commented on it without realizing that, actually, keeping my skin moisturized has become a really big deal for me, far more so than when I lived in [...]