One thing that continually surprises me is just how nasty people can be sometimes. My poor girlfriend has had to endure a roommate who is vindictive and downright mean. This roommate is 50 years old, and yet has resorted to behaving like a spoilt child. The news today is that this ridiculous woman changed the [...]
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People, good and bad! Luck, good and bad!
Posted in aimless musing, luck on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Obama v Clinton: Live Blog!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tonight I’m giving something new a go. I am going to keep a live blog on the debate in Ohio at the Cleveland State University between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, both of whom who are vying to be president of a fairly well known country in North America called USA!
Brian Williams of MSNBC who looks [...]
Detachment
Posted in personal health, writing on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
If I could be as detached from my own behaviour as I am from the characters in one of my stories, I could intervene and stop myself in behaving in ways that go against my own best interests. I could say, “Making mountains out of molehills is this individual’s primary deficiency. Eliminate the self-imposed stress, [...]
Kind of blue
Posted in aimless musing on February 23, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m not just blue because my girlfriend left town. It’s the tail end of winter, the time when energy ebbs to its lowest point, and yet the workload snowballs to its most overwhelming proportions.
In Montreal today it is hovering close to zero, the snow is melting, the sky is perfect blue, and coming back from [...]
Dinner in front of the computer
Posted in work on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
For the first time in many, many months, I just ate a meal in front of the computer. Why did I do that? So silly! I am trying to kid myself that simply having the computer on all the time will be an incentive to get me to do the mountain of work ahead of [...]
Five weeks of pleurisy
Posted in Captain Mylander, personal health on February 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I visited the doctor a second time last Tuesday. He had looked at the X-ray of my lungs. Nothing appeared to be wrong with them. This means that the original diagnosis of pleurisy still holds. I do not have pneumonia or bronchitis or some other nasty lung ailment. Nope. I’ve got the weird disease that nobody’s [...]
Maybe something useful after all…
Posted in photoroman on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Today has been a good day. I bumped into a professor of mine on the bus. She agreed to oversee a summer project of mine. I am going to travel around Quebec collecting stories about the photoroman. What is the photoroman? It is a combination of text and photos to tell a story. Photoromans were [...]
I am almost entirely incapable of doing something useful
Posted in writing on February 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I know a lot of people who can do things that are useful. You know, the kinds of things that require skills. I know a furniture maker, several teachers, drug addictions counsellors, mechanics, a potter… A childhood friend of mine grew up to be a vet.
But me? I can barely do anything useful at all. [...]
Language wars: Part LXVIICI
Posted in Montreal, language wars, personal health on February 8, 2008 | No Comments »
As you can tell, I don’t know my Roman numerals. What I do know is that feeling I get when I am seeing something for the hundredth time. Have I lived in Montreal for a hundred days yet? I think I have. And what continues to strike me is that on every single one of [...]
Feeling like shit
Posted in personal health on February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Several years ago, I experienced a prolonged period of misfortune. I was unemployed, I was trying but failing to win the heart of a woman, I contracted a nasty skin condition, I went to Vancouver to find work but failed, I was running out of money, and eventually I had to move in to my [...]
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