Because I’m no longer at university, I finally get to read for pleasure again. Yesterday I picked up Harper’s magazine and devoured almost the whole thing in one night. The financial system in the United States is falling apart; the basic tenets of capitalism — that infinite greed and growth are good — are now [...]
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What if this is a tragedy and we’re in the final act?
Posted in aimless musing on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
My eye hurts
Posted in Montreal, aimless musing on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Today my eye hurt almost all day. It filled with tears sometimes, and also became quite bloodshot. Of course, because the eye system is somehow connected to the nasal system (see Dr. Immasmartbiotype for more details) this also meant I became snivelly and snotty. Nevertheless, my boss still talked to me — sometimes in close [...]
Montreal, the maze
Posted in Montreal, aimless musing on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Spent a lot of time in my car today, from east to west and south to north, taking in almost all of Montreal’s expressways: TransCanada (40), Decarie (15), Chomeday (13), as well as the long, long boulevard Henri Bourassa. Many expressways are elevated, winding this way and that, and sometimes you feel as though you’re in [...]
b+6/4=9 sin cos
Posted in Montreal, aimless musing on April 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Who is Franklin W. Dixon? He is the “author” of the Hardy Boys books. FW Dixon is in fact the name given to a committee that penned these adventure classics targeted to male readers aged 10 to 14. I am reading one right now. It is called “The Clue of the Screech Owl” or something [...]
It is a beautiful day in Montreal
Posted in Montreal, aimless musing, writing on April 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have been away for a while — both from this blog and from this city. I was in Edmonton, mostly just lazing around, eating, drinking, and spending time with friends, family and my wonderful girlfriend. It was a very happy holiday. The only time I lifted a finger in any kind of exertion was [...]
Getting acquainted with the inner torments
Posted in aimless musing, personal health on April 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Regular readers might assume that I no longer suffer from that strange disease known as pleurisy. Wrong! Pleurisy has returned in the last week along with its myriad physical offerings that it lays at my door in a strange sort of tribute: these include shortness of breath and burning sensations in my chest. Joy. I have [...]
The final days of Laurence Miall…
Posted in aimless musing on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
(As a fulltime student, that is).
In exactly one week, I will no longer be a fulltime student. I will be returning to Edmonton to spend some time with my family and my girlfriend before getting into my long-neglected Volkswagen Golf to return to Montreal and start my new job, April 21. I will be finishing [...]
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