I recently moved back to my parents’ house, where I’ll be for another month until I move to Alabama. In all three places, summer can be brutal. As my home is not air conditioned, there is little respite from the humidity. I’ve taken to finding some easy ways to stay cool. I often give myself…
For almost a month, Canada Post has been on strike, off and on, and we’ve had no mail nationally for the last ten days of the strike. But last Wednesday, the government forced them back to work. And you know what? I didn’t really miss it. I pay my bills online. I view my bank…
Do you wear a hat in the summer? Now I’m not talking about one of the glorious fascinators that we saw at the Royal Wedding. I’m referring to a basic summer hat designed to protect you from the sun. While I dutifully slather on sunscreen several times a day, I never think to put on…
As a college student/recent grad in the city, craigslist is pretty much the only way to get furniture. Buying furniture is pretty easy– you email someone, and if it’s still available you set up a meet and you pick it up. Selling it, though, is another matter. It wasn’t until I was trying to sell…
I love tartare sauce. Actually, half the reason I get fish & chips is for the tartare sauce. But I’ve grown sick of the disgusting green stuff that you get in jars. Luckily, one of the things I learned to make in New Zealand was tartare sauce from scratch, The basics, I was told, is…
Last night, I saw Aretha Franklin live (the reason for the late post). Okay, more like semi-live, because she was in a tent in Metro Square, and I was looking at a screen on King Street. My hopes were up. Aretha Franklin – come on. She was opening the Toronto Jazz Festival for free. For…
In less than two months, I’m becoming a Southerner. After 18 years in New Jersey and 4 in Washington, D.C., I’m moving to Mobile, AL. Now, I’ve never really been down South before. My grandparents used to rent winter homes in secluded developed communities in South Carolina or Florida, and I visited them there, but…
With the advent (finally) of nicer weather, I recently switched from exclusively exercising indoors, to walking outdoors as well. Most days I manage to take a 30 minute walk before getting ready for work. A few days ago I discovered a park only about five minutes from my home. Lest you think I’m completely unobservant,…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiBVUulE_woI went to see Source Code, director Duncan Jones’s second full-length feature, lured with the promise of a time loop, one of my favorite science fiction plotlines ever. What I got was an excellent film: Lots of excitement (after all, a train explodes repeatedly) but no over-the-top action, a clever plot with only smallish inconsistencies…
Two summers ago, it was Bones. This summer, it’s Criminal Minds. It seems that when school is out and I have the novel experience of work but no homework, I tend to binge on syndicated crime dramas. Criminal Minds, like Bones, has been around for a while (5 or 6 years) which means there’s a…
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