I dream. A lot. And vividly. Sometimes it’s hard to remember what’s a dream and what’s real — I’ll have a vague memory of some incident, or something that someone said, that looking back could very easily be a dream I had, or something that actually happened. It’s sort of confusing. I don’t put a…
So the other day I just had one of those days. Classes, colleagues, review books – if it could go wrong or bite my head off, it did. At the end of the day I sat down at my desk and saw a box of 72 colouring pencils. And decided to sharpen them. All…
I love taking baths. In my mind, there’s little more relaxing than a hot soak with a good book and a cold drink. The problem is finding the products to go along with it. I rarely use bath salts or bubble bath, but I’d like to find something that smells good, feels good, and isn’t…
Greetings from a small island off the coast of Maine, my family’s Summer Vacation 2010. I knew the island would be small and, well, quaint, but I wasn’t quite prepared for it. Directional signs follow the lines of, “Keep right past the Church, walk for 3 more minutes.” There’s one general store and one restaurant,…
I see in the Toronto Star that the city council has decided to create two pedestrian zones, the first two of their kind in the big T.O. Never mind that they’re miniscule; never mind that they’re both (I think) in the heart of the university core, and therefore practically pedestrian anyway – it’s a step…
For the last month, we’ve had a real rash of stormy weather. No, not that lovely old song, but real stormy weather. Now I don’t mean gentle rain or light breezes. I mean torrential downpours, terrifying lightning and thunder, and worst of all tornado watches, warnings, and actual touchdowns. In the past week we’ve had…
I was going to write about the romance of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Daniel Westling, whom she met when she enroled at the gym he owned, in the style of a romance novel blurb, but it sounded so unbelievably tacky that I pressed “delete”.
It’s been a wild summer at work, so I’m starting to get a little punchy. And when I’m punchy, I’m also pretty easily amused. Since laughter’s a good stress reliever, it’s a great combination. I doubt I’m the only one under pressure, so here are some funny tidbits I found and just had to share….
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I When I went to primary school you had two instruments, the voice and the recorder. There’s nothing wrong with the first one, but face it – how applicable is the recorder to modern music? But now many schools are adding a third choice: The ukulele. A lot of schools in New Zealand have purchased…
I recently rediscovered crosswords. They’re such a wonderful way to pass time, and probably more intellectually stimulating than, say, Perez Hilton. I typically do USA Today’s crosswords online, which gives me the handicap of telling me when I’m wrong. It’s sort of cheating, but I consider it more like training. A life goal of mine…
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