Saturday, October 17th, 2009
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12:16 am
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It seems like everyone I know is getting pregnant, having babies or raising children and I can't. I hate myself for that.
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
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6:11 am - What is the news coming to?
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The two top video stories on the Toronto Star page right now are "30 best dressed in Toronto 2009" and "Obama swats a fly" Right. This is why I read fiction.
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
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5:58 pm - laughter
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
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12:38 pm - 2009
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
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12:37 am - Writer's Block: Gone but Not Forgotten
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Space Above and Beyond
Alias
Due South
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
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7:51 pm - plot bunny
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How does life as a vampire start? If you start with no super powers other than strength how do you live? How do you make money? How do you capture prey?
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
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6:29 pm - uninspired
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How can I just be a receptacle for all the amazing, excellent and brilliant work I read and see and yet not be able to produce anything as inspired? It's worse than that because I have such a pathetic memory I'm more like a sieve, unable even to retain that which is wonderful.
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
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8:38 pm
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| You Are a Red Crayon | 
Your world is colored with bright, vivid, wild colors.
You have a deep, complex personality - and you are always expressing something about yourself.
Bold and dominant, you are a natural leader. You have an energy that is intense... and sometimes overwhelming.
Your reaction to everything tends to be strong. You are the master of love-hate relationships.
Your color wheel opposite is green. Green people are way too mellow to understand what drives your energy. |
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Sunday, August 12th, 2007
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12:06 pm - To my WoT players
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if you're not interested in geeky gamer stuff this post will be ridiculously dull.
The WoT game I ran was really the first game I ever ran. I feel it went pretty well and had a three year run which is pretty good. I took about a year off because my post grad program was too intense for me to have time to regularly play in games much less run one of my own. Now I've started up a star trek game. It's going pretty well but I'm regularly astounded by the clues my players fail to pick up or silly assumptions that they make. It's made me realize that while I spent three years learning to GM, my players also spent three years learning how to play with my complicated plots, three dementional npcs that had motivations the players didn't know about, and understood that events had consequences. WHen I first started the WoT game the plots were ridiculously simple. There were good guys and bad guys and the players knew which was which. As time went on things got more complicated until moral debates played a significant part in the game. My star trek game has all new players who don't know how I GM and haven't learned with me how complicated the universe is. So I'm backing stuff up a bit, making npc's motivations a little more obvious and putting significantly fewer plot twists in than I'm used to. I find it makes the games go by much faster and means I need to plan more adventures for each session because each adventure is done with more quickly.
But let me end this with a thank you to my WoT players. You guys rocked at spoting subtle clues, following up on side plots, and making the world feel like it was a live because you played characters that were fully fleshed out. I'm sure my star trek game will get there some day, but since I don't think I ever said thank you, I"ll say it now. Thanks for being awsome players.
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
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7:01 pm - harry potter
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
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5:29 pm - harry potter
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I finished harry potter a couple of hours ago. I'm not sure if I'm disaponted or not. It was a well done book, but still, not sure how I feel.
spoilers beyond the cut
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Sunday, May 27th, 2007
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9:45 am - school vs. employeement
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This is the difference between being in school and working. When you're in school, if you're watching a movie, enjoying a weekend, or enjoying vacation time you feel guilty because in the back of your head you know you should be studying, working on something, reading, or something. Whereas when you're working you weekends aren't supposed to be dedicated to getting homework done, they are supposed to be free time. What a difference!
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
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11:58 am - Marks are in!
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I got As in everything except Research. Research got a B. I got A+s in Public Speaking (no surprise ;-)) and an A+ in Seminar. So yay! and at least that's over with. Now I can throw out all those papers I've been keeping.
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
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8:00 pm - miscilanious
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I feel super sick. I'll be going to bed soon.
I had a great interview today! I really really liked it. It looks like a healthy place to work and my boss seems great, I think she'd be a great mentor. I'm really excited about it. I didn't ace my interview today, answered a few questions imperfectly. Ahh well, we live and learn. I have another interview tomorrow, but I'm not as excited about it.
nifty factoid below
CARBON CREDIT CARDS
Small plastic cards have become an inextricable part of our lives — bank cards, credit cards, loyalty cards, air-miles cards. Within the decade, Brits (and then, perhaps, others) may be swiping one more card — a carbon credit card — to purchase airline tickets or gasoline, or to pay an energy bill. Each citizen would receive a carbon allowance to use or to sell to others; the national carbon allotment would drop annually, reducing emissions over time. "It gives carbon a currency and stimulates carbon consciousness," says Simon Roberts, chief executive for the Centre for Sustainable Energy, which carried out a feasibility study for the British government. — Hannah Hoag
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
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3:48 pm - school update
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I have been doing school work all freaking day. Literally I got up at 8 and started. I did dished and took a break at one point to take a nap but almost as soon as I fell asleep B woke me up to say he was leaving and I couldn't get back to sleep after that. My brain is exhausted! I've gotten a lot done but there is still so much to do.
I need to write a two minute speach describing something beautiful. Any ideas? I'm really not doing so good on this one.
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
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7:08 pm - new years post
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so I'm running a bit behind the times but I wanted to do my annual new years resolution post.
For memory's sake this was last years resolutions.
For 2006 my hopes are a little different
I've joined an online organization devoted to getting your home undercontrol called 'flylady' and I'm hoping to actually make some progress in that.
I need to be more responsible about my medical issues and take charge of them rather then ignoring them whenever they aren't acting up.
I want to keep working on my fitness but my neutrition also.
And here is the most important one: I want to kill less time. I spend far too much time killing time waiting for something to happen or finish and killing time is the stupidest thing in the world to do because time is the one thing that there can never ever be a do-over on.
Flylady wasd a big help to me and y home is in much better shape. This summer while I was working full time I was actuallyhappy with it's day to day status. It's not as great now, but I know I can do this. I have been much more responsible about my medical issues and see several doctors. Fitness and neutrition, not so much; I'll keep trying. For the big one, I am happy. I don't kill time like I used to. I focus more on doing things (even fun things) because I WANT to do them, rather than because I don't have anything better to do. So once again I will declare 2006 a success! I love being able to look back at my goals and measure them.
For 2007 again my goals are of a different nature as I continute to grow and evolve as a person.
The big one is, *drumm rolll* I want to get a full time job in my field with benefits. I am ready to work and I want to start. I love learning and I love being in school and even like most of my classmates, but I think I"m ready for the next stage of life.
The other ones are little and not so important to me, but for memory's sake I'll put them down here.
I want to make dinner (with leftovers for lunch) at least two nights a week. I find since there are only two of us, one meal will last for two dinners and one lunch.
I will do a better job of keeping in touch with people. Over the past several years I've made friends that I like, but most of them aren't very proactive and if I want to maitaine and build on these friendships I'll need to work at it. Facebook might help with that.
So that's it, my 2007 goals. I'll do a cheers for me for my succesfull 2006 and lookforward to this year as just another year to build on.
current mood:  cheerful
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Friday, December 8th, 2006
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8:37 am - Being sick again
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Something really fabulous happened last night. I was out at a party with corp comm people (ie. my class and their boyfriends)and I go sick. I don't think you guys know (except for Jennine) but I've been getting sicker again. It's very scary, I really don't want to go back to how I was before, but that seems to be the path I'm on. They are doing blood work and hopefully we'll be able to solve this with out reducing me to what I was before. Anyways, on that note, I've developed an alergy to dairy. If I eat it I get really red in the face and hot, hot like a killer fever hot; so hot that another person's hand feels cold as ice, and of course I get horribly nausious and yucky bathroom stuff happens to me. I got sent home from class on tuesday because the teacher thought I looked seriously ill and then one of my classmates touched me and was like "yuck! you're really sweating!) and then my teacher decided that I was too sick to be in class. Instead of going home I went to my doctors and she was bothered and very frustrated that I had been taken gravol every night for three weeks to help me sleep though the nausia and hadn't gone to see her. She sent me to get blood take and they took so much the bruise didn't stop growing unti yesterday and now it has turned bloodred, very odd. Anyways this post was going to be cheerful but in order to understand the good news you had to understand how sick I've been lately.
So now the good news. Last night I forgot about my problems with dairy and had a bunch of this really fabulous spinich dip at the house party I was at. After I realized I was as red as a tomato and as warm as tost I finally clued in and asked the person who made the dip if it had dairy in it. It did. As I sat there feeling really awful I remember thinking I was out with my rpg group be they are used to how sickly I am and would understand and not judge me in anyway on it and probably try to help in anyway they could. And then people did start helping me. Someone made me my special tea. Someone came and chatted with me, and someone took a walk with me out in the cold to help me cool down. I can't even put into words how much those gestures touched my heart.
current mood:  loved
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Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
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2:25 pm
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Friday, December 1st, 2006
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11:38 am
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
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8:02 pm - foot in mouth
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why is it that when I'm talking to someone I want to impress I always put my foot in my mouth by going overboard? I'd do perfectly well if I was just myself but nooo I gotta go being Miss. Priss Pants and talk my way into stupid. gah. and then I feel stupid and rip myself up about it for hours when odds are the other person forgot it withn moments of me saying it.
On another note my building manager is stupid. here is the chain of events. Tuesday fridge break. Wednesday fill out repair request. Friday B calls head office to findout why no one has even been to look at the fridge yet. Monday building manager gets in trouble from head office. Monday building manager comes to talk to us. Monday building manager sends someone to fix the fridge. Monday fridge get's fixed in under 10 minutes. Wednesday building manager calls to argue with me because we left the security lock on so no one was able to come and fix the fridge. *eyes bug* now here I have three questions. 1) why does she not remember talking to us on monday. 2) why does she not have a record of the repair on monday. 3) why the fuck did she wait until an entire week after we'd filled the report to finally look at it to send someone up. Gods this place is going to the dogs. When I first move here five years ago I could get a window replaced in days. Now it takes over a week to get a crucial item like a fridge fixed if you don't call head office. Ever since the new management came in two summers ago this place has been getting worse and worse. We are lucky that we are not dirty and we have two cats because bugs have become a real problem for other people.
current mood:  annoyed
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