Busted.

So I’m at work yesterday afternoon, and my Dad gets a call from the woman that rents the business unit that’s attached to the front of our house.  I can hear from my Dad’s responses to her that she’s bitching about Matt and I – my Dad’s saying things like “Okay well I’m happy to [...]

Vacation Highlights

After realizing that my dreams of sandy beaches and fancy drinks with umbrellas in them were not meant to be, I thought that my summer vacation was kiboshed.  But, always the amazing friends that they are, the lovely folks in Montreal responded to my desperate, last minute e-mail request for a possible Montreal retreat with [...]

The Canadian Cities Tour

Hoooo doggy.  I’ve been recently enjoying the travel-related benefits of my job, having returned last week from a two week jaunt to Montreal, Ottawa, and Halifax.  It was fun, tiring, boring, exciting, and refreshing.  Now I’m back, I’m starting to slip back into my regular routine, and I’m writing this from work when I should [...]

I think I might be a grownup now…

Matt and I are officially moving once our lease at Shithole Apartments, aka Bedbug Haven is over.  My parents bought a house on Broadway, across from my old high school, that has a storefront business unit in the front, and a residence in the back.  It is, by definition, business in the front, party in [...]

Burn out

Holy fucking shitballs.
That’s pretty much the summation of my thoughts and feelings these days.  Jesus creepin’ shit.  I cannot wait until this course is over, until winter is over, until this cold comes and goes.  Hot damn.  Things have been so incredibly busy – or, at least, busy enough that I can’t survive on my [...]

My brother: Dinglenuts*

My brother has been working at the office two days a week since December.  He’s a real piece of shit.
Arth: “Hey Jess did you get my email?”
Jess: “I haven’t checked, hang on…”

* “Dinglenuts”: A term often used by my father when referring to a particularly ignorant, unintelligent, or otherwise aggravating individual.

“Shipping!”

This morning at work we kept getting spam faxes from some company in the states selling Steel Buildings (“Winter Clearance! Huge Reduction on Steel Buildings! Call Tom at ext. 940!”), so I called the number they provided to remove your fax number from their fax list, but still kept getting faxes from them.  It started [...]

Glutton for Punishment

I’ve realized over the past few weeks that this course I’m teaching has essentially taken the place of my thesis: I had a couple of months off of anything academia-related, and come January I’m right back into assignments and research and writing, with a little grading and hand-wringing to top it all off.  I’ve been [...]

Hacking and Coughing Social Justice

Last night was the CCPA’s annual fundraiser.  This year it was held at the Pyarmid Cabaret and featured the musical wizardry of Jessee Havey, John K. Sampson, and DJ Kasm.  I have been helping out a bit over the past few weeks – getting posters up, asking businesses for silent auction donations, and creating as [...]

Vancougar

I can’t think of a catchier title for this post, so I stole Mark’s ingenious amalgamation.  It’s 11:05pm Winnipeg time (9:05pm Vancouver time) and, given the fact that I haven’t had a good sleep in almost two weeks, I’m pretty beat.  But, I’m in Vancouver for the SFU Book Publishing Workshop, so despite my exhaustion, [...]