Occasional musings from a Left-coast Canadian ExPat in Oxford.
Overall my first visit to the Big Apple was pretty fun. It’s the first place I’ve traveled where I’ve thought I could definitely live there for an extended period (5+ years) and be quite content. Most other places I get the feeling I’d be over them and longing for home within 6 months or so. … Continue reading NYC in a Nutshell
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Perhaps if I wish hard enough, this will go away Originally uploaded by peechie. Welcome, all, to day one of NaBloPoMo. For your reading/viewing pleasure, I’ve dressed my dog in a demeaning Snow-White costume. She hated it appropriately and tried to chew it off as soon as I finished taking pictures. I felt bad enough … Continue reading Day 1 – Welcome to my Insanity
to me 🙂 Continue reading Happy Birthday
You know you don’t clean your desk often enough when you go to clean it, and find your business cards from two jobs ago. Answers coming soon… Continue reading Signs
New Category: goofy things my roommate says/asks that make me think he really HAS been living under a rock for a very long time. Today’s Ray-ism: Jen? If I want to make eggs, like, sunny side up, how do you do that? Continue reading Ray-ism
My uncle’s beloved weiner dog Merlin ended up with a ruptured disc in his back. Thankfully it looks like he’ll be ok, so I don’t feel bad about giggling at how he looks like frankendog with all the metal staples. For a better look, open it up in flickr and check out the full-size version. Continue reading Franken Dog
June Haircut Originally uploaded by peechie. I did it. I cheated on Olga. With Lisa. It’s not my fault! Olga wasn’t available. I was tired of her technique. Things just weren’t fresh ane exciting anymore. I could hardly see her, and when I did, I didn’t feel loved anymore. We were in a rut. And … Continue reading Once a cheater….
I’ve been tagged with the 3 things meme. Check the extended entry for the answers.
This particular Ridiculously High Standard has been just waiting to be written about. I figured it was about damn time I put it down on… uh… paper? website? Whatever. This one is about the GEEK WALK. I can not bear to be with someone who walks the geek walk. The first time I encountered it … Continue reading RHS #5 – Walk the Walk
Why is it socially “okay” for guys to be into Jack Johnson, but they’re pussies for admitting to liking John Mayer? Is it only okay for a guy to be a sappy singer/songwriter if he’s also a surfer? Continue reading Question:
That’s it – I’m firing bloglines as my feed reader. I hope the rest of my readers will follow suit, at least until the bloglines people fix whatever is buggering up their service. Of course, by the time any bloglines subscribers actually get this post of mine, it’ll likely be 2012 and blogs will be … Continue reading YOU’RE FIRED!
Just thought I’d put it out there – lest the Universe smite me for failing to acknowledge this tidbit – I registered for my HR class after work tonight, and aside from the long lineups, everything went just fine. Four days down, 361 to go. Continue reading One Thing
Have you ever had an experience where you walk into a public bathroom stall – and you wonder what the bathroom architect was smoking? I’m assuming here, that public bathrooms are designed all at once – not that they put toilets in, then the walls (or vice versa). There is one stall in the bathroom … Continue reading I P Freely
Holy crap. I just talked to him. I’ve really been avoiding him since it all went down last Thursday night, I figure if I pretend like he doesn’t exist (or went on a really long vacation), I won’t have to deal with “closure” and won’t get all weepy again. But you know, it wasn’t that … Continue reading First Call