Occasional musings from a Left-coast Canadian ExPat in Oxford.
Disclaimer: Bitter singles are probably best directed to fuckoff now. Hope everyone had a happy Valentine’s day – whether you had a sweetheart to share it with or not. I know that any kind of good company and good will can make a day or night special 🙂 I had a really good Valentine’s day … Continue reading V-Day
I think people are out to try my patience today. I am normally the most cool, calm, collected person (at least at work – any indications alluding to the contrary from my Boyfriend don’t count) – but seriously people. Give it a rest already. I thought the sunshine was supposed to make people happier. Instead … Continue reading Trying
Wait, no. Make that Jen and the Amazing Technicolour Eyeball. Hmm.. still not right. The eye is not so much technicolour, as pink. That’s right. I have Pink Eye. Lovely. Could this day get any better? Come on Universe, throw something else at me. I’m still standing… Continue reading Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
.. is an angry and not at all happy bird. The fire alarms started going off in my building this morning at around 4:30. They went back and forth, between on and off about four times, until sometime around 7:30. Each time a firetruck would come screeching up, sirens wailing, firefighters would clamber out in … Continue reading The Early Bird…
Following the thread on protests over tuition hikes on Darren’s and Donna’s blogs, I thought I’d post my own response:
I think students are notorious for being entirely too idealistic, and caught up in fighting for the impossible, instead of focusing on creating the plausable. Having taken my undergraduate degree in a department that focuses strongly on ideology (Communication) at a University that is decidedly leftist (SFU), I was exposed to this attitude for many years. I didn’t agree with the attitude then, and I don’t agree with it now.
We live in a capitalist society. It takes money to pay for everything, including education. We are not, and never will be fully communist and/or socialist, and asking for our government to provide communist and/or socialist solutions for capitalist problems is an exercise in futility.
Instead, lets focus on some solutions that work *with* the current societal structure.
Continue reading “To be, or not to be… Free that is.”
Coolest thing I’ve seen all year. Go watch. http://mail.colocation.hinet.net/~happyman/funny/sand.wmv Continue reading Sand Art
Whenever I think I suck, someone please remind me how much I kick ass under pressure 🙂
We had a major crisis at work, and I managed to stay calm, cool, collected, and do my part to solve (or mediate solutions for) the problems that affected my personal area of responsibility.