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Important item: shelter

Sunday, July 26, 2009

The thing that has been occupying my mind the most is housing.  It’s really not the first priority (that would be getting visas) but I’ve started spending ridiculous amounts of time combing through housing ads.  Here are some things British housing ads feature that Canadian ones generally do not: rents are generally listed weekly; the [...]

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Ikea washroom fun

Friday, July 20, 2007

A random 9 year old boy, in the women’s washroom, wiped his nose on my sleeve. Yep. I walked in, and he made a beeline straight for me. I thought for a second, am I in the wrong one? Nope, no urinals, he must be in the wrong one here. Then I thought, maybe I’m [...]

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bizarre.

Thursday, March 8, 2007

One of my boyfriend’s coworkers saw this on top of the bus shelter on his way to work: He said he was 100% sure it was a dead baby kangaroo. Yes, a KANGAROO. Poor roo. And I guess we’ll never find out how it got there.

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ugly bike!

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Monday morning I skipped work to find a new fork. Only one that fit was ugly as hell, but I bought it anyway. Bike should be done today. I’m afraid to look at it. Hell, I’m afraid to go to the shop at all. Anyway, I think the first thing I’ll do is ride that [...]

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B is for "Bus" and "Bite my shiny metal ass"

Monday, November 6, 2006

I hate the bus at 8:30 am on a weekday, possibly even more than the Skytrain at the same time. Skytrain’s more crowded, but the bus is more… sticky. The only reason why I was on said bus was that my bike is at James’ house and I wasn’t walking over there this morning. Last [...]

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HO-LY-SHIT

Thursday, July 13, 2006

YOU HAVE TO READ THIS WHOLE ENTRY In the summer of 2003 I worked at a kid’s camp. We had a gymnastics program. There was one gym coach that everybody loved because he was SUCH a teddy bear but I thought he was vaguely sketchy and acted in ways that were a bit inappropriate with [...]

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oh hey

Tuesday, May 9, 2006

I forgot to mention this yesterday. When I was walking from the office to the parking lot yesterday to get my bike and go home, I think I got assaulted by a woman with the WORST mullet I have ever seen. I saw the mullet approaching… the bangs were like a bowlcut, but it was [...]

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a quick one since it's almost lunchtime

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

The other day when I was trying to ride my bike and almost getting blown over, I saw a guy outside an apartment building blowing leaves around with a leaf blower. In like gale force winds. Why???

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What an odd day

Friday, February 3, 2006

I schlepped around all morning trying to find a round unsliced loaf of pumpernickel bread. No luck. An old guy in a motorized wheelchair, was walking the same way as me and kept telling dirty jokes most of the way home. “Why do you think I want to get in your pants so bad?” – [...]

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