Having lived in Toronto, I can take in a few frames of a movie and declare: "Oh, that’s Toronto."
"How do you know?" will come the invariable suspicious question.
"Look, that’s Kipling, the end of the Bloor-Danforth line." Or it’ll be "That’s the Bloor Cinema, I have so been in there! I saw the Grease Singalong and [...]
Thus read the subject of the e-mail my older brother A sent me yesterday. I just got around to reading it today, and he is totally right – it is cool. It flies in the face of negative stereotypes about Mexican intelligence, motivation and achievement. From the April 2005 edition of Wired Magazine.
Well, not really. Well, no, let’s not be too modest. I do rock. But do I "rawk?" Probably not.
Anyway, the reason why I do indeed rock besides my intelligence, stunning good looks and modest nature? I’ve finished my half of the big event, and am waiting on someone else to finish theirs so I can [...]
Today I had what could be described as my best run of the year. I began my run at 12:30pm, setting my stopwatch to see how well I’d do on this, my third running day in a row (I run three in a row usually, but it’s the final run that lacks oomph usually).
First half-mile: [...]
Dear Carnivale:
I’ve already said that I love you. But I need to ask you something this time around:
What the hell? No, seriously. What. The. Hell?
I am not happy with that episode at all. We’d better get a) Season 3 or b) a good long HBO-produced movie wrapping it all up in a neat little package [...]
Well, not stupid so much as exciting if not a little bit intimidating. Even though I’ve trained for one before, I’ve never actually gone through the experience of running a half-marathon. I made a New Year’s resolution to find a marathon outside of Michigan and train for it. I gave myself some parameters and searched [...]
Brother A, about to Have Dinner: I’m-a gonna have-a my-a Chicken Carbonara (waving around Lean Cuisine Chicken Carbonara box, dancing happily and saying this in a sing-song voice)
WordNerd: No, you can’t-a, it’s a Friday* (said in same sing-song voice)
Brother A: (face drops) Oh.
Wow, I’m a soul crusher, aren’t I?
*As the last Friday in Lent, being [...]
Written on Thursday night, but published as I enjoy time away from my computer on Friday.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~As the troublemaker/guinea pig in my immediate family, I’ve had the special privilege of enduring punishments and ceremonies that my siblings have easily escaped. As the first-born female, I’ve been the one who experiences the most pressure to conform and [...]
Because I can.
And for the kicks. It’s always for the kicks.
Because I am slowly but surely making my way through five hours of sunny Sebring . . .
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I was reading my latest assignment (Sexing the Cherry), and happened to look up and out of my window. My window faces the east end of campus, and I get a spectacular view of the red neon sign [...]
