Now, the sad thing is that I’m only at “What’s my line”, which means I have well over an entire season to go before I can hit the new DVDs I just received today (yay!). I might skip some of the terrible episodes — “Go Fish” comes to mind (as does, alas, “Beer Bad”, for […]
I bought BtVS Season 4. (Slowly but surely. I’m only watching season 1 now, so I have a while before I get caught up.)
I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry about this one:
Most linguists worship Noam Chomsky. It is so extreme that often Chomsky will comprise 75% of the references in a linguist’s article and the peer review board will think nothing of it. However, Chomsky is prolific, and almost not linguists have has read all of […]
How do I prevent ( c ) showing up (c)? It’s really irritating.
Today the CBC was having its discussion about assisted suicide, and whether it should be legal. (Background note! Some mother just helped her 36ish year old son with MS to kill himself.)
There were some interesting arguments:
If you can get help killing yourself, you’re not likely to rush to do it while you’re still […]
Suddenly perhaps because I’ve been putting off work and now I have a meeting tomorrow and need to bring up more work. In good news, I get to start a more interesting project shortly (and will postpone the boring one I have been working on). In less good news, the flights to Europe — in […]
My computer decided it was not fond of this post, apparently. I was, but that’s too bad: I need to rewrite the whole thing. Oh yay.
I strongly suspect I’ve already decided what to do. I suspect this based on the happiness I felt when someone suggested I should leave now, based on the resignation I […]
The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was […]
Yom Kippur passed. We had tonnes of extra food. I have no idea what happened.
My mother’s cousin’s girlfriend’s niece was here. She’s 3 (and a half), and decided to adore Sam, who, being fairly amiable, accepted it. She was very serious about him, playing with him like he was a science project.
We spent […]
I watched Apprentice last night. I hadn’t watched the first two, but there are too many people to care about at the beginning, anyhow.
A few comments on clothing: bowties aren’t cool. Ever. At all. The women seem to have learned to bring longer skirts (and even pants), even though they’ll be on TV, which is […]