When you have something about “Montreal” in the show, consider doing what we call “research” on this city.
To wit:
teens don’t really go to a place where the drinking age is *higher* to get drunk — I mean, sure, people go to NYC, but it’s not to get drunk, which you can essentially do once you’re […]
I didn’t *mean* to go to the library ( . . . today, I did plan to go tomorrow), but there I was, a block away, and there was a book on hold, and sure I didn’t have the books I wanted to return but . . .
The upshot: I just took out 8 […]
The knowledge that my mother is coming over — unlike any friends or even houseguests — inspires me to do a really (comparatively) thorough job cleaning up. This is because my idea of pretty much ok is her idea of barely livable, mostly due to my aversion to floor washing. (Planned: a swiffer purchase, along […]
The problem is, Canada Post is loathe to update its tracking, so often I’ll not find out anything about a package — other than that it has shipped — until after it has been delivered. But I have books! Books coming soon! Free books! And sure, I have a pile of a dozen library books […]
Is your blogging persona more serious than your real life persona?
Yes, absolutely. (At least — I think it is? I don’t know now. Ack!)
Do you think that your blog could ruin your career?
No, but I think it’s a risk I don’t want to take. Employers prefer to hire saner people, on average, I think.
Do you […]
More discussions about moms, and where they do and should work, and what is and isn’t feminist, from Dooce. I have no stake here: I don’t have kids, though I might, one day — one never knows — and I know that, if I had the entirely free choice, I wouldn’t work, not fulltime. (No […]
So I ran across this page. And — well — what *is* it?
So I was looking up some things people search for — people search for *really weird shit*, weirder by many orders of magnitude than the periodic searches that led to this blog posts reveal.
But I was looking up one which was less weird, and probably came after some tv show described it: scurvy. And […]
I have had, for quite some time, all the needed ingredients to make my beloved apple-cheese quiche.[1] But I have been afraid, so afraid. But for the first time in I cannot recall how long, I made a pie crust that didn’t tear as I tried to roll it out, or flake itself into flakey […]
This morning, I could not flush a tampon. Oh no! I need my toilet to be able to flush properly. But it was flushing fine — lots of water moving, toilet paper went down, just not this tampon. I tried a lot of times, because water conservation is nothing when I have plumbing issues, and […]