I just spent an hour or an hour and a half setting up my grandparents’ new dvd player. This included approximately 5 minutes to put the dvd player in the right place (the jacks on the tv were hard to find, and we needed to find a spare cable), 1 hour to set up the […]
Someone stole my wallet tonight. Someone else returned it, but it is missing the credit card (cancelled, no unusual charges on it), cash (of course), maybe some bus tickets, and the pickup slip for my Harry Potter preorder, which was hiding behind some business cards (conveniently left in the same slot). Who carefully looks for […]
But I have now read Harry Potter spoilers that discuss whether Harry lives or dies — unexpectedly popped up in my feed readers — and that’s ok, because I’ve read equal numbers of each spoiler. My current assumption is that one was leaked, and JKR/publishers leaked the other deliberately to foil the first leaker (I […]
I was watching The Princess Bride with my father today, the duel scene between Westley and Inigo Montoya. (Does Mandy Patinkin ever get asked to repeat that line anymore? Is he sick of it?) I marvelled at the background with the totally non-moving clouds. Then my father — who has seen this movie before, and […]
Again, I’m struggling to find things to say. I am not entirely sure what there is, even, that I am not saying.
I also feel that anything I do say would be some kind of a lie. Implying things, or leaving off implications, or lacking the right context, or about what I wish were true […]
Why is downtown Montreal full of cops? (Mostly cadets.) So far their main use seems to be making me paranoid when I cross the street. It’s nerve-wracking when I cannot jaywalk.
My grandfather today asked me if I had good friends, ones I could ask about anything. (Maybe not relations with your husband, if you had one, he added.) Yes, I said, I do have those friends. (The fact that I *won’t* bring up anything doesn’t mean I couldn’t; it’s my insanity, not my friends’ lack […]
Mr. Cat has been returned to me until his eye infection clears up. He was lying down, all sad, in the litter box. He purred when I picked him up. Crap.
One of the cats is in adoption, but adoption is full full full, piles of cages everywhere. A small, scared black cat? She’s going to get lost. Especially, I think, as she’s not with her brother, whose eye infection returned the second he got back to the shelter. They’re looking for another foster family for […]
Today I went to my great-uncle’s unveiling, to my grandparents’ house for a lunch, and then to a three hour nap. I am still totally exhausted, and dizzy, perhaps with the exhaustion, perhaps not, but dizzy nonetheless. (And if you’ve seen the stairs to and in my place, you know dizziness is risky.)
I don’t remember […]