It annoys me when people say, of someone who is doing really stupid/hurtful/cruel/(self-)destructive things, “So-and-so is doing the best that they can.”
Look, this might be true. Sometimes it is true. You do what you can, and sometimes just not being more stupid or hurtful or cruel or destructive than you are being is all you […]
Yesterday was a beach day (today wasn’t, luckily; I’m getting a horrible heat rash and would have had to take today off anyhow). My grandparents also came down the day before, so were on the beach yesterday. (Going to Boston seems unlikely at best. I will probably head to NH again, that’s it.)
As 85 year […]
What with the strong Canadian dollar, I hear more French here than English, by a long shot. It’s just like being home, only on the ocean and with crappy stolen wireless.
The water today was 66. If only the waves hadn’t been atrocious. I’m hoping for at least that warm (balmy! unbelievable!) tomorrow. Veer west, […]
Though I think lolcats are absurd:
Your Score: Sad Cookie Cat
55% Affectionate, 48% Excitable, 66% Hungry
You are the classic Shakespearian tragedy of the lolcat universe. The sad story of a baking a cookie, succumbing to gluttony, and in turn consuming the very cookie that was to be […]
So, I had plans to go to the Harry Potter party. And then I read, the store manager is dressing up as Voldemort, and they will be doing reenactments of battle scenes (no idea which ones), and I admit, I’m a little scared. Even more so when they say the party will start at 8, […]
Like every Canadian, I gloated a bit when Conrad Black was found guilty, even not all on the charges. (I’m also amused that they’re considering revoking the Order of Canada. And that he actually is probably not allowed into Canada at all anymore, what with being a convicted felon.) This rather ruins his social superiority […]
In just a few days I am leaving for Maine. I have been thinking that I ought to start packing. Or maybe just make a list of what I need to pack. Or something. I mean, I can’t pack at the last minute this time, I’ll be *reading*. But I had PMS and bad mood […]
My mother does not read the Harry Potter books. She does watch the movies, so she’s now up to Order of the Phoenix (Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge was phenomenal, incidentally, and entirely worth the movie, though other than the ending — from the time Harry et al get to the Ministry — I thought […]
How fun, I thought, when I picked up the book, and first started reading it. A “what would happen if we decided to have our own, Canadian monarch?” story, set not too long from now. (Either the dates were made unclear or I didn’t notice them.) And the first part of the book is very […]
I watched Ratatouille the other night and I just don’t get the universal acclaim being heaped on it. I mean, it’s not a bad movie. It’s a cute, fun movie. It has incredible, incredible animation — seriously beautiful from beginning to end. But that’s it. The story is meh, the accents made me want to […]