| don't name things |
[Mar. 16th, 2008|03:07 am] |
i am sad to say goodbye to my old computer :( see you, oliver! |
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| oh my own voice cannot save me now |
[Mar. 12th, 2008|05:00 am] |
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| | tv on the radio - staring at the sun | ] |
being home is great even though i am all alone and am feeling a little bit crazy from not seeing any other people for about three days now. i've only been outside a couple of times since i got here but the weather is incredible and the skies are fantastic. something about the light here seems to make everything feel more alive (despite everything being dead and brown) and i missed that (but then again i'm biased).
i haven't been doing much of anything. navigating an unfamiliar kitchen without the actual owner of the kitchen present is more difficult than you'd think. especially since it's my parents' kitchen, you'd expect that i might have some understanding of their system, but i don't. i spent literally 45 minutes the first night i was here trying (unsuccessfully) to find a cutting board. and tonight i was making grilled portobello mushrooms and somehow accidentally turned the oven on to self-clean mode. for a while i thought i would have to wait the three hours of self-clean time until i finally mashed enough buttons to turn the thing off.
after dinner, i made brownies which are delicious but got stuck in the pan. oh well. i guess i'm on a cold streak. tomorrow i have better plans.
i want to:
- not watch 8 million episodes of entourage
- go to the library
- buy some fruit (i'm getting scurvy here!)
- call up some people who might be in town
- see my parents!
- hit the local record shop for a cd i've been wanting for aaaages that seems to only be available here in calgary
lately i've spent way too much time downloading music since i've suddenly been granted seemingly limitless hard drive space after rationing downloads for quite a long time. it's exhilarating. i am a nerd. |
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| i think that it's catching on, i'll move out to saskatchewan |
[Mar. 9th, 2008|04:41 pm] |
i am in the saskatoon airport right now on my way home. i was supposed to leave from london yesterday evening, but the biggest storm of the winter pretty swiftly derailed that plan. instead, i was rebooked onto an oh-so-convenient flight leaving from london at 8:30, stopping for a 2.5 hour layover at pearson, flying to saskatoon where i have three more hours to kill, until finally flying into calgary. ahh! oh AND it's spring ahead, and i hate spring ahead.
there is (surprise surprise) not that much to do in the saskatoon airport and i was feeling pretty bitter about the lack of any vegetarian options for lunch. i was all set to write an (even more) complaint-filled diatribe than what i have... but then i found a table with an outlet AND discovered that there is free wireless here, AND i have a beautiful view in a sunny room with big windows watching planes take off over the prairies, and i decided that the saskatoon airport is pretty sweet. i still want to get home though.
when i get home it won't even truly be "home", since my parents moved over the christmas break and i'll be spending my first night in the new house. also, my parents left to go back country skiing today, so there won't even be anyone to let me in! my dad hid a key for me and i really hope it works since he left me a bunch of confusing directions saying that it "should work if i keep trying" and if all else fails to go ask the neighbours to help me. embarrassingly, i don't even know directions to my new house so i guess i should learn that in my time here, too. |
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