how does one deal with making costly and obvious mistakes, through one’s own ignorance or absentmindedness? mistakes such as booking the wrong plane tickets, and then booking the tickets incorrectly AGAIN. Non-Refundable tickets. I think I’m going to go crawl in a hole and die now.
lying in bed listening to Sarah McLachlan every rhythm familiar like the lines on my palm like the lines in my heart like a girl I once was who used to lie in bed listening to these same songs and sit on the choral risers at lunch hour eating noodles out of a plastic microwavable [...]
Strangest thing I saw today: an old man walking down the street wearing a black t-shirt that said “SPICY COW” across the front in large red lettering. Huh?? I did a double-take. The back of the shirt said “MOO”.
since tom went away on friday I’ve been hanging out at home by myself a lot. I’m not used to hanging out in this house by myself – when I was alone in dublin I felt no guilt if I came home, ate toast and scrambled eggs for dinner, and spent the whole evening reading [...]
the sheer hilarity brought on by the phonetics of the word jiggle. (recommended: right-click and save as) That takes me way back, back to a cold day in an edmonton winter three years ago when we were sitting around with tat & nick, talking about funny words. tat said the one word that just made [...]
After the wild clematis lose their petals, all that is left are the wispy centers. the pattern of the wisps around the center is classic fibbonacci, each curling wisp a perfect curlicue. so natural, and yet the shapes remind me of plastic tongue ring attachments, or fake rubber aliens in a b-movie. Click on the [...]
This afternoon I ran in the cork women’s mini marathon. It’s an annual charity fund-raising event, and it’s massive: some 7000-odd women and men dressed in curly blond wigs and skirts participated today. I went with a bunch of people from work, most of whom I haven’t seen in months. J, a girl I was [...]
10. no longer needing my housekeys to turn on the hot water in the morning (my flat in dublin had the most bizzare layout…) 9. hearing cork accents everywhere 8. curling up with a book and a cup of tea on the couch 7. finishing those self-assemble shelves that have been driving me nuts for [...]
I spent most of last weekend curled up on the couch with a blanket and a cup of tea, watching simpsons episodes one after the other. Outside, the wind heaved itself against the house, branches flailing everywhere and rain falling against the windows in gusts and patches. There is a chill in the wind now [...]
there’s an advertising campaign going on here that shows people in the middle of athletic activities with a water bottle next to them – “bodies never lie” this weekend my body said, loud and clear: “stop working so hard!” I obeyed the message, went to the afterhours doctor, drank liters of water, filled my prescription, [...]
