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07:11 am
[Link] |
hmm?
High IQ link to being vegetarian
Intelligent children are more likely to become vegetarians later in life, a study says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6180753.stm
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03:41 pm
[Link] | I feel like I'm a spider about to have it's legs ripped off.
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01:19 pm
[Link] |
"All we ask for is your time, your blood and your money"
Yesterday afternoon, I passed a beautiful old lady with a thick blond wig on and I couldn't not smile at her... and then, it seemed she couldn't resist a tap-tap-tap on my tummy with the rolled up newspaper in her hand.
I wish more strangers would share a friendly belly taps. It was refreshing.
On the same note, I can't wait to be the old lady that can get away with stuff like that.
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12:07 pm
[Link] | Ooh, I just got invited to come and spin wool and Alpaca fibre at Windreach farm during "Apples, trails and other tails".
SO MUCH FUN!
http://www.windreach.org/canada/
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12:05 am
[Link] | pregnant pauses
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06:50 pm
[Link] |
Abstraction aside
Goldie (my beautiful car) and I were in an accident this afternoon.
A guy was turning left and was in the middle of the intersection and then gunned it right into Goldie's side.
I seem to have survived after lots of ugly crying and hugs from strangers, but I don't think that Goldie is going to make it.
RIP Goldie. <--- she hasn't been viewed by the CARoner (get it?) yet, but the wise words of the tow truck drivers led me to believe things weren't good.
Thought going through my head:
Obviously, I think that everything happens for a reason and now I need to figure out what that reason was..
a) prevented a worse accident? The guy that hit me wasn't supposed to be driving, he had previous impaired driving charges and a condition of his parole was that he was not supposed to be in the front of any car... so he got arrested..
b) i am not supposed to go to camp muskoka/bracebridge this week as I had planned. i was supposed to go up to volunteer/get a feel for the place and see if it is somewhere I would infact want to work/get better acquainted with the folks up there and see if they would want me to work with them.
c) Goldie with her 6-cyl engine was hurting the environment too much and i am supposed to be either not driving or getting a more fuel efficient car.
d) Maybe the people that were helping and hugging me needed the hugs more than i did?
hmmm.
and I bought this beautiful amber necklace today.. after some reservation, because i don't wear necklaces like this... now I find myself reading up about it to find out if it is some good luck thing (ie. i'm still alive), or bad luck thing.
The last trip that Goldie and I had was to beautiful Kleinburg, ON, where I met Ruth for breakfast in the garden and where later I found myself in a bookstore reading this and knowing that it would all be okay.
( from max with love, )
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11:24 pm
[Link] | Aaah.
I just watched most of the PETA CD I got at the Vegfest this weekend.
Such a bad idea for me to watch things so disturbing right before bed.
Time to make changes.
I was hanging out with some folks this weekend that followed The Grateful Dead around... it made me reflect on my uptight ways? Or ... I just wish I could care that much and be that carefree.
Wow, there is the problem - carefree, with every care in the world.
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03:01 pm
[Link] | And just for the record,
I am working at a camp in Parry Sound right now.
Managed to escape for a few more weeks....
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02:56 pm
[Link] |
Two year anniversary.
This time last year I was lighting sweetgrass incense by the water and remembering.
I am still remembering, only I have no sweetgrass left to burn.
Oooh.
I feel like it is bubbling (gurgling) up inside me as I write this.
Perhaps I AM just being held together by tape scraps and bits of chewing gum.
Resting in peace.
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09:34 am
[Link] | Someone keyed Goldie.
Not
cool.
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02:41 pm
[Link] |
zing?
"SUBMISSIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED FROM PEOPLE ONLY -
We are NOT seeking Actors or Models!"
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08:23 pm
[Link] |
absolve this!
postcard confessional:
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/#112225322103197916
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07:48 pm
[Link] |
for you, baby... regular price.
Eating cherries.
Spent 45 minutes hiding in the forest today during a good solid thunder storm, rubbing moss and ground up leaves into my mosquito bites and imagining that:
a) I would discover the uber-anti-itch-salve and make my fortune rubbing Hamilton's dirt onto other people's itchy places. ugh.
b) I would come out of the forest and find that nothing was left.. and would trek back into the forest to live happily ever after.
c) someone was going to come and tell me that the worst place to be during a lightening storm is under a tree, and that I was going to reply "Everytime that I have gone out with the hopes of being struck by lightening, it has never happened... I don't expect my fortune to change anytime soon".
d) someone would one day compliment me with the hilarious hip hop pick up line, "baby, you're like a brown stallion on roller skates".
It was pretty great in there.
I'm going to keep my eye on the weather and make plans to be back in those shady places when the clouds crack open.
Yesterday was a beautiful day.
I felt refreshed. Quality time and quality people.
The ache in my legs is a testament to the good times that were had.
TEstify!
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06:28 pm
[Link] | I am sitting in the backyard
stealing wireless internet from the
neighbours.
It's best to get this deviant behaviour out of my system now,
I would hate to have my future children see me like this.
I am building up momentum to start running-
Step one: Read a book about running
Step two: Shop for running clothes
Step three: Buy MP3 player to allow for skip-free running tunes
Step four: Download music to new MP3 player
Step five: Attempt to shop for clothes for the second time
Step six: Consider sewing own running clothes
Step seven: Sit in the backyard and confess to no one in particular that I am only at step seven...?
I'm a real life inaction figure.
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02:14 pm
[Link] | I just said goodbye to my first official class
of students.
Three of them cried, which made me cry a little, but mostly it was pretty joyful.
I have had such a good time with this group.
Grade 12 drama at a private school for international students who all, for the most part, want to be here.
There were definitely challenges and I have quite a terrifying "teacher face" now but. . . oh.. . oh my.. I totally yeah.. it feels much the same as when I complete a show and the cast says goodbye and you all know that you'll never have those people in your life, in the same great way again.
Celebrate those lucky times.
Aww.
Okay.
Going to go and sit in my desk and
be quiet for a while.
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06:04 pm
[Link] |
won juan one
Still kickin' it in the Hamilton jungle.
Lately I've been feeling this sense of doom... yeah.. doom?
Like something terrible is going to happen to me.
It most definitely has something to do with me being
caught what feels like a endless reel of, "so you're home alone..."
safety videos.
And anticipating the moment that I hear the sound of
breaking glass,
followed by heavy footsteps running up the stairs and
the "thwap!" of something piercing my skull.
Wow, that sounds so awful. But yeah...
5,
4,
3,
2,
(side note: I feel like the doom could be car accident related, or maybe just something I ate... but something is coming to get me)
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11:03 pm
[Link] |
Your home sweet home
So I have moved into my new accomodations for the month.
Living in the house of a woman I have never met,
or spoken to,
whose name is Lynn and
that is all I know.
She is in South Africa for a little while and I am staying here,
guarding her fortress and feeding her cat, Scrabble, until she
returns.
She has lots of great books.
and a backyard with a swing
and a very unkempt front lawn that
she doesn't care to maintain
and that drives her neighbours crazy.
I walked/drove around Hamilton tonight and
maybe fell in love.
So much good easy listening
and lots of smiles and waves from the locals
(and not just the creepy old locals, even some
bright eyed whipper-snappers were making kind eyes at
mama murphy).
When I look at her bookshelves the first three books that catch my eye are:
"Freud on Women"
"The styles of European art"
"MLA handbook"
Apparently she is quite happy to have me
(me? i wonder if she is wondering about me?)
have dinner parties and what have you.
Now it is time to go shower in her shower
and sleep in her bed.
hmm.
better to not think about it?
grateful!
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05:54 pm
[Link] |
Own it.
Tried hard to go tubing today -
ended up at the Elora quarry
in a borrowed purple one-piece
wishing that I had a toddler
in water-wings that I could
keep within arms length.
I guess these things happen.
I am wondering if the secret to staying young is to keep in touch with
friends who live with their parents
and when their parents go out of town
throw house parties.
Not, fancy dinner parties, but good quality, down home
"we're teenagers living on the edge" house parties.
This weekend is dedicated to testing out my youth serum hypothesis.
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04:06 pm
[Link] |
hostage "x"
Defeated.
The fact of the matter is ...
the highlight of today
may or may not have been when I discovered
a type of
Sculpey modelling clay that once baked,
turns into an eraser.
Who wouldn't love recieving a personalized eraser?
Not me...?
I had a stressful teaching day.
I was teaching the not-so-little ones about the ins-and-outs of relaxation.
A good relaxation teacher maybe can't live by example?
go go go go ..
you cAN DO it!
Relax!
More!
Relax harder!
do it.
seriously, do it.
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09:43 pm
[Link] | I've had plenty o' daddies
and you ain't the worst.
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