Archive for November, 2006

Celebrity Meme

It’s Wednesday night and I’m bored and looking for a way to procrastinate from doing research. It’s been a hectic couple of days since the lawyer I work for is out of town tomorrow and Friday, which meant that my “month-end” was today. So it’s been productive, but now I just feel like vegging.
And […]

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Accents

So all right, I’m not American, but I was curious what my Canadian accent would be most similar to.

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland

“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, […]

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Randomness

Well, it’s not completely random. Some of these pictures are from the weekend.
The original plan for Friday after work was to stop at the library situated at the ferry terminal over here on the Dartmouth side to do some research for an hour or so and then go home, figuring that Neal would be […]

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Ready! Aim! Fire!

When I was 12 years old, my elementary school took our Grade 6 class to a camp for our graduation trip. It was a ranch, so obviously the focus was on learning about horses, but one of our activities was going out in the woods to a designated spot and shooting at targets with […]

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Congratulations to Georges St-Pierre of Montreal, Quebec, for beating Matt Hughes at the Ultimate Fighter Championships!! That was an AWESOME fight!
As a sign of a supporter in the crowd read: “Vas-Y GSP!”

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I’m finding it really hard these days to get any work done on my novel. I’m not quite sure why. I guess it doesn’t help that now I live on my own so I have to do all of my own cleaning and cooking and spend time with Milo and do up the garbage. And […]

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Remembrance Day Pictures

When I was little, I went to Sunday School up in Rawdon, the village my grandmother lives in. Each year, there would be a ceremony up at the cenotaph on the Sunday closest to Remembrance Day. Like a lot of people I’ve spoken to, Remembrance Day memories are always linked to memories of […]

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Woo Hoo!

Yay!! I am able to post at home again!! I’m sure my dad will be especially happy since he’s always saying I don’t update enough.
Last weekend, we actually didn’t get to see “Borat”. The four of us (me, Neal, Dan and Jenny) got to the theatre, bought the tickets, got our concessions, […]

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Testing

Testing, testing 1-2-3

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A Pittance of Time

One of the lawyers I work for forwarded a powerful video today to all of us. It’s a song written and sung by Terry Kelly, a blind Canadian who is a member of the national CNIB.
On November 11th, 1999, a man walked into a Shoppers Drug Mart and continuously demanded the clerk to […]

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