March 10 10
i have a job interview coming up and it’s a pretty big one. i’m kinda psyched about it. but i’m not talking about it much. it’s more of a “when i talk about it i get freaked out but when i think about it i can plan and control things” feeling more than anything [...]
January 2 10
i’m bringing the album back into my music life in 2010. i’ll try to record them as I listen to them (but no more than one recorded item per day.)
December 22 09
i’m back. maybe. we’ll see.
the long story is boring. the short story is that i lost my muse. perhaps i’ve discovered a new one? time will tell.
merry christmas.
November 14 09
this blog is going back into hibernation. i may be one of the most advanced bunburryists you know, but things aren’t as fun as they once were.
i’ll post once or twice more when an archive is properly developed and a new corner is found that i might speak from.
November 9 09
I’m not American. I have American cousins and American friends; my in-laws also live in the States. One of my closest friends carries an American passport, as does his child. My life is saturated with American culture. But, I’m not American.
Sometimes I feel like have a maligned insider/outsider view of the USA, though. I’ve lived [...]
October 12 09
i was angry a lot when i was younger. i wasn’t violent or a danger to self or society, but i was definitely jaded and annoyed. my wit had spoiled into an awful cynicism as i let myself believe that Things Hadn’t Worked Out, or at the very least, that Things Weren’t Going to Plan.
Although [...]
October 12 09
earlier today i was listening to shelagh rogers interview george elliott clarke on the cbc (possibly the link is here: http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/nextchapter_20091009_21352.mp3). GEC was speaking generally about the racial and cultural history of Halifax and how it affected his childhood and informed his life. He noted well that Halifax, founded in 1749, allowed its prominent (read: [...]
October 12 09
i’m helping a friend reinvent the wheel by shifting her online magainze to a new cms, and i’m having a bit of fun by it. i’ve accumulated a lot of knowledge about cms’s like MT, WP, and Drupal over the past few years, and I’m still a little surprised when i find myself able to [...]
September 11 09
it’s september, school is in, and so is the flu bug. all around me people are getting sick, and i think i’m about to do down for the count as well. all week i was feeling groggy when i really shouldn’t have, and then this afternoon i noticed my throat becoming increasingly scratchy and my [...]