To Speak Without Speaking
Let us have this conversation, then The one that begins in separate rooms with averted glances. Let us cross paths as less than strangers In great wide swaths and arcing…
cenobyte
Driving all day makes one circumspect
I don’t say this enough. One of the very best things about being cenobyte is the quality and quantity of cenobyte’s friends. Thank you for being so wonderful. And especially…
Poopulator
Okay, so, early this morning, I went to the radiologist for a barium swallow. You may remember this from such posts as : “I drank chalk”. It is now almost…
I drank chalk
It was frigging awesome. First, they gave me something “to put air in my belly”. “It’s a solid gas,” she said. “It will dissolve in your mouth,” she said (it…
Even if they don’t hear you on the ice
They usually hear you in the stands. I accidentally hollered “THE NEUTRAL ZONE IS NOT A HOT TUB!” because our players were a little dawdly in today’s game (which started…
Truism
For every what if?, there is an equal, and opposite and then.
Sage Words of Advice
“I really really wish that it wasn’t just expected that boys are supposed to ask girls out on a date. Because all of the guys I know are super shy…
Banjos
More to the point, I love this band. And I really love this song. I think they wrote this about me. Which was very kind of them, really. It’s like…
As It Wasn’t
Once upon a time that wasn’t, SmartyPants lived in the east end of Saskatoon. Across from a pub I used to frequent, in a house that never was. He invited…
So what’s left?
i have been writing. Just not an awful lot here. And, sadly, not an awful lot on either of the two novels i have stuffed in the metaphorical back pocket.…
Seventeen
Some days, you still break my heart.
Pride
Hotel rooms make me think weird. Never mind the bloody *crippling* anxiety/panic attack I had yesterday for absolutely no reason (I was absolutely convinced that I was dying and ought…
What the hell am I thinking?
So. Um. I may have accidentally signed up for National Novel Writing Month again. I’m pretty sure that if I manage to complete anything this month, it will be the…
It is decided
I will vote for whoever is going to fix the goddamned family medical practice system in this province. Seriously. I thought there were some *rules* here. Such as: if your…
The Trouble with Tri….al and Error
Let me just say that I am having a *great* deal of difficulty giving a damn about the election. “What election?” You might ask. That’s about how I feel about…
Where was I?
I saw you there, standing on the corner at rush hour. I thought you were standing with your friends from school. You were all talking, and, I thought, joking around.…
Catch-up
Autumn smells sweet when it rains “You’ll catch your death”, she screamed at me from a gaping doorway. All the faster I ran If I could catch my death, keep…
The Inevitable
You might not know this about me, but in a little under three weeks, I am going to be going to the Greater Metro Lumsden Downtown Core Community Hall to…
Something Ends and Something Goes On
Tonight, I was at the rink for the first time since April. It made me incredibly sad, and I don’t know why, really. Partly because while I love doing stuff…
I am the worst bournaller ever
The truth of it is that I am writing. Granted, I’m writing gaming stuff, but I’m writing. Which is cool, because I haven’t been able to write very much, and…