There has been a minor change of locations recently. I have temporarily relocated my educational quarters to Calgary, where I am visiting with family for a few weeks. My fingers are extremely cold as I type this entry... my body has yet to adjust to the cool temperatures of my sisters' house as compared to the sauna that I have been living in...
I need space to write. I need space to spread out my papers, my books... I need space to stretch and unfurl my limbs after sitting for extended periods of time. One day... such a room will exist. For the time being I will continue to occupy other spaces and places while I write. Just under 24 hours to the essay deadline. Off...
When you pursue a degree that is primarily conducted via distributed learning (aka online learning), get used to IM... and expressing yourself through IM handles (or monickers as my one brother likes to say). My essays undergo revision after revision. I am never satisfied. Is my theoretical framework strong enough? Are my citations correct? It's enough to drive any student insane. But then...
It's final exam time. Status report on essay: draft I (version I) complete. Status report on research paper: draft I (version I) in progress. Current status: Listening to folksy, melancholy tunes from the Blue Horse album by The Be Good Tanyas, and processing thoughts. Yes, I'm thinking. How scandalous. So, the question is, why have I returned to listening to such sombre music...
Oh my friends... today is a good day. The package from my darling mama arrived today. It was a simple looking box, but had plenty of lovely things inside. Nothing purchased especially for me mind you. The box contained my surplus of yarn and knitting needles that I had left behind me in Fort St. John so I would concentrate on school (as...
dol·drums (dldrmz, dôl-, dl-) pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) n. pl. [Cf. Gael. doltrum grief, vexation] A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks; -- so called by sailors. To be in the doldrums, to be in a state of listlessness ennui, or tedium. John...
nec·ro·man·cy (nkr-mns) n. The practice of supposedly communicating with the spirits of the dead in order to predict the future. Black magic; sorcery. Magic qualities. necromancer \Nec"ro*man`cer\, n. One who practices necromancy; dark domestic arts practitioner; knitter, especially of scarves. I recently started knitting again in a fit of jealous rage. When I moved back to Victoria in September, I left all of...
I definitely do not enjoy returning to an empty house. The stillness of the sound in an empty house is a bit unsettling. The drone of the fridge is hardly a companion. The sound of footsteps in the suite next door come too close and make me glance nervously around. I like to come home to a full blaze of lights, but I...
I cannot help but feel blacklisted lately. Some alternatives for this term are: alone, cast aside, cast away, cast off, deserted, discarded, dissipated, dropped, eliminated, empty, forgotten, forsaken, friendless, given up, jilted, left, left alone, left behind, neglected, outcast, passed up, pigeonholed, rejected, relinquished, shunned, side-tracked, sidelined, stranded, unoccupied, vacant, vacated, banish, bar, blackball, boycott, debar, ding, exclude, expel, ostracize, preclude, proscribe, reject,...
Because I am in a poetic mood I will share with you some poems, but not of my own composition because my own attempts at poetry are weak. my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform...
Trouble... I seem to get myself into too much of it lately. I am doing something wrong apparently. I have to stop. Just when I think a situation is sorted out... it turns into something ugly again. Why or how I do not know. ...
