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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
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4:00 pm
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"Vade Mecum"
I want the scissors to be sharp
and the table perfectly level
when you cut me out of my life
and paste me in that book you always carry. --Billy Collins
Happy Canada Day
current mood: exasperated
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| Monday, June 30th, 2008
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9:23 pm - bad dreams like this roll in like a cold front
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there is a sweet, sweet bicycle laying upright against the wall in my backyard. i would love to take it for a spin tonight, but i've spent the majority of the weekend timid and tense - i am learning about bleeding and it will be weeks before i ride again.
and of bikes and riding: i think fondly of n. and the passing of time; i am increasingly inspired to go-go-go-get away from here. me: so unwholesome next to her sound righteousness. my debt to her: an impossible vacuum in which i will surely burn infinite. (still, i won't go down easy - i am no smooth elixir.)
with my palms outstretched and ticket in hand, i will cross your waters some day.
current mood: guilty
current music: a. difranco, icarus
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| Sunday, May 25th, 2008
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10:46 am
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i am going to bomb this.
too spaced to do it right, too grounded to take it lightly. and i'm sorry on top of things. i have been too.... and not enough.... i forget the sensation of firmer ground.
balance, you say. what's that?
current music: kaki king, joi
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| Saturday, March 15th, 2008
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9:26 pm - twisted tits and face smashed against the mattress
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| Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
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9:43 pm
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"Provisions"
What should we have taken
with us? We never could decide
on that; or what to wear,
or at what time of
year we should make the journey
So here we are in thin
raincoats and rubber boots
On the disasterous ice, the wind rising
Nothing in our pockets
But a pencil stub, two oranges
Four Toronto streetcar tickets
And an elastic band holding a bundle
of small white filing cards
printed with important facts.
--Margaret Atwood
current mood: anxious
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| Monday, March 10th, 2008
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4:20 am - baby 'cause in the dark you can't see shiny cars
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i have no shortage of things to accomplish during this insomniac spree, yet i find myself surfing idly and glancing over my shoulder in increasingly infrequent intervals. there is something about the night that changes this house, even with all the lights on. i try to read and am interrupted by my own imagination's frightful fancies. i type away with one earphone in, straining to listen against the low volume for...what? i don't know.
onto other things. i find this amusing:
current mood: awake
current music: tee and ess, umbrella
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| Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
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9:45 am - i'm on the same side as you i'm just a little bit behind
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current mood: weird
current music: cat power, willie
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| Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
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12:47 pm - anti-bullying
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| Thursday, February 21st, 2008
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10:01 pm
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oh sweet black universe, give me back candy's address!
i cannot accept that i've lost her for good. not as long as i can still hear her hearty, wild-woman growl-howl over the grinding gears of the greyhound we shared once upon a time.
come back, ms roo.
current mood: despaired
current music: k. king, these are the armies of the tyrannized
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| Monday, February 18th, 2008
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3:15 pm - mindless self-indulgence
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Directions: Type "(your name) is" with the quotation marks, into a Google search then pick out your favorite 5 responses. Copy, then repost your responses. Here are mine:
Christel is a gentle, cuddly little girl who is also helpful and independent.
Christel is not a member of any public groups.
christel is an independent privately owned company based in hampshire
Christel is the youngest of four children with a solo-quality father and a mother who directs children's choirs at church.
Christel is accused of an assassination attempt and finally condemned.
The Blogalyser reveals...Your blog/web page text has an overall readability index of 14.
This suggests that your writing style is conventional
(to communicate well you should aim for a figure between 10 and 20).
Your blog has 8 sentences per entry, which suggests your general message is distinguished by clarity
(writing for the web should be concise).
CHARACTER MATRIX| male |   | female |
| self |    | world |
| past |    | future |
Your text shows characteristics which are 54% male and 46% female
(for more information see the Gender Genie).
Looking at pronoun indicators, you write mainly about yourself, then the world in general and finally your social circle. Also, your writing focuses primarily on the present, next the past and lastly the future.
Find out what your blogging style is like!
EDIT: So, chreid, your LiveJournal reveals...
You are... 2% unique (blame, for example, your interest in mélissa laveaux) and 16% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy writing). When it comes to friends you are normal. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are wary of trusting strangers. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is intellectual.
Your overall weirdness is: 18(The average level of weirdness is: 28.
You are weirder than 37% of other LJers.)
Find out what your weirdness level is!
current mood: apathetic
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12:45 pm - if you're gonna do it overdo it
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What's your take on the abundance of Obay ads posted around the city?
I love them. I'm anxious for the corporate revelation in the coming weeks though, and that makes me a little afraid. The Conformists are taking a stab at non-conformity, what, by releasing ads that have piqued interest all over the city and all. A bit of sick humour and everyone stands at the utmost attention - are we really that cynical? I know I am. (I must say, I am far more intrigued by this little gem than the Bell-gift-fiasco from a few winters ago. Remember those damned blue presents plastered over every inch of available wall space in this city?)
A sheep I may be, so bring it on, Corporate Canada!
(An article I found on Torontoist.)
current mood: cold
current music: ani, used to you
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| Friday, January 11th, 2008
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11:28 pm
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It seemed, at the time, a very good idea to destroy all evidence of having ever known her. She was already on her way over, but this blaze was a quick one and it burned hot and fast, understanding the urgency. The smoky clouds were cleared by the penetrating glare of the full moon, and the scent was absorbed by a bounty of pine. Clean slate.
Later, when she came around for her things and to slaughter the unworthy, run-around swine, she was sore and surprised. Nothingness replaced her remaining belongings. Empty space. No body in the vulnerable, blistering void. No deliciously severed prize-pig tonight. She swung and raised her axe suddenly and lashed out at the supple earth beneath her. With a primitive roar, she split the soil and rendered the merciless exposure of the private confines of anthills and tree roots. The weapon wedged in the ground and mocked her: sharp, tall, upright.
She abandoned the axe. She trudged through the gardens. Collapsed in the car, and finally awoke.
current mood: exhausted
current music: kaki king, close your eyes & you'll burst into flames
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| Friday, January 4th, 2008
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12:52 am
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forgive away in the excitement
of certain happiness and a blonde promise
fate!
i will propose my ornament
but darling
not tonight
current mood: elated
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| Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
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10:21 pm - keep your eye on that one
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Ani D. meets the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Could I have a bigger dream come true?!
(This is actually pretty cute.)
current mood: amused
current music: ani, anticipate
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| Sunday, December 9th, 2007
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10:40 am - if you always get up late you'll never be on time
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dreamt of strangers knocking on the back door, commuter planes parked in the driveway, the neighbour-kids climbing through holes in the drywall.
i am expecting a visitor, it seems.
current music: broken social scene, swimmers
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| Saturday, August 4th, 2007
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9:32 pm
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be of love (a little)
More careful
Than of everything
e.e. cummings
current mood: melancholy
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| Monday, July 30th, 2007
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8:20 pm - i had to leave the house of television to start noticing the clouds
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I am back from Hillside.
We arrived in Guelph at about noon. Checked in, ate, shopped, then made our way out to the island for Ani D. and so much more.
I'd love to volunteer at this event next year and really experience it all. What an excellent evening, though, regardless of it only being that one.
current mood: exhausted, but happy!
current music: ani d., shroud
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| Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
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11:59 pm - stolen from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sonjaaa
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current mood: exhausted
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| Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
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7:26 pm - you've been planning to remember this so nothing will be lost in the end
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I was just on chapters.indigo.ca browsing French grammar/verb conjugation guides when I clicked on Bescherelle 3: La grammaire pour tous and noticed the icon beneath the graphic of the book cover.
Add to Facebook?!
current mood: curious
current music: tee and ess, burn your life down
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| Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
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7:40 pm - he was new in town i was nineteen
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i've finally decided to start actively saving my dough so i can go back to school in the near future. (glendon, here i come!) however, i am a realist, and as such, i am not expecting this excruciating saving process to take any less than four years. i probably won't be able to afford downtown rent in the meantime - unless a roommate comes along, but i'm hardly looking. oshawa is looking as nasty as ever, but it turning out to be a viable option, dare i say it.
september will send me topsy-turvey, but with some sense of direction in the long run - the looming hint of an exit strategy will keep me going. (again.)
...or does anyone want to lend me thirty thousand dollars so we can just forget this whole messy ordeal?
current mood: contemplative
current music: amanda marshall, dark horse
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