Eliza was SO excited — she’d been waiting for this day for more than five years: we went shopping together!

curls by Conair
The Beautifuls [*see this post for some background info*] — Sergio, Eliza, Kristin, and myself — gathered at Eliza’s after we ate our fill at Bistro Sakana. There we joined the other Beautifuls — Eliza’s cats Ebi and Tako — and I proceeded to try out a set of hot rollers I just [...]

Saw Les Invasions barbares, or The Barbarian Invasions by Quebec filmmaker Denys Arcand. It is apparently a sequel to his 1986 piece, Le Déclin de l’empire américain, or Decline of the American Empire, which I haven’t seen but will now.

I wasn’t blown away by the film, but its depiction of the last days of a [...]

Talk about an exercise in frustration. It was as if all the technical glitches at work started at the stroke of midnight, as the weekend morphed into the week again! Isn’t there a Murphy’s Law for that??

Look what Sergio made us for Christmas! Matching “Suck Me Beautiful” T-shirts! OK, I really should explain the story behind this… it goes back exactly four years, when Sergio was still living in Vancouver and working at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel front desk. It was Saturday afternoon, and Sergio had four hours off, so [...]

Woke up looking like hell [must've been the combination of red wine, copious amounts of Ghirardelli chocolate, then a bag of salt and vinegar Ruffles potato chips], but otherwise a pleasant day… I think it was the chips that took us over the edge. We’re getting old! ha!
Finally saw the Billy Wilder movie The Apartment [...]

Tough, tough day at the hospital. I won’t even get into it here… every time I try to describe the afternoon, I get worked up.

he’s trying to psyche me out

“I beat Gail! I beat Gail!”

Then I got beaten at Scrabble by Adrian! It took him more than a year and a half, but he finally [...]

Yesterday:
Felt totally inhuman yesterday. Too many all-nighters. I’m over 30 now, so maybe I shouldn’t be expecting my body to handle this kind of schedule without a lot of resistance. [It's not like I'm trying to make some kind of Guinness World Book record... I'm not doing this because I want to!] Fell asleep [...]

Or, at least that’s what I’m telling myself right now. Wrote another exam today, and was pressed for time as I was so busy studying on the Skytrain that I missed my connecting station and ended up going all the way around the Millennium Line Loop to SFU via Coquitlam. I wrote my CMS exam [...]

Pulled another all-nighter — surprise surprise — and wrote the Sociology exam this morning. Had an hour’s kip before fetching the co-op car at 7:30am. This is my fourth co-op vehicle and so far it’s my favourite: 2003 Toyota Hybrid Prius. It’s a bit different to drive, but not in a bad way, just a [...]