I have a lot of postcards to mail, but I can’t find a post office.
There wasn’t much to say, anyway. It’s warm, it’s beautiful, it’s refreshing; I miss you.
From my apartment you can see shoes on a telephone line. From there, a palm tree, and beyond that, lights. At night it’s only lights. Even the sky. [...]
I’m homesick.
This reminds me of Christmas, last year. We skated around Parc Lafontaine, hungover but so happy.
I could see the outlines of figure-eights in the ice. I took my boots off, ran to the ice in my socks. Every footstep was a puddle of melted snow. I laughed about my stupidity. My feet were so wet.
I [...]
I just went to my favourite croissanterie*, got The Usual (vegetarian sandwich on croissant) and boyfriend at the counter gave me a free chocolatine, just because I’m so beautiful and charming hungry-looking.
Well, I took that bad boy to the library, and filled my cubicle with little flaky crumbs, surprisingly silently. This pastry was so buttery, it was [...]
I climbed the mountain with my friends this weekend.
After several drinks, they told me I can’t live in Montreal without climbing the mountain. I agreed, thinking flat gravel paths with charming historical plaques and maybe a lookout balcony at the halfway point. They meant vertical ascent, drunk, at midnight.
Don’t give me this “it’s just a hill” talk [...]
Yeah, it’s goddamn freezing and intermittently snowing and often just fucking cold-raining. But we built this city on stolen land; the least we can do is tolerate the weather.
And, like the song suggests, when the weather outside is frightful, check out your sweet dashboard weather widget’s precipitation infographic.
Uh, forget that anachronism– I mean, look at those [...]
This is what I have to look every time I take a piss:
Rough translation: “The ‘I didn’t know a guy could come so fast’ pill”
The plan B advertisements (Taxi’s award winning (!) Share Your Oops campaign) in English are fairly innocuous. The campaign invited women to “share their oops” moments in the tag line “The [...]