Happy Birthday, neeuqdrazil!!!! Have a wonderful day and next year, sistermine :)

"Yes, friends, and all your broad and crowded thoroughfares are strewn with the beans of the devil."

London Evening Advertiser and Family News, October 28, 1864

Yes, beans. Yes, there's context. But it doesn't make a lot more sense.

But inevitably have to.

(With a cat)

"What are we eating?"

I've been wanting to start this for a while - every day (hopefully, I'll go through a page of the dictionary and pick out the word I like best.

abdabs (often used in the phrase the screaming abdabs), nervous anxiety or irritation

Anne St-Arneault
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klueznick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie Turcotte

I'm kind of ashamed to admit that I thought the Conservatives couldn't sink any lower in showing their true colours towards women. I mean, after gutting Status of Women, removing the words "equality" and "economic" and "social" from the Status of Women mandate, and most recently, scheduling anti-coalition protests for December 6th, because there's nothing else going on that day, I figured they'd pretty much sunk as low as they could get.

I was wrong

Pay equity? Now supposed to be the responsibility of unions. Not employers. Unions. Nonunionized women can go suck it. And if you're female and not getting paid the same amount as a man doing the same job? It's not a human rights violation, apparently. You can't go to the Canadian Human Rights Commission anymore for a ruling because it's an "adversarial and complaints-based approach to pay equity." Well, yeah. If we don't complain, how and when would it ever get addressed?

We should deal with such things in a non-adversarial and conciliatory manner, I guess. We are, after all, women. And we're not supposed to speak up.

Happy Birthday, curgoth!

A very happy birthday to my darling baby sister, laura_sm. May the upcoming year bring you laughter, love(s), consistent theatre work, and everything you'll need to make the quarter-century mark your best year ever!

I love you very much.

Today is the RedHeaded One and my 10th anniversary of being together. I could not have imagined the paths we took over the past ten years, but I am so glad we did, and have done so together. I look forward to sharing the rest of the journey with you as well.

I love you, love of my life, my best friend.

Anne St-Arneault
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klueznick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie Turcotte

Happy Birthday to curgoth! I hope you have a wonderful birthday and fantastic next year.

Happy birthday to my wonderful sister-by-choice neeuqdrazil! I hope the day is wonderful and that the next year brings you fun adventure, much love and happiness.

Also, happy birthday to Ashley, the Queen-High-Cat-of-the-Universe.

She is seven years old today.

Due to the impending move (tomorrow and Wednesday), your regularly scheduled updates to this journal will be on hiatus until after we get the internet connected.

When I return, I may be gibberingly insane.

Aargh! It turns out the bus from Kingston directly to the airport does not run at the time I thought it did. It doesn't go until 2 am, which is about half an hour too late for us.

What would be the next best way to get to the airport tomorrow?

Why, oh why, do we have two copies of St. Augustine's Confessions?

I mean, really!

When you're cranky, it's amazing how much "Every Sperm Is Sacred" can cheer you up.

It only seems to be at the window, trying to get out. It may eventually find the open window.

I am trying to decide if we can coexist peacefully, or if he needs to be smushed.

Apparently I made these FAR too hard, so here they are again, with three additional clues for each movie.

* Go to good ol' IMDB and look up 10 of your favorite movies.
* Post three official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for these 10 picks.
* Have your friends guess the movie titles.

1. Race Relations, Skeleton, Alternative History, Texas, Army, Sheriff - GUESSED
2. Cosmic Zoom, Universe, Prime Numbers - GUESSED
3. Pocket Watch, Trestle, Loneliness, Train Station, Suicide Attempt, Loneliness
4. Louisiana, Incontinence, Soap Opera, Paraplegic, Rehabilitation, Actress - GUESSED
5. Aphrodisiac, Imaginary Friend, Public Morality, France, Gypsy, Religion - GUESSED
6. Mustache, Mansion, Martial Arts, Butler, Based on Comic, Board Meeting - GUESSED
7. Absurdism, Snake Bite, Mental Hospital, China, Lollipop, Slapstick
8. Illegal Immigrant, Baby, Totalitarian - GUESSED
9. Lighter, Nonlinear Timeline, Robbery, Jail Break, Kidnapping, Boxing
10. Intolerance, Television Set, Flower, Female Masturbation, Book Burning, Apple

I'll post the correct answers behind a cut as people guess them.

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* Go to good ol' IMDB and look up 10 of your favorite movies.
* Post three official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for these 10 picks.
* Have your friends guess the movie titles.

1. Race Relations, Skeleton, Alternative History
2. Cosmic Zoom, Universe, Prime Numbers
3. Pocket Watch, Trestle, Loneliness
4. Louisiana, Incontinence, Soap Opera
5. Aphrodisiac, Imaginary Friend, Public Morality
6. Mustache, Mansion, Martial Arts
7. Absurdism, Snake Bite, Mental Hospital
8. Illegal Immigrant, Baby, Totalitarian
9. Lighter, Nonlinear Timeline, Robbery
10. Intolerance, Television Set, Flower

I'll post the correct answers behind a cut as people guess them.

( Answers )