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the coming out

So there's something about being a student again that revitalizes the creative juices and gets me interested in blogging again. Either that, or it's just my alto-ego's nagging encouraging emails. Transitioning into gra…
One small step for man...

So xanga is often kind of dumb. Especially when I want to put up links to friends. Even though posting links is a fairly standard feature in blogspot, livejournal, wordpress, et cetera ad nauseum, xanga just couldn't del…
Laws having to do with Mr. Murphy.

So I've been noticing this trend for the last few years... namely, the inconvenient occurrence of crazy precipitation while I'm wearing sandals. Granted, there are many days I wear sandals and it's dry as my bank account…
I appreciated everybody's thoughts on my Dickenson poem... particularly Mama Stam's rendition. So true. So I went out driving today, like any idiot would do, even though we are in the middle of a blizzard. And it got m…
So my gas light went on this morning <insert long conversation regarding the difference between gas tanks and computer batteries, one of which should be run completely dry, the other not so much>. Fourteen hours an…
Comparisons

So it seems like everybody talked themselves out on my last post (oh wait, that was just me, Joel, and Vern...), and so I thought it was high time to revive myself and pick this up again. I am trying my darndest *not* to…
So I was at the gas station the other day. As I was inside paying, another cashier walked up, followed by a *massive* hulk of a man, about 30ish. "Does anyone here know anything about cars?" the girl says. The gentleman …
So much for missing the merrilyatimes

So it snowed yesterday. Uh huh, *here* in Southern Ontario, Cananada's banananana belt.(ahaha there's a lot of 'anananas' in that phrase. So I added a few more.) *Anyway, and yes, I was caught in my flip flops and jeans …
A Great Day in the Neighbourhood

It's generally anathema to wear two brands together, like Nike shoes and Adidas socks. Well, I committed this fashion faux pas when I showed up to school in my Redeemer T-shirt and my Mount A hoodie. So I was out for a r…
In Which Sarah the Hick becomes Sarah the Cosmopolitan

So. I was wandering around my friendly neighbourhood the other day, when a nice lady pulls up next to me and asks me for directions. I, still being new to this whole city thing, had never even heard of the street (appare…