Scary

London led the national news today, because overnight four people were murdered, and two police officers were shot (but have been released from hospital)…and it all happened about five blocks from my house. I woke up in the middle of the night angry because I’d been wakened by siren after siren after siren. [...]

Procrastination

I’m blogging because the alternative is to write a paper on polling, and that’s just plain bleak. Blogging is far superior. Unfortunately I have absolutely nothing to say. So I guess I’ll just blather on for awhile.
-I got my plane ticket to Montreal today. This makes me extraordinarily happy because (a) I [...]

Le Weekend

Wow…it’s been awhile since I’ve blogged, especially because I’d been getting back into the routine of blogging nearly every day. My computer got really screwed up in the past couple weeks, and I finally took it in on Friday to get fixed. I still don’t have it back, but I caved tonight and [...]

R.W.

I’m finishing up my think tanks paper and listening to Rufus Wainwright’s Want Two (and throwing in the odd tittibasana into bakasana into vinyasa every once in awhile when I get bored….crazy yogis). I haven’t listened to this cd in quite awhile (probably because ever since Asia I was in Rufus Wainwright overdose mode) [...]

Dizzy and shaky

So, here’s how my morning went: alarm went off at 6, I hit the snooze button and in the intervening time thought, ‘Wait, if I practise at home I can sleep in for another hour…no…another hour and a half, because I don’t have to be at school until 9:30!’ What I didn’t realise at [...]

Yippee!

Yay…I just realised that I’m going to get to practise with Katie at her shala while I’m home over the weekend!
Katie is my teacher when I’m at home visiting my parents. We kind of knew each other from her shala, and then we got to spend a lot more time together because we ended [...]

Swallowed By the Sea

How much do I LOVE this song? Coldplay, I love you.
You cut me down a tree and brought it back to me
And that’s what made me see where i was going wrong
You put me on a shelf and kept me for yourself
I can only blame myself, you can only blame me
And i could write [...]

WHAT?!

Just as I thought I’d settled all my financial woes I got a bill in the mail from Hydro Quebec. I figured it would be maybe like $50 to settle and close my account with them.
Much to my surprise and the detriment of my health, the balance due is apparently $583.14. How is [...]

Hostile Andrea

If I had known that we weren’t going to be given an assignment in class today (what is this, some sympathy, some lenience from our profs?? I don’t understand!)then I wouldn’t have gotten up at 6 to practise. I would have slept in until like, 8 and then practised, but, such is life.
I [...]

Catching Up

So, hm…where did I leave off?
Things got a little more normal with schoolwork by the end of last week, and my class was able to enjoy our traditional night out on Thursday. The tradition has come to include me being one of the last three or four people to go home…and that tradition continued. [...]

One more thing…

I just realised that it’s been a month since I started school. It’s gone by so quickly. It just keeps picking up speed as they load us up with more and more work.
I guess I haven’t really talked about school that much on here. But here’s the thing: despite the complaining, I [...]

Sticky

It’s approximately a million degrees in my apartment (okay, 35-ish, i.e. 95 Farenheit). The heat wasn’t bothering me until I started doing some chores around the house and then sweat started pouring off me. Since Asia, I never seem to feel heat. I never feel hot (after 45 degree heat with the [...]

Excuse

Bam…there it was…a perfect excuse not to practise: it’s a moon day. I even had it on my calendar and didn’t notice…hmph.
Oh well, it’s better that I went anyway. And now I can blame my pathetic performance on the new moon.
SO MUCH WORK.
On my iPod: [...]

Approximately Ashtanga

I wouldn’t be so bold as to call what I just did Ashtanga. No, no, it was more of a half-assed approximation of Ashtanga. I didn’t sleep well last night. A thunderstorm kept me awake until close to 12. Then when I got up this morning at 6 I tried to [...]

To Dream the Impossible Dream…

I’m at home this weekend, chilling with my family and getting more school work done than I probably would back in London.
Nothing really to report, except that on Friday night I had one of those frustrating dreams in which I was able to do impossible (for me) things quite easily. This one, specifically, focused [...]