There'll Be No "Accidental" Killings Here, Please

...because I got my MedicAlert bracelet.


"Gee, we didn't know penicillin and codeine would kill her." is no longer a viable excuse.

Australia will just have to find another way to get rid of me.

Postcards from the Edge of my World

If anyone wants me to send a postcard from Australia - email me now or forever hold your keys (board).

Send me an address at my.own.boat(at)gmail.com

Soldier Girl

Next Wednesday, at 10 am, I will become a Private in the Canadian military reserves.

How utterly ... otherworldly is that?

I suspect that the degree you know me will determine it's strangeness factor.

Cause even I still can't get my head around it.

Update on Friday, October 7, 2005 at 08:26PM by Jen

Actually, it ended up that someone couldn't get it together fast enough to sign something so this won't be happening until I get home in November.

What Kind O' Sign

...is it that next Wednesday is ALSO exactly one year since I quit smoking?

Do you think it means anything? (Other than that now basic training is slightly LESS likely to kill me than it was before?)

I've Got the Button to Prove It.

It's actually been sort of fun to find things "Canadian" to take with me. Maple cookies, tattoos, myriad cute beaver paraphernalia, stickers, beach balls, pens, keychains. And I mustn't forget the ever-popular moose.

My favorite, by far, is this little item...

Referring, of course, to hockey (ice) and lacrosse (grass).

Lacrosse is actually Canada's official national sport and is also played on hard courts (box lacrosse), which I personally prefer. Strangely, the Aussies also play quite a bit of field lacrosse, although I believe that most people have no idea what it is.

All you really need to know is that it's cool, that I played it as a child, and that those solid rubber balls hurt. A lot.