Words

Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be?

Author Unknown

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

Charles Simic

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error.

The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches.

And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
(1803 - 1873)



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My Thanks

Thanks to the lovely people at Pixel Perfect Digital, Morgue File and Big Foto for the various header pictures.

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Thursday
29Sep2005

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

...because I got my MedicAlert bracelet.

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"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.


Friday
30Sep2005

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

Friday
30Sep2005

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.

Friday
30Sep2005

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?)

Friday
30Sep2005

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...

button.jpg 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.