January 2010
What I'd be doing this Friday if I was in...
Beaubien Magazine issue 3 launch party (facebook)
Tyler’s solo show at Monastiraki (facebook)
Crying about how f’ing cold it is.
Meeting The Parents 2.0
My mom and stepdad skype-meeting Conor’s parents. Don’t they look creepily similar?
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marilis in nyc
beertearz:
Miss you gurl!
tim: when i was in japan i was served squid ink soup.
me: oh wow. isn't the ink poisonous?
tim: no. it's really dark. but squids just like secrete it from their ink sacs
everyone: ...
me: i'd probably make it a rule to never eat anything that was secreted
conor: ...or that comes from a sac
This morning I got an email from the American consulate in Montreal confirming that all my papers are in order for my passport application.
Hi Tessa – Thank you for all your emails. I did receive all the documents. Everything is good to go. Do NOT worry about your application being rejected, I have all the documents in order to process your U.S. Passport.
!!!!!!!!
I’ve been working...
Our weekend in Sydney:
staying in Newtown/Marrickville with Conor’s friend Tim
gourmet pizza with pumpkin, mushrooms, eggplant, and gorgonzola
pub patios
breakfast at buzzzbar
the wire season 1
a stack of $1 books from seconds store, basement books (i know i’m going nuts with the books lately, i might have to mail them all home if they don’t fit in my suitcase)
...
I’ve been wanting to check out the larger secondhand warehouses while we’re in Sydney. After a bit of asking around and consulting the appropriate online forums we decided to hit the Tempe Tip and the Anglicare Op-Shop in Summerhill. We woke up early, grabbed a quick breakfast of poached eggs on toast, and then filled up our bottles of water, grabbed the googlemaps, and got on our...
“I just want elders to relax on the 40ft limo ride like a dude on Maxell CDR guy.”
– Mitz in the city.: Ok, last time I say it. Get on this train while they’ve still got tickets.
The light stayed up long enough for us to have an after-work walk on the beach.
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“They took my finger prints and picture of my face. I made it sure it was “easy...”
– Mitz in the city. you guys, seriously, follow mitz. this is some absurdist kafka stuff he’s on about.
Return to my motherland.
mitzzz:
might attend Takahashi Family Reunion show in osaka this summer. can’t wait. better than Pavement reunion show. my two brothers Super Mitz Brothers will open featuring Yoshihiko Takahashi on bass, Mitsuhiko Takahashi(me) on guitar, Tomohiko Takahashi on drums.
yes, my parents named us:
Yoshihiko 31yr
Mitsuhiko 28yr
Tomohiko 23yr
so whenever my mom was angry at one of us, she get...
The Job Hunt
Ok, so after nobody biting for days, tonight there was a unexpected late-breaking development that could end up being awesome. More news tomorrow once I find out more.
At the Botanic Gardens on Tuesday.
Breakfast and then the library. The selection was limited to mostly paperback mysteries and romance novels (I suppose this is a seaside suburb), but I sifted through and found a bit of contemporary fiction in there, basing my choices mostly on the cover art and author quotes on the back (“Dave Eggers thinks this one’s important”).
I’ve been reading all non-fiction this...
We took the ferry over to Bundeena today and walked around the National Park.
Solution to Killer Superbug Found in Norway:
Aker University Hospital is a dingy place to heal. The floors are streaked and scratched. A light layer of dust coats the blood pressure monitors. A faint stench of urine and bleach wafts from a pile of soiled bedsheets dropped in a corner.
Look closer, however, at a microscopic level, and this place is pristine. There is no sign of a dangerous and...
“Yeah, we’re right at the moment, cheers.”
– Classic rejection line from day one of my Aussie job hunt.
I just finished these two good reads. The voice one I picked up at The Trident in Halifax last fall and the toxins one was a Christmas gift.
It’s been a while since I’ve read as much as I have lately. It’s all the commuting we’re doing into Sydney. It’s almost incentive to live far from work, to stake out that personal hour of book time. (Almost, but not...
Hitting Me
bagelsandbongos:
I find myself sitting on a plane. After much fretting and fear, I booked a seat, awoke ridiculously early, went through the newly heightened, tedious airport security procedures and now the odyssey has begun. With the soft red glow of the rising sun streaming in through the window, I am now on my way to Israel.
Days ago, my sister phoned me and to broke the news; our mom had...
“I am a friendly and responsible Canadian with an Australian work visa, tax file...”
– opening line of my new resume
We’re staying in Cronulla at the moment, with Conor’s aunt. It’s a coastal suburb of Sydney and it takes us about an hour to commute by train into the Sydney CBD (Central Business District). Yesterday was our first day venturing into the city. We walked around the vintage shops in Newtown, went down to the water (Opera House blah blah), and had delicious sashimi for dinner...
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