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#053: Hectic. Fragments.

March 11th, 2009 Comments Off on #053: Hectic. Fragments.

Currently listening to: “Beau-frère” – Les Cowboys Fringants Super busy week. Becoming steadily more and more ungrammatical. Thinking in sentence fragments. And cookie crumbs. Hooray incoherence!!!! Two papers due – Arts One, and French. Procrastination is the new best friend. Sorry, coffee. Your time was short-lived. French Club executive elections today. Am now Social Coordinator […]

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#043: John Stuart Mill, of his own free will…

January 17th, 2009 Comments Off on #043: John Stuart Mill, of his own free will…

Currently listening to: “Bruce’s Philosophers Song” – Monty Python In celebration of getting to 1000 words for my Arts One paper (yay, 1000 more to go!), I bring you the ~*~singalong version~*~ of the PHILOSOPHERS SONG, by the very brilliant Monty Python. Oh, Millsy. Did I ever mention my lack of an attention span? Well, […]

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#038: good things come in threes

January 8th, 2009 2 Comments

Currently listening to: “The Score” – Sarah Slean First off, I LOVE SARAH SLEAN- that is all. No, I lie. that is not all. Is anyone here attending the UBC Student Leadership Conference? I will be in attendance, and will probably write an entry about that subsequently. There are several extremely interesting sessions on social […]

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#037: gasp! an academia-related post?

January 6th, 2009 3 Comments

Currently listening to: “Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk” – Rufus Wainwright Back to the blogosphere I go! So, with the first day of the second semester (and the giant puddle also known as UBC) firmly behind me, I have decided to jump on the bandwagon of “Reflections about the First Semester”, for lack of better things […]

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#033: And…madness…now!

December 17th, 2008 Comments Off on #033: And…madness…now!

Currently listening to: “Hey Jude” – The Beatles Cue exclamation marks, potential capslocking of glee, and other such. It snowed! I got off work, and stepped out of Indigo, and watched little swirls of snowflakes drift and dance and tumble! It was the loveliest thing. There’s the prettiest, lightest sprinkling of snow on the ground- […]

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