January 25, 2012
Welcome to the Museum of Civilisation, Ottawa. It is a very satisfying feeling to be sitting inside in a t-shirt being toasty warm, looking out four story glass windows at people in huge coats trudging through the snow in -6°C. Everything is white and snow capped and absolutely perfect. Might be doing a little bit of blogging about the next mont here, but there is zero on it just yet, as I am much too busy being impressed by the littlest things and freezing my constantly excited arse off.

Welcome to the Museum of Civilisation, Ottawa. It is a very satisfying feeling to be sitting inside in a t-shirt being toasty warm, looking out four story glass windows at people in huge coats trudging through the snow in -6°C.

Everything is white and snow capped and absolutely perfect. Might be doing a little bit of blogging about the next mont here, but there is zero on it just yet, as I am much too busy being impressed by the littlest things and freezing my constantly excited arse off.

10:44pm
January 21, 2012
Brb antipodes, c u soon mooses and Mounties. (Taken with instagram)

Brb antipodes, c u soon mooses and Mounties. (Taken with instagram)

10:41pm
January 20, 2012

(Source: animalitos, via allcreatures)

6:48pm
Filed under: OH MY HEART I love you chlamidia ridden jerks 
January 19, 2012

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9:49pm
Filed under: Get into my life 
January 17, 2012

I sounds kind of lame, but at the moment I really genuinely love working at the bookshop.

First of all, because whenever I get a little bit bored alphabetising the entire fiction section, or replacing 70 sun-damaged stickers, I get to remind myself that no- I don’t get to be bored doing this. I spent six months looking for a job where I could be happy, and damn straight I am going to take advantage of it and be grateful for what I have.

And secondly, because I guess that I really enjoy the insight into someone’s life, through the books they purchase. An Asian teenager, who sang along with me to the Killers as we searched for books on improving your english for education purposes. A young woman with a bandana and painted on eyebrows looking for a self-help book about treating cancer with natural and holistic remedies, who ended up buying a book about dealing with anxiety. A hipster poster child asking about the writings of a Swedish hermit who he described as “a prophet for our time”.

People are weird and wonderful and I love it.

ETA: Also the dress code is really relaxed so I get to wear all of my awesome tee shirts and it’s awesome because I have loads of awesome tee shirts. Awesome yeeeeeeah.

11:24pm
January 17, 2012
Remember when I did things other than not sleep and read books at inappropriate times?

NOPE ME NEITHER.

10:19am
Filed under: John Green though. John freaking Green. Finished TFiOS and my heart hurts I've actually never sobbed like that while reading a book before But so much love. tfios the fault in our stars john green is a god 
January 17, 2012
My copy of TFiOS finally got here this morning, after 7 days of waiting, and about 6.75 days of waiting patiently. In the cruelest turn of events, I got it literally just before I left for work for 6 hours, I only just got home. Bby, come to me. Also, this is what the package looked like after I opened it. Using the supplied perforated areas is for losers. Young adult is actually the freaking best. Today an elderly (65+) woman came into work looking for the Book Thief, saying that she’d only been able to read the first quarter of it before she had to give her copy away to someone, and that she was desperate to finish reading it. If that’s not a testament for young adult at any age, I don’t know what is. In conclusion, YAY BOOKS ARE AWESOME.

My copy of TFiOS finally got here this morning, after 7 days of waiting, and about 6.75 days of waiting patiently. In the cruelest turn of events, I got it literally just before I left for work for 6 hours, I only just got home. Bby, come to me.

Also, this is what the package looked like after I opened it. Using the supplied perforated areas is for losers.

Young adult is actually the freaking best. Today an elderly (65+) woman came into work looking for the Book Thief, saying that she’d only been able to read the first quarter of it before she had to give her copy away to someone, and that she was desperate to finish reading it. If that’s not a testament for young adult at any age, I don’t know what is.

In conclusion, YAY BOOKS ARE AWESOME.

4:12am
Filed under: Excuse me while I avoid all of my real life responsibilities to read this book The Fault in Our Stars tfios John Green 
January 16, 2012

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7:21am
Filed under: Perfect cast is perfect 
January 16, 2012
stillmadeofbricks: Best people in the world! Damn straight.

stillmadeofbricks:

Best people in the world!

Damn straight.

6:27am
January 15, 2012

Last night I dreamt I was the leader of an activist group, fighting against a new state law requiring all high school girls to wear dresses as uniform and banning schools from allowing girls to wear shorts or pants.

My winning debate strategies were these:

  • Making intelligent, well formed points that brought a tear to the eye of the watching audience about the systematic repression of women.
  • Biting anyone who tried to remove me from the platform really, really hard.

I still think that if Parliament was to adopt these habits, everything would run a lot smoother than it does now.

7:04pm
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