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Saturday, March 31, 2007



Incredible Mars discovery!!!!!




This is *the* best picture of water on Mars that I've ever seen!!!



Aprile Pazzo

Friday, March 30, 2007


Christina's World



Sunday, March 25, 2007


The Last Mimzy....


I have to say, that I really loved this movie. Superficially, the movie has a couple of cute kids that are sweet without being sickly like the Welch's grapejuice kids.....

On a deeper level that I have to say that my own kids were too young to understand, I thought that the message was one that was more involved and valuable than that of "Happy Feet" (which was a movie that I didn't like at all).
The movie talks (subtley) about damage that we are doing to ourselves on a genetic level, to the environment and the possible ramifications that it has for our future - destruction. It has a child-like solution but the premise and subtleties were sound IMO. It was a story of caution...and hope.


I do wonder how many adults will understand the message of the movie.....


Saturday, March 24, 2007

Toronto

Tuesday, March 20, 2007


HHGTTG


...yes...it's true, I actually came across people who had never, ever, never, ever ...evereverevereverever.....heard of Douglas Adams.....(which I am presently re-reading..)

Oh. M
y.



Friday, March 16, 2007




I can't find my copy of "Holy Blood and the Holy Grail"......which is a much better book in my opinion.

Saturday, March 10, 2007


Monday, March 05, 2007


Rue Bagg

I came across a Blog entry the other day talking about Boulevard Saint Laurent.
The memories came flooding back.

I lived in Montreal for 2 years while going to McGill....I have mixed emotions about the whole experience. I lived with 2 other girls on "Bagg Street". I loved one of my roomates but the other one and I were at odds. That, in conjunction with the difficult program that I was in, the brutal cold and darkness of Montreal....it was not the best experience.

But

There was a light during that dark time for me: Saint Laurent.

While the students in my program spent time on Crescent street, I spent hours and hours in so many of the shops along St. Lawrence Blvd.
S.W. Welch was one such store. I loved that dusty bookshop. I would find some interesting book and park my butt on a dusty couch or broken chair. The cats of the place would sometimes grace me with mild interest but for the most part they just slept curled up in some corner . It was a santuary during the bitter, winter days. I loved going there on a sunny saturday and just peruse a few books while the dust played in the sunbeams coming through the windows.
It's leaving the street apparently.
Moving locations like I did.

As I read that Blog I was saddened to hear of other places that I ~~adored~~ having disappeared from St. Lawrence Blvd.

The European Bakery - had the BEST bread in the whole world. Apparently its been shut down

Warshaws - where I bought all my food except for the bread of course. And where I bought my dishes, cutlery, notepads and tons of other finds in its eclectic inventory. I miss Warshaws the most. Apparently its gone.

I dont have the heart to see if Shwartz's is gone....or the ice cream stand that was only open in the summer and had *the* best chocolate banana ice cream in the world.

Around the corner, just north of Bagg st. was a side street with a few antique shops.....I dont remember the name....Rue Duluth? The Portuguese area.
When I first moved there it was filled quaint shops...but more importantly, my laundry mat, my most favorite portuguese restaurant in the world was there and my portuguese bakery for pasteries.
Is all that still there? Hours I spent in that laundry mat, watching "Roseanne" on the small television with the bad reception when I should have been studying. Folding clothes. Listening to all the accents and languages from the different patrons. Who knew I would look fondly at that time LMAO.

Ahh....Montreal......so much of it fills me with dread when I think of it...that time. It was my loneliest time in the world. So far from home, far from family, far from my true friends. It was so cold. My room had no heating unlike the rest of the apartment I shared. I discovered the joys of flannel sheets and flannel jammies in Montreal lol.
Other good things in Montreal: Chocolate fondue parties, Bodum coffee from Warshaw's, fresh foreign cheeses - not that orange shit that my kids insist on eating. Melt in your mouth bread, french television, Le Metro (subway), Old Montreal.

Bad things: my roomate, the cold, the darkness that started to creap in at 3 pm, the snow, french television lol, the phone bills, no computer, the homework.


Beatty Hall at McGill.
(The Audiology program is no longer available)




Montreal....I miss you.

Sunday, March 04, 2007


Thursday, March 01, 2007



It's snowing again......


*strumming fingers*


....I'm still waiting for spring.

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