mother theresa = paris hilton

paris hilton is going to be asked to portray the late mother theresa in a film.

i don't know... i have no words.

[music | editors, "munich"]

things i learned today

today i learned that my hero of the day is kardinal offishall. i've never bought one of his albums and am not a fan (he just doesn't do the type of music i appreciate) but i read an interview with him where he said he'd never attend another juno awards again and gave the reasons why. read it. it's good.

i decided to work from home today - it's the best thing about working giving you a laptop. however, while working at home i've discovered that either the wireless router is beginning to cack out (which i don't think is the case) or that the outlet i've plugged the thing into isn't great. several times it turned itself off on it's own. so annoying to have to get up, unplug it, wait a few moments, plug it back in, turn the modem off and wait for the whole works to reboot itself. *whine* technology will be the death of us. or at least of me. i'd hate to speak for you.

what else did i learn today? that when lightening hits right above your house - that also plays havoc with the router.

i learned that the downstairs neighbour has reddish-brownish hair. he knocked on the door and gave me an envelope with money in it. not randomly or anything - he's paying for the use of the storage shed in the back. it's a really cute brick building that was once a homing pigeon loft (coop? covey? dovecote?) and in more recent years, a car garage. the house my apartment is in was built in 1905. more than 100 years old... i don't know enough about renovating older homes, but i think that through the years, the people renovating either kept original elements (fireplace mantle, wooden doors with skeleton key locks, mouldings and trim) or did a good job at restoring things.

i learned that 5 cups of coffee keep me in the bathroom most of the day. actually, i didn't just learn that - i've known it for quite sometime now!

i learned that there are ignorant people out there. (knew this too, but still). some idiots with nothing better to do decided to knock over more than 200 hundred tombstones in a cemetery in toronto's west end. the images on the news are really quite disturubing. why would someone do this?

and i also learned that the ttc monthly metropass is going up again. city council approved the hike last week and wasting no time, the ttc put it into play this past weekend. just in time for my april pass to be more money. lovely. it now costs 99.75 for a monthly pass. wow. still cheaper than a car - but i don't see the service getting any better!

i hope that i learn less tomorrow. *wink*

[music | editors, "bullets"]

return of golb

yeah, i know, probably a million other fallen bloggers have used that subject line before i have.... do i look concerned? for the record, i don't, i kind of look bored and disinterested. but it may only be the juno awards i just sat through.

why did i sit thought it, i'm not sure - other than it's the industry i work in and that i haven't missed watching (or being at) one since i was about 10 years old. it's kinda a thing i do. however, the show and awards themselves seem to have become increasingly out of touch with music. it's much more about the politics of the labels and now with CTV televising the damn thing - it's much more about the 3 or 4 acts that CTV decides to shove down our throats (not the least of which are from camp canadian idol). whatever, i actually worked through the awards and left it as an annoying backdrop.

one last thing... did the black eyed peas become canadian citizens and i just didn't notice it? why the hell else would they perform at evey canadian event over the last year? (mmva's, the grey cup and now the junos). strange and somewhat annoying. it's almost like how CTV likes to slut it up with the rolling stones and somehow managed to include a pre-recorded clip from them this year.

for the past while, my cat raja graced this page... he still does, but you have to scroll down further. lots has happened since he left us. another kitten has been adopted. we adopted a female kitten, but as she's growing, she developing quite a bit of gear in the back. i think our she is a he. and she's named after a goddess - artemis. if she really is a boy, we'll be calling him neptune. either way - the kitten is cute.

zelda and neptune/artemis in the new apartment

zelda in the old apartment... the new place has NO carpeting - rejoice!

artemis/neptune in box-world (aka my new place)

hat else is new... i've moved to a new apartment in a cooler location that i've lived for a few years (or ever, actually). it's a big place and now there are still boxes galore kicking about. boxes and not enough furniture. you know how it goes. best bit... it has a dishwasher. how slothy is it to be able to just rinse dishes and throw them in a box under the counter and not have to see/deal with the dishes until they're clean. quite slothy.

a little side-story about the whole needing to move because i was evicted from the old place. we were told that "tom will be using the apartment". logically, the assumption was made that the landlording-overlords were splitting up and the male portion was moving out. well, guess again. the scummy liars that they are - they evicted us (not quite legally, truth be told) to move tom's business into my old apartment. you see, tom runs a little record label and it all appearances seem to indicate that he can't pay rent at his business location anymore. so they evicted me and my roomie for their stupid little record label. not that i'm bitter or anything - but if anyone out there was thinking of supporting holly cole or kim mitchell - don't. you'll just be supporting the enemy. jerks.

i still have a job... it's quite nice to have that security. i'm bored to tears most days there - but it's a start. for the first month i was actually very entertained. i was able to come up with a project plan, content sketch and site map for the re-vamping of the company's website. the site hasn't had a new design for more than 8 years (i'm certain) and badly needs it. other than that - my job has been pretty dull. it's ok. they pay me. and i have a work laptop. could be worse.

lots and lots of other things have happened - some of them even interesting - but this is what happens when you don't blog every day - you forget the stuff!

here's hoping i'm back sooner than the autumn!

[music | stellastarr*, "my coco"]