I just want to put this envelope in your hand.

Two scenes from the past week
Scene 1: Me at the bank, trying to get the ginormous cheque for the real estate lawyer:
Teller: [frowning at my passport] This signature doesn’t match.
Me: I know, it was issued before I was married.  I don’t have any ID with my married name on it.  I do have my marriage [...]

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In case you didn’t listen to the podcast: Cat, get out of the bag!

So in case you didn’t listen to my podcast, or you got bored halfway through my trawl through Wikipedia’s pages on chromosomal disorders, this is the big secret I was supposed to have confirmation by 8 PM yesterday: We are buying a house.
The saga began this August when I realized that, against all odds, we [...]

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Alchemy: Still not dead yet.

Today at the art gallery I watched Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, a documentary about the financial, social, and moral disaster that was Enron, the oil/internet/utility company that crashed and burned so spectacularly in 2001. Yeah, OK, the movie came out in 2005 or something, but I didn’t see it until today [...]

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The simple joys of dog ownership (Warning: Very, very disgusting)

I need to buy a new bike helmet.
If you want to know why, click through.  On second thoughts, don’t.  You really don’t want to know.  Trust me.

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Today’s confession of stupidity

OK, so let me rewind. When Ben and I first moved into this place (around 3 years ago), we decided to start using a mini-fridge instead of the full-sized one that was provided.  This was for two reasons: a) to save energy, b) to reduce food wastage.  I have a definite tendency to buy stuff, [...]

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Spoiler

Hey there, sad, miserable, lonely person, don’t try to bring the world down, OK?  Not the world, not even one person, not even if you hate him.  Not even if he hurt you and he deserved it.  Not for that.  Not for anything.
I’m no stranger to revenge, but I know it doesn’t work.  In the [...]

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….And this explains the weird bicycle noises!

I just posted this to Facebook as well.  I discovered the source of the mysterious noise my bike was making last night.  The seatpost has been bisected!
So now I do not have a functioning bicycle.  Here’s the problem:
- I  need a bike for work.
- But I don’t have any money to buy a new one.
- [...]

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Magic bullets

I was testing some mics the other day by singing the same passage of “Caro nome” into them, and listening back to the recordings of each mic I noticed a little bump in one descending scale passage.  It happens in the place where “somewhat high” turns into “high medium”, and its effect is to throw [...]

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You stole my keys: The opera

When I first started dating Ben I was still in university, and one day in my lesson I told my singing teacher that I had a new boyfriend.
“What does he do?” she asked.
“He’s a composer,” I said.
She made a face and said, “Well, a poet would be worse.”
At the time I thought that was HILARIOUS.  [...]

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An open letter to Toronto Life Magazine

I sent the following letter to Toronto Life magazine a few weeks ago after their obvious yet flattering bit of plagiarism.  I got an auto-reply “we’re looking into it” email, then nothing.  I’d like to share my letter with you mostly because I’m rather proud of my writing here – I feel it strikes [...]

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