août 2012
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“All those years of cheating at The Sims have left me a very confused and...”
– Rosey (via jessicachu)
man. you’re telling me.
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My Little Life - Korby Lenker
I wish i could be...
juillet 2012
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Remember Beardy 2?
So he’s still in the picture. I mean, if it were a picture it would be a panoramic view of the andes and he’d be on the smallest mountain on the far side of the picture hiding behind a herd of wild alpaca. but he’s still there.
The only reason he’s still there is because he wants to be and I’d forgotten why I was hot and cold on him before.
And then he started...
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I have to go back to work tomorrow.
*sigh* 9 more work days. I can do this.
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YouTube thinks I speak Japanese.
lol. The ads before the videos I’m watching are in Japanese now. Good times.
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Fun facts and no fun times.
Fun fact: in Québec you can buy beer and wine at convenience and grocery stores.
Even more fun fact: it’s not just regular ol’ beer that they sell in convenience and grocery stores here. They come in 750mL with 9% alcohol content. And not just nasty Colt or Bud either, but like, fancy and local beer. My favourite is called Trois Pistoles. By the same brand there’s one called Fin...
elrossothematch a demandé : You mentioned Armagh in your weird place names post. I live in County Armagh in Ireland. It's pronounced "Ar-Mah". The name Armagh derives from the Gaelic name for the area and captial city of the county, "Ard Mhacha" which means "Machas Hill". The Irish pronunciation is "Ard Wha-ha".
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“His pointer finger circled my puckered love cave. “Are you ready for this?” he...”
– 50 Shades of Grey (via kaley)
who still calls it a pointer finger? You’re not in kindergarten (are you?)!
Also, puckered love cave? Is this fan fiction? Oh wait, it is. Sorry. All good then. And yeah, hamsters (fun fact: also gerbils!) can be cannibalistic. So 10 points for totally unsexy...
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Being a grownup is expensive. Also sometimes not...
I’ve been really homesick lately. It’s getting a bit difficult, especially since logically speaking I know I will be tired of my hometown and want to come back here within approximately 37 hours of going back home. But I also know that the chances of me being able to keep my shit together for much longer is pretty slim.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m still having fun. I go out...
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My mother cares too much.
She just sent me a multi-paragraph email detailing reasons I shouldn’t get a tattoo, including that I may want to wear a backless gown and have my hair up on my wedding day.
Sure, mom. While I’m not opposed to getting married at some point in the far flung future, I’m definitely thinking it would be a bad idea to base my life choices around it.
I wish she wasn’t so...
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Three weeks.
There are only three weeks left on my work contract! And actually I booked a 4-day weekend next weekend so two of those work weeks will be short!
This week is going to feature a 5 à 7 (happy hour) tomorrow. Yes, a Monday. I’m going drinking with my coworkers on a Monday. This can only lead to good things.
And then Tuesday I’m going over to Stereotype’s house because when he...
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More fun times actual factual Quebec place names!
Sacré-Coeur-de-Jésus - not actually all that spectacular when it comes to Quebec place names (roughly a third begin with Saint/Sainte and we’re not even counting the notre-dames), but I like this one because it reminds me of TFiOS and the heart of jesus.
Ruisseau Big Brook - translate this one out and it becomes Brook Big Brook. good times. Honourable mention in this category also goes...
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Notre-Dame-des-Pins
If I wanted a patron saint/town for my work, Notre-Dame-des-Pins would be the one. I should visit there some day.
(yes, I know pins means pines, but I’m still going to think of it as pins).
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Fucker, the verb.
People in my office swear in English all the time. I will be sitting in my cubicle and the office will be silent, and then out of the blue “Fuck shit FUCK shit shit shit!” and then back to silent. At first I was kind of alarmed because in an English-speaking workplace this would be totally inappropriate, but I guess since my work is French only, swearing in English is totally fine.
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Vocab Vocab Straight Up Vocab
Plate-Forme = (technology) platform.
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Dear Stereotype,
I get that you’re having a grand ol’ time learning the french and all, but it’s 7:30PM on a Friday so why the fuck are you texting me in French? You know me well enough by now to know that I’m already drunk.
English now, ok?
♥ g-nomey
EDIT: an example of a classic text from stereotype:
“Ca va, j’entends [sic] pour mon dealer, alors dans une heure?”
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Yay. Work.
Work has actually *almost* been pleasant the past couple of days.
I finished the pin spinning fuckery and now I’m mostly “checking” everyone else’s work for the big project we’re working on. It’s kind of nice. I just have to look at maps all day and point out things I don’t like about them. Since maps, sitting around, and complaining are three of my...
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le porte-parole
= spokesperson
good word, huh? very descriptive.
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Two Jig
is how my coworkers pronounce 2GB.
Technical discussions always end in dance parties in my mind now.
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“If birds in flight go unburdened by names, let my memories be free of dates.”
– Haruki Murakami, Slow Boat to China.
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Bluth Family Crest →
cbcradio3:
Attention fans of Arrested Development! Check out the Bluth Family Crest designed by Edman Goodrich.
~Lana
so this is a thing.
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“Those were some pretty sleazy-looking backup dancers. And some pretty sedate...”
– My sister on Sexy Ladies.
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I HAVE THE INTERNET AGAIN!
for now…
It took him almost 4h to fix. Rewired the entire thing. BUT I HAVE THE INTERNET AGAIN!
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All is not well.
I came home from work today to find my internet off for the second time this week. Last time they were able to fix it remotely, but not today.
So tomorrow they will send out a tech guy. Hopefully. Maybe. It is a possibility. But maybe he won’t have time. In which case, who the fuck knows when my internet will be back on.
As I was on the hold line, the automated message informed me that...
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You know what's delicious?
Rice and lentils cooked together with a bit of salt, pepper, garlic, and onion.
I could seriously live off of that shit.
Oh wait, I already do.
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U.N. project looks to organize urban planning →
…the project would combine demographic and economic data that will let leaders “better plan simple things like a bus stop, so they know there is a need for a bus stop here, there is a need for a school here, there is a need for a hospital here.”
Difficulty in urban planning is a lingering malady. Due to bureaucratic and political wrangling there is no publicly accepted building numbering or...
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Adventures in Universal Healthcare
aka adventures in the mundane. This is going to be long and complain-y, but don’t get me wrong, universal healthcare is like the best. thing. ever. just sometimes it’s not perfect.[[MORE]]
So. I have a rash. Gross, huh? And I’ve had the same thing before and I know that if I follow my usual rule of waiting two weeks and hoping everything sorts itself isn’t going to work....
