Monthly Archives: June 2007

Promise-keeping

Here’s the pic of me new specs I promised, with very tired eyes that have no makeup. Woo-hoo.
The pic doesn’t do the glasses justice. There’s ebony, wine, and forest green colours throughout the frame, with neat stylized etching, ridging, and such. Still. You get the feel. :)

Congratulations on Waking the Fuck Up!

More than half of all people polled now believe that being gay is NOT a choice. Biological? Really?! Wow! Look, ma — you gave me the gay gene!
All kidding aside, it’s about goddamned time the tide changed and people began realizing that “gay” isn’t something you line up before God, thinking, “Wow, gee, I’d love [...]

Purity? Sez Who?

It’s kind of sad that the only things keeping me pure at all are the facts that I’ve not been pierced in any way and have no tattoos. I was pierced at a younger age — had ears pierced, nothing special, and BOTH tore. Got the scarz even now. So, no more piercing for me. [...]

Update on this Overworked Steff

I just rolled out of bed about five minutes ago, debating at first the merits of sleeping another hour. I’ve instead decided to get up and do a lot of stretching and relaxing before I throw myself headlong into the fray once again.
Today I work another 6-7 hours, which will take my work week up [...]

Flame This, Moth!

I’m going to Buddhist hell. That or I’m coming back as a bug.
I killed a moth tonight. Not just any moth. One of those ones that you hear when it flaps its wings. And it flaps, not flutters. Not only that, they can’t fly straight. They keep bumping into the fucking ceiling.
“Yeah, dude, if [...]

Dilemmas, Dilemmas

Turns out my new neighbours are two gay males. These are the ones I caught the rather blessedly nice full-frontal nude vistas of last week.
There’s something to be said for people hanging out naked in their living rooms with the blinds wide open.
But then the dilemma arises — is it permissable for me to sit [...]

Gig Review

Caught a gig tonight. This guy I’ve been watching over the last five years or so. Caught him opening for a band one time, and he walks on, just him and his acoustic gueetar, and starts into this incredibly frenetic, tense instrumental and just fucking rocks it out. Blew us the fuck away. Band? Who [...]

Age? FUCK Age

I was thinking today how I’m verging on that age where I’ll be able to start using the excuse “Oh, I’m not as young as I was” soon. I mean, really, there are people using that excuse at 35. It’s ridiculous.
I figure anything before 45 as my “excuse threshold” would be insulting. I’ve survived being [...]

I don’t like hangovers. Thank god coffee’s on the go. Eggs, the only real solution. Eggs.
Nothing like endless bottles of red wine, lamb on a spit, and a firepit to keep a night going, eh?

My Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades

I think too much sometimes, and this is one of those days.
I’m procrastinating before cleaning up. Then I need to run around town on a few errands. Try to get slightly tighter versions of all the shirts I bought two weeks ago, since weightloss has now begun. Pick up my new glasses. Buy something delish [...]

Thank you!

Thanks for the comments on my spectacle dilemma!
While my optician didn’t have the cool Moschino specs I’d liked, she had these awesome clip-on sunglass ones that were great quality, really edgy, and then she gave me 40% off. The woman recognized me and knew my name after five years. Nice!
I’ll post a pic of me [...]

Got Two Cents?

So, I’m gonna use this bloggie to my advantage, and ask you — my brilliant readers — if any of you have anything to say about photochromic lenses for glasses, ie: Transitions, the kinds that go dark when you’re in the sun and go normal indoors. I’m gonna buy glasses Friday / Saturday, so any [...]

Yesterday

I had that epiphany yesterday that the end of my insanity is around the corner. Two weeks from now I will have passed the hardest, biggest test my job has to offer in its academic year. And then I will feel like a god. Until then, I’m hanging on, keeping to myself, and fighting the [...]

OH, PRAISE JESUS

JUST WHAT I’VE ALWAYS WANTED:Neighbours across the way in my back alley, who walk around in the nude with all their lights on and blinds open! They just moved in yesterday!
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!

The Rant that’s Not Really a Rant

You know what part of the problem is? Huh?
My job. I have to be discreet. Can’t tell ya nothin’. Can’t gripe. People who write about their work are twits. That shit usually comes home to roost, so you gotta be prepared to sack up and own up to what you write. Or be like me. [...]

Oho! Epiphanies, Anyone? Tales from A Good Sunday

Sting is wailing in my living room. A hazy grey light filters in through the semi-raised black cloth-bamboo blinds. Sirens punctuate my morning as an indication that staying in might be the wisest choice of the day.
Kill Bill, Vol. 2, is providing me with intermittent graphic violence as an antidote to the boredom of my [...]

The Power of Cash and the Consequences Thereof

I’m thinking a lot about money today. There’s a live Stereophonics track I’m gonna put on repeat when I’m done writing this — “Every Day I Think About Money”.
I’m a product of the modern North American marriage. My parents’ good marriage disintegrated because of their wildly contrasting spending habits. My mother was wise and thrifty, [...]

I’m a Hero!

Which Heroes character am I?

You are Hiro. You are everyone’s favorite Japanese tourist. Your time is well-managed and you make sure things get done. On top of that, the girls always want a second chance with you.
Take this test?

[a whooshing sound is heard as steff curses and throws general hate towards media.fastclick.net, aka home of the most persistently annoying pop-up ads on the web. the irony? this bit of hate-throwing will probably be used as PR fluffery when they're whoring their products to the next online casino or whatever the fuck they're big [...]

A Slow Spot on a Sunny Sunday in June

I’m just having a quiet day reflecting on me, myself, and I. I had a chat with a friend the other night, one of those bump-in-the-hall, how-goes-it chats you didn’t expect, but turns a little more profound than you planned on. She asked me how my new job was going, as we hadn’t had much [...]

Curse You, Cosmos!

Fate is cruel. I had two three-day weekends in a row, sun on neither. I have a one-day weekend now, and it’s been about 25/80 degrees all week, and today is supposed to be the hottest yet. I work. It’s 7:30 and the coffee’s made. In an hour I’ll be on my bike, burning under [...]

past midnight on a summer work night

so it’s 13 minutes to 1 and the moon is full fit to burstin’. it’s a warm summer night, but since it’s only 48 minutes into June now, there’s a cool breeze to take the edge off things.
full moons and new moons are the only times i ever have insomnia. (not every one, thank god. [...]