Monthly Archives: January 2010

Writing is hard.

Sometimes you can spend an entire morn­ing star­ing blankly at a page, unable for force out even the most bare of syl­lables. Try as you might, you can­not find the will to write. Sometimes you feel like quit­ting, other times you do quit. Mostly though, you sit and stare. The blank page is hate­ful, cruel, and

Personal Space

It seems as though the people of Calgary have lost their sense of per­sonal space. At least, when it comes to pub­lic transit. There should be weight sensors in all of the trains that pre­vent the train from mov­ing if there is too much weight in any one car. Then they should set the max­imum

Over/Under

Whelmed. I like that word but I find it strange that the com­mon Internet defin­i­tions of it often include “Overwhelmed” as a defin­i­tion. That is ques­tion­able to me. In fact, I am under­whelmed with any pos­it­ive emo­tions by that lazy defin­i­tion. See how that works? If I am under­whelmed, then I have not yet reached a state of whelmed­ness, and if I am over­whelmed,

Sweater-vests

I don’t get it. Sweaters are sup­posed to keep you warm, while vests lack sleeves in order to be cooler (so I assume). Why the heck would I want a warm chest while my arms freeze. If any­thing, I’d say that my trunk can take care of itself; give me an inverse vest! That would look silly. Imagine