A weekend of champions, this was.
I experienced a rare kind of decadence, one made possible only by the tacit understanding that school was to be put on hold for the entire duration of the weekend. Indulging in books, magazines, paintings and the violin is not an everyday occurrence, if you’re an overworked grad student like [...]

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great that I thought I was in a dream.”
“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”

Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler (1960)
I have been spending upwards of [...]

Photo by IDEO.

This photo is wildly inspirational.
It sets my imagination on fire. It fuels my long-lasting love affair with documentation. It keeps the flame of my  anticipated nostalgia alive. This photo is posted here as a preview of a collaborate arts project I have in mind, which will be unveiled soon. Or as [...]

I’m thinking of renting a car, finding a driver-friend, and going away on a snowy adventure somewhere near nature.
In the meantime, these encounters with trees will have to do:

(I can’t stop listening to this song, it’s so cheery and the video so perfect for fantasizing about the summer.)

(sent a picture of my FCL-inspired doodle-card [...]

Things I have done in the past 10 days: making (and re-making) a ridiculous number of work schedules, cleaning the house more than usual, decorating it with Roomie Extraordinaire, procrastinating on school work, submitting a slew of never-ending applications, celebrating my 5th birthday with the best friends in the world, spending quite a bit of [...]

Someone was  telling me today that I am “young and hip”, but I smirked at the accusation and rebutted with a realistic “my organizational skills probably disqualify me any hip categorizations of this kind.” And I guess that’s true, if they even have a name to describe the unrelenting type of  Moleskine user I am.

Image [...]

First, there was the anxious, certainly neurotic, habit of hitting the ’save’ button like it was a new religion, a modest offering to the gods of academia informed by the desire to placate their vengeful spirits and emerge out of this fall term unscathed.  Then, in the midst of it all, there was a list, [...]

“If I could do just one near perfect thing I’d be happy.” Belle & Sebastian.

In the theme of things that rock, Saturday was also quite stellar.
I saw the Gerturdes and Bruce Peninsula in the unlikeliest venue ever and got to spend time with a dear friend. The result was memorable and the whole night reminded me precisely of why I love this city so much. I only wish I [...]

Reasons why Thursday and Friday rocked :
- starting the day with a healthy dose of chai latte & Andrew Bird;
- finally going to yoga;
- having lunch with co-workers old and new;
- receiving exciting updates on the Europe front;
- accomplishing all of my Christmas-related shopping needs in under 20 minutes;
- going West of Bathurst for the [...]