Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Gimme some space...


...some positive space...

This morning I finally remembered to bring in my name plate from my old job at another university (for some reason no one has nameplates at my current job, unless brought from somewhere else!). My name plate has a positive space campaign sticker on it and I left it there even though things are different in the prairies and people are much less likely to be out. I am completely out, no apologies, and everyone knows that in my office. But the positive space sticker seemed to really stump people. They stopped for a second, looked at it, generally said, 'positive space. Hmmh.' and kept going. Then it occurred to me tonight that chances are, none of them had ever heard of a positive space campaign (find examples here: http://www.queensu.ca/positivespace/; http://www.positivespace.ubc.ca/; http://www.positivespace.utoronto.ca/Page300.aspx). Which got me thinking that it is time for my little prairie university to have one... It may not be widely accepted, but I am going to make it my goal to get something in the works.
Wish me luck!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Puppy bedrest


We had Jersey spayed last Tuesday. By Sunday morning she wasn't healing well enough and the vet said to keep our 6 month old, 43 pound puppy, still for another 10 days. As her mommas, we haven't been diligent enough in restricting her movements and now we're being punished.
How do we keep her still?! She's on leash in the house and HATES us for it. She's been chewing on her elk antlers (fallen antlers, a bit easier on my vegetarian mind!), which the people at our favorite pet place told us would last for months (based on their pit bull's track record)-- she's finished hers in a week.
Wish us luck!

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Sing out loud or under your breath...

I love this song and saw this video a while ago- seems à propos for all that is going on in the US with gay marriage and with, of course, the daily struggle we all face.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

It's up for interpretation

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Mid afternoon blogging



Ah, yes, the Tuesday-mid-afternoon-blog. These are things that make me smile. Most times I can't be bothered to sit at the computer and write after a day of doing just that at work. I am off this week as our pup (who now weighs 43 pounds at 6 mos, and weighed just 20 at 4 mos) is at the vet getting spayed. I took the time off to watch over her and her stitches-- she is a very active puppy and I imagine she'd be a prime candidate for ripping them out.

I am trying out a gluten free diet to see if I am celiac. Anyone have any tips to keep things interesting? I'm a vegetarian so the options are limited.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Surrounded by zee dogs, drinking zee crappy wine with me honee


Ok, so, blogging hasn't been my forte this month. Sue me. Things are calm, things are good, I'm off next week to be around while Jersey recovers from being spayed. Hopefully it will calm her down a bit!
Today I submitted my proposal to Grad School. Now we sit and wait.

J and I are going to see Jesse Cook (again!), if he is coming to your area he is SO worth seeing live.
Check out these links (embedding disabled, sorry!) and the one above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-dUbcYIZio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPXIlMdpXIo&feature=related

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Lets face it, I'm a shitty blogger


...time flies... I don't know how, but it does. The long weekend was a nice treat (Cdn Thanksgiving). We've had cold weather though, Jersey has had her first taste of snow.