josephtoo

I'm leaving for a 5 day cross country skiing trip on Wednesday and am starting to get my stuff together for the trip. I've never done a ski/backpack trip before, in fact I've never really winter camped before (I do all of my hiking in the summer) but I'm going with some people who do this trip every year so I'm not nervous about that...
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I'm watching Buffy straight through for the first time and actually feeling nostalgic for the days when I used to get into television shows and more generally realizing just how awesome a show Buffy really was. I guess I didn't really get the metaphor when I watched is as a teenager, the whole high school is hellish, but wait this one actually /is/ hell idea...
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Punk rock duck

Haiti is hot...in case anyone was wondering.

Well, in just over a week I'll be in Haiti as part of a delegation from my union (well, actually in Toronto FIRST, then Haiti). I'm a little bit terrified, I'm not going to lie. I'm not so much in fear of Haiti, rather I'm terrified of airports. I love traveling, I just hate surrendering my autonomy to some soulless airline. You have to be...
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Let me tell you about my most recent experience in radio deejaying. I agreed to do a fill in show for the volunteer coordinator at our local NPR station on the condition that this was the last one I was going to agree to until I had my own show in a regular rotation. As is my wont I spent some hours putting together a...
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