conrad black

so for some reason, the star has decided to refer to conrad black as just "black" in many of their headlines. other papers use "conrad black" ... and for good reason ... so far, i've read about:

- black's lawyer attacks trial's first witness
- poor black was duped, trial told on opening
- black in jail? don't count, er lord, on it
- black's big battle starts today
- black jury begins to take shape
- black's unlikely peers
- no sympathetic victims in black case

and my personal favourite: black as a bandit

it really seems reminiscent of the headlines i'm reading in my current novel, native son, about the murder trial of bigger thomas, circa 1930 chicago. funny how the words stay the same - but the meaning can change so much

on the move ... again?

so i had this weird dream the other night - i dreamt that my room mate had bought this fabulous place that was basically a mansion of a condo unit. it spanned from the east to the west - full windows on both sides and was gorgeous. i kept wanting to ask how much it cost - but thought that'd be rude - so i just had to be satisfied with the comments of how good of a deal she got on it.

apparently - i'm psychic. or semi-so at least. it looks like i'm moving again - but the question is - where? i'm at the point where i could perhaps purchase something myself, but will i have that in time? should we give our two months notice? and plus, her new place will have two bedrooms - one of which she wants to rent - so i *could* just continue playing the renting game.

i've got 23 days to figure it out - 3 weeks. yeeps. why is march going by so fast?

welcome winter

now, i know this is a little belated - but without my lovely xavier, i haven't been able to write about this. but here goes ...

i keep getting told that i'm nuts - but i like winter. i ignore the fact that it might be -34 degrees (celsius) - i like it. today i was walking outside as the temperature was dropping, and i couldn't help but smile (perhaps it was the snowflakes in the air - i find the snowflake smell intoxicating).

as much as the cold does bother me (clinically so even) - i don't know how i could do without winter. it's a breath of (sometimes overly) fresh air. the fluffy white snow seems to clean everything and make it brand new again. then it melts away and the green comes out - what's more wonderful than that?

last week, i had to walk through the park to the old industrial building that's full of sand and volleyball nets. no one else had walked through the freshly fallen snow. it was beautiful. the lights from the baseball field made everything glitter. it took everything that i had to not do a backwards leap into the snow and commence making angels. come on - you know you've had that urge too - with all that undisturbed white stuff out there - you just gotta do something to it, don't you?

fuzzy vision

so, first, let's welcome xavier home. he has had a few difficulties in the past few weeks - but he's back from rehab with a brand new motherboard, dvd drive and lcd. nope, there wasn't too much wrong with him.

i think that my vision is suffering lately - you know how they have the added security feature in many sites now where you have to type in what you see in the box to verify that you are indeed a person. well ... i've been having a lot of problems figuring what's in the boxes lately. why must they make them so tricky? i feel somewhat wrong when i have to click the area that's for the vision impaired ... but hey, a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.