Unadulterated Happiness

- comes from aimlessly wandering. Taking the Metro to any stop, finding my way out onto the street, picking a direction, and walking. It comes from ambling down Prince Arthur Blvd. and taking in the rustic Montreal beauty that I will so miss in a week’s time, and from people smoking cigars on their front [...]

Canadian Cannabis

This is interesting: a BBC piece about the spread of home-grown marijuana in Canada, and a bit on the legislation and current politics surrounding its use. This might explain how much weed I smell in Montreal. Also a fascinating bit of speculation on the future of US-Canada relations if Canada does, in fact, legalize marijuana [...]

Heads-Up

To anyone who’s interested in the kerfuffle over the Obama cartoon that ran front cover of The New Yorker a few days ago:
http://www.altmuslim.com/a/a/a/2769/

This city smells of weed

It really does.
Last Tuesday, my train hit a truck and de-railed. I was on my way back to Montreal from Toronto. This is the stuff movies are made of. It was supposed to be a 5-and-a-half hour train ride, but about half way there was a truck stalled on the tracks. Apparently the truck driver [...]

Brief Respite

The other day I was thinking about how much I love words.
Wait — pause. I was talking to Malcolm last night and he said something (well, a couple of somethings) that rang pretty true. First, he said that I “feel a lot.” This is incredibly perceptive. I’m a person of much feeling. I feel sad, [...]

Schedule

I would like to establish weekly things. I think one of the biggest stressers in my life this past year was trying to arrange lunches and dinners and coffees with friends I didn’t see as often because I wasn’t living on campus anymore. So I’m going to try to establish something weekly with the people [...]

Growth

“Growth” is a funny word, perhaps only because we toss it around lightly as though it has substance unto itself as a term. Which it doesn’t. When one mentions “growth,” one must also mention a type of growth — physical, emotional, and mental being the most popular. But even then — even when you add [...]

4 Juillet 2008

Good news! I have a new baby cousin as of this evening at 6 pm! His name is Daanial Ali Jessa, and he’s 20 years younger than me. Phew.
Several things happened this week.
Let me just pause to say that the more time I spend alone, the more I enjoy spending time alone. This may mean [...]