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Apartment Hunting in Vancouver
May 10th
To all those trying to find an apartment in Vancouver: be prepared to be hunting for a while. I’ve been looking for an apartment in some capacity since January, and I’ve yet to find one. Seriously. And it’s not like I’ve got unreasonable demands such as granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, and a whirlpool tub with separate stand-up shower all for under $1000.
Nope, all I’m asking for is an apartment with a living room, a bedroom, a bathroom, a kitchen, decent flooring, clean walls (I can paint out of my own pocket), natural lighting, unobstructed 7 foot minimum ceilings, and a landlord who understands the Residential Tenancy Act. (Though I’d like to point out that I had an apartment — yet I lost it because the person whom I was depending on to be my reference chose not to answer the phone because it was a “weird number” and thus made me lose the place of my dreams — remains to be another post regarding mobile etiquette.)
Ideally this place is close to transit, and within the Lower Lonsdale, Main Street, Commercial Drive, or Burnaby Heights neighbourhoods.
I think over the next few days I’ll post some ridiculous stories about the hell I’ve gone through to find an apartment in Vancouver, and some of the incredibly weird demands and requests I’ve received from landlords prior to renting/viewing.
Author protests ban over phrase ‘generous bazoongas’
Nov 19th
This article amuses the hell out of me. Apparently people believe that censorship is the method of curtailing offensive language in the class room, and we’re talking mundane offensive language. “Bazoongas” doesn’t really come across as crude enough to warrant censorship, let alone when you involve a cohort of grades four to six. I guarantee you, they already know words that would make the Pope blanche.
I would like to illuminate you to my first teacher at Sir Freddie B’s method of dealing with offensive language. Instead of making the vulgar anathema, the source and history of the statement is explained. Sometimes when people understand the reasons why the word is truly offensive, maybe they would remove the pejorative term from their vocabulary.
Over five years of blogging
Nov 9th
I’ve been blogging for over 5 years — my first post was on August 19th 2002 at 1 pm. It was a useless meme post. The meme result? I was an “Aragorn-wantin”-Legolas — no real surprise on that one back when, and no real surprise on that one even now.
I’ve a new project for my blog which I think would be interesting (having found a theme that I think I can live with for the next several months). Five years is a long time, and it would be neat to consolidate all my posts that I want to be public into this blog. This means two Livejournal blogs, two wordpress blogs, and a brief encounter with Blogger rolled into this single blog. With well over 500 posts this should be an interesting project of self-discovery. Or it could also be another attempted internet project of mine abandoned.
Abandonment confirmed.