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My name is Valerie. I am currently a grad student in Communication Studies (interested in art institutions and the internet) who thrives in a realm of yummy smells, instant and speedy wifi, and the artists, designers and thinkers who make everything worthwhile. Welcome to my website.

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Linky Linky love: Resource for Vegan Travel

So a few posts of note have been spontaneously written par moi over at the t-log. One about Cute Overload beluga and turkey gazing, and the other about a possible interest in studying animals in advertising after seeing some intriguing commercial uses of animals.
Anyway, I thought I’d stop in to share a great site [...]


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Notebook Excerpt: Developing Healthy Eating Habits

I have a strange relationship to notebooks. I am very particular in choosing one that feels right to me - having the kind of paper format I’m in the mood for. Sometimes I like the typical lined pages, or sometimes I’m in the mood for graph paper or even completely blank paper. [...]


Updates: Tumblr Infatuation and the Usual Stress Noises

What’s new?
1. Ever heard of any kind of disorder along the lines of self-destructive busy-itis or chronic-bee syndrome? I think that since I was perpetually busy in university with a 20 hour per week job and full time classes, I now have the tendency to take on an abundance of projects to [...]


An End to Nablopomo 2007

Well well, what an interesting month. As a new blogger, I thought that Nablopomo would be the perfect opportunity to really tone those blogging muscles and teach me a thing or two about how to blog effectively. I think that my writing style and comfort level on the blog will continue to evolve. [...]


Blogging on the Side: Freelance Positions But No Compromises

Well I’ve been working crazy amounts of overtime for my job as an Educational Technology Assistant. Specifically, we just started a new project with an instructor in which a class of around 100 students use a Wiki to format their final assignments. It’s been a whirlwind experiment, to say the least, and since [...]


About Time - Site Changes and 7 New Things

So I finally wrote my About page, which was well overdue. I also took out the trite About blurb on the main page and put in a quotation. I think I will schedule in to change these quotations on a monthly basis - it’s much more interesting than attempting to list all of [...]


Follow up and Random Thursday Bits

Today’s delicious green smoothie: spinach + 2 pears (very ripe) + 1 banana. Delicious! I love ripe pears so much - the smoothie ended up very creamy and sweet, but mild.
Via Noscope:
Ta daa! A logo for Fauna. Since “fauna” means “a living organism characterized by voluntary movement”, the logo takes the shape of a swedish [...]


30 Day Blogging Challenge + My Story of Veganism

Double whammy! Looks like I created my blog just in the nick of time for National Blogging month. Well you know, I’m always up for a challenge if it’s worthwhile, and this one definitely is: the idea is to post every day, for 30 days. And so I begin!

And since [...]


introductions are in order

The name for this domain was originally inspired by a favourite poem of Phyllis Webb’s “And In Our Time:”
A world flew in my mouth with our first kiss
and its wings were dipped in all the flavours of grief.
Oh my darling, tell me, what can love mean in such a world,
and what can we or any [...]


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