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Please note: This blog has gone portable as I abandon the still thawing Canada for a whirlwind four month journey around Europe.

I plan to post at least once a week to document my adventures as a solo female vegan art-loving traveller. Check out the map for geographical details of the trip in progress. Both the blog and the photos on Flickr will be updated as often as possible.

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Things that make me go ooo

Since I’m procrastinating from working on other important things (*cough cough* a book review and various travel preparations), I thought I would share some finds from the t-log worth highlighting.
Video: A freeze in Grand Central Station.

Baby Pear, on Flickr:

Via KK: “It a multilayered paint chip taken from a public mural wall that was […]


Perception Test: Mysterious Workings of the Brain

Found via Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy.
Before you watch the 20 second long video, pay attention to these instructions quoted from the original post by Alec Couros:
1) The video lasts only about 20 seconds.
2) It is CRITICAL that you focus completely for the twenty seconds to get an accurate result.
3) The objective is to […]


Choice Words: Selected Quotations from Tumblr

I’ve been using the t-log, as I like to call it (because Tumblelog sounds even more ridiculous) for only two months, and yet have used it to capture the best of many of the provocative finds (art, video, links, quotes) that I come across nearly daily on my paths across the web. I thought […]


Vegetarian Snack/Energy/Granola Bar Roundtable Review

Last night I sat around two tables at a local fair trade coffee shop, Bridgehead, sampling different types of bars (raw, snack, energy, granola, dessert) for a review for National Capital Vegetarian Association (NCVA) newsletter. With great company and delicious experimentation, it was so much fun! I discovered that I don’t really intend […]


Today’s Urban Vocabulary Lesson: YMMV

FYI, early this morning I was perusing the all-knowing Lifehacker and noticed some commenters tacking YMMV onto the end of their sentences.  I Googled it and lo and behold the Urban Dictionary came up as the first entry, defining YMMV as an acronym for “Your Mileage May Vary.”  From what I can gather it is […]


On Photography and a New Eye: Nikon D40

So after I lost the battery recharger for my trusty Sony point and shoot and realized it would cost over a hundred dollars to replace, I decided to finally do that upgrade I had been planning in anticipation of travelling in the summer.
When I first bought the Sony camera, photography was a hobby I wasn’t […]


Three thoughts, three vacation days left, and a cold/confusing night.

1.  I just saw the movie Juno, and it was fantastic.  I have a soft spot for movies with well-written dialogue and complex characters … I find that usually those movies are based on books, since hollywood is sometimes short on creativity in the plot/character/writing department.  I noticed lots of smaller things in Juno that […]


Christmas 2007: The Gifts

I’m sorry for the delay in reporting, it’s been a hectic Christmas so far. Right now I am piecing together my life after the influx of material objects that is Christmas - and also contemplating new years resolutions. I thought I would report back first on the gift-giving experiment J and I attempted. […]


La Familia

Greetings from the family gathering intensive experience - currently on hiatus from the internet!  Unwilling, of course.  Doing lots of baking and cooking of delicious foods to be arrayed alongside the “normal” omni-fare.  Will be taking a blogging break (I think) to return with many food photos and much brilliance.


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