In Katimavik, there would often be boring times, between work and dinner, when not everyone was home, and those that were would gather in the living room or kitchen to chat about the day, read, or have a nap. This was especially true of our Orleans (Ottawa suburb) placement, since 4 of us finished our jobs as teacher’s aides around 3:30 with the rest of the group not returning home until past 5, and the sleepy nature of a commuter suburb. Never has a group of 10 young adults taken more trips to the library or become such book … read more?

Well, we’ve reached another milestone. I think this might be my favourite of “ways I mark the existence of my blog.” See, I started blogging in 1999, when I was young and silly and archives weren’t something I really thought of (I didn’t even use a CMS of any sort until 2003ish, and at that point it was Greymatter, ugh). That’s all good, but not incredibly concrete, and therefore difficult to measure. And quality was obviously lacking. And Dreamling, well, technically the domain is about a year and seven months old, but the content of the site exists … read more?

My Internet routine looks something like this:

Check email. (I get lots of emails, but not a lot of particularly interesting ones.)
Check Twitter. Twitter about something.
Check Facebook.
Check the one forum that I still post at. (Which has been pretty slow lately.)
Read blogs. (Also pretty slow, probably for the same reasons as above. Which probably has something to do with it being exam season.)
Mindlessly flip through sites such as Failbook, Oddly Specific and FailBlog.
Repeat.

Pretty boring, yes? And the list gets smaller throughout the day, to the point where my only options at this moment are Facebook and… well, writing this boring … read more?