Ebb and Flow

Post-doc and mom. Family, fiction and running trails in spaces in between. Posts mostly fit into one of these categories... Environment and Climate stuff at: (Environment and Policy) var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-16423169-2']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

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Bleurgh.

My blog has been spammed. The 'fixes' aren't working. Think I'm done with tumblr.

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"Syd hates these trips to the West Coast. You can't get a decent veal sandwich and just yesterday he met a woman who lived on a houseboat in False Creek who gave her two Abyssinian kittens bimonthly fish-oil enemas. Guys walked around downtown carrying waterproof briefcases and wearing flip-flops. How could you do business with these people when their hair-tufted toes were showing?" Z. Gartner (2011)

A delicious discovery from todays writers fest.

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The Canucks have a new goal song. Oh yes they do.

Electric Worry, "Clutch"

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Booker Prize winners (from yesterday to 1989).

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Feist and her band performing "Graveyard" on CBC Q.

On repeat. So great.

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Oops. These followed me home for work.

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I still listen to good music, though. The Decemberists, Dirty Projectors, Nouvelle Vague, Beirut, Belle and Sebastian, Tears for Fears. I listen to all of them—in my house. When I leave my house though, I usually don’t bother bringing my iPod and instead I just put on the radio in my car and kind of just listen to whatever’s popular—but I do it ironically. You should have seen how people looked at me the other day when I was parking my Focus blasting that new Linkin Park song from the Transformers soundtrack. They totally didn’t get it.

From "You look at me like you've never seen a neo-hipster before". So much funny over at McSweeney's here. 

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One day, I'll submit a grant without the 11th hour insanity. Until then, time to recover from that which preceded today at Friday at 5pm.

Edith Piaf, 'Non Je Ne Regrette Rien'

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Love. Love. Love! 

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I'd put this on my Christmas wish list but for this book, patience is not an option. 

Michael Odaatje, The Cats Table (reviewed here).

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Sounds good to me.

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I just made my grant deadline - and survived the first week - solo! Happy Friday!

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Ultimately, however, our personal moments of distress won't matter much unless our government intervenes with occasional mentions of climate change in important speeches, or by passing nonbinding legislation on the subject. I implore you: Spend a couple minutes each year imagining yourself writing impassioned letters to your elected representatives demanding a federal cap on emissions.

The Onion: We Need To Do More When It Comes To Having Brief, Panicked Thoughts About Climate Change (here). This would be (even) funnier if it weren't quite so true...

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This recipe just may save my abundant CSA squash from a composted fate.

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Theoretical frameworks, methodological contributions, expected 'solutions'. So many Words. Words. Words. on this lovely sunny Saturday morn!

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From the shelf, waiting to be read, in no particular order.