• Finding these entries mundane? I put a lot more interesting stuff in the friends-only section, and even more useful stuff goes in my private, eyes-only diary. Oh, and hello out there, prospective employers reading my webpage. :)
• That said, today is a “Joan-Free” day. If you’d like to take me off of your friends list, go for it. I may remove some folks today, but it’s not out of a lack of friendship! Just trying to simplify my online life. :)
• Bond is selling out. I wonder, did they switch to BMW just so they could, in the future, get a more profitable re-branding from a domestic (e.g., British) car manufacturer?
• It takes a lot to fall out of a Cessna 152, including both having a failing seat belt AND a faulty door latch. I’m betting he jumped, but I don’t know all the facts.
• There is hope, assuming the skies stay clear, that I could be skiing or boarding in VT this week! YES!

Yes, Virginia, a famous epidemiologist here in Toronto is named Dr. Gaylene Pron.

Gay Pr0n.

Wouldn’t you change your name?

so I was on TV tonight — on a show called play, a current performing arts show on the CBC cable channel. It was for this cute folk rock duo from Vancouver called Tegan & Sara. I really do dig their music, but likes it a whole lot more :)

Anyway, we got a photo together, which I’ll post as soon as uploads the photos. I even got to trade cute comments with Tegan about lending her my jeans, since hers weren’t tight enough. (Don’t ask :P )

And the host of the show is a really cute guy; I didn’t realize until later he was Jian Ghomeshi of Moxy Fruvous! What a small fuckin’ world. Everyone was unpretentious, and reaffirmed my belief that unassuming artists are far better than those who spend effort on nothing but their image.

Now, if only my throat didn’t hurt from overexposure and smoke….time for bed. Check me out on the CBC Newsworld tonight at 3AM, and again on Friday at 8PM and Saturday at 7pm. If you do, tape it for me? I have no VCR… :)

and I just made and had some pumpkin pie.

mmmmmmmmm pie. pie is gooooooooood.

Do you ever get sick, your partner gets sick, and you make love while ill and on medication? For instance, Neo Citran/Theraflu, nyQuil, etc…

It’s like this incredibly soothing, comforting, giving yourself up situation where you know that everything is right in the world, and the person you’re with is completely trustworthy. You can surrender yourself to this wondrous, enveloping softness without a worry, AND know that you’re going to come out of it (after a nice nap) feeling so much better.

I love being a charter member of the IEEE’s Women In Engineering group, especially so when they put together such wonderful exhibits as Powering the Electrical Revolution: Women and Technology. (Quicktime needed for movie clips.)

Perhaps there is hope for the fairer sex in the sciences after all.

For all the same reasons: Check it out (needs Quicktime)

What did he just say?

is hanging with me for the week. She’s cool ! Don’t worry, she’s just fine, all of you who know her. We’ll have a blast.

I’m up early because I crashed early picking her up from the airport last night. We watched Hedwig and the Angry Inch before bed, and I’m so fucking stoked. I love that movie’s fuckin’ music, it’ll be in my head for days and days now.

Today? Maybe rock climbing. Maybe flying. Maybe a 3D IMAX movie. We’ll see! :)

Happy Birthday !