winnipeg sounded like fun alison, but did those people u met bathe regularly? i find thats the biggest problem with those granola types, for some reason they have a hard time wrapping their heads around the whole concept of personal hygiene... but i dig what they do, i still respect what they stand for, but i dont get it what does not wearing deodorant and not showering have to do with environmentalism

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The province is making some changes to the Residential Tenancies Act which will be in effect in November. I stumbled over a notice and figured it was worth pointing out.

If you're paying for gas, you'll probably wanna pay some insurance every once in a while I'm sure. Also, how about expenditures like toiletries/washing machine stuff... what about utilities, internet connections, cable tv??? What about cell phone bills? What about haircuts? What about newspaper subscriptions??? What about prostitutes???

Thanks P!

Wow, who said anything about destroying universes. Geez, the violence. Tony still has to do tours through Par's anyway. Can't run tours through wreckage. Or do they?

Alison, it's always good to consider emergencies.

okay... two things:

1. When creating one's monthly budget, what expenses should one expect? All I can think of thus far is bus fare, gas, food/bar, books, and clothes. Yes, I read enough books that it might as well be a part of my actual budgeting. But anyway, I don't have to pay rent, so what else is there?

2. MARY, do you have someone interested in buying your Sarah Harmer ticket, or should Jess and I be finding someone else?


Alright, and not really a "thing" to be listed, but something interesting nonetheless. There's a new book out Travelling with Che Guevara: The making of a revolutionary by Alberto Granado... and apparently a movie too directed by Walter Salles called The Motorcycle Diaries I'm probably 1/5 into it, and it's really good. It's really good as a travel story, regardless of one's ideology, but it's also pretty neat to see how the ideologies are getting meshed within the travel stories. More than anything, it's making me want to travel... to escape this monotonous continent and get somewhere less money-grubbing. Don't get me wrong, I love Alberta, Edmonton and Canada... I love most of the places I've travelled on this continent too, but the mindset is too constricting and embarassing. Perhaps I'm just reacting to having hung out with some incredibly worldly and exceptional people this weekend. And... someone from Saskatoon who swears he's met me before, and looks semi-familiar to me too... but that's beside the point. So many people there were just plain phenomenal. I want to go where they've been, and where they're going. One girl's headed to North West Africa for two months, and I was salivating. must save money... (hence the budget) Anyway, yeah, if any of you actually knew I was going, Winnipeg was awesome - not that I saw the city... but because of the aforementioned people.

Exactly what Taylor said, what universe? The Multiverse must be infinite if there are dimensions that contain a Grand Arms Panzer and other large mecha variants. You can't destroy anyones universe, read PKD's book UBIK and you will see that it can only be destabilized or resatbilized and that is all. So go get your cans of UBIK and stay sane!

Which universe? Or wait, are we talking multiverses? I think VALIS has been talking to me in my sleep.

You think you know Phillip K. Dick (y'know: author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" aka Bladerunner)? You don't know shit. Read this really short bio on Phillip K. Dicks' life here. That man clearly had some major psychological issues; so much so that reading about it is just plain bone-chilling. Weirdest shit I've ever read in a long time. Thank-you wikipedia!

Your universe is next!