The Green Peugeot: Listen up, you.

the deeds were done and done again as my life is done…

Dory — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:46:01 +0000

I’ve been keeping a list on my arm of things to order, and right now it says:

Watermelon
Sugar cereal

Which makes me think of this:

Excitement, advenutre

Dory — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:42:18 +0000

Lord knows why, but I wandered into Urban Outfitters today. I spun around in a daze for about 8 minutes, then left, really excited that I’m going to camp on Friday. The next two months will be spent making giant pots of chili, wearing an apron, teaching kids about sourdough, and hanging out in the woods where my phone doesn’t work. Things are gonna be good.

If you have any suggestions about what I should do with the campers (I’m in charge of food-based education stuff), I’d love to know. Right now my notebooks are full of lists that include growing sprouts, making jam, baking bread, talking about the whole local/organic/etc debate, planting an herb garden, pickling eggs, having a Kraft Dinner vs Real Mac’n'Cheese cook-off, making ritz cracker “apple” pie…

the reading life

Dory — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:00:23 +0000

I think that Annie Dillard is the exact literary opposite of David Foster Wallace. Short deliberate sentences, short chapters. Lots of divisions, of ideas and thoughts. Reading Annie Dillard, I’m finding it hard to put the book down, desiring to read one more paragraph or section or oh look the next chapter is only 6 pages. I think that if The Writing Life was a thousand pages and Infinite Jest was merely 150, The Writing Life would still be shorter.

crafty problem solving

Dory — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:43:52 +0000

There’s been this stain on my favourite sweatshirt for some time now, and I finally got around to fixing it–by appliqué-ing leaves over it and adding a few others to make it work.

After it was done, though, I realized that this sweatshirt now looks just like my favourite bag:

I have a new appliqué-heavy project that I’m working on now, but it’s best kept a secret for a bit.

New Bicycles

Dory — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:09:48 +0000

Just like Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle, but more exciting: When Obama Wins!

springtime resolution

Dory — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:53:55 +0000

Dear World,

Let it be known that I will finish reading Infinite Jest by the end of the summer.

Sincerely,
Dory

ps. I have a large box of book that I don’t feel like I need to take to New York with me. If you want anything, from contemporary fiction to gradschool books about Canadian identity to kids books with nice pictures that will be fun to collage, let me know and you can come help yourself!

Things I have given to people (lately)

Dory — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:38:08 +0000

Moving means giving things away!

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Making Headlines

Dory — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:29:53 +0000

It totally drives me crazy when journalists–in print and on the radio–say that person/thing/event “made headlines.” As if they, the media, have nothing to do with what “makes headlines” and becomes part of the discourse.

Maybe they’re just giving a lot of respect to the late-night copy editors who actually make the headlines.

november 4

Dory — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:09:47 +0000

It’s morning, I’m baking bread and listening to the CBC. It occurs to me that I will be living in America on November 4th, when as Martina Fitzgerald, the radio-lady, says “Americans will vote for a new president.”

When I was in New York last month, the election excitement was palpable, with Obama buttons and t-shirts that felt like real enthusiasm, not just kitsch. And it’s displayed on real humans, not the internet or the Globe and Mail. So it will be even more thrilling to be in the country during actual elections. I won’t get to vote then–maybe I can volunteer to drive little old ladies to polling stations. Do they even do that in America?

scones

Dory — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:52:38 +0000

So the apple-ginger scones that I made up, in my head and in my kitchen, turned out awesome. I gave up on following the recipe I found in one of my cookbooks about halfway through, because I didn’t have any buttermilk, so I just threw in yogurt and regular milk and some other stuff and they’re really spongy lumpy baked goods.

And then I left the kitchen one big mess because my housemate is away until tuesday and it’s fun to have a few days of solitude and disarray. I will tidy before he returns.