A new era is blooming!

The Delirium Press chapbook launch was Sunday night, which means now I am officially in print form! And I cost $12! The night doubled as the launch of Headlight, an anthology of writing by proud Concordians, which also tucked away a story of mine. Now when people say, "so, you're a writer? Have you published anything?" I don't have to say "OH MY GOD RUNAWAY HERD OF ELEPHANTS!" and run in the opposite direction. So good!

And speaking of elephants... here is a picture of two ducks that I took on my way downtown to watch the hockey game last night. The male duck was all "Take your eyes of my prize!" and swimming around to protect his lady friend from me. The scene made me all choked up and homesick!


So I'm working at the Irish Centre now, which is in a building at the top of a hill not far from Concordia, and every time I walk up there I feel like I'm approaching some enchanted fortress that's guarded by dragons. I half expect to come across a piranha-filled moat on my way up (witness episode 2 of Clone High). Not that the Centre's building looks like an enchanted fortress (you'd have to go to McGill for that), but it's quite guarded, if not necessarily by dragons... the doors are locked, and can only be open by those lucky few holding a Jack Bauer-esque electronic card or the security guard. This all has something to do with the Jewish Library being housed somewhere in there, and some sort of riot that happened in the 70's, but I don't know the details. Anyway, so I feel like the security guard and I share an understanding, and it's a little brightness to start off some scary afternoons. He is filling in for the regular security guard who is on sick leave, and I am filling in for the regular Irish Centre dude who is on holidays, so both of us are a little bewildered at all times. Today, my first day flying solo in the office, there were about five million deliveries made to the Centre before I even got there. Together the guard and I fumbled our way through them ("what exactly is an invoice, anyway?") and all was well. I think I ran a tight ship for the afternoon. Tomorrow... I might emerge covered with piranhas! Time will tell.

The New Pornographers have a new album coming out in August and today I heard the first single! It's so great, and for some reason that singer's voice reminds me with force of walking to class at UWO in the fall. you can hear it here! (wouldn't it be creepy if it gave you the same memory? especially if you never even went to UWO!)

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