Archive for the 'Anne' Category

News

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Latest update: well, so much for the Bowne job. They got rid of most of the workforce there a few weeks ago, including me. So, at the moment I’m trying to figure out what to do nex, whther to try to get back into freelance proofreading, editing & typesetting, or hunt for another fulltime job. [...]

An update

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

As you’ll have noticed the site’s been very erratically updated in the past year. Thought I’d bring the story up to date with a short post. — Since late January I’ve been working as a proofreader for Bowne, a large (worldwide) financial publisher that has several major sites in Toronto. It’s been an up-and-down but [...]

March Break

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Dear friends and fans,
I am going to tell you about march break and what I’ve been doing. Two weeks ago I went to a camp with my school called Norvel. There we talk and do activities about and with nature. We got to stay over night and have breakfast, lunch and dinner there. Last week, [...]

The new year

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Been a while since I’ve published a what-am-I-doing-nowadays post, largely because there wasn’t a lot I felt like posting about. But, here’s a short version of what I’ve been doing since the new year began:

a brief visit to Halifax to visit my family. Mostly reminded me that, while there’s much to be said for Toronto [...]

Samantha, by Anne

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

This week we got a new cat named Samantha. She’s two years old with a black dot on her nose two eyes like balls of fire and a black body with markings like Hamlet. We got her at Petsmart on Highway 7 we got her on August 25. She has her on private pillar, litterbox [...]

Cognitive dissonance, take 2

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Anne reading E. Nesbit’s Complete Book of Dragons with the headphones on. I asked her what she was listening to: “Charlotte’s Web.”

Cognitive dissonance

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

…is Anne in her bedroom, with Jimi Hendrix blasting on the stereo (”I Hear My Train Comin’ (electric version)”, Jimi Hendrix: Blues), lying on her bed with her nose in E. Nesbit’s Complete Book of Dragons.

Lassie: a film review

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

a film of overwhelming adventure about a dog who needs to find her owner in a world of danger; enemies and friends happy and sorrowful friendly and unkind mean and nice. Coming soon to theatres Lassie.
by Anne
(Anne was at the premiere at the Sprockets festival last Friday. Unfortunately she missed the celebratory party [...]

Sick, sick humour

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Brian Olewnick kindly posted a link on Jazz Corner to this epic thread (begun in 2003 & still rolling) — appallingly funny, but NOT for the squeamish: life lessons from the ER. Have fun, folks!
This weekend was Anne’s birthday, a great day but unfortunately followed by her falling ill with a one-day flu bug. I [...]

Kitty’s best christmas ever

Monday, December 26th, 2005

. Once there lived a family of cats their names were Sparkle, Rosemary and George. Sparkle was 7,Rosemary was 32 and George was 33. They lived in a little house on the prairie. They used firewood for the fireplace. It was almost Christmastime. Everyone was busy wrapping presents. Rosemary and Sparkle were wrapping [...]