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09 Bonus: Inspiration

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:42:00 +0000

Did I meet a little hottie? Oh, yes I did! And hopefully I'll meet a few more traveling in January, live from the airports of the Southwest and from Sundance Film Festival.

09 January 11: Lemon

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:41:00 +0000

1. Nails! Nails! Nails! Cleaning up those hands and feet.

2. Confirmed advice: Layers upon layers of outdoor fashion garments, increasing layers of Visa bill, send smart shoppers running for Mark's Work Wearhouse instead of the go-to trendy place with the overpriced, dorky-looking stuff.

3. Unconfirmed advice: ‘Lemon prevents scurvy.’

09 January 10: Clint

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:40:00 +0000

Sure, there was good acting in this film.

1. Clint Eastwood's Angry Growl
2. Grandma's Juicy Expectorate
3. Dog's Naturally Sad Whimper

Woof!

09 January 9: Legalese

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:38:00 +0000

1. Fun with style: haircut with a side part - ballsy!
2. Fun with slush: steel-toed, waterproof Blundstones.
3. Fun with legalese: props to Jorge for the banter.

a. ‘Notwithstanding the foregoing...’
b. ‘To the extent that... blah blah blah...’
c. ‘Notwithstanding the foregoing, it's only overused to the extent that it's not necessary...’

09 January 8: Scratching

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:36:00 +0000

1. Neighbour: took my laundry out of the dryer for me.

2. Professor: invited me to attend his workshop as guest.

3. Engineers: Habitat for Tuna! Scratching the Economy on the Butt! From An Engineer's Guide to Voting (Ginger Cat for President)

09 January 7: June

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:35:00 +0000

1. ‘It was so busy, it was just ridonculous!’

2. ‘It's June in January because I'm in Love.’

3. Sitting collectively around an exceptionally long dining room table on the upper floor of a Toronto salon having my hair treated. Magazines, drinks, and Wi-Fi included.

09 January 6: Pearly

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:34:00 +0000

Appointment 1: Can't stop running my tongue over my pearly teeth.
Appointment 2: Can't stop thinking about my financial objectives.
Appointment 3: Can't stop taking vitamins to prevent winter ills.

09 January 5: Mouthfuls

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:49:00 +0000

1. ‘Michelagniolio di Lucovico di Lionardo di Buonarotti Simoni!’
2. Soft, rich chocolate truffles melting under the roof of my mouth.
3. Cool, cherry-flavoured yogourt swishing thickly by the spoonful.

‘All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.’ Jeremy Northam

09 Bonus: Penn

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:07:00 +0000

Three remarkable films:

1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. The Wrestler
3. Milk

Oh, Sean! Please visit me at Sundance!

09 January 4: Buoyancy

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:04:00 +0000

1. Enjoying the eating-drinking-eating Sunday social club.

2. Sweating the workout-but-no-workout vibe (hot tubbing).

3. Finding a guest bathing suit in my gym locker. Chlorine, Damage is thy name! One-size-fits-all fabric stretches like thin, elastic pizza dough buoying to bubbly Jacuzzi surface, gasping for air. The Travelling Pants of swimwear.

When you are in Toronto, make sure to try Fresh by Juice for Life.

09 January 3: Kind

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:03:00 +0000

1. The work-but-no-work vibe (a different kind of production).
2. The kind nurse at the hospital (a different kind of compassion).
3. The quiet tea on a Saturday night (a different kind of excursion).

09 January 2: Ingredient

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:01:00 +0000

1. Rolled, exhausted, out of bed. Slumped, lethargic, at the kitchen table. Pumped, excited, that unexpected guest brings warm, freshly baked brownies (with a special ingredient – no, not that one).

2. Broken tank. Two days. No hot water. Sister offers hot shower. Hello, sexy time! Remember those commercials?

3. Dancing on stage at the legendary Horseshoe Tavern, hosting the Elastocitizens. Who else can jam like that about growing up in the Sault? Who else has a drummer named G-Spot? ‘Welcome to my funky place.’

09 Bonus: 80s

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:44:00 +0000

Pure Classics!

1. Technotronic: Pump Up the Jam
2. Eddy Grant: Electric Avenue
3. Salt N Pepa: Push It

09 January 1: Connections

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:44:00 +0000

1. Starting the day with a phone call from Jessica.
2. Doing the day with smooth transit connections.
3. Ending the day with a phone call from Lukas.

2009: NOW

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:43:00 +0000

My greatest lesson of 2008: Live in the NOW.

1. ‘We do not remember days; we remember moments.’ Cesare Pavese

2. ‘Forever is composed of nows.’ Emily Dickinson

3. ‘Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.’ André Gide, Nourritures Terrestres

2008: Reflection

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:24:00 +0000

My year was one of loss, change and tragedy. And what a hard year everywhere! But even difficult times were sprinkled with fond memories...

Sadly, I didn't write when I needed to most. How do I keep this promise now?

Sifting through reflections, scribbled notes and emails, I will identify those bright spots and post them. It seems daunting, and it's not fully in the Now, but I owe it to myself so I can go forward with a lighter heart.

08 June 28: Milky

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:21:00 +0000

‘How to Make It to the Promised Land’ by Ellen Umansky

1. ‘The rocks lie gleaming, dry, white, and smooth as calcified bones.’
2. ‘... kids file past the red-painted iron sculpture that looks like dueling tampons.’
3. ‘Yarden is from Honduras and has skin the color of milky tea.’

08 June 27: Disney

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:21:00 +0000

From Disney's ‘Keys to Excellence’ –

1. ‘Every leader is telling a story about what he or she values.’

2. ‘We judge ourselves based on our Intentions. Others judge us based on our Behaviours.’

3. S-E-R-V-I-C-E. Smile, Eye Contact/Body Language, Respect and Welcome, Value the Magic, Initiate Guest Contact, Create Service Solutions, End with a ‘Thank You’.

08 June 26: ΦΑΝΤΑΣΤΙΚΟ!

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:21:00 +0000

1. Facebook: ‘I'm done with men . . . I'm doing solely batteries, hehehe . . .’
2. Email: ‘It's your call.’
3. Web: ‘ΦΑΝΤΑΣΤΙΚΟ!’

08 June 25: Inclusion

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:20:00 +0000

Good news in today's newspapers:

1. ‘Jazz is the new rap.’
2. ‘LGBT inclusion has, finally, become a business imperative.’
3. ‘A light at the end of the cancer tunnel.’

‘Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.’ Frank Zappa

08 June 14: Mystery

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:18:00 +0000

‘In Memory of Chanveasna Chan, Who is Still Alive’ by Ellen Miller

1. ‘‘You like oxygen?’ I looooooove oxygen! We’re soulmates!’’

2. ‘...the air in the hallway between us would fill, inexplicably, with her unmistakable but baffling post-coital personal odor signature: grilled cheese sandwiches.’

3. ‘Only a great, uninteresting mystery of chemistry allowed her hair to move at all.’

08 June 13: Fingertips

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:18:00 +0000

‘Dreaming in Polish’ by Aimee Bender

1. ‘They'd been married for sixty years, and their arm skin now wrinkled down to their wrists like kicked-down bedsheets.’

2. ‘It was hard and red as a reptile's heart.’

3. ‘The old woman placed the flower in the hand she always shared with her husband, and they sat, quiet and patient, fingertips linked by the bloom.’

08 June 12: Fluorescent

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:18:00 +0000

‘Ordinary Pain’ by Michael Lowenthal

1. ‘Larry decided to forge a career as the fat kid.’
2. ‘Walking down the corridors, Larry felt fluorescent with importance.’
3. ‘He was a tycoon of tragedy.’

08 June 11: Spam

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:17:00 +0000

This interruption in literature is brought to you by Gmail's Spam Filter.

1. ‘The thing between your legs can grow!’
2. ‘You won't have to complain anymore about your weak lovemaker!’
3. ‘What? 4 carat diamond ring for a buck?’

08 June 10: Something-ite

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:22:00 +0000

More ‘Barbarians at the Gates’ by Dara Horn

1. ‘By an early age, Wilhelm was convinced that every known fact about the world was included in the dictionary.’

2. ‘He opens his mouth for a second to answer and notices that his lips have dried together, fused by not talking.’

3. ‘...So-and-so the Something-ite, Somebody-else the Somwhere-else-ite, Somebody-else the Nowhere-ite...’