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3%

Posted on August 18, 2006 | Filed Under Randomness

Sometimes the medical community underestimates the strength of the human spirit. The woman sitting beside me yesterday, smiling and getting back to work, was given a 3% chance of survival three years ago after having two aneurisms and here she is.

Pretty amazing.

A different perspective

Posted on July 17, 2006 | Filed Under Randomness

If you have any interest in reading about the current Israel-Lebanon situation from a different perspective than Fox news, check out The Electronic Intifada, a website run by a group of people including one of my past University of Victoria anthropology professors, Laurie King: http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml

 

~L

 

Stash-what-sky?

Posted on June 25, 2006 | Filed Under Randomness, Family

A recent post by Chris prompted me to google for my name.

First, there are 56 google hits to my name, of which about 50 are actually me. I found this creepy site in the results; a site that tries to link names with employers: That zoominfo site lists Stanislav Stashevskyy, the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Stashevskyy is aparently an OK translation of the original Ukranian/Russian “Сташевский” (If you can’t read that, your browser sucks). So I searched some more with that.

There’s Vlad (Влад) Stashevsky, the hot male model of the mid 90s.

Richard J Stashevsky, a headmaster of a christian school in Indiana.

Shmuel Stashevsky, who is at a university in Israel. He’s written a few books, including one about how people misbehave in organizations.

There’s 4 Stashevskys that I found in this list of Holocaust victims from a place in Poland.

I look like none of these people, except maybe Shmuel, who totally has my eyebrows. I have no idea why I’m posting this, just excited that I figured out how to spell my last name in cyrillic =).

~j

Nosy groceries

Posted on June 8, 2006 | Filed Under Randomness

Maybe I’m the only one who does this but when I’m in line at the grocery store, I cant help but look at other people’s groceries. The other day I was kind of amused when the girl in front of me was buying low fat yogurt, reduced fat cereal, skim milk, low fat everything and then 4 chocolate bars and some ice cream. It makes me laugh, but then I realize that I do that too. Seems so silly to save calories on all the healthy real food only in order to eat the crap junk food. Or maybe the junk was for someone else in the house I guess…

And on another day, a young couple behind me bought 8L of milk (!), four or five loaves of white bread, a whole fish (skin scales head etc) and three packages of chicken livers. Im also confused how people eat chicken feet? Isnt is just bone? Are they used to flavour other foods?

It’s nosy of me, but I’m always curious about it. I try to figure out what recipe they could possibly be making with broccoli, mustard and kidney beans.

~L

Things that make me feel old.

Posted on June 4, 2006 | Filed Under Randomness

Number 14: In line at the Shoppers Drug Mart I am buying scotch mints, altoids, and a Tide To Go stain remover pen. The kid beside me is buying pink and purple nerds and Hubba Bubba gum.

Number 27: At my friends’ engagement party I have a sore throat so I spend most of the night drinking water with lemon squeezed in it instead of numbing my throat pain with tequila.

~L

shake up

Posted on May 3, 2006 | Filed Under Randomness

So…three people put in their resignation at my work today. One of them is an agent in Victoria but two are at our office. With my replacement starting on Monday, I guess there is a couple spaces for me to move to…should be interesting

~L

Lately

Posted on April 26, 2006 | Filed Under Randomness, Day to day

Lately…

…I have not been writing much on here, even though I usually write really good posts in my head on my walk home. Although today I just sang to myself the whole way. Thats right! Not even caring if anyone heard me. I really wish I could sing well and actually carry a tune.  It started with a really annoying song that was in my head from the radio at work, and then I sang other songs just to get that one out.
…I have been very annoyed at work and managing to bite my tongue when really I just want to yell “SHUT UP” or “AAAAAAFRRRRGHHH”  and then realizing that its probably just me being grumpy. The job hasnt changed so it must be me. I think I am getting very antsy about having to continue doing my old job when I was offered a promotion two months ago. But word on the street is that there is a new person hired to replace me and she is starting in early May, but I wont hold my breath until she actually walks in.

…Ive been missing my friends in Victoria and feeling kind of cut off from them. It seems like every time I talk to them there is another big change going on that I missed or didnt know about. I guess its bound to happen, but Ive decided to try a bit harder at keeping in touch with the people I miss.

…Ive been really looking forward to summer and then I realize that its been almost a year since I moved here and somehow the time has flown by. And I realize that I feel very much at home and happy here.

…Ive been thinking that theres something missing and I think its because I dont really have a creative outlet. I dont draw or paint anymore and I dont write poetry or dance, or anything…Its something I have to figure out and start doing because I know I tend to bottle and keep things inside so I gotta let it out!  I feel a bad poem coming on….
Sorry this is fairly random, but thats whats been up.
~L

Canuck sighting

Posted on March 30, 2006 | Filed Under Randomness

Yesterday I was feeling a little lazy so when my co-worker and walking-home-buddy offered me a ride home from gm place i accepted. We walked there to meet her husband who works for orca bay and waited for him for a little while. Then down to the parking garage. As we were leaving we stop at the entrance to let a car in. It was Bryon Allen (sp?) and he stopped and signed jerseys and cards etc for a lot of kids waiting there. That was so sweet, to see little kids all excited to get an autograph. The next car in was Ryan Kessler driving with Alex Auld in the passenger seat. Pretty cool.

Weird to think that they drive themselves to their games. Dont all rich people have chaffeured limousines? heh.

 ~L

Sore feet

Posted on March 7, 2006 | Filed Under Randomness

Yay to walking all the way home from work! Yay for fresh air instead of stinky crowded buses!

Boo to walking all the way home in work shoes!

(Have to remember to take the running shoes to work next time)

Estimated time ~38 minutes.
~L

Things I think about walking home from work…

Posted on February 27, 2006 | Filed Under Randomness

It is so nice to be able to walk home IN THE SUN from work. Well, from the skytrain stop at least. When it gets a bit nicer out maybe Ill take some running shoes and actually walk all the way…It is really great to get some fresh air after being at work all day and I really like walking by myself for some reason. Maybe because I like to walk kinda slow and most people dont.

As I walked I thought about why I havent been writing much on here. In the last month or so I have thought of lots of stuff to say, but havent really solidified it in my brain enough to write out. Lately I am happy to see that lots of friends have been commenting and it appears more people read this than I realized. So, that does inspire me to get more of my thoughts out of my brain where they hide and out into the universe to share with all of you. But I think one of the things that has been stopping me is that when I come on here I am reminded of the absence of a friend who was one of first blogs that I read and got me interested…and maybe Ive just been procrastinating.
I take a long time to make decisions, as most of my friends know who keep asking me about when our wedding is. Its not always that I am procrastinating making the decision, I am just really slow at it. I like to think things through too much and have all the pros and cons clear in my head. I need time to have ideas float around in my brain and let them mature, like good wine. While spontaneity can be good sometimes, Im not really that good at it. I do really like having my short term life planned out- what Im doing today, what groceries to buy, what we are doing this weekend and next week. But when it comes to long term planning Im really bad at it.
During school I was one of the people who needed the pressure of writing the paper the night before in order to get it done. Trying to get it done a day ahead to proofread was a big challenge. So maybe I just need a sense of urgency in order to get big stuff done. And that is one thing holding me back from planning our wedding down to the last detail right now, because I know that Jeremy and I are going to be together forever already, and feel no urgency to have a ceremony whose main goal is to proclaim that to our friends and family…Im pretty sure they already know we’re sticking together Of course I want our wedding to be special and perfect, but I dont know what that will be yet.

Another area that is being affected by my slow decision making is my career, or lack of one. I would say right now I have a job, not a career. I have been lately had the little idea-let of going back to school. But not for a masters in anthropology, as I dont think the academic route is the right one for me. I am actually kind of enjoying my business-related job, in that, I think I could be really happy in a different office with a similar position…But the thought of going to business school full time does not sound very pleasant. I certainly dont miss school at all, but I know that to progress in any sort of business situation I would need some schoolin. And its not my idea of fun to quit my job and use our savings for school…so the option would be part time courses while working full time…I think I need to think about that option for a few more days, weeks, months, before it becomes a fully developed desire.

There was a lot more to this post while I was thinking it out in my head, but I cant remember it now…I do that all the time, writing letters in my head and then forgetting them. When someone makes me mad, I usually let it go, and then write them a nasty letter in my head later that night when Ive got it thought out. It means I usually dont think of a snappy comeback until later when it is useless, so my comebacks are usually lame like ” oh ya, well, so are you!”

~Laura

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