It's raining, it's pouring...
Jan. 17th, 2006 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deathpixieIt's rather icky out there at the moment and has been all day. Rain, cold wind, and patches of slushy ice on the pavement footpath where the rain has frozen. Yeah, not snow weather but apparently it's perfectly good slush weather. Bleah. I wouldn't have gone out in it at all, only I needed Advil (Yay ibuprophen! Take that cramps!) and the roomie and I needed dinner - frozen veggie lasagne, salad and more juice since we were out-ish. And the sacred Coke. I even brought bread home today, which means toast for me tomorrow. Whee!
I worked today, 9-4, in what seems to be the regular shift for me now - Tues 9-4, Wed-Fri 9-3, Sat 10-3. Sunday and Monday off. No responses to any of the ten applications I sent out on Sunday, so I'll have another look at Workopolis.com and see if there's anything new to apply for. Think I may have to widen the scope a bit and perhaps re-draft the letter I attach to these things. Still, early days. And if I get an interview, I'm pretty sure I can talk my way into the job. Just need the interview. At least I get paid tomorrow.
Didn't do a huge amount on my 'weekend'. Sat around reading, mostly - George R. R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice series, which is damned good. For big heavy doorstop books, I'm not even noticing the time spent reading. And that includes in the bath today - spent an hour soaking my back (PMT, yay :P) and reading A Storm of Swords until the water got cold and I wanted to shake Sansa for being a selfish little bitch. Tyrion is technically a bad guy, yeah, but considering he's the only Lannister to show her any kindness? She should be a little less picky and suck it up, as [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] would say.
Shall stop babbling now. ;)
Oh, and since I've been meaning to do this for the folks back home...
10 Things That Are Different In Canada to Australia.
1) Beanies are called toques. Pronounced "tooks". [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] gave me a traditional Canadian one, with the ear flappy bits, for Christmas. It's very cute and so warm.
2) "Regular" coffee is a coffee with one cream and one sugar. "Double double" is two creams and two sugars. And so on. Yes, actual cream. Oh, and there's one called a "Gretzky" after Canada's greatest hockey player with nine and nine, since he wore a number 99 jersey.
3) Oh yeah, 'hockey' means ice hockey. They look at you funny if you call it ice hockey.
4) Most of the taps are those single ones, where you turn one way for hot and one way for cold. The hot water's much hotter than Aussie standards.
5) "Take away" is called "take out". Hand gestures are my friend, since I keep forgetting this one.
6) People eat soup with crackers, like Saladas. Again, I keep forgetting this one.
7) Ten dollar notes here are pink, whilst fives are blue. Most confusing since it's the other way 'round back home. And the coins are 1 cent, 5 cents (called a nickel and about the size of an Aussie ten cent coin), 10 cents (called a dime and the size of an Aussie five), twenty-five cents (called a quarter), one dollar (called a loonie, since it has a picture of a loon on it) and two dollars (called twonies, since they're two loonies).
8) Around Bloor especially, there's a heavy Eastern European influence to the food. Perogies (pear-ro-gis) are potato dumpling sort of things like giant gnocchi that are served hot with sour cream and they're very popular here. You can also get poutine, which is chips with gravy and melted cheese on top. Really good but very fattening. ;)
9) Bottle shops are called liquor stores and are run by the government, rather than private operator-owned. They're called LCBOs, which is short for Liquor Control Board of Ontario.
10) Every store you go into where you end up sitting for a while has a coat rack for those winter layers. Beats Melbourne's lack of free cloakrooms.
The Canucks on my list will probably be laughing at me now, but hey. It's the little things you notice.
I worked today, 9-4, in what seems to be the regular shift for me now - Tues 9-4, Wed-Fri 9-3, Sat 10-3. Sunday and Monday off. No responses to any of the ten applications I sent out on Sunday, so I'll have another look at Workopolis.com and see if there's anything new to apply for. Think I may have to widen the scope a bit and perhaps re-draft the letter I attach to these things. Still, early days. And if I get an interview, I'm pretty sure I can talk my way into the job. Just need the interview. At least I get paid tomorrow.
Didn't do a huge amount on my 'weekend'. Sat around reading, mostly - George R. R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice series, which is damned good. For big heavy doorstop books, I'm not even noticing the time spent reading. And that includes in the bath today - spent an hour soaking my back (PMT, yay :P) and reading A Storm of Swords until the water got cold and I wanted to shake Sansa for being a selfish little bitch. Tyrion is technically a bad guy, yeah, but considering he's the only Lannister to show her any kindness? She should be a little less picky and suck it up, as [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] would say.
Shall stop babbling now. ;)
Oh, and since I've been meaning to do this for the folks back home...
10 Things That Are Different In Canada to Australia.
1) Beanies are called toques. Pronounced "tooks". [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] gave me a traditional Canadian one, with the ear flappy bits, for Christmas. It's very cute and so warm.
2) "Regular" coffee is a coffee with one cream and one sugar. "Double double" is two creams and two sugars. And so on. Yes, actual cream. Oh, and there's one called a "Gretzky" after Canada's greatest hockey player with nine and nine, since he wore a number 99 jersey.
3) Oh yeah, 'hockey' means ice hockey. They look at you funny if you call it ice hockey.
4) Most of the taps are those single ones, where you turn one way for hot and one way for cold. The hot water's much hotter than Aussie standards.
5) "Take away" is called "take out". Hand gestures are my friend, since I keep forgetting this one.
6) People eat soup with crackers, like Saladas. Again, I keep forgetting this one.
7) Ten dollar notes here are pink, whilst fives are blue. Most confusing since it's the other way 'round back home. And the coins are 1 cent, 5 cents (called a nickel and about the size of an Aussie ten cent coin), 10 cents (called a dime and the size of an Aussie five), twenty-five cents (called a quarter), one dollar (called a loonie, since it has a picture of a loon on it) and two dollars (called twonies, since they're two loonies).
8) Around Bloor especially, there's a heavy Eastern European influence to the food. Perogies (pear-ro-gis) are potato dumpling sort of things like giant gnocchi that are served hot with sour cream and they're very popular here. You can also get poutine, which is chips with gravy and melted cheese on top. Really good but very fattening. ;)
9) Bottle shops are called liquor stores and are run by the government, rather than private operator-owned. They're called LCBOs, which is short for Liquor Control Board of Ontario.
10) Every store you go into where you end up sitting for a while has a coat rack for those winter layers. Beats Melbourne's lack of free cloakrooms.
The Canucks on my list will probably be laughing at me now, but hey. It's the little things you notice.
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Date: 2006-01-18 01:01 am (UTC)Re the crackers - you crumble them into your soup and eat them all mixed in. It's rather odd, but surprisingly good sometimes. The other thing is French Onion soup - it's served here with a piece of bread laid across the top and melted cheese over that. So good.
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Date: 2006-01-18 05:21 am (UTC)