My office job starts every morning at 9:00 during week days (I'm lucky enough to have my week-ends completely off: no office, no teaching). It's only 10 minutes away by car, 15-20 minutes with the bike (not a nice way though, busy road with lots of crazy cars and stupid trucks), or 1 hour walking (only tried once).

This morning I got out of the house half an hour earlier to start the car and brush off the snow. The parking lot behind our building wasn't cleaned. After a good 15 minutes, I get behind the wheel to finally leave for work, but the wheels of the car are stuck in the snow! Sh*t, I'm gonna be late. Get out again, shovel more ice/dirt from behind the front wheels, doesn't work! Ok, what's next? Think, think... Salt! The landlord always leaves a bucket of salt beside the back door. I go get some salt that I through behind both front tires. Still stuck. I can't wait, I'm late already! Go back inside, call the job to inform that I will be late because I have no choice but to take the bike, "OK, that's fine" says Jo.

Good thing my bike has been staying inside for the past month, I won't have my butt all wet today (when the bike sleeps outside and the bike seat is humid, I feel my butt wet the whole day, not nice). Surprise, surprise... What do I see then? The back wheel is completely flat! Oh no, and where is the pump? (Usually that's D's job) Think, think, think... Oh yeah, in the car's trunk! (because it's closer to the bikes in normal time). So I get back outside, take the pump in my hands and think that it would be worth trying one more time to see if I could drive to work instead of fighting with the pump, the flat tire, my bike in the snow... One last chance, pleeease, could the salt have reacted by now? Yeees it worked!

I really liked Blogspirit, but I'm afraid I might move back to Blogger very soon. When I changed from Blogger to Blogspirit, it was because I wanted to create categories for my posts, I didn't like the messiness without it, specially that I wanted to be able to switch languages whenever I wanted, and still have readers being able to follow me :D

Sadly now Blogspirit is telling me I need to delete some things or upgrade my membership. I don't want to pay to post my (mostly) silly thoughts! Specially that Blogger is still free, and is now offering the "categories" option! Argh! But how am I going to move all this posts (68) and commentaries (172)?!?

I have to think about all this. I'll be back.

Je vous avais déjà dit que je n'aimais pas particulièrent les chats? D'ailleurs, c'est pour ça que je voulais une lapinette à la maison, comme ça quand elle m'embête elle rentre dans sa cage (en général elle aime bien y retourner, surtout pour la bouffe). Et bien mon chéri lui aime les chats, et depuis que j'ai ma lapinette, il pensait qu'il aimerait bien son chat lui aussi. Moi je rêvotais que ça serait rigolo si ils avaint les même couleurs tous les deux...

Alors aujourd'hui, au retour du supermarché on est passé par le magasin d'animaux, par curiosité. Et on est revenu avec lui à la maison.

At work.
Me: I made my own bread.
Co-worker: You have a bread machine?
M: No, I had to knead it with my own hand. It was fun!
C-W: You are like a pioneer's wife!

Ingredients:
- 1T yeast
- 1t sugar
- 1/2 c. warm water
- 1 c. whole wheat flour
- 1 c. white flour (I prefer darker bread so I put 3 cups whole wheat and 3 cups white flour)
- 1 c. oatmeal
- 1 T salt (I put 2)
- 2 T butter
- 1/2 c. brown sugar
- 2 c. boiling water

A la découverte d'un endroit que vous aimez

Ce mois-ci, mes fellow bloggeurs sont: Laurent, Olivier, Aurélie V, Alcib, Hervé, Hepao, Fred, Bergere, Ervalena, René, Bertrand, Isabelle, et les p'tits nouveaux Nathalie, Jojo, Aurélie N, Jean-Marc, et enfin bv.
Rhô là là, ça devient un évènement d'envergure ça! J'sais pas si je vais continuer, hein, après tout je suis une anti-conformiste dans l'âme moi! ;)

Bon, ça fait un mois que j'y pense à cette rédac'... Alors, je voulais prendre mon courage à deux mains, prendre mon appareil photo d'espionnage et faire un reportage digne des grands... (heu, quoi au fait? bloggeurs?) :D , mais, voyez-vous, c'est l'hivers au Canada et mon cerveau (et mon courage) sont en mode d'hibernation!

Je pensais que du peu d'endroits à visiter à St-Cat (là où je suis), la bibliothèque est sûrement le coin où j'aime y rester le plus longtemps à choisir minutieusement les 10 CDs (!) que j'ai le droit d'emprunter pour 3 semaines, ou tout autant de romans, de magazines, et d'autres trucs et machins. C'est dingue, je me souviens qu'à la bibliothèque de la ville ou j'ai grandit, on n'avait droit qu'à 3 livres par département, c-à-d 3 chez les jeunes, 3 chez les adultes, 3 chez l'audiovisuel (mais y'avait pas de DVD à l'époque).

Néanmoins, le meilleur endroit du monde pour moi en ce moment est mon super sofa moelleux qui se trouve dans mon salon où Lily adore m'embêter quand j'y suis allongée. Des fois elle essaye de goûter au bouquin que je lis (je suis au milieu du 2eme livre de la série A Series of Unfortunate Events, histoires noires, pas sûre que se soit vraiment pour des enfants).

We have a "snow day"!

There is a snow storm going on since yesterday evening. Schools are closed. I had to call a coworker this morning to ask if we were working. She said, "stay home" and this is a good thing since I'm not sure I could have driven my car out of the parking lot in a timely manner...

I don't get paid holidays, nor sick days, but what is great about my job is that I get paid for snow days! Yesss!

Non, je ne parlerai pas du roman de Camus (que je n'ai jamais terminé d'ailleurs), mais de Lily-la-merveilleuse-lapinette que Don Quixote insiste à appeler la peste, je sais pas pourquoi! ;)

Monday is usually the busiest day of the week. I work at the office from 9:00 to 14:30, I then bike/drive back home quickly to grab something to eat, pick up my "teaching bag" full of music, and teach from 15:30 to 21:00 at the school which is (fortunately) close to home.

In addition to this hectic schedule, we've had very cold temperatures for the last couple of days (minus 20°C with windshield). I find it very tiring for the body. So, after getting back home from the office yesterday I didn't want to get out again... I rarely happen to teach all of the eleven students scheduled for the evening (there are often cancelling for x reason), but yesterday I got 10 out of 11. And then as if it wasn’t enough, we had an additional staff meeting to attend at the school at 21:00. It lasted at least 45 exhausting minutes.

Gracias al post de mardevientos que me hizo discubrir otra cantante brasileña, Ana Carolina, con una voz bien grave como me gustan.

Tudo se acaba.
Olha o noticiário!
Água se acaba.
Se acaba a prece do vigário.
E eu quero ser a mendiga suja e descabelada
Dormindo na vertical.
Entender como a vida de alguém
Se acaba antes do final.

Prefiro Lou Reed do Velvet Underground.
Gosto de Silvia Plath, S.Eliot,
Emily Dickinson, Lucinda,
Délia, Manoel de Barros ficam eternos por mim.

Esqueço a crise da Argentina
Quebrando o pau com a menina no sinal
Em castelhano, ê
Eu furo os planos, ê
Eu furo o dedo, mando vê
Examinando, lanho o braço
Aperto o passo. Não sou louca!
É...

Tomei um tiro
No vidro do meu carro
É a pobreza
Tirando o seu sarro
Foi meu dinheiro
Foi meu livro caro
Que façam bom proveito
Da grana que roubaram
Porque eu trabalho
E outro dinheiro eu vou ganhar

Tomei um táxi
O motorista, mexicano,
Veio falando sobre o onze de setembro.
Havia um homem na calçada lendo o "Código Da Vinci"
Ou lia o código da venda?

E na parada havia um peruano
Cheio de badulaques, ô
Vendendo Nike, ô
Vendendo bike, Coca Light, canivete
Aceita cheque pros breguetes.
Notícias do Iraque na Tv da lanchonete.

Notícias populares
Voam pelos ares
E amanhã, meu nêgo, ninguém sabe
Se alguém recua ou se alguém invade
Se alguém tem nome ou se alguém tem fome.
Que façam bom proveito
Do pouco que restar
Se tanta gente vive
Só com o que dá pra aproveitar.

Tudo se acaba.
Olha o noticiário!