Storytime with Miss A - Girlfriend in a Coma

So I thought of doing a video blog - as something different. I quickly realized I didn't know what to say - so instead of rambling on about nothing I did this:



Whilst watching this I noticed several things about myself that I didn't know before:

• The crookedness of my bottom teeth is way more noticeable than I realized.
• I'm shiny.
• I do have a Canadian accent. Much as I have argued my Yankee friends when they've pointed it out (or should I say OOT), I now see that they are right. Boo.

In conclusion, HOORAY LITERACY! STAY IN SCHOOL!

x and o
-Miss A

P.s. please let me know if this was actually interesting and should be repeated or if it was way lame...

Dear Doug...

Dear Douglas Coupland,

Thank you for writing a new book, and thank you for setting it for release in the month of my birth... what a lovely gift!


"In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Immediately snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interrogated separately in neutral Idea-like chambers, and then released as 15-minute-celebrities into a world driven almost entirely by the internet, these five unforgettable people endure a barrage of unusual and highly 21st-century circumstances.
A charismatic scientist with dubious motives eventually brings the quintet together, and their shared experience unites them in a way they could never have imagined.

"Generation A" mirrors the structure of 1991's 'Generation X' as it champions the act of reading and storytelling as one of the few defenses we still have against the constant bombardment of the senses in a digital world. Like much of Coupland's writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday, apocalyptic paranoia, and is his most ambitious and entertaining novel to date."

Can't wait to crack you open! Yay!

Just watched GHOST on the W Network and cried my face off. Why do we do this to ourselves?

x and o
-Miss A

Wanted: Cancer Cowboy

If you didn't already know it, Douglas Coupland is hands down my favourite contemporary author. If you haven't read him, you're missing out. If you have, you know what I'm talking about. CBC Television took quite the task on and decided to take his second most recent novel, jPOD, and make it into a television series - ticklish business any way you look at it...especially since we all know how good Canadian TV shows tend to be (insert exaggerated eyeroll here).

Being the Coupland supporters/enthusiasts that we are, Carolyn and I made a date to watch the premiere this evening - even though we feared the worst... HOWEVER, I am happy to report that we were pleasantly surprised! jPOD is actually quite clever and sharp, and the actors don't make me want to grab the nearest razorblade and end it all. Good work CBC!


Thus, Tuesday night is now officially our jPOD date night. (Oh the small things we hard-working students have to look forward to)...

(on that note, I should mention that school so far is GREAT - although I fear many of my classmates may drive me to drink...the teachers are amazing and I think this is just the kick in the ass I need to finally get my act together, musically. Hooray!)