Unabashed Self-Indulgent Gemini

It's my birthday and I'll self-indulge if I want to... !

Jhann inspired me with a list of highlights from the past year and I'm going to build on that today. Here are my favourite moments or events since this time last year:

• starting the novel for real
• playing in my first hockey league
• Perpetual Motion Roadshow trip with Ryan and Tim
• Flaming Lips show
• learning to ski a bit
• selling my soap not just to friends but strangers at craft shows
• new issue of dig.
• leaving a fulltime job to write more
• moving in with beau Bryan
• best books read: From Sarajevo With Sorrow by Goran Simic; The Sleep of Four Cities by Jen Currin; Go Ask Ogre by Jolene Siana
• best films I saw: You and Me and Everyone We Know; Wordplay; Brokeback Mountain

Today I'm going to basically just read and eat and maybe download some more of Da Ali G Show clips. I'm reading Case Histories by Kate Atkinson - Kate gave me this book a couple of birthdays ago and I've finally gotten to it! So far it's pretty good, and dark in an A. M. Holmes sort of way. It's too soon to say more than that about it. Then out for tempura and Sapporo tonight, a field trip to Chris B's boat tomorrow, followed by bbq and imbibing. I have a few other Gemini pals, so it looks like the excuses to celebrate will extend at least until Canada Day.

Cheers.

I CAN JAPAN by Miranda July. (she put out a few experimental narrative audio cds before her feature film last year, and they're disturbingly brilliant. I first encountered them about five years ago on Brave New Waves, when I had a really high fever...perfect way to question your perceptions!)