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• October 20, 2024

  Heart of Darkness

  I bought the paperback of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness something like twenty years ago. It has followed me around multiple countries since then, unread. I don’t know specifically why I picked it up now, I’m in the rare position of picking through my bookshelf trying to find things I haven’t actually read and there it was with one shining advantage: it’s really short. One hundred pages, plus a few more for fun. I also am probably willing to go on record saying Apocalypse Now is my favourite film, so I really should get around to it.

• October 03, 2024

  David Copperfield

  I’ve read some Dickens in the past, pretty sure I read Hard Times, since I remember a bunch of character names, if not what actually happened. I definitely read A Tale of Two Cities, which had a very silly twist ending. But mainly, I read contemporary reviews of Demon Copperhead, and it sounded interesting, so I wanted to get in on the ground floor.

• June 10, 2024

  Ireland Doesn't Get Earthquakes

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• May 06, 2024

  Toronto Marathon 2024

  My alarm went off at 5:30am. I could hear the rain outside. Both cats and one child sprung awake immediately because I, their servant, had moved and therefore was ready to do tasks for them. Auspicious.

• April 04, 2024

  And Then I Do Nothing

  I had Sunday, most of it, to myself. This is rare. Every two months maybe I have most of a day to myself. So this time, Easter Sunday, as it happened to be, I was left alone after lunchtime, ten, eleven hours lying in front of me. Obviously, I ran for two and a half of them. Then I had a bath. I had lunch, and snacks, and dinner, and further snacks, in a mostly continuous fashion that felt more like grazing than distinct meals. I watched a movie. But mostly, I did nothing.