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"Team. Team, team, team, team, team. I even love saying the word team." – Denholm Reynholm, The IT Crowd* The unexpected excitement in my life these days is this: sports. I am enjoying my twice weekly outing across town to lace up my cleats and run around for an hour, then trek home through the dark (and cold). That is an understatement. I am loving it. It is shaping up to be the highlight of my winter. I show off my bruises**, I grin on the subway, I lie in bed thinking about strategies. It started in August, when perusing the Toronto Ultimate Club’s website…they were hosting a tournament in 3 days. A hat tournament. And they needed women. The beauty of a hat tournament is that the teams are completely mixed by the organizers, so signing up by myself was no big deal. Relatively. I showed up to Varsity Stadium, where a light rain was falling…I thought I’d hate the rain, but it turns out I’m becoming less of a whiny baby. Anyway, at some point in the day, our ...

If I were an impulsive person, I would have disabled my Facebook account today. I don't know why, but I've been hit by a wave of annoyance and fatigue with its effect on my life. I may be attributing too much power to a website, and I'm sure there are "healthy" patterns of usage and interaction by many people who are better than me. Tonight, though, I just don't get the point. Not that I am not anti-technology. In fact, a great part of my desire to rid myself of Facebook is that it seems redundant. I would much rather have people interact with me via Twitter, my blog, or Google Reader. And of course, good "old-fashioned" email. And if you don't care enough to connect with me on any of these levels...then we're not actually connecting. It's just a (possibly mutual) sort of stalking. I almost wish I were more impulsive so that I had disabled Facebook and I could just shrug and say it's done and move on. But Facebook is sneaky and it...

Twice today, I was in the car for about 15 minutes (I had to return the car to its fantastical owner tonight. I lost a vehicle, but I regained another person to hang out with). Both times I heard these three songs, which I happen to love. Apparently, sometimes I do agree with the masses. Thank you, radio station, for making me happy. Thank you, music, for giving me an excuse to sing and car-dance. *tonight I watched the last half of Season 4 of The IT Crowd . I am obsessed with Roy's shirts. I always need to know what they say. This saying was on one of them. Another had a whale, and some writing. But the biggest upset of the night was a shirt with a maple leaf, the letters OMFG, and an explanation of said letters. I'm pretty sure the words were "Ontario Maple Flavours Group" - but that is still unconfirmed. And there was another line of text that I still don't know. This might keep me up tonight...Canadian content on my favourite British show!? I fel...