International Friendly is my soccer band name.

Is it raining? I hadn’t noticed.

I’m an occasional summer sports fan, if the weather is nice. I’m not a watch a pre tournament World Cup game at commonwealth stadium in 9 degrees wind and rain sports fan.

The other day, someone recommended that I meditate my pain away and while I do think meditation is a powerful tool for some people, that still fell into the weird and unsolicited medical advice I’ve gotten over the years.

Mamdani accomplishing all sorts of great stuff since January and also having time for fun stuff like this.

Local woman wakes up, adds a spoken word performance to the America 250 concert where the poet highlights 250 of the worst things about America and then everyone in attendance does a self reflection exercise to recognize their roles in any of those things, makes oatmeal.

Just finished watching all 3 seasons of The Great. It's a gloriously ahistorical, deliciously anachronistic, excellently written and immaculately costumed show, highly recommended. There are some gross bits, but even more laughter.

I’d like to speak to the body manager, as this one has been defective for years. I realize I’m past the refund window but wondering if we can still do an exchange.

That time in 2019 when a Twitter friend turned my rainy Tofino photo into an album cover and said I had become a powerful sea witch.

Local woman wakes up, unleashes the rain to wash all the separatist rats out of Alberta, makes oatmeal.

Local woman wakes up, hurts too much for nefarious whimsy today so plan amongst yourselves, makes oatmeal.

Lil backyard plum tree, 4 days apart.

I’ve led a lot of library programs and presentations over the years while feeling super awful, because chronic illness. I don’t necessarily recommend it, but it’s just my reality.

Local woman wakes up, drops a vat of oatmeal on the heads of politicians and billionaires every time they make a stupid decision that affects a lot of people, makes oatmeal.

There’s an Olivia Rodrigo song played regularly on CBC radio that I thought was a Taylor Swift song until today, in case you wondered how hip I was to the cool kid music lately.

There are homeless people with addictions on the streets, lament cities as they cut or reduce harm reduction, shelters, low income housing and destroy encampments regularly.

Carney to replace Steven Guilbeault’s seat with burning tailings pond

Solar charging doggo chooses warm deck over comfy bed not yet in full sun.

Have a hot commie summer, youth of New York. www.feistywaters.com/merch/p/hotc...

Local woman wakes up, sends all the chronic pain to evil people worldwide, makes oatmeal.

10pm summer glow up.

Well that was fucking weird, Japanese mystery/ horror by a Banksy type artist in translation and lots of floor plans. I didn’t know anything about Uketsu until reading this book and not sure if I’ll read more in the future but am still glad we had that weird time together.

One of these patrons was at the library yesterday, wearing a KN95 mask.

Local woman wakes up, screams into the sick void again, makes oatmeal.

Fun fact: there’s an Edmonton, Australia (in Queensland) and I found that out when someone emailed asking if they could offer free tutoring at the library. But I reckon the 13,000 km commute for their volunteers could be a barrier to the program’s success,

I’m hosting this program at the Capilano branch on Friday afternoon, if any Edmontonians are interested and available. epl.bibliocommons.com/events/69dfb...

The Venn diagram of workplaces who say after covid while being concerned about current staff sickness is a circle.

Local woman wakes up, markets intermittent rage as renewable energy resource and growth industry, makes oatmeal.

Dog walk chic.

That time in April 2022 when Jeff and I did an English Bay barge photo shoot in Vancouver and the barge Twitter account got flirty with me later.

Don’t worry, it’s not like an international sporting event is soon to spread more covid, measles, hantavirus, ebola and other viruses around the world, everything is fine.

Local woman wakes up, mandates 4 day work week (at least for oatmeal socialists who need a full day to plan nefarious whimsy), makes oatmeal.

Pastoral Dolly.

Borden Park blooms.

Was talking to my friend about Bill 28 and her 11 year old asked what it was. I explained as it related to him using computers and books at his local library and he was like “well that’s dumb”. Anyways, the kids are alright.

Waffles with fresh strawberries and mint.

The Feisty Rural Alberta Advantage.

This is such a fantastic fuck you to CBS, Colbert style.

Ice cream saves lives.

Local woman wakes up, taxes the rich adequately in every big city across North America to help fund public services, balance budgets and make the rich people big mad, makes oatmeal.

First backyard movie and mosquitoes of the year, Best in Show.

Massage at Knox Salon today and then accidentally bought a couple more plants at Chickie’s antiques across the street afterwards.

Tom Allen’s hour long musical tribute to Cris Derksen on his CBC show About Time was so beautiful. She was an immensely talented musician and wonderful person.

Daily Dolly.

Was talking to a stubborn library kid yesterday and defaulted to the mom type lady voice I use with Dolly because tbh the 5 year old kid and 8 year old dog share some personality traits.

Local woman wakes up, requires all Alberta separatists to write 10,000 word essays (with fact checked info, proper citations and no AI assistance) on the positive and negative impacts of separating from Canada, makes oatmeal.

Not their house, but definitely their sunbeam.

It was a NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER kinda day and is a very good thing I have a four day weekend.

I’m still salting the vibes with my dreaded PPE at the library but two different patrons have asked me where to buy good masks in the last couple days, so there.

Truly cursed morning at the library and it did not make my heart glad.