Archive for the 'Life' Category

Are you a list person?

Yazan: Candace | 20 April 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life

Do you make lists? Do you hate lists? Do you realize there are different kinds of lists? First there are the lists that give you chores to do. Often other people make these lists for you: wash windows, clean eavestroughs, fix the faucet, clean the clutter off the counter, catch up the mending, etc. Lists […]

Learning to enjoy life

Yazan: Candace | 20 April 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life

I’m learning some things. I’m trying to learn to enjoy life more. I’ve been participating at 43 places.com and looking at all the beautiful places there are in the world to visit, all the amazing history to see, all the cool people to meet and watching the people who are really doing all of this. […]

summer at last

Yazan: Candace | 19 April 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life, Photography, School

This summer is much needed. Classes are over finally and my exams are done. I have two final papers due next week that I will have to write sometime but I’m not thinking about that right now. I need a break. I have been a full time student for 8 semesters straight now. I got […]

Get ready for more of this at E3 2006

Yazan: Candace | 26 March 2006 | 2 Comments
Categories: Culture, Games, Life, Sexism, Technology, Third Wave

Rob‘s been away at GDC this week and he’s been taking pictures of the boothbabes apparently. This photo is from his flickr page. With the fines for objectifying women set for this year I wonder how many boothbabes like this one we’ll be seeing at E3 2006?

Happy? February 26, 2006

Yazan: Candace | 26 February 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life

Happy things for today: I found skates – they’re bright blue and they’re comfortable. Not to shabby considering it’s February, winter’s almost over here, and I had to go to more than one store to find them. Skating was excellent. I took my kids, my s.o. brought his, and other friends brough their three. We […]

Time to be Happy

Yazan: Candace | 24 February 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life

Get ready – here goes: The owner of the vacant house next door picked up the garbage in the backyard. This will hopefully help deal with the rat issue around the neighbourhood. Reading week officially begins now! I have plenty to keep me busy but there will definitely be sleep time and rest time. I […]

3 days running: More Happy, February 23, 2006

Yazan: Candace | 23 February 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Happy, Life

If you look around you can usually find something to be positive about. If you want to be happy, you can be. Here’s my list for today: There were birds singing outside my window this morning. I have chocolate chip cookies waiting for me at home. Only 3 more papers to write and then it’s […]

More Happy: February 22, 2006

Yazan: Candace | 22 February 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Happy, Life

It just goes on and on! More reasons to be happy: I have a night off with my kids tonight. I get to go grocery shopping this afternoon. Latin dancing was awesome (and I got to skip out early with my partner for yummy eats). Chachacha, rumba, samba… aaaahhhhh. I’m a total dance junky. I […]

5 Things to be Happy About: Feb 21, 2006

Yazan: Candace | 21 February 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Happy, Life

Here are 5 reasons why I’m happy today: In my corner of the world there is sunshine. It was wonderful that walking home from campus today I got to take off hat and mittens. My daffodils are poking their heads up through the winter’s mulch. (See #1) I have a Latin dancing lesson tonight. I […]

Sleep

Yazan: Candace | 20 February 2006 | Comments Off on Sleep
Categories: Activism, Bodies, Feminism, History, Life, Relationships, School, Women's Studies

It was only last year that I wouldn’t call myself a feminist. I felt the word was too narrow to describe all the issues that fall under the umbrella “feminism”. Now I feel more like, yes, I am a feminist, and I am also whatever that other word is that describes all those huge and complicated issues that take on every social justice issues you can name. To refuse to claim the name ‘feminist’ means to reject all that feminism stands for. If you’re not a feminist you’re not a feminist. See what I’m saying?

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