[NON BLOG] More on the Financial Situation

After the immediate euphoria of having a job passed, I realized that while it is income, my domestic economy is still running in the red. Substantially. Part-time work, in the evenings and on the weekend, looks like a necessary filler. Ideas, fellow Torontonians?

Ah well. The hemorrhage continued, but at least I've got my Factor VIII.

[NON BLOG] Two Encounters with Livejournalers

I met choreo_m last evening as I was coming off of work. Inasmuch as it had been just over a year since last I'd seen her, it was nice seeing her again. After supper at a generic eastern-Mediterranean restaurant, we strolled south along Yonge, chatting and catching up. I did not know, incidentally, that the saxophonist she told me to meet her by, on the corner of Bay and Bloor, was T. from the Rude Mechanicals.

talktooloose was kind enough to take me out to dinner at The Living Well; later, we went on a generic stroll west before we parted at Christie Station. We talked about a number of things, including some very interesting ideas on comics.

[BRIEF NOTE] Is Blogging Good for You?

According to Tobias Schwarz at A Fistful of Euros, it might not be:

[P]eople who own homepages - mostly very well educated men, only 13% women - appear to be more uncertain in social conduct, less able to deal with criticism and have a more negative image of themselves than people who have not yet left any trace on a Google harddrive. Prof Schütz therefore assumes that websites are used as a substitute communication-tool because direct interpersonal contacts are more difficult to handle [for a part of] the owners of websites than for other people[.]

Should I feel offended, somehow?