About Me

Just A Girl Off The Farm, Trying To Make Sense In The Big City

I’m a geek who lives in downtown Toronto and tries to make sense of my life as it zooms past me at increasingly faster rates of speed!  This is the third edition of my personal blog and I’m thrilled to have made the leap to WordPress. I feel like I’ve graduated or something … like I’m a “real” blogger now.

I wrote a bit about my blogging journey a few years ago when I switched from LiveJournal to Vox. I don’t really have much to add to those words.

Back in the day (*leans back in chair attempting to look wise), to be “online” meant dialing in with a slow modem to a BBS and exchanging text-based, command-style messages with other geeks who had dialed in – far less than 1% of the population. The true geeks, the innovators. I guess, back in the mid-90′s, we were onto something because here we are, the wave of early/late pragmatists, signing on and talking about ourselves. Talking to each other. With words and pretty pictures and music. Reading about each other replaces listening to each other, and I’m not sure that is always entirely a good thing. My offline life is quite active with various music/theatre projects, hockey, friends, my day job. I love to cook big honkin’ meals for friends, and smaller more intimate meals as part of a date night. My online life is also quite active, like having a parallel universe of friends and conversations and ideas. Nirvana: Sunday a.m., fireplace, Sunday NY Times, good coffee, jazz, curled up with a beautiful/handsome woman, sharing, debating, laughing …