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⭐️ Building an inventory in Twine 2 with the built-in Harlowe macros, 28/01/2016
⭐️ Notes on Clay, a short story by James Joyce, 9/05/2013
⭐️ Reading Notes on "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers, 17/04/2019
⭐️ Blogs Are Dead. Long Live Blogs!, 26/03/2024
⭐️ I spun up a mastodon instance and haven't crashed yet 😎, 15/11/2022
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2024
22 posts
- September 2024
- Starting my kinesiology programme at UQÀM, 08/09/2024
- July 2024
- June 2024
- I'm preparing for my first half-marathon, 21/06/2024
- 🤿 Scorching hot summer bookmarks 🔖, 16/06/2024
- Mini-review of the first episode of True Detective: Night Country, 12/06/2024
- Goodbye lilac season, I got into kinésiologie!, 03/06/2024
- May 2024
- Photos from Tønder, 22/05/2024
- SOS: Become an Argonaut!, 02/05/2024
- April 2024
- Wrapping up a UQÀM session, 30/04/2024
- 🤿 Bookmarks 🔖 from a grey April day, 12/04/2024
- Our first winter with Pippin, in photos, 07/04/2024
- March 2024
- Weeknote: Three days in the middle of March, 18/03/2024
- Weeknote: my first fun run with Pippin, 05/03/2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- Notes from a January '24 full of verglas, 26/01/2024
- Following the "Happy Leash" seminar, 21/01/2024
- The little saga of Pippin's first injury, 03/01/2024
2023
15 posts
- Reads I'm leaving behind in 2023, 28/12/2023
- Revisiting the Introductions of When Species Meet, 24/12/2023
- Three weeks with Pippin, 10/12/2023
- The second week of NaNoWriMo 2023, 12/11/2023
- The first week of NaNoWriMo 2023, 05/11/2023
- For My Patrons 🔒 : Meetcute at the Dish Pit, 31/10/2023
- Memories from the '23 Ballet Hop! Retreat, 18/10/2023
- Lessons from 6 weeks in a cast, 09/09/2023
- Photos from my journey to Lake Huron, 20/07/2023
- I finally wrote more than a single expletive-laden sentence about how I'm doing. Here we go!, 28/06/2023
- A sparkling Cendrillon at the Grands Ballets (2 june 2023), 03/06/2023
- ⭐️ Blogs Are Dead. Long Live Blogs!, 26/03/2023
- Putting my professional practice on pause, 06/02/2023
- My first pair of pointe shoes (at 32 yrs!), 22/01/2023
- Let's manifest together a marginally less noxious year, shall we?, 04/01/2023
2022
34 posts
- December 2022
- November 2022
- For My Patrons 🔒 : Social Network Infiltration by Face-Eating Leopards, 30/11/2022
- Searching for a Kintsugi magician, 19/11/2022
- ⭐️ I spun up a mastodon instance and haven't crashed yet 😎, 15/11/2022
- October 2022
- For My Patrons 🔒 : The timepiece and the Mille feuilles (early draft), 31/10/2022
- TikTok Experiment Notes, 18/10/2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- 🔒 End of Summer 2022 Report For My Patrons, 30/08/2022
- It's been a year since I (re)started ballet at 30, 03/08/2022
- July 2022
- Avenue Mont-Royal has become a beautiful garden 😍, 26/07/2022
- ⭐️ Why I Wear A Mask Even If No One Around Me Does, 19/07/2022
- ⭐️ I bought a Funkey S and I love it, 14/07/2022
- My poetry is being published in the Flourish Fest Zine, 03/07/2022
- May 2022
- For My Patrons 🔒: Hurricane Lessons (First Draft), 31/05/2022
- Book Rec: "Apprendre à nous écrire" edited by Magali Guilbault Fitzbay, 18/05/2022
- On how #NaPoWriMo2022 went, and some other small life updates, 04/05/2022
- 🔒 May 2022 Writing Corner Schedule, 01/05/2022
- April 2022
- For My Patrons 🔒: A few excerpts of my poetry marathon!, 29/04/2022
- A chronic health problem is a completely awful full time job, 20/04/2022
- I wrote 6 out of 7 poems so far! #NaPoWriMo2022, 08/04/2022
- 🔒 April 2022 Writing Corner Schedule, 03/04/2022
- Write A Poem A Day, For 30 Days! #NaPoWriMo2022, 01/04/2022
- March 2022
- For My Patrons 🔒 : Don't Touch My Wrists (Second Draft), 30/03/2022
- 🔒 Create A Compelling Story Setting, 28/03/2022
- The French version of 11:45 A Vivid Life is out!, 15/03/2022
- 🔒 March 2022 Writing Corner Schedule, 05/03/2022
- ⭐️ Playing the first 5 days of Field Guide to Memory, 04/03/2022
- For My Patrons 🔒 : An excerpt of a memory, 01/03/2022
- February 2022
- Those sweet, sweet polar winds, 27/02/2022
- You Are Cordially Invited to the Beta of My Writing Corner, 25/02/2022
- I backed RDW: A Tale of Lost Fantasy and I am so happy I did!, 11/02/2022
- The Privilege of Small, Ordinary Discomforts, 04/02/2022
- January 2022
- Reading Notes on Blowout by Rachel Maddow, 11/01/2022
2021
34 posts
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- Let's Organize ALL The Books!, 17/09/2021
- August 2021
- A Summer Steeped in Historical Sources and History Books, 31/08/2021
- August Update and Pride Thoughts, 18/08/2021
- 🔒 Some heat wave feels, 14/08/2021
- July 2021
- 🔒 Slowly Wrapping Up July (Progress Update), 30/07/2021
- I Like Iced Tea But I'm Lazy*: Three Ideas, 27/07/2021
- 🔒 I read a bunch of Uber Xena books and I have thoughts, 12/07/2021
- A few photos of me and my sword, in a lake, 03/07/2021
- June 2021
- Quick Book Review: Thorn by Anna Burke, 26/06/2021
- Quick Book Review: Nottingham by Anna Burke, 16/06/2021
- That this finds you well, 14/06/2021
- Vloggin' from a patch of ferns (May 2021 Reading Recap), 07/06/2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- Three perspectives on giving useful writerly feedback, 28/04/2021
- ⭐️ An Extremely Accurate Guide to the Romances in Mass Effect 1, 08/04/2021
- 🔒 Taking the temperature, 06/04/2021
- 🔒 Vlog 3 Post-Mortem, 02/04/2021
- Powering through my TBR (Ep 3), 01/04/2021
- March 2021
- 🔒 A Glimpse At My Readings and Thoughts on the Vloggish Booking Process, 16/03/2021
- I have a lot of feels about Hench (Ep 2), 12/03/2021
- I launched a bookish vlog!, 11/03/2021
- A cozy snowy vlog (Ep 1), 01/03/2021
- February 2021
- So I tried Cook It and I have Opinions, 25/02/2021
- Brief recollections from the Tolkien Society Seminar (2021-02-13), 15/02/2021
- And so it goes., 08/02/2021
2020
19 posts
- Reading the entire Jane Austen canon for the first time, 11/11/2020
- ⭐️ The Sustainability of Regular Pens, Fountain Pens, and Goose Quills, 21/10/2020
- No, I do not meditate, 09/10/2020
- Three Enjoyable SFF Reads (& Three Tea Pairings), 23/09/2020
- On Correcting Machine Translations, 02/09/2020
- Why I'm Quitting Fast Fashion, 26/08/2020
- My favourite teas and tisanes for iced tea of summer 2020, 13/08/2020
- Farewell, Luna, 09/07/2020
- ⭐️ Reading Log on Jamaica Kincaid’s Girl, 26/05/2020
- Reading Log on Cockroaches In Autumn by Lydia Davis, 21/05/2020
- ⭐️ Reading Log on The Truth About Owls by Amal El-Mohtar, 19/05/2020
- Crochet capelet project journal, 14/05/2020
- And another first of May, 01/05/2020
- Cross-back apron project journal, 23/04/2020
- Notes from yet another personal log in isolation, 20/04/2020
- A Short List Of Reactions In Impossible Times, 02/04/2020
- Personal Log, Stardate 73670.2, 15/03/2020
- Getting back into sewing and crochet, 23/02/2020
- Some of my winter reading (& a shout-out to the Book Rant Podcast), 10/02/2020
2019
30 posts. This was the year of my blogging challenge.
- December 2019
- November 2019
- Blog & Social Media Hiatus for November 2019, 01/11/2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- Drink tea and read comic books 2019.09.22, 22/09/2019
- August 2019
- My 5 Favourite Teas of Summer 2019, 30/08/2019
- Drink tea and read books 2019.08.12, 12/08/2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- Five Finds at the Festival BD de Montréal, 27/05/2019
- April 2019
- After Winter, 29/04/2019
- 🔒 Thoughts about endgame, 29/04/2019
- Brief Assortment of Interesting Things — 26th of April 2019, 26/04/2019
- Reading Notes on "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers, 17/04/2019
- Let's Play Germinal Minecraft (with Joachim), 15/04/2019
- Brief Assortment of Interesting Things — 12th of April 2019, 12/04/2019
- March 2019
- I Removed Disqus and Google Analytics (Finally), 23/03/2019
- Why Skyrim Remains My Favourite Place To Get Lost In, 21/03/2019
- Brief assortment of interesting stuff — 15th of March 2019, 15/03/2019
- Some Notes on the Third-Party Climate Review Q&A with (Present and Former) Students of Concordia Creative Writing, 08/03/2019
- Brief assortment of interesting stuff — March 1 2019, 01/03/2019
- February 2019
- Dungeon Mastering For The First Time, 16/02/2019
- Brief assortment of interesting stuff — 15th of February 2019
, 15/02/2019 - Brief Assortment of Interesting Stuff — 1st of February 2019
, 01/02/2019
- January 2019
2018
16 posts
- Jet lag and Paris at night, 10/11/2018
- 🔒 Boundaries, Red Flags, and Juggling Projects, 22/10/2018
- 🔒 Life Is Strange 2: Episode 1 "Roads" Play-through notes, 05/10/2018
- Finding Our Cat Luna, 23/09/2018
- Losing Luna (Hopefully Temporarily), 21/09/2018
- Getting Married, 06/09/2018
- Weaving a dragon tattoo, 01/08/2018
- ⭐️ The Limits of Self-Care, 24/07/2018
- 🔒 Observations from working as a freelancer, 10/07/2018
- Giant sculptures in a big field, 12/06/2018
- On men who hate women, 24/04/2018
- Carving Space For Healing, 15/04/2018
- Winter Wreckages, 05/04/2018
- Navigating Doubts, 23/02/2018
- Thoughts on the conversation regarding "addiction" to social media, 07/02/2018
- Reading notes on Jere Alexander's "And The Dogs Were Silent", 03/01/2018
2017
10 posts
- On our love of monsters, 19/12/2017
- A weekend at Ker Izela, 30/10/2017
- Green tomatoes, 02/08/2017
- Listening to Barack Obama on June 6 2017 at the Chambre de commerce de Montréal métropolitain, 06/06/2017
- A Tale of Two Dominique Pamplemousses, 23/05/2017
- Journey westward: looking for where the tree takes root, 19/05/2017
- Burst Like Stars Upon Memories: May Day — May 2nd 2017 in Dublin, Ireland, 04/05/2017
- Hairy Baritones and Villains: A conversation with Damien Alix-Souhabi, 23/04/2017
- The Cyborg and Colonization: Mass Effect Andromeda Play-through Notes, Taking Up Space: Tara McGowan-Ross speaks about "Girth", 02/03/2017
- Vignette of a January women's rally in Montréal, 22/01/2017
2016
17 posts
- End of Year Review 2016, 31/12/2016
- Le langage secret des cancres, 07/12/2016
- Walking Paris, 18/11/2016
- Waiting at the high water mark, 16/09/2016
- Ephemeral landscapes and being in a Minecraft documentary webseries, 21/08/2016
- Life updates: a new apartment and some herbalism — July 2016 in a nutshell, 02/08/2016
- Rabbit moon reflections: the past year in this apartment, 24/06/2016
- Interview with Ida Toft: Materialisms and Designing Games For Plants, 22/06/2016
- ⭐️ The gentleman farmer, labour and land: ecocritical possibilities in Stardew Valley, 03/05/2016
- Dumpster diving and pickling pumpkins: ecocritical possibilities in Stardew Valley, 11/04/2016
- ⭐️ The apolitical fallacy, 31/03/2016
- Climate change and Jay Peak | Easter 2016, 28/03/2016
- A brief history of pain, 16/03/2016
- ⭐️ Zootopia and (...the lack of?) power dynamics, 13/03/2016
- Lines of poetry on twitter (part 1), 20/02/2016
- 🔒 Are we taking care of each other, 17/02/2016
- ⭐️ Building an inventory in Twine 2 with the built-in Harlowe macros, 28/01/2016
2015
15 posts
- 2015 was an odd year, 30/12/2015
- Today I livetweeted a talk by Pippin Barr, 03/12/2015
- Inadequacy, 01/12/2015
- A Short Review: Conversations We Have In My Head, 03/08/2015
- A Short Review: Bloom, 03/08/2015
- 🔒 Down The Trademark Rabbit Hole, 31/07/2015
- Fallow, 05/31/2015
- Presentation Notes on Big Fried Chicken Company, 24/03/2015
- Eat Long, and Prosper, 02/03/2015
- Editing twitter URL share parameters with Ghost' share.hbs handlebars page, 06/02/2015
- 🔒 Patronage Report for January 2015, 01/02/2015
- 🔒 Trans Rights & Le Code Civil du Québec, 30/01/2015
- Sonic Pi Experimentation, 24/01/2015
- 🔒 Using Twine 1.4.2 As A Prototyping Tool for Unity3d, 22/01/2015
- Roaches and Foie Gras, 03/01/2015
2014
21 posts
- These Tech Companies Taking Advantage of Us, 22/12/2014
- 🔒 Patreon, It's Time For You To Step Up (Or I Will Leave), 16/12/2014
- 🔒 Patreon Report For November 2014, 05/12/2014
- 🔒 Thoughts about my path so far as a programmer & some takeaways about diversity and empathy, 27/11/2014
- Three qualities of dystopias, 18/11/2014
- #GAMERella and building Outsider, 11/11/2014
- Notes re: Lilith, 07/11/2014
- Souvenir From Bad City, 06/11/2014
- 🔒 Patreon Report for October 2014, 03/11/2014
- "Vi är bäst!" Impressions, 25/10/2014
- 🔒 The language of staying alive, 21/10/2014
- 🔒 Patreon Report for September 2014, 14/10/2014
- Canada is Terrifying, 30/09/2014
- Important Announcement, 29/09/2014
- Experimentation 2D generators 1, 20/09/2014
- Comparing what it looks like to build a body mass index calculator in Java and Python, 18/09/2014
- La maison des poules, 14/09/2014
- Gersande Is Going Ghost.org, 13/09/2014
- poetics askance, 04/09/2014
- 🔒 Why Big Fried Chicken Company, 16/08/2014
- Exodus of feminist and diversity advocates from @gittip caused me to lose almost all my tips, 22/07/2014
2013
6 posts
- 🔒 Gone Home, 19/11/2013
- Alex Epstein on Characters: Women NPCs are plot devices, Heroes are brooding ‘daddy figures’ #MIGS2013, 11/11/2013
- 🔒 Figuring Out Ways To Hack Your Education, 03/10/2013
- ⭐️ Reading Log on ‘Blood and Water’ by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, 06/06/2013
- Reading Log of Clay and the Diviner, 13/05/2013
- ⭐️ Notes on Clay, a short story by James Joyce, 9/05/2013
2012
1 post
- 🔒 Above is the faintest light of the stars., 22/07/2012