Donna Fox

It’s 26 degrees in my bedroom. Not entirely sure why we put the air conditioner into storage this year at all.

Wow, what a terrible headline. He didn’t “apologize 18 times,” he said 18 times that he’d already apologized (which, given his behaviour so far, is clearly a claim that should be verified before it’s reported).

Atta boy. 😹

Yessss! It may have only been for 3 months, but I’m still a 70s baby dammit.

People are still surprised I’m as old as I am, presumably because I’m super immature, but I delight in being older. Except for the sore back and the perimenopause and the need for reading glasses.

I do, but that’s still a subset of gen-x, so I’ll claim both.

Mostly because I enjoy teasing my elder-millennial spouse for being into older women. Cougar power.

Babysaur: ok boomer
Me: I’M GEN-X!!

Guess I’ll go watch Heated Rivalry again.

Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that OTTAWA - Canadians thinking of planning a trip to the United States are being advised by the Government of Canada to perhaps consider going anywhere else on the entire fucking planet for their summer ...

Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that

At the current projection, he’ll be in grade 11. To be honest, I’ll be surprised if my hypothetical grandkids would be able to go to it.

I work for a complicated bureaucratic overly political gov’t adjacent company. I get it. Things move slow. But even the glacial pace at my workplace is speedy as hell in comparison.

Anyway, build the damn school already. It’s too late for us, but my neighbours deserve better.

Ok I’m done now.

I’m disheartened. It’s too late for us, and I still have hope that it will FINALLY be built.

But honestly I’ve heard promises for nearly 11 years. At this point, I won’t believe a damn thing til I see shovels in the ground.

So thank goodness for my in-laws, but the fact that we needed our senior, mobility challenged grandparents to step in when one of the reasons we moved here was because there was a promised school…

This is bullshit.

But my spouse (who cannot drive) cannot spend nearly two hours a day taking our kid to and from school. We could make it work when we split it, he did dropoff and I did pickup.

If the school was at the end of our street, my spouse who works from home could handle all of it. It would take 5 min.

The only reason I could stop working my absolutely ridiculous hours, advance my career and take a promotion to my current job was because my amazing in-laws came from Saskatchewan and moved in next door. My wonderful FIL does the school run on his mobility scooter every day.

But we were spending far, far too much time transporting our kid to and from school.

The NDP stood outside my livingroom window promising to fund the school in late 2020. My kid was in grade 1 then.

He’s halfway through grade 6 now. He won’t go to the new school.

We got super lucky. Four days before the school year started, we got our preferred choice program, French immersion at a school where the location worked better for my spouse to be able to get our kid to school. He could do dropoff, I could do pickup, we made it work.

My spouse is visually impaired and does not have a drivers license. I regularly started work at 3:30am. We did not want to spend our life on the bus, and anyway transit to our catchment school took the same time as walking.

When it was time to register my kid for kindergarten, I was there on day one, knowing full well that we didn’t WANT to go to our catchment school. We’re a car free family, that was one of the reasons we moved where we did. I was a shift worker, so my hours were crazy, and location was huge for us.

I attended info sessions, I discussed with other parents, I watched as school catchment changes were considered and discarded, and I learned a lot about where funding comes from and how decisions are made. Most of it disheartening.

We moved to Olympic Village in 2015. I was a new mom to a 9 month old. One of the things that helped our decision was the school expected to be built down the street. I naively read the news about kindergarten lotteries, watched Crosstown open in 2017, and assumed it would be an obvious priority.

So now we get shovels in the ground, right? Shovels? In the ground? Actually building the thing? NOW?

Honestly at this point I won’t believe a damn thing is ever going to happen until the hoarding goes up.

When I spoke to ABC Cllr Lenny Zhou this week, I asked him whether he had posted a retraction & apology video in Mandarin on WeChat, the app where his video spreading misinformation was originally posted. He hasn't done so, days later, as far as I know. It's not enough to quietly delete the post.

4 storey apartment building on a corner site with white brick and grey cladding, with a cafe on the ground level. Vancouver style homes and trees adjacent.

Single stair accessible flats, and a corner cafe.
Replacing a single home on a 50x122 lot.

NOW we get to build it, right? Right?

And better wool! Because sheep who have access to shelter are healthier.

YouTube video by Nic Laporte How Did This Become Vancouver’s Busiest Shortcut?

This video rules because the problem was partially solved mid-production so you get to see a before and after

Why has it never occurred to me that this is a thing? Damn I need a mobile knife guy.

It was a bigger problem when I got up at 2am for work. Heh.

Dan has considered getting me a Dyson hair dryer solely because they’re so quiet. I couldn’t justify $600 on a damn hair dryer though, especially given that my hair is 3 inches long and takes about 30 seconds to blowdry.

Buuut I do get up an hour or two before everybody else.

Told my kid a few years ago that I use she/they pronouns — but am fine with she and generally expect that because it’s easier since I present femme.

He has literally never referred to me as she since.

Kids are fine.