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anhedonie @ 2007-06-11T12:37:00

2007-06-11T16:42:45Z

It goes without saying that it's quite unpleasant to feel like an incompetent, when you are trying to do what's possible.
I noticed that behaviour that can make us feel like failures. The stressed-out boss, supervisor, or colleague, up to her/his eyes in work, who does not have time to explain how to do x, y, or z, managing to make us feel that it's our own fault if we do not understand x, y, or z. All that being rude and lacking a great deal of tact.
Impatience and hurriedness ? can lead up to botched work and scratched egos.

anhedonie @ 2007-06-03T18:24:00

2007-06-03T22:24:21Z

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL3051670020070601

Yay !! Please make lamb so I can eat kebab

anhedonie @ 2007-05-30T01:19:00

2007-05-30T05:19:43Z

Now let's see if honey masks are more than a myth.

A silly translation

2007-05-28T19:30:57Z

Now that this first Quebecois teen movie arrives on our screens, we are asking ourselves why anyone hasn’t thought about it before. We have already seen teenagers on our screens, but young audiences were surely eager to see a more upbeat reflection of what they live. After all, being a teenager doesn’t only come down to suicide, drugs, and street gangs.
À vos marques… Party! is a film devoid of any pretension, if not only to accurately express how we feel at that age. With its sunny images, its brisk editing and its wall-to-wall music, Frédérick d’Amours’ first movie has not much to be jealous of its American equivalents. The formula has been proven: the falsely ugly girl manages to win the heart of the hottest guy of the school. The script, while light-hearted, is fleshed out by the writers Caroline Héroux and Martine Pagé, who give the characters additional concerns. Not only does the heroine of the film bloom through opening herself to love, but also through her passion for swimming as well as accepting her parents’ divorce.
As long as we can overlook the product placement (Super Écran towels, really?), the unavoidable clichés of the genre, and the fact that majority of the actors passed the teen age a while ago, À vos marques… Party! remains a funny and touching movie.

anhedonie @ 2007-05-20T23:54:00

2007-05-21T03:55:00Z

http://www.acc.umu.se/~samhain/summerofhate/linkopingphotos2.html#linkopingphotos2

Don't know why, but I think they are pretty funny...

anhedonie @ 2007-05-12T00:34:00

2007-05-12T04:36:34Z

I wonder if I will finish the 900-page History of the Russian Empire
go go go

A grammatic grievance

2007-04-18T23:09:43Z

Why do some - mostly French - people decorate titles and names with useless accents?
Accents have a pronounciation purpose! It's not mere decoration. They should know themselves that accent hold a certain importance in their own language. É is not prounce like è!

Ex: The new Cirque du Soleil's show is called Koozå.
å has a purpose: it's a double aa (very close to o), as in Aalborg, in some Scandinavian languages. Someone told me the name is taken from Russian. It makes even less sense!

The letter u in French, as in Spanish, is pronounced "oo". Then why the ü (umlaut - pronounced as the French u and not the English u) in, for instance, müvmédia, which obviously wants to be pronounced à la English?

I can't recall anything else right now, but I've seen others.

anhedonie @ 2007-04-15T22:31:00

2007-04-16T02:31:32Z

What's the rhetoric behind TRANSFORMERS?

anhedonie @ 2007-03-22T23:43:00

2007-03-23T03:45:07Z

My goal for 2007:
Talk more, brag about myself. It seems that's what everybody else is doing in this world right now.
Oh, but I've read in some McGill newspaper that people who were less narcissistic have higher GPAs.
Maybe I should just be slightly more friendler, then.

anhedonie @ 2007-02-26T00:55:00

2007-02-26T05:57:28Z

Bra-vo.
Even though I am "some kind of autist", I've just finished reading MY FIRST POST-BA HISTORY BOOK. And it was about Central European countries in the aftermath of WWII until Stalin's death. Even covering AGRICULTURE PLANIFIÉE and BOLCHEVISATION DES PARTIS. BRA VO.
BRA-VO!

anhedonie @ 2007-01-10T12:43:00

2007-01-10T17:44:34Z

For me, there's nothing as indecent as luxury cruises. How usuless, how pointlessly polluting can it be? Even more disgusting in places where they are struggling with poverty or with the lack of natural ressources.

MY DANISH HOLIDAY LOOKS LIKE THAT

2007-01-01T18:25:04Z

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really important

2006-12-29T15:49:24Z

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/opinion/27wed4.html?ex=1168059600&en=24c16ef263bff5cc&ei=5070

anhedonie @ 2006-12-01T00:21:00

2006-12-01T04:21:01Z

defined as an enduring condition of emotional distress that arises when a person feels estranged from, misunderstood or rejected by others and/or lacks appropriate social partners for desired activities, particularly activities that provide a sense of social integration and opportunities for emotional intimacy
(K. Rook)

the affect that is activated when there is an uncontrollable discrepancy between desired and actual levels of intimacy and social interaction, with the desired levels higher than the actual

(P. Suedfeld)

anhedonie @ 2006-11-24T23:25:00

2006-11-25T03:25:19Z

Boyfriend asleep at 8pm, I had nothing to do. Watched Nobody Knows, then looking at Marilyn's postcard from Oulu, I remember that I had a SHITLOAD of postcards that I've accumulated during my trip this spring.
Old communist ones from Bulgaria found in an abandoned factory, some copies of old movie posters from Denmark or sayings from the Jyllandposten (you know, the newspaper that published the Muhamad cartoons...), one stolen in a Stockholm church, old ones bought in the Budapest flear market, as well a badly-designed one from Kosovo. Sigh.

anhedonie @ 2006-11-20T23:51:00

2006-11-21T03:51:31Z

Tonight I stole (not from a store, not from a person... just kind of... found it) a cute Russian for children book, dating from 1989... it's so cute. Aww.

anhedonie @ 2006-11-16T11:39:00

2006-11-16T15:39:49Z

Seriously, I am really ashamed of being Canadian at this moment.
I'd line up those people (madame la ministre...) on a wall and just shoot them. Seriously!

anhedonie @ 2006-11-13T00:13:00

2006-11-13T04:13:26Z

I am from now on offering my services as a French corrector/translator. Cheap, cheap! Billig!
C.

anhedonie @ 2006-10-04T22:58:00

2006-10-05T02:59:58Z

In this social networking era I am a profoundly solitary person.
I feel awkward of not being extremely sociable and to prefer reading Swedish literature.

anhedonie @ 2006-08-24T23:14:00

2006-08-25T03:14:43Z

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kidsentiment/

finally I had access to a scanner to scan all my old pics. Comment, bitch, suggest please. I reckon that my camera is old.

anhedonie @ 2006-07-25T23:23:00

2006-07-26T03:26:04Z

I'm considering my catholic roots/indirect upbringing.
Or converting to some kind of religion. Why not muslim? At least I wouldn't have to show my bad hair days (or I could wear a nun's wimple too)

This is serious, I am in a spiritual crisis.

Or maybe I should start reading star gossip. Find a meaningful thing that is not distant tribes in Central Asia and scandinavian languages.

anhedonie @ 2006-07-19T00:33:00

2006-07-19T04:33:56Z

Today I've learned that there is such a thing as soviet comedy films

Philistines!

2006-07-14T16:48:56Z

Apparently there's a lot of complaining in the cinema quebecois milieu.
Hard to get some funding.
Some people blame the public that is not interested in watching quebecois movies, reading quebecois literature, ect. Of course! I am convinced that a lot of people in this country are philistines. So people think that Quebecois are cultured like Europeans, heh? Yeah right. Even in Europe people love crappy tabloids and movies, just take a look at Germany.

A lot of quebecois movies are trying SO HARD to be 'as good as american ones', and want to feel so unique after that!
Even in the 70s they were mimicking fucking Godard.
Perhaps *most* quebecois movies nowadays are crap!

anhedonie @ 2006-07-03T23:55:00

2006-07-04T03:55:52Z

Had I not been informed by a collegue, I would never have known that Goran Bregovic will be in town next sunday.
Qui aurait cru?
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Oh yeah and just while I was reading a novel around half past midnight about women submitting themselves to men, I heard a LOUD schriek, a bang, woman crying, a woman saying 'WIFEBEATER', clacking of heels, woman running on the street, woman coming back with another dude. Wow! One of my first 'real' ghetto experiences, if we ignore the constant swearing and alien voices and people playing Shakira Shakira Shakira and/or Eric Lapointe oblivious of the fact that the neighborhood might like another type of music.

anhedonie @ 2006-07-02T00:37:00

2006-07-02T04:40:43Z

I'm wondering about this thing.

About 2 months ago, while I was in Belgrade, I drank some Coca-Cola (one small bottle + one small cup) and watched BASIC INSTINCT 2, as well as some extremely boring movie based on a japanese book.
I puked all night.
Today, I went and see THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. I also drank some Coca-Cola. It gives me weird sensations in my stomach, headaches and nausea.
I know that my problem is not the caffeine in it.
I just don't know how so many people can do BOTH so OFTEN without being sick?