About the Author
I live in Toronto*, Ontario, a fact which is a source of great amusement, irony, and general conflict for me. I was born in Hamilton (a somewhat smaller city roughly 40 minutes to the southwest of Toronto), left before conscious memory begins, and was shuffled around Ontario for a few years before ending up in Montreal**, Quebec***, around the age of eight.
I moved back to Ontario after getting married to a man who spoke no French (a source of constant bickering between us), and was thoroughly miserable for the first year and a half. I eventually pulled it together, but our marriage had already taken too many hits and we split up six months before our fourth anniversary.
Now I'm more or less reconciled to living in the Big Smoke (though Montreal will always be home), happily dating the man constantly referred to as 'Boyfriend' in the blog, and working technical support at a company that shall remain nameless and largely unmentioned except in the abstract (don't worry, you've never heard of it). I have two cats, NeedyCat (Riley) and SkinnyCat (Slim). I also have a beautiful panoramic view of Lake Ontario from my 18th floor apartment which is worth the extra hundred dollars a month I pay in rent.
I knit, sew, read, write, drink probably more than is good for me but not enough to be problematic, play D&D, struggle with my weight and smoking, and fight a losing battle versus the drifts of cat hair trying to take over my apartment. I watch a lot of sappy romantic comedies, old martial arts movies, and strange science-fiction shows through the magic of the internet, since I don't have cable. I'm bilingual, politically inert, ethically eccentric, and incredibly sarcastic.
I also like frogs.
*If you check the city's official website, the motto is apparently "Your City can help" (capitalisation not mine), but Wikipedia claims it's "Diversity our strength", which probably sounds a lot less grammatically weird in Latin or whichever language it started out in.
** Motto: "well-being through harmony", which does sound a lot cooler in Latin: "Concordia Salus". The irony of this being the motto of a city in Quebec has not escaped me.
***There are no accents in it in English. Shut up.
I moved back to Ontario after getting married to a man who spoke no French (a source of constant bickering between us), and was thoroughly miserable for the first year and a half. I eventually pulled it together, but our marriage had already taken too many hits and we split up six months before our fourth anniversary.
Now I'm more or less reconciled to living in the Big Smoke (though Montreal will always be home), happily dating the man constantly referred to as 'Boyfriend' in the blog, and working technical support at a company that shall remain nameless and largely unmentioned except in the abstract (don't worry, you've never heard of it). I have two cats, NeedyCat (Riley) and SkinnyCat (Slim). I also have a beautiful panoramic view of Lake Ontario from my 18th floor apartment which is worth the extra hundred dollars a month I pay in rent.
I knit, sew, read, write, drink probably more than is good for me but not enough to be problematic, play D&D, struggle with my weight and smoking, and fight a losing battle versus the drifts of cat hair trying to take over my apartment. I watch a lot of sappy romantic comedies, old martial arts movies, and strange science-fiction shows through the magic of the internet, since I don't have cable. I'm bilingual, politically inert, ethically eccentric, and incredibly sarcastic.
I also like frogs.
*If you check the city's official website, the motto is apparently "Your City can help" (capitalisation not mine), but Wikipedia claims it's "Diversity our strength", which probably sounds a lot less grammatically weird in Latin or whichever language it started out in.
** Motto: "well-being through harmony", which does sound a lot cooler in Latin: "Concordia Salus". The irony of this being the motto of a city in Quebec has not escaped me.
***There are no accents in it in English. Shut up.
