Authors in Their Own Write - Interview with Gwed Smid

Haha! I'm happy to say that Gwen Smid was interviewed by the Canadian Authors Association. Yay yay! Hip hip hoorraay!

In this interview Gwen explains her most recent book Mary's Atlas - Mary Meets Ontario
The interview was conducted by Jo-Ann Tremblay. If you got 14 minutes and  23 seconds, please give her podcast a listen! and if you haven't checked out her website please do so at the Mary's Atlas Blog.



Also, if you haven't read my interview with Gwen. Here's a link to my older entry.

The Winnipeg cold!

Tuesday, January 18, 2011:

With this morning's chilly weather. I was the lucky one to have my bus stall on the way to school. So, there I was sitting on the bus looking out the window when I glanced over to the front of the bus and I saw smoke coming out of the engine. Uh oh...that's a no no. 

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Instantly, I tensed up. I have a fear of things exploding. For some odd reason, I think it'll explode when things go wrong (anything dealing with engines anyway). I had a little panic attack, and it didn't help when the bus driver tried to restart the engine. EXPLODE! was what was repeating over and over in my head.

Passengers on the bus were shaking their heads as they all started to get up to exit the bus, some frantically even. Many passengers bolted off the bus to try for a successful attempt on flagging down another bus before they were engulfed by the cold wind.

Luckily for me (or not?) I was 15 minutes away from the college and had to walk in the -39 weather. At least I had all my winter gear in place to keep me semi-warm. But I felt bad for abandoning the really nice bus driver.

Funny enough, a couple days later (today) my bus stalled again. I didn't panic this time. Everything was okay.

Speaking of being afraid of things. Here is my list of phobias:

Atomosophobia- Fear of atomic explosions
Autodysomophobia- Fear of one that has a vile odor
Automysophobia- Fear of being dirty
Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman
Entomophobia- Fear of insects.
Herpetophobia- Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly thing

and some random phobias that I found (are they for real?)
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666. (how would you even pronounce that phobia?)
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words. (Well, this isn't ironic at all)

Anyway, toodles y'all and remember to stay warm!
and avoid the Brrrrr ger King cold.


 

Band #5: The Paps

One of my friends introduced this band to me a couple years ago. At first, I wasn't interested in listening to an all-girl band play music, perhaps because I never heard any 'good' female voices out there. But The Paps really opened my eyes to some wonderful talented music. Their tunes are like the Go-Go's crossed over with Blondie.

The band was first formed in 2002 by the Dunlop sisters and bassist Axelsson, when all three girls were in Grade 7. (talk about talent) The band is from Gimi, Manitoba and consists of Terra Stevenson, fraternal twin sisters Jodi Dunlop and Jordan Dunlop and Fiona Axelsson.

Members:
Vocals - Terra Stevenson
Jodi Dunlop - Drums
Jordan Dunlop - Guitars
Fiona Axelsson-  Bass

Although, I haven't seen any recent activity on their Facebook page, they still have their music on their Myspace page. (yay!)

But I'm really diggin' these two tunes at the moment:





Listen to more of their music on their Myspace

Hello Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope everybody had a wonderful holiday season. ^_^

But short and quick, as you can see the new layout is up! What do you think?

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