New Homes and Starving Cyborgs
Apr. 20th, 2006 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Well, I wasn't going to make the announcement until we got it, but we've got it so here it is: we're moving. To Verdun. We're leaving our brick 1980s cube under the grey concrete highway for an apartment in a nice old building half a block from a river.
The rent is a bit more, and the furniture will have to be hauled up a flight of rickety stairs but I'm going to be glad to move. I think we've both come to loathe this place, and Matt's best efforts to make it anything but hideous have failed.
We shall also be near-neighbours with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
foi_nefaste, maidenoffirisa, Matt R. (retrogamerbear's brother), and a few others we know. The shops are nicer, the area has more character, and just the feeling there is better.
For the Vacouverites, it a bit like going from Main and Hastings to Kitsilano or Commercial Drive.
Forscottevil, for his love of the word
I came across the name of a Medieval theologian today: Joannes Jejunator. It apparently means John the Faster (faster as in fasting). It shares a common etymology with "jejune," however -- the Latin word jejunus, "empty."
Doesn't the Jejunator sound like a cyborg sent from the future, with a leather jacket, wraparound sunglasses, and a lot of weaponry, who's come back in time to make things jejune...?
Well, I wasn't going to make the announcement until we got it, but we've got it so here it is: we're moving. To Verdun. We're leaving our brick 1980s cube under the grey concrete highway for an apartment in a nice old building half a block from a river.
The rent is a bit more, and the furniture will have to be hauled up a flight of rickety stairs but I'm going to be glad to move. I think we've both come to loathe this place, and Matt's best efforts to make it anything but hideous have failed.
We shall also be near-neighbours with
foi_nefaste, maidenoffirisa, Matt R. (retrogamerbear's brother), and a few others we know. The shops are nicer, the area has more character, and just the feeling there is better. For the Vacouverites, it a bit like going from Main and Hastings to Kitsilano or Commercial Drive.
For
scottevil, for his love of the wordI came across the name of a Medieval theologian today: Joannes Jejunator. It apparently means John the Faster (faster as in fasting). It shares a common etymology with "jejune," however -- the Latin word jejunus, "empty."
Doesn't the Jejunator sound like a cyborg sent from the future, with a leather jacket, wraparound sunglasses, and a lot of weaponry, who's come back in time to make things jejune...?