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Cassandra

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About Me

Sassy and cynical but with integrity to spare...

My Interests

studying wildlife, gardening, human behaviour, art,writing, internet research,evolving creatures and books

I'd like to meet:

Those who are trying to improve the world and are starting in their own neighbourhood! Okay I have had some time to sip coffee and evaluate the global village called the L&R forums...I would go with meeting people with a wicked sense of humour!

Music:

anything ska, Worldbeat,the clash, the Fall,the Jam, The The, talking heads, Deathcab for Cutie, Franz Ferdinand, Billy Talent, Yeah, Yeah,Yeahs arcade fire, the Raconteurs, the Transplants, the Pixies, the strokes, the Sugar Cubes,Captain Sensible, operation ivy, Big Black, the Angry Samoans, Sarcastic Mannequins, White Strypes, The Clash, The Dead Milkmen, The Dead Kennedys, The Hives, it could go on forever...oh wait forgot to mention the wiggles, Judy and David and Douglas John

Movies:

Lord of the Rings trilogy, Clerks, Harry Potter Movies,Crash, Dogma, Cohen Brother films, the usual suspects, trainspotting, being John Malkovich, the long engagement, Anything with or by Don McKellar

Television:

24,Sopranoes, Deadwood, Veronica Mars, My name is earl, Deadzone, Six Feet Under, Alias, Carnivale, buffy the vampire slayer, Red Dwarf, Prime Suspect, anything on BBC, southpark, Trailer Park Boys

Books:

somerset Maugham, shakespeare, Minette Walters, english mysteries, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Jay Gould, Michael Moore, Thomas Hardy, Chris Walter, Peter Robinson

Heroes:

David Suzuki, Noam Chomski, Michael Moore, Bill Maher, Jello

My Blog

climate change and corporate control

I wonder if we have reached a time for governments to be separate from corporate entities. Sort of the way that church and state become separated for the greater good historically. I see news reports ...
Posted by Cassandra on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:08:00 PST

Perfectionism and the Art of Misery

So here I am blogging my nastiness again, if only to drain my brain of the venom!I am a hopeless perfectionist and I realize that its not a positive or negative trait, its not a laughable quirk, but i...
Posted by Cassandra on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:31:00 PST

Hate and its pal Judgement:(

Hate!It's been a living breathing part of my life for as long as I can remember. I know it's an useless limb, unnecessary, unattractive and unacceptable! That I have known for a decade and yet I can't...
Posted by Cassandra on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:08:00 PST

Forum personalities and behaviour

Tonight turned out to be instructive to myself and many others I think. I learned that some Noobs dont actually take the week to read the forum in their lurk/nonposting status that happens the first w...
Posted by Cassandra on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:47:00 PST

International Day of Climate Action

Environmental Role Modeling By Deb _____     It's getting harder to avoid those nasty news stories illustrating the desperate condition our planet is in. It's even more alarming tha...
Posted by Cassandra on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 06:25:00 PST

Does Career Define us

At the end of the day...what is most important in life? How we feel about ourselves, how we are defined by society or if we are surrounded by loving family and friends. If we have all three does that ...
Posted by Cassandra on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 01:34:00 PST

the Evolution of Tantrums

I knew the moment was fast approaching and I was dreading it daily. The moment I am referring to is when my preschooler threw her first uncontrollable tantrum in public. I have watched plenty in the p...
Posted by Cassandra on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:22:00 PST

learning compassion

I wonder how many people have been through a similiar situation with child raising, the moment they see their offspring has learned compassion. Many times its reached at a certain age but I am sure it...
Posted by Cassandra on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:01:00 PST

Shakespeares Legacy!

Today I spent a few minutes watching the birds in my backyard, as I do everyday. I cater to the bird population in my neighbourhood and have songbirds, Ravens, Stellar Jays all the way to a bunch of a...
Posted by Cassandra on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:53:00 PST

School is a nightmare!

Schools out, and I thought I would never make it through! And its not even me attending anymore but my oldest daughter. I think attending kindergarten was a successful adventure for her but I did not...
Posted by Cassandra on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 11:57:00 PST