Random Channel Surfing

Nicole sent out an email to all of us bridesmaids as a way of introducing us to one another. She wrote a paragraph on each of us and I just love what she wrote about me. The woman knows me very well. It's going to be so awesome sharing another adventure with her :) Gah! I'm so excited for Nicole and Rylan's wedding day!

I think one of my biggest flaws is how impatient I am. I am constantly trying to find the Next Big Thing (NBT) in my life, worried that I am missing out. I don't know what to do anymore, though. I'm feeling frustrated that my life seems to be at a standstill, despite the fact that I'm happy with the way things are going. I mean there's all this internal pressure for me to conform to certain societal standards and it's stressing me out to the point that I'm itching for the remote, trying to find a way to fast-forward to the NBT. ... And then... then this awful, creeping sensation sneaks up on me: What if there is no Next Big Thing? What if I'm meant to have this same mediocre life? And that's when the impatience sets in again and it's a never-ending circle of malaise, this insufferable restlessness. I don't even know what I'm waiting for, exactly. Life is good right now (barring the meltdown I had a few weeks ago) and I feel fulfilled ...

I know. I'm being dramatic, but I really do have the worst luck when it comes to my favourite shows. (And by worst I mean that I get three wonderful, happy seasons of my favourite TV show and then it either goes downhill [see: Glee] or it gets cancelled [see: Happy Endings and The Mindy Project].) First, ABC cancelled Happy Endings and now Fox cancelled The Mindy Project. Both shows are well-written, and funny, and feature a diverse and talented group of actors that have amazing rapport with one another. Who could I help but fall in love with these shows? Not me, that's for sure. And now that Mindy Project is kaput, it's put my Tuesday evenings in limbo. What will I do now that Mindy and Danny won't be flirting up a storm on my TV? What will I do now that I'm deprived of seeing their child? What will I do? I can only hope that HULU or Netflix pick up where Fox left off. I was kind of hoping that they'd do the same for Happy Endings, but... life is unfair...

(I totally stole my title from Omar Mouallem on twitter.) This week, Alberta, the province that most people ( Mark Ruffalo , for instance) refer to as the Texas of Canada, elected a different party. We went from being Canada's most conservative province, to one that elected a socialist majority government. What was once mostly Progressive Conservative blue bled New Democrat orange. Even my hyper-conservative riding in Edmonton's southwest elected a New Democrat. And it's funny to me how seven short years ago during the federal elections, most people on my Facebook feed were disinterested in politics and were apathetic (you can read about that here ). Now, seven years later, all anyone can talk about is politics. As Dustin so cleverly said on Wednesday (the day after the election), "Today, all my Facebook friends become politicians." And they all did. Or, rather, all (the majority of) people on Facebook can do is argue about whether or not we're going to...