About Steff
This is my interstellar craft of truth and wit. Buckle up. If you want celebrity gossip, this is not the blog for you. If you want comfortable postings that’ll fill you with happy fuzzy thoughts about the world at large, or self-help guru shit, this is not the blog for you.
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Tag Archives: 2010
Hi. I’m Steffani, and I’m a lifelong Vancouverite. I voted “YES” in the Olympics plebiscite “back in the day,” when we lowly democratic peons had the chance to vote on the once-every-four-years-party that, you know, would cost a few bucks to put on. Now, I know, that voting day was such a sunny, beautiful day so [...]
Posted in Current Events, Society, Specifically Steff, Steff Rants, keeping it real Also tagged 2010 vancouver, bc, canada, olympic games, olympics, protesters, protests, vancouver 2010, winter olympics 43 Comments
Jan
04
2010
Cashing My Reality Check
Whew. Here we are. January 4, 2010. I’d given myself a good excuse not to write this morning: “I don’t feel like it”; but now I feel like I need to put some stuff down. Not for you, not because I said I’d try to write 10 pieces on Getting Shit Done in 2010, but because [...]
Posted in Journalling, Specifically Steff, fitness, keeping it real, weight loss Also tagged 10 for 2010, 2009, changing your life, changing yourself, game plan, how i lost weight, how to lose weight, new year's, new year's resolutions, planning ahead, planning for success, programming, programming yourself, resolutions, weightloss 1 Comment
Weightloss is one of those things. Some fail at it — or almost succeed then fail — repeatedly until they finally Get It. The disease of morbid obesity, or even the dreaded beer-belly syndrome, is almost always as a result of one or both of two things: ignorance or lack of accounting. Me, I was [...]
Posted in Eating Disorder, Hygiene & Health, Life 101, fitness, keeping it real, weight loss Also tagged 10 for 2010, 2009, changing your life, changing yourself, game plan, how i lost weight, how to lose weight, new year's, new year's resolutions, planning ahead, planning for success, programming, programming yourself, resolutions, weightloss 2 Comments
Prologue Today, it’s the start of a whole new thang. It’s 2010. This is a loosey-goosey promise ‘cos we all know weeks can go off-the-hook in a hurry, but I’m gonna try my damnedest to have 10 days of 2010 — postings big or small about either reflecting on the Year That Was or projecting on [...]
Sep
08
2006
When Will It Change?
I work a couple blocks away from one of the nastiest parts of my beloved city, Vancouver, Canada. It’s like a whole other world when you stumble into the Downtown East Side, just two blocks east of my office, a place that held, in the early ‘90s, the highest urban rate of AIDS and HIV [...]
Posted in Current Events, Dimestore Philosophy, Journalling, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics Also tagged AIDS, Crime, des, disenfranchised, downtown, downtown east side, Drugs, hastings, HIV, main, murder, olympics, pickton, poverty, Vancouver, willie pickton 2 Comments
Olympic Autopsy