mountain standard time

+ i attended the coquitlam hearing of the bc electoral boundaries commission tonight. only about 20 people were in the audience, including two MLAs, two city councillors, two school trustees, one former candidate, and four members of the citizens' assembly. i got some incredible maps, however, showing population density in the tri-cities area and across the province. i'll be attending the vancouver session on saturday as well. i love public consultation. the sign-in sheet, careful hotel ballroom, local pols grandstanding inarticulately, power point, jugs of ice water. what's getting scary is that i recognise lots of people at everything i attend. i meet friends at public consultation meetings. i'm totally going to recognise half the crowd on saturday.

+ avanbarb is your mutual friend! it says this on top of amanda's website, and i hadn't noticed before. how sweet!

+ some things that i listened to today!

• the 5th dimension, the girl's song (1968)
  
• beck, side of the road (2002)
  
• blueboy, popkiss (1992)
  
• judee sill, the pearl (1971)
  
• the melody unit, nutation (1999)
  
• montage, desiree (1969)
  
• stina nordenstam, hopefully yours (1994)
  
• young and sexy, lose control (2003)
  
• weeping tile, ufo rosie (1995)
  
• yo la tengo, cherry chapstick (2003)
  
• the carpenters, rainy days and mondays (1971)
  
• anne murray, talk it over in the morning (1971)
  
• jane siberry, map of the world (part 1) (1984)
  
• morrissey, you have killed me (2006)
  
• joni mitchell, last chance lost (1994)
  
• leonard cohen, the law (1984)
  
• archer prewitt, over the line (2002)
  
• phoenix, north (2006)
  
• scott walker, windows of the world (1968)
  
• p:ano, failure (2003)
  
• joni mitchell, furry sings the blues (1976)
  

+ five people asked me in class if i won, but i don't know yet. i've never waited this long. i enjoyed the iPod today, though. it made me feel very placid. shuffe makes me nervous, however, because i never know if i'll be jarred by a crazy volume differential on the next track.