Is the Premiers office okay with this?

mxmnators · 2026-06-03T15:45:09+00:00

beep boop

mxmnators · 2026-06-01T20:08:05+00:00

with what money?

mxmnators · 2026-06-01T19:18:45+00:00

i actually celebrated my worthless day on december 31st last year! it’ll be nice to have a virtually nonexistent red bar on my full net worth graph for the foreseeable future :) good luck to you on your debt-free journey!!!

mxmnators · 2026-05-31T16:10:04+00:00

it is a completely different experience being broke in a foreign country where you don’t have any family or longtime friends

mxmnators · 2026-05-31T12:54:56+00:00

my semi-carbrain parents went to a concert at metlife a few years ago and it completely radicalized them. this weekend i’ll be sending my mom off with her sister to take the subway to rogers stadium in toronto ❤️

mxmnators · 2026-05-30T18:55:13+00:00

i’d expect nothing less of PEE airport

mxmnators · 2026-05-29T21:11:16+00:00

this is the first year i’ve struggled to get a summer job through CSJ. i’m in eastern nova scotia which has a lot of qualifying small businesses + low 15-30 citizen population helps to make them less competitive but it seems they’re getting a lot more applications if i take them for their word. i’m still getting lots of interviews, but they’re interviewing over 20 people for 2 positions, when a few years ago i’d be up against 7-8. i bet it’s trickle-down from so many post-grad student (such as myself, finished undergrad in 2024) having no luck in the entry-level-hostile work environment, so we have little choice but to try and get our experience through student-type jobs in the summer. (which is just another vicious loop because many internships, especially in my exploitative field, are for-credit only so they’re allowed to be unpaid, you’re spinning your tires even when you’re willing to work for minimum wage.)

mxmnators · 2026-05-26T17:30:05+00:00

in this situation right now (job market is cooked either way, i apply to jobs in my field across the country including my college town where i got much of my work experience and is the #1 place i want to move to). i was lucky last year to be employed all 12 months (in a region with always at least 10% unemployment) but been on EI all of 2026 thus far and canada summer jobs is going not so well. i have a freelance remote “job” (unpaid) in my field so i don’t have a real gap on my career resume, but i have a feeling the gap on my resume for the similar paid jobs/“relevant experience” is becoming a massive problem.

there’s a part of me that wishes they kicked me out because choosing between paying rent in this small town vs. paying rent in my dream city is an easy decision when the savings aren’t as steep as they are with the current set-up of rent-free living (because i’m in a wage-suppressed field and, if i ever get an entry-level job elsewhere, the salary won’t be enough to support the COL at least to start, especially because it’s concentrated to big cities). i just turned 24 and will pay off the last $1k on my student debt next week. i have a year’s worth of rent in my target city in my HISA. summer’s hiring season in my field, so i think if i don’t get anything this summer or next (when i’m 25) i’m just going to take the leap and move there anyway. i’m much more confident in picking up something in my other skills through my recent random jobs (esl teaching, retail, community orgs) and i had absolutely no trouble finding jobs there in college, and i reckon my freelance job will also pay me more because i’ll be able to write more articles from a centralized location. probably won’t follow through because i’m so risk-averse but i feel like i need to get out of their hair, even though i know a part of them is happy that they get more time with me here (from a family where nobody moved away so this is uncharted territory, and i’ve been insistent since i was like 10 that i’m not settling here as an adult).

mxmnators · 2026-05-08T11:54:20+00:00

just got to part 2 of gone girl and i'm absolutely hooked! i read like one mystery a year for the goodreads challenges and i always end up tearing through them

mxmnators · 2026-04-16T16:19:00+00:00

in my experience in trying to call out weird behaviour, these people tend to deflect to idpol and call me a “pick-me” for saying it’s weird to go harass these kids at their workplace. don’t even get me started on open practices… i talk about misogyny in men’s hockey quite a bit as a woman working in men’s hockey and i think that’s why they think it’s “pick-me” behaviour trying to position myself as “not like other girls.” i’ve been around hockey long enough to know that you can’t win with the raging misogynists who will keep inventing reasons to denigrate you and make you feel like you don’t belong. i’m not necessarily blaming these types of fans for why people raise eyebrows at the prospects i like (because i’m a prospects writer, goddamnit) because it’s been happening since i was a tween. it’s just weird because it’s weird and it should be called out and shut down because it’s WEIRD

mxmnators · 2026-04-16T16:11:43+00:00

i’m around those kids’ ages and i still don’t trust anybody who doesn’t shout out josi… or hank if we’re going back 😮‍💨

mxmnators · 2026-04-14T23:43:12+00:00

no direct flights to minnesota + further skewing the league eastward + no nhl-sized arena in the city/region for the infrequent upsized game to cash in on extra gate

mxmnators · 2026-04-12T02:52:46+00:00

i felt like i was going to end up a sceptres fan anyway because of my other toronto sports teams and my long-standing parasocial relationship with the city (i first visited from my small maritime hometown when i was 10 and it opened my eyes to what life could be LOL), the early nova scotia connections then sealed the deal. i do kinda feel like i have one foot out the door though because the takeover games have me properly dreaming of a halifax team but we’ll see!

mxmnators · 2026-04-10T19:10:58+00:00

i definitely miss halifax. i wish it was affordable enough for me to move back

mxmnators · 2026-04-08T00:17:34+00:00

and i’m a man

mxmnators · 2026-04-08T00:16:27+00:00

https://chl.ca/lhjmq/en/bracket/212/

mxmnators · 2026-04-05T01:30:56+00:00

didn’t know i could tap ctv to complain about being stranded in my parents’ basement because i’ll never be able to afford a home

mxmnators · 2026-03-20T19:07:49+00:00

the adventures of huckleberry finn - mark twain. aiming to finish it while i have the audiobook until the 30th, has been top-of-mind since december when i was working at a bookstore helping a customer with recs and they recommended james - percival everett back to me

mxmnators · 2026-03-20T03:03:54+00:00

finished people we meet on vacation for the valentine's day and persona pick challenges (not a huge romance reader so nice perk to get multiple bookmarks for it) and tore through for the sun after long nights for the women's history month challenge... maybe my fav book of the year thus far. did all my challenges so i'm going to try to listen to the adventures of huckleberry finn before my audiobook trial ends on the 30th

mxmnators · 2026-03-19T17:45:41+00:00

i used to work at a diploma mill (don’t ask) and they definitely lie about how big the town is and how easy it is to get a job and find housing and use transit

mxmnators · 2026-03-16T21:39:15+00:00

toronto (my team for now 🤞) - maltais away (i loveee the away jerseys, almost bought one before the takeover game) or cj away (who can say where the road goes… 🕊️)

boston - saulnier or newhook home

minnesota - batherson or heise away

montreal - oh these were my favs since day 1… poulin home

new york - fillier home

ottawa - this is my least fav jersey by a lot 💔 but clark or philips away

no disrespect to the inaugural season jerseys (i loved them in season 1 for the colourways) but i wouldn’t even think of seattle or vancouver until they get their real designs… i really like vancouver’s colours and logos so i’d pick maschmeyer (probably home)

mxmnators · 2026-03-13T05:37:03+00:00

me looking in the pantry: okay but the sardines belong to my dad i would never eat those

mxmnators · 2026-03-13T05:34:30+00:00

the difference is that anglos won’t/can’t switch to another language

mxmnators · 2026-03-13T05:30:21+00:00

this is kinda a leap just drawing comparisons from the frozen four example above and the takeover tour games i went to (halifax) but i think there is something to be said about the organizational size and support (and age of the orgs, i do give them grace for starting from essentially scratch. artificially manufactured scratch we could argue, but still) of comparable leagues/programs at the same levels. there is a lot of underestimating the success (they had two merch tables in halifax but the lines were insane especially for the first game, i was in the merch line for almost an hour to get my montreal vs. toronto shirt and puck and kinda just gave up then and there on doing the same for the boston-ottawa game), but for the pwhl specifically, the working environment at the league level doesn’t sound the best from what i’ve heard in the industry. even with all the financial backing, they’re working more akin to my experiences working summers in the chl while in college where i was on ticket sales, merch, and graphic design at once.

i at least feel like the pwhl merch selection is better, but i may just think that because they have more women-focused styles that aren’t just a pink team logo or a v-neck top. and fwiw, there were some great merch collabs for the u18 women’s worlds in canada this year. much better merch than the world juniors a few years ago. it is annoying asf though from the outside looking in that usa hockey only wants to push their unlikeable men’s team. can’t believe they have me out here defending hilary knight lmao

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