Only Magazine

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Penultimate

To start: I am a 24 year old writer, broadcaster, producer, pretender, free loader. Just moved to Toronto from Vancouver to find myself (a job). I have a job and now I can't remember why that seemed so important. I live in a shoebox apartment on Queen West across the street from the mental health and addiction centre. As if to complicate the matter of too-little space, I share the view. The bed just broke and now I sleep on a mattress on the floor, which to me is tantamount to sleeping in a pile of rat crap and bugs (minus the actual rat crap and bugs), but I'm too lazy and busy to do anything about it. I went from hosting a music show, running an arts and culture magazine whiling away the hours living the freelancers life to working for the nation's broadcaster and sitting at a desk 9-5. This blog is about the marriage of need and desire, the weird purgatory most of us live in -- just between what we want and what we have. And for the longest time I thought penultimate meant the ultimate, but like more! Except that it's not, which maybe explains a lot.