**Last updated on January 5, 2012.

I suppose I’m expected to make some sort of post that explains to everyone out there in Internet land who on earth I am, and why on earth you should care enough to read this blog. I’m in my late 20s, I’m from Montreal but transplanted to Toronto, I have a moderately serious travel addiction that is held in check by boring obligations such as pets, a job, and lack of funds. In April of 2010, as a result of an ugly argument with a now ex-boyfriend, I quit my job and uprooted my life to Toronto. I no longer analyze TV ratings. I work in travel. I love travel. It fuels an addiction to travel, and if I didn’t want to go somewhere before, I sure do now!

What else? Je parle français, but I’ve decided this will be a mostly English-language blog because I don’t write as well in French. I graduated from Concordia University in 2006 with a joint specialization in communications and journalism, but so far that degree has proved mostly useless. I am halfway through a graduate certificate in environmental science from McGill University, but that’s sitting on the back burner for now cause I’ve simply lost interest. I want to learn how to brew beer in the next few months, and I am a very beginner SCUBA diver. I was diagnosed as an adult as having ADD, but having already taken the scenic route through university and made it through, I decided not to do anything about it. It just allows me to get distracted by things like sewer grates in Rome and Duff Beer in stores. Seriously.

I’m slowly working my way through my bucket list of things to do, places to see, foods to eat, and places to poop. Kidding about the last one. Sort of.

I’ve traveled to the following countries: Canada, US, Ireland, Greece, Italy, The Vatican, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Iceland and Ecuador. And I pooped in the washroom in the airport in Japan, but I never actually went into Japan, so I don’t know if it counts or not, but I think it does. I don’t have a bucket list of places I ‘must’ see, but there are few places that come to mind that I wouldn’t be interested in going to. The immediate short list includes France, the Czech Republic, Belize, Costa Rica, Peru, Russia, China, Indonesia, Antarctica, and Ethiopia. Who knows where I’ll actually end up though?

Oh, and I’ve got those pet rats I’ve mentioned in the past. They’re like small, intelligent caged dogs except they only live 3 years or so. They rock my socks.