another post, at long last

9.23.07:

lest you think i forgot this humble piece of narcissism that exists in cyberspace to bring gratification to me and my adoring public of 0.5, i return with the completion of travels that occurred in september. yes, it is november now. i turned 32 in the interim. i have traveled a bit for work in the interim. and i will soon be traveling again. in the exterim. i have also discovered scrabulous on facebook which strikes a deathblow to productivity & blogging.

i will have to be brief here because memory is failing me.

the day started off right with breakfast with A.K. on the drive. excellent. then i had made shopping/hanging out plans with S.L. so i moseyed over to her place, taking a ride on the no. 99 "bee" line. ah memories. i saw S.L.'s new place. very nice, though she was packing to move into another place close by. it was definitely a cut above the slum-haunts of new york, let me say. but i digress. and my woes about nyc apartments are fairly well-heard. so no more on that subject for now.

S.L. and i kicked around on main, shopping, stopping, not-stopping and more shopping. we wandered back and had coffee at her local cafe, which was super delicious (can't remember the name of it) but it's a check plus plus on my list of caffeinating holes. vancouver never disappoints in the caffeination context. that's a huge plus plus for moving back. or visiting lots.

i had plans to meet up for dinner with J.C. (a good friend / former roommate from UBC/thunderbird days). we hadn't seen one another in ages. J.C. is engaged to A.L. another friend from undergrad, who i haven't seen or spoken to since 1997 basically. anyway, we met on the drive at a cool mediterranean food place and chatted for hours & hours about life, this, that, A.L., NY, marriage-ness, foibles of life & career. J.C. is a lawyer too. J.C. and A.L. are coming to brooklyn soon for A.L.'s rotation at a hospital here. can't wait. it's SO cool to reconnect with someone who was in your life every day, and who you watched the X-Files with religiously.

I flirted like a crazy cat lady with our waiter. who was 23 and easy on the eyes. he had to run out to a grocery store for some fruit the kitchen had run out of, and he came by to let us know he wasn't deserting us. i asked him, with my patented twinkle in my eye, if he could get me some gum while he was out. i gave him some money for it. and much to my suprise, he did it! wow! that was chutzpah / weirdness on my part. and good humour on his. but really, he was extra cute. lived in israel. omg. another reason to move back to vancouver.

i had plans to meet J. (whose last name initial i fail to remember now). J used to live in victoria, but i met him in montreal through N.F. & P.T. crazy, crazy montreal party at the loft, i believe. anyway. we planned to meet up. he'd since moved back to vancouver & i hadn't seen him since his montreal days. so, we went out for a beer at a place (again) on the drive. we had a really fun chat mostly about relationships, which i then proceeded to make weird by quasi-flirting in a really aggressive/obvious way. clearly still high off my waiter experience, i think i freaked J out like 1000 times over. shameful. shameful.

i got back to A.K.'s and we had a quiet rest of our evening, chatting up storms. i slept like a baby on that couch. oh, i miss that couch.

a return trip is in order.

9.24.07:

today i was flying back to NYC. earlyish. i grabbed some breakfast on commercial drive & then made my way to the airport. realizing just before my flight that i'd left my blackberry & phone charger at A.K.'s. ah well. who needs access to modes of communication. A.K. did send them back to me and they are happily resting on my window sill, no doubt happy to continue fulfilling their destiny.

alright. that was a whirlwind of memory-lapses. but i have completed my diarization of vancouver for S.B.'s and YJK's wedding! hallelujah. if anyone is actually reading this, thank you.