vancouver is so disgustingly hot and humid. it's like nyc in the dead of heat. but one big difference is that people don't typically have air conditioning here. we're off to go find a portable unit for my parents. good lord, i'm melting. still here kicking it in surrey, awaiting news on my visa. any day now is what i've been told. i'm tiring of the idle life of living with parents and being a mooch. i'm already up to my eyeballs in work for AI, and it would be so much better to have a proper work-space. and to not be melting while i work. went to the public library near-by. it's a tiny little thing, their wifi was on the fritz and some guy was using a drill INSIDE the library. what the? i have to reread my last post to remember what i was going on about. am going to see "(500) days of summer" tomorrow. looking forward to it, in large part for the air conditioning. i am amazed that i spent SO long in nyc with no air conditioning unit. poor j.h. suffering along with me.
i am so aware that i'm not one of those "self-motivated" types who jump onto projects and get them done. i'm more of the need-a-deadline-and-without-one-i-will-procrastinate. that kind of throws working for myself out the door. unless working for myself entails being unemployed.
ok. off to find air conditioning.
will pick up where i left off, i sware. be patient with me. i have elbow sweat, ok.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
it's been high time i blog
hello, hello.
terribly sorry (esp. to D.G.) for the lengthy absence from blogging. it's been a crazy month with homelessness leading to scant interwebs access. i can't remember when i last had a fixed address (though i call L.C.'s place in toronto home -- at least for purposes of passports, etc.).
i am now in surrey, bc. a place that perpetually smells like masala and is populated by more indian people than pockets of india. i am not certain of that, but it can't be far off the truth. my parents live in the heart of it, having built a house here to retire to a long time ago, when it wasn't so stinky. ah well. i do have a bedroom and semi-fixed domicile. mooching off parents, i've become a statistic.
(at the mo', dad is asleep on the couch, snoring that reaches richter-scale levels, while i sit at the kitchen table, scarfing down fresh blueberries.)
starting in reverse chron order.
i arrived back in canada a few days ago (to toronto) and arrived here yesterday afternoon. tis lovely to see L.C. and to wander the corktown/leslieville area. caught up with some culture (saw 2 plays, one at the fringe fest. and an outdoor art show!) arrived in toronto fresh from poland, where i was participating (along with about 37 other cool people in a course offered by the ICRC (red cross) on int'l humanitarian law. great course! awesome people (have now secured invites to finland, switzerland, belgium, holland, azerbaijan (!), italy, spain, etc.). hooray. met some people i hope i will stay in touch with (& am thinking seriously about (a) learning french for real, (b) learning to drive (again) & manual and (c) seeking some field deployment (afghanistan, anyone?) the conference center we were staying at was more like a summer camp, set about 30 minutes from warsaw and in the woods (wild rabid wolf dog kept me up at night, spotted a fox one morning).
to be continued ...
terribly sorry (esp. to D.G.) for the lengthy absence from blogging. it's been a crazy month with homelessness leading to scant interwebs access. i can't remember when i last had a fixed address (though i call L.C.'s place in toronto home -- at least for purposes of passports, etc.).
i am now in surrey, bc. a place that perpetually smells like masala and is populated by more indian people than pockets of india. i am not certain of that, but it can't be far off the truth. my parents live in the heart of it, having built a house here to retire to a long time ago, when it wasn't so stinky. ah well. i do have a bedroom and semi-fixed domicile. mooching off parents, i've become a statistic.
(at the mo', dad is asleep on the couch, snoring that reaches richter-scale levels, while i sit at the kitchen table, scarfing down fresh blueberries.)
starting in reverse chron order.
i arrived back in canada a few days ago (to toronto) and arrived here yesterday afternoon. tis lovely to see L.C. and to wander the corktown/leslieville area. caught up with some culture (saw 2 plays, one at the fringe fest. and an outdoor art show!) arrived in toronto fresh from poland, where i was participating (along with about 37 other cool people in a course offered by the ICRC (red cross) on int'l humanitarian law. great course! awesome people (have now secured invites to finland, switzerland, belgium, holland, azerbaijan (!), italy, spain, etc.). hooray. met some people i hope i will stay in touch with (& am thinking seriously about (a) learning french for real, (b) learning to drive (again) & manual and (c) seeking some field deployment (afghanistan, anyone?) the conference center we were staying at was more like a summer camp, set about 30 minutes from warsaw and in the woods (wild rabid wolf dog kept me up at night, spotted a fox one morning).
to be continued ...
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