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 ...