Une tête, une âme de voyageu[se]
Saturday, 21 January, 2006
In the continuing spirit of playing grown-up, I find myself in a teensy hotel room in downtown Vancouver BC with less-crappy-than-expected hotel room coffee, unable to find actual Canadian morning news: my options seem to be only Seattle news or Canadian weather. There are many more interesting languages on TV, radio, and signs, though, which is appealing. Street signs are different, and they don’t even sell beer at 7-11! What is up with that?
I got here too late last night to do much of anything but check in, find a little Mediterranean place down the block, and get some delicious mussels. This morning, however, I have about four hours to go run around and check things out before I catch the ferry over to Victoria.
Now, to get my free breakfast and figure out where to go for four hours.
(song: “L’Imposture,” Louise Attaque)
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Twelve whole seconds of history
Wednesday, 18 January, 2006
I don’t usually do this, but: it’s a linky post!
Many thanks to BoingBoing for reminding me of Derek Kirk Kim, who has only gotten better in the several months I neglected to read his site.
Things that make me laugh until I cry:
Goats & Darth Vader (an animated .gif on MetaTalk)
Goat all by himself (.mpeg movie)
And potentially best: Dog in airplane (Google Video).
And do y’all remember this book? I love this book.
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I think I might take myself to Canada this weekend.
(song: “The Electric Version,” The New Pornographers)
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Wishing you the bluest skies
Wednesday, 4 January, 2006
Yesterday it was still dark when I left for my 20ish-minute walk to the bus stop. I was cranky as I walked down the hill to the I-5 overpass, and composed a post in my head about how wretched it is to wake up every day before it’s light out and get home after it’s already dark. Then I stopped at the corner and looked away from my coffee cup and my feet as I waited for the light to change, and I saw the most brilliant, reddest, pinkest sunrise I’ve ever seen. And I decided it’s not so awful to have a job, and feet to get me there, and a city with a bus system, and a coffee cup and a coat and a scarf. And a sunrise.
(song: “Better Things,” Dar Williams’ live version)