since my Big Move back to vancouver in november 2007, i have been living with my retired parents. in all honesty, it's not as bad as i would have expected. we get along reasonably well, my mom is usually not home, my dad is usually puttering away at something, and i'm not usually home. the major source of stress usually focuses around dinner ( Read more... )

last night's dinner with parents was borderline disastrous, with them finding out all the little details about The Boy that i knew they wouldn't like, and with my dad asking me point-blank what i was doing after culinary school. i stupidly chose a restaurant i hadn't been to before, so the food was bad, the service passable, and the bill far too ( Read more... )

( rant and accompanying footnotes )

my poor laptop has a fever. no, quite literally. there's something wrong with the cooling system (no surprise to anyone who heard the crazy rattling that came on whenever the fan kicked in) and so has been sent to the hospital (=shipped back to toshiba to be fixed). fingers crossed that ( Read more... )

my mother has started to send me job postings for teaching positions at community colleges, presumably preparing for my permanent move back to vancouver. sigh ( Read more... )