i'm resolving to be better at documenting things, especially the weird and bizarre, so! my labour day weekend! it was all kinds of fun and strange and exciting! i got to go to minnesota (for likely the first and last time, and to be honest i wouldn't have gone at all anna hadn't just moved back and was willing and able to put me up). i had a ( Read more... )

it has been a ridiculous (and ridiculously awesome) couple of weeks. new york was so much fun, even after the disaster that was my first evening. forty minute wait for a shuttle compounded with a two hour ride to a hotel on ten hours with no food is no one's idea of a good time, i'm sure. and the i wandered the neighbourhood hoping to find a place ( Read more... )

totally crazy couple of weeks, but i can safely say this spring break has been a pretty successful one. lots of productive time spent in disneyworld, universal studios, and then traipsing the south on my first ever road trip! all of this done in the company of smileynic, so i've also gotten to use my singlish again. yay ( Read more... )

so getting to the train station in seattle and checking our luggage in the next morning ended up taking longer than we thought it would, and there was NO FOOD AROUND, oh my gosh. we did not want to head into portland without breakfast. so we hightailed it to the nearest restaurant we could find, a three minutes run away, and told the shoplady we ( Read more... )

so loving on ice hockey was pretty much the perfect mentality to leave montreal with, considering the fact that we were flying to seattle via chicago the next morning, and there were huge posters of all the blackhawks at ord. :D :D :D there isn't a better way to start a trip, let's be honest. even the crappy airport sandwich i had for lunch, and ( Read more... )

( post-boston is when the madness truly began. )

SO I'M FINALLY GETTING AROUND TO POSTING ABOUT MY ADVENTURES FROM FOREVER AGO \o/ i was writing this on the go, but i petered off somewhere towards the final two weeks. i plan to remedy that though! sorry about the spam in advance.

( we start off with landing in nyc. )

i will probably talk (a lot) more about this in a later recap post, but i just had to take a breath and give myself a moment to look back at my week. i saw danrad in the cripple of inishmaan on tuesday, and it was an eye-opener, seeing him as a serious actor for the first time. and the script. so ridiculously amazing, and hilarious, and painful, ( Read more... )

so in the spirit of not thinking about depressing things, i'm going to post about the final leg of my 9 week trip to san francisco! and about how overwhelmingly glad i am to finally be home, ahhhhh! if there's anything this trip has shown me, it's how much i don't want to be away from home. to be fair, that probably wasn't helped by the fact that ( Read more... )

the longer you stay in one place, the more you start falling back into old routines, and i think that's my favourite part of extended trips. when you sort of settle down a little and get to stop living out of suitcases and soak in the environment and what it would be like if you lived there for real. at last recount, we were going movie marathoning ( Read more... )