Alive. Well. Happy.
I can't believe it's been a month already. Still feeling transient as my apartment is a temporary holding pen while the bathroom and kitchen of my new place are being torn apart. I'll continue to live out of a suitcase for a couple weeks yet, but the upside is a shiny new bathroom and kitchen. Also, the walls of my bedroom were purple, or fushia, or something purply. Being repainted while the other household surgery occurs.
Montreal has been treating me well otherwise. A month ago I said "I think I'm going to like it here." and so far I haven't been wrong. There's just more life here than I can ever remember in Vancouver shy of Commercial Drive during World Cup or Illuminaires. It'll be interesting to see what kind of transformation winter brings, but I'm even looking forward to that. Snow! On the ground! Seasons! Nifty.
I'm happier than I remember being in a long time. I'm generally a happy person, my resting state is Optimism, but a year and a half of a project for a dying system can be draining. I went through several periods of zombie-like limbo during the development of Rifts. Far as I can tell I've never been depressed, but I certainly wasn't 100%, I got the job done and let work swallow me whole. I can literally mark the point where things started to get better as the afternoon I was informed by Nicholas that he and some woman whose bed he was occupying were coming to abduct me. Knowing Nicholas and trusting that he would put me in a life threatening situation only if the potential for mutual amusement was extremely high I didn't worry too much. Shortly there came a scratching on my door and in burst Nicholas and the aforementioned woman who has a bed. In such circumstances was I introduced to Jhayne. From that point forward for the next few months I proceeded to be introduced to new people at an alarming and invigorating rate. Many of the people I met are now on my friends list and brightened my last few months in Vancouver enormously. That gave me my only regret when it came time to get on the plane and head east, but I've been keeping tabs on you lot thanks to LJ, and phonecalls, and the psychic friends network. (They watch you while you sleeeeeeep)
I really do need to get to my bed, so I'll cut this short. I'm going to try and update my LJ more frequently, and my flickr account now that I've found this Uploadr widget. You lot manage to update and I appreciate knowing that you're well and even when you're not you're resilient and our friends are never far away to prop us all up. We'll see how this goes but I may end up using LJ as an actual journal type thing while I make some use of brainofjames.com to put together the game biz related stuff I've been working on.
Montreal has been treating me well otherwise. A month ago I said "I think I'm going to like it here." and so far I haven't been wrong. There's just more life here than I can ever remember in Vancouver shy of Commercial Drive during World Cup or Illuminaires. It'll be interesting to see what kind of transformation winter brings, but I'm even looking forward to that. Snow! On the ground! Seasons! Nifty.
I'm happier than I remember being in a long time. I'm generally a happy person, my resting state is Optimism, but a year and a half of a project for a dying system can be draining. I went through several periods of zombie-like limbo during the development of Rifts. Far as I can tell I've never been depressed, but I certainly wasn't 100%, I got the job done and let work swallow me whole. I can literally mark the point where things started to get better as the afternoon I was informed by Nicholas that he and some woman whose bed he was occupying were coming to abduct me. Knowing Nicholas and trusting that he would put me in a life threatening situation only if the potential for mutual amusement was extremely high I didn't worry too much. Shortly there came a scratching on my door and in burst Nicholas and the aforementioned woman who has a bed. In such circumstances was I introduced to Jhayne. From that point forward for the next few months I proceeded to be introduced to new people at an alarming and invigorating rate. Many of the people I met are now on my friends list and brightened my last few months in Vancouver enormously. That gave me my only regret when it came time to get on the plane and head east, but I've been keeping tabs on you lot thanks to LJ, and phonecalls, and the psychic friends network. (They watch you while you sleeeeeeep)
I really do need to get to my bed, so I'll cut this short. I'm going to try and update my LJ more frequently, and my flickr account now that I've found this Uploadr widget. You lot manage to update and I appreciate knowing that you're well and even when you're not you're resilient and our friends are never far away to prop us all up. We'll see how this goes but I may end up using LJ as an actual journal type thing while I make some use of brainofjames.com to put together the game biz related stuff I've been working on.