sometimes i wish i was still a stoner...
Busy days, sleepy nights. Almost done painting our place, moving furniture around, and stocking the kitchen with all those random things you need to cook. Filling the whole place with tulips and ferns, oddly-strewn bicycle parts and the most comfortable bed I've ever slept in. (Hooray for grown-up beds!) I'm just loving our new neighbourhood; we're 2 minutes from the quite aptly named Sunset Beach, a mere 10 minute ride to Stanley Park, or 10 minutes the other direction to Kitsalano. Tucked just off the downtown core, we're away from all the hectic city traffic but have all the convenience and amenities within a few short steps.
The job is going super rad too. I'm working in the Green Workplace Program at the Environmental Youth Alliance. Working 9-5 is a bit of an adjustment from all that sleeping-in I'm used to doing, but well... the work is great! I'm doing a bit of everything.... and everyday a bit more. Running a bunch of workshops on climate change and fuel-efficient driving for highschool kids, managing a few green building audits across the city, keeping up with web updates and compiling more and more eco-research, my days are just sooper packed with totalbrainoverload. I'm way pooped at night. Some days I feel like I'm saving the world... other days I come home feeling so defeated. Enviro work is rough, but I really do feel like I'm in the right place... and I haven't felt like that in some time... so it's a good thing. It really is. :o)
But the distance from my family ain't all that easy. I almost burst into tears this afternoon when I found a package from Kimba in my mailbox. Full of stickers n' little toys, my ribs hurt from the giant hug she'd stuffed in the envelope. She wanted to make sure that the first mail I got out here wasn't a bill... ;o) There's just no substitute in life for having your best friend and sister live right downstairs, and if I'm missing anything right now, it's the access to old and familiar friends. The monsters I've met here so far are a great laugh and a wikkid intellectual dialogue, but the snuggly hugs, the "how's your mom?", and the "wanna come over and make a curry paste with me?" are just not there yet. In time, in time. In the meantime, I'm perfectly content to inhale the ocean air, curl up with this silly martian that makes the world makes sense, and ride my bike to a toally badass job everyday.
... and save up for a trip home around Christmas... maybe. ;o)
The job is going super rad too. I'm working in the Green Workplace Program at the Environmental Youth Alliance. Working 9-5 is a bit of an adjustment from all that sleeping-in I'm used to doing, but well... the work is great! I'm doing a bit of everything.... and everyday a bit more. Running a bunch of workshops on climate change and fuel-efficient driving for highschool kids, managing a few green building audits across the city, keeping up with web updates and compiling more and more eco-research, my days are just sooper packed with totalbrainoverload. I'm way pooped at night. Some days I feel like I'm saving the world... other days I come home feeling so defeated. Enviro work is rough, but I really do feel like I'm in the right place... and I haven't felt like that in some time... so it's a good thing. It really is. :o)
But the distance from my family ain't all that easy. I almost burst into tears this afternoon when I found a package from Kimba in my mailbox. Full of stickers n' little toys, my ribs hurt from the giant hug she'd stuffed in the envelope. She wanted to make sure that the first mail I got out here wasn't a bill... ;o) There's just no substitute in life for having your best friend and sister live right downstairs, and if I'm missing anything right now, it's the access to old and familiar friends. The monsters I've met here so far are a great laugh and a wikkid intellectual dialogue, but the snuggly hugs, the "how's your mom?", and the "wanna come over and make a curry paste with me?" are just not there yet. In time, in time. In the meantime, I'm perfectly content to inhale the ocean air, curl up with this silly martian that makes the world makes sense, and ride my bike to a toally badass job everyday.
... and save up for a trip home around Christmas... maybe. ;o)