First of many...

I'm not quite sure how this thing is going to be formatted so I might change it as I go along but two things I'm keeping in mind: (1) I am keeping this blog for the benefit of people back home who are interested in what's what, and (2) I am keeping this blog for my own sake, that I might externally process and also have a way of consistently cataloguing/scrapbooking what's what.



On Air Canada Flight 858 the strangest thing happened. I couldn't fall asleep. I definitely had only three hours' sleep the night before and a three-hour nap and on top of this, I pride myself on being able to sleep on floors, tables, chairs (even once four stacks of middle school plastic chairs...but that was by accident)....so airplaners should have been a piece of cake. My body was just NOT cooperating. But that's OK. We made it.

And, I got to see Kung Fu Panda (2008) which was very funny/entertaining. I like Jack Black. He is cool. I honestly thought that movie was going to be crap...I avoided it for a long while. But I liked it! Film adverts these days are doing crappy jobs...they appeal to the weirdest (low-brow-innest) crowds out there... same I will say for The Bank Job which I watched earlier on Saturday and was completely suprized by.



bmi (I don't know what that stands for but it's an airline) lost one of my suitcases. The consensus is that they left it at Heathrow and the clerk with bmi told me this is not an uncommon occurrence. The case showed up today. I am inordinately pleased. ("inordinately" - can I use that word?)



It's hard to get used to being the foreigner...being so obviously the foreigner, lest I stay silent the whole time. At least in the aeroports I could show my RED passport instead of the blue one and fool some people. I hope the novelty wears off soon enough.



Best surprize yet - Hobbe, the guy who's been staying in my room while the boys' paperwork for their flat is processed - offered me the portion of the rent he would have paid for being in this place these last 17 days. This makes me happy. It was on the shuttle from the aeroport that I discovered he'd been there and I REALLY was not pleased with the idea that I had been paying rent for him when he be fully capable of paying, himself. "Fully capable" because he wasn't paying rent elsewhere so that portion of his budget was just sitting in his pocket.

I was trying to figure out HOW to ask for it or WHETHER I should ask for it...and then it was volunteered. I was pleased. Anyway, this post's been sitting as a draft for far to long so here's to publishing!