Been here for two straight months now (traveled a lot for work and really moving from Jan-March), and have noticed some things I hadn’t before, and that I have gotten used to since moving here.
Category: Observations
An office mate and one of her friends invited me out to see The Avengers last Tuesday night after work. I agreed without really thinking about it, something I’ve been doing often whenever someone asks if I want to go…
Acquiring furniture, pots, pans, flatware, dishes and pretty much what you normally take for granted, is a process. The most logical way is to shop online, especially since I have no car. Except that requires a credit card and there…
Hearing snippets of conversations in different languages on the bus, walking around Vancouver, reminds me of my first two instances of hearing a foreign language in a non-academic environment.
I’ve had a little trouble wrapping my head around this concept of “mandatory health insurance.” While I get the idea, and after first hand experience of the mess of American health care, I’ve been curious how “mandatory health care” works.…
The book chronicles the music industry from about the 50s on through the Wrecking Crew, which played on an awful lot of popular, famous, award-winning songs. A theme throughout the book is change. Perhaps adaptation is a better word.
Yep. There are no turnstiles to board the trains. I found this rather peculiar at first. Still do. There’s no incentive to purchase a ticket, except to avoid harsh penalties if you get caught by a Translink cop. Translink trains…
I just ran across this post on NPR’s #fb page. NPR Needs the Sounds of Your City. The sounds of my city…immediate thought: the “L.” There is nothing quite like the sound of the “L” as it rumbles by overhead,…
This lack of skyline thing has been nagging at me, like a splinter in mind. I see mountains every morning on the train to work. Some days they look beautiful, majestic. Others they look menacing, threatening. And other days, just…
Day started off like the previous two or three. Woke up at 2:30am, rolled over and eventually fell back asleep until 5. Checked a message from Dad and opted to go back to sleep. Perhaps that was the start. Everything…