So here is my summer in brief....
It's been really hot here, and damn I wish we had air conditioning. No camping yet this summer - The Boy has been working like crazy doing all sorts of sucky jobs, trying to make the tuition for fall. It is hard to find time to do anything together. Saw a couple of movies - Transformers (yay) and Harry Potter (also yay), and a Quebecois film on DVD that my friend lent me called Une Crabe Dans La Tete (also also yay).
Our friends Colin and Ashleigh will be moving here soon - we found a pretty sweet apartment for them a 1/2 block from our place. They will have a kick-ass rooftop terrasse, lucky people! Our friend Michael moved in across the alley, which is cool, and we still have sunday brunches going sporadically with the best of the west. Some of our unwelcome six-legged critters are back in the kitchen - we will move next July. Also, it seemed that a bunch of the stray cats we were feeding have disappeared - I hope that there isn't some sicko poisoning them or something. There is a new one- a sweet little gray boy who actually honestly says "mee-ow'" when he talks.
At the end of June it was announced that my workplace was moving its customer service to South Carolina, due to a merger. Sucky, but there was a severance package. I decided to try for another job in the company, which would be a raise and a promotion. There were three positions open. I got it, and the other two people hired were my two closest friends at work (remaining, anyway. The other one got a killer job and left).
I have been doing a bit of drawing for the SPCA, I found a painting I want to finish that I hadn't yet unpacked, and I have ideas for more and for a drawing. I read the Life of Pi - the author (Yann Martel) of whom is sending a book a week to Stephen Harper to try and convince him that the arts are important, which is very cool if likely futile. I also reread some Calvino and some Gibson.
Life is pretty good.
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