i've been rather negligent in updating, opting instead to attempt to be something of a decent host for visiting smorg and gerry. their trip out to the coast was initially scheduled to be a house-hunting endeavour, but, being that they have officially signed to take over our current place, they were able take it easy and spend some time seeing the city.

sunday saw us hitting virtually every shoe store on robson -- and there are a lot of shoe stores on robson -- in search of casual but professional footwear for smorg (no luck) taking a brief stop in chinatown to procure some barbecue duck and chinese broccoli for dinner, and spending a couple of hours on wreck beach, where, among numerous boobs and penises, i saw the nude jockocracy try to pick up two chicks, one of whom clearly had implants, and some crazy dude wearing only a headdress and a belt came up to us and declared that men would one day be having babies. i love vancouver.

on monday, our guests went and signed the lease agreement for our suite and they took an excursion with my sweetie to the PNE's playland, an outdoor amusement park. i was too immersed in work and generally exhausted to go, but was treated to a story upon their return of my sweetie brutalising a twelve year-old in the bumper cars for jumping the rather extensive queue and generally being an indignant little fart. my sweetie seems rather proud of this, though any acknowledgement of this from me could only be interpreted as encouragement.

yesterday, smorg and gerry treated us to a thai dinner, before we dragged them both to what ended up being an incredibly lengthy city council public meeting, where, inspiringly enough, local kits residents proved themselves much more passionate and much less apathetic than their yuppie bo-bo images tend to imply, arguing fervently against a proposed home depot that may constructed three blocks from our apartment. the speakers' list ballooned to over 90 people, and at 11 pm last night, council only managed to get through a third of them. they resumed tonight, and are apparently still in session.

smorg and gerry left for edmonton this morning, leaving us with some of their possessions (including christmas gift wrap!?) that are really and finally driving home the fact that i am actually going to be moving, and in less than a month.

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it rained last night and i could hear it both through my closed window as well as through the bedroom door and the open patio door. it made me wonder whether i'll be able to get used to the sound of rain directly pelting the roof and window directly above the bed in our new place.

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the upcoming MOMpop (17 july) is putting together its zine this saturday. its theme is interdependence: living together and relying on one another. i'd like to make one or two contributions to this issue, but am currently devoid of any insights. ideas?