ah, dial-up.

at least it's something, and i'm not totally disconnected from the rest of the world. it's not quite as frustratingly slow as i'd braced myself for, either. i mean, what else am i going to do with my time?

arrived in edmonton yesterday evening, and am already feeling a bit under the weather. didn't help that i couldn't get to sleep until 3am mountain time and was woken up by a phone call (wrong number, apparently) at 8:30am. who the fuck calls people at 8:30 on a saturday, anyway?

my parents have this creepy photo-essay of my life framed in my bedroom like some sort of shrine. other than that, not much has changed. so far, i've just been diligently earning my pay, 3 euros at a time. i'd told the supervising editor that i would have only sporadic e-mail access, so before i left van, he'd uploaded about 50 articles for me to work on over my 'holidays,' at my request. don't mind working -- just eagerly anticipating actually being able to spend some time with my friends.

i'd wanted to bring my ibook to edmonton (where all of my CV stuff i need to finish for my internship applications, my paper on math typography and my physics journal shit are, not to mention indesign), but it hadn't been fixed yet by the time i left town. hopefully it'll be done by the time my sweetie flies out here.

this entry is turning into quite the muddled hodgepodge of crap. what else? oh, my mother is livid at my passive-aggressive, gossipy bitch of an aunt (by marriage). it seems she's been talking smack about me to my relatives in hong kong. i don't care, but my mother does. according to the aunt, i'm fickle, flighty and i'm never going to graduate or find a decent job. that, apparently, was enough to set off some sort of rabid mother bear syndrome in my mom. it's kind of funny to watch, but she really does just need to relax.

okay, it's become painfully apparent that i have nothing of any value to say here. i think it just feels good to be online, which may be a sign that i should sign off.