so, it has been about a month now that i've been living out of a suitcase. since my precious trip to new york city, i've been pretty constantly flying somewhere for the week and then returning home for the weekends to spend an all too short time with my cats. it was kind of fun at first and there has been adventure to be sure, but it is really starting to take its toll on me now. for example, i misread the departure time for my outbound flight last night - reading the arrival time of 10am in calgary as my departure time from toronto, and left myself about 55 minutes to get from my apartment door to my seat on the plane! talk about a harrowing experience! fortunately for me, traffic was still light at 7:10am on the statutory holiday, and volume at the airport was mild so i managed to make the flight pretty comfortably. the lady who i asked to print my boarding pass had to ask me where i was going three times, because i kept replying "toronto" instead of "calgary". omfg - i am so tired of flying on a weekly basis. worst of all, i didn't even get to squish my pets goodbye. i am currently deep within the throes of very profound cat-partum separation anxiety.

calgary is a nice enough place i suppose (for what little that i've seen of it) - but without a car and being stuck in the northeast corner of the city, there's not a whole heck of a lot going on out here. i went to the lamest shopping mall in all of alberta today, sunridge mall, and ended up totally regretting having wasted the time that it took to walk there. i'm totally torn between driving my own car to calgary or renting a car for when it is needed here. if i drive, then i can bring the cats with me and make the trip with a bunch of stuff that i will need like towels, sheets, an iron, stuff like that that will make life in the mostly-unfurnished basement suite i will be rending a little more enjoyable (!?!), not to mention some cat stuff. if i bring the car, then i can go wherever i need to go whenever i want (at the low low price of $1.25 a litre for gasoline), and i can even pick up my buddy jim from the airport and save the cost of cab fare. if i rent a car, then my car is spared the wear and tear, but it will be pretty expensive and a constant hassle.

there is a lot more drama going on in calgary as well that has no place on my blog - that's how personal it is! let me just say that in spite of my very best intentions, things here have become quite a lot more confusing and problematic for me than i could have expected. and this project is just starting out. well... let's see how this goes, shall we?

- g

song of the day for feeling angst: how soon is now, the smiths