Monday, August 13, 2007

In which I'm almost home...

My flight to Taipei leaves in 11 hours. I'm running out the clock in Bangkok, too exhausted to make a shindig of it. But I did get a couple days of beach time, my passport's been sorted out, and I'm fully packed (and WAY over the baggage allowance.) Now I need only wake up at 4:30 AM tomorrow and drag myself out to the world's lousiest airport, and then I'm home free! See you soon...

Monday, August 06, 2007

In which I bid a fond farewell to Chiang Mai...

My bags are packed, my excess stuff sold or donated, and a massive box of trinkets has been shipped to my parents' house. I'm down to my last hour in Chiang Mai, and I just ate my final bowl of Khao Soy, a delightful dish available nowhere else in the world. The experience would have been more poignant had a massive splatter of coconut curry oil not arbitrarily erupted into my left eye, causing searing and undignified pain, but I'm still heartsick at the loss of the stuff.

Weird to be leaving Thailand, it is. I haven't got a job arranged in Vancouver for when I get back, and nor am I certain where I'm going next. I've been looking at something in Ethiopia, but I may have sabotaged that by losing my passport last week and thusly depriving myself of the time necessary to do their 10-page questionnaire. I may just take a few weeks to do a hardcore job search back home - I've got a long history of taking the first job that comes up rather than searching out the best one for me, and maybe I should switch that around.

But in the meantime, I'm heading down to Bangkok on tonight's overnight train, and spending some time whining at the Canadian Embassy to give me a temporary passport. Then, hopefully, I'll spend a few weeks at the lovely Ko Chang island, going kayaking and snorkeling and surely getting sunburnt into a smoking black ooze. Then back to Bangkok and, Vishnu willing, home to Vancouver on August 14th. A year passes quickly. My tribulations last week derailed my blogging plans (yay, more excuses!) but I did find a bit of bandwidth to upload some of my New York photos. I'll post photos from around Thailand and Burma when I get home and can access the sweet joy of true broadband. See you all soon.

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

In which I got nuthin'

Well, that was a miserable attempt at consistent blogging. Shortly after my return from New York, work overran my entire life. I discovered I have inadequate bandwidth for uploading my photos en masse, and my computer became an objecct of terror simply because I'm writing curricula and job applications on the damn thing for 14 hours a day. My blog has suffered accordingly.

But the cheery news is that I'll be home in a mere two weeks. I'm wrapping up my final days with Earthrights, spending a week at the beach, and then toddling home to Vancouver for an indeterminate period of time (probably a few months, depending on work etc.). You'll see just under 1500 photos posted shortly thereafter, but more importantly, you'll see me devouring every piece of sushi I can find (I've been a little deprived over here).