can't believe i've been here for three weeks already. after a very slow first weekend spent lounging on the beach, life got busy again and sped past. i've also started to get a feel for the city, so am enjoying getting out exploring when i'm not at work. this past week i managed to get to a couple of dance shows at the Dancing on the Edge festival. both were thought-provoking and beautiful, but for very different reasons. i plan on writing about them, but am feeling a little drained of words after working on a paper for the past 36 hours.
this week i am excited to meet up with a very treasured old friend who was a coordinator at the summer program i attended the last time i was in vancouver for an extended period of time (summer '99). he is now a professor at the university of windsor back in ontario, but in a lucky twist is here coordinating the same summer program at UBC right now! we are meeting at my favourite lunch spot on campus tomorrow. i can't wait to see him.
hoping to get that paper off to collaborators to read by friday, so that i don't have to bring my laptop while i'm away this weekend in tofino. somehow i was lucky enough to be here at the same time that a good friend had a trip planned with her girlfriends, so i will be heading to the pacific side of vancouver island with them. unfortunately, it looks like it's supposed to rain from now through monday. hoping they're wrong on that prediction.
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