Perhaps I should feel like a neglectful gardener, leaving this blog to shrivel up and die over the dry summer. But I don’t.
A quick summary of the highlights: undergrad classmates Zhan and Ed came out for a visit in July, which included a Whistler hike, and watching a Jeopardy winning friend take home a cool 50 grand. I visited London, England in late July to attend my high school friend Geoffrey’s wedding in Winchester. I met up with other old friends there: Rachel and Anna were at the wedding, and Jacqueline from Australia is working for the BBC in London now. Some vacation pictures are up on my Flickr page with more to come.
August flew by far too quickly. I was working like mad, and preparing for my move to Toronto. Most of my free time was spent visiting with various friends, old and new; I’ll miss them all. The rest of it went to working on a new website for the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition, which should be going up soon. The highlight of the summer was my brother’s wedding to the lovely Jasmine at the end of August. We had a great, debauched wilderness bachelor party near Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, polishing off an entire Texas mickey of rye and too much beer to count. The wedding itself was perfect in every way, with a great crowd of family and various friends.
My work at TransLink wrapped up well; I’ll put up a post later describing that work, once I’ve figured out what I can actually say in a public forum like this.
And now I’ve just landed in Toronto. I have a miniscule apartment waiting for me once the labour day weekend winds up. I found it over the Internet (yay, viewit! thanks to sabrina for putting me onto that tool) and Paul inspected it for me before taking it. I just took a look at the place from the outside last night, and it looks like a great building and a spectacular neighbourhood (Queen just west of Bathurst). Now I’m gearing up for a return to school and the completion of my career change: transportation planning, here I come.
Over and out. And maybe now that I’m back at the blog, I can develop a less boring and functional speaking style. But don’t count on it – I’m a bureaucrat now.