Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
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Holidays/ New Books/ NeWork
I’m back in Vancouver after a great month-long trip across Canada to visit family, friends, and my partner Curran. It all started off in Edmonton, where I spent a week with Curran and his family, before I flew out to Toronto for a couple of weeks to spend time with family and friends. In Toronto, I not only had the ...
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First week in Vancity
I’ve been a resident of Vancouver for a week, and am finally taking a day to rest and relax after seeing as much as I could. The week flew by, with art galleries on top of restaurants, on top of beaches, and settling in with Curran’s help. He flew out on the 19th to visit me, and flew back to ...
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I Heart Vancouver
So, I’ve officially been in Vancouver for 24 hours, and I am hopelessly, madly in love. I’ll post photos when I return, but here’s one of my shots of the Rocky Mountains from 41,000 feet:
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View from the air
Un coup de foudre! (UBC’s Point Grey campus in the foreground, located at the tip of the Burrard peninsula, or Lower Mainland, with downtown Vancouver and Stanley Park stretching out in the distance.) My last major trip (other than shuttling back and forth between NYC and Toronto) was to South America, specifically interior Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. I remember the ...
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Green College!
Ahh! After an application process just as long as my PhD application, wherein I had to send in my CV, three letters of reference, a statement of interest and involvement, and my academic transcripts, I got in to Green College! Don’t know what that is? Well, from their website: Green College is a graduate residential college at the University of ...
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Family
With three months left in Toronto before I move West to start my PhD, I’ve been spending a lot of my time with my family. Each of my siblings will be in a different city this Fall, with my sister Patricia enjoying her recently bought first home in Mississauga, my brother Jeff departing to Boston to work as a Creative ...
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Moving to Vancouver!
After weighing my PhD fellowship offers from the University of Alberta, New York University, and the University of British Columbia, I finally settled on UBC, not only for the superior funding, but for the vibrant writers’ communities in Vancouver, and of course, the picturesque setting sandwiched between the Rockies and the Pacific. I’ll begin my doctorate this Fall in their ...
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Subjoyride
Rustling through photographs, still so many rolls waiting to be developed. A few reflections and multiple exposures from riding the MTA in NYC with Curran: Subjoyride by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – Ready-to-wear American Soul Poetry ‹The right kind› Lux Kamel hands off the Better Bologna’s Beauty – Get this straight—Wrigley’s Pinaud’s Heels for the wise – Nothing so Pepsodent – ...
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Pacific Standard Time
UBC just put their bid in for my future. NYU and UofA are shocked. Or maybe I’m just shocked. Three great opportunities and none of the clarity I thought I’d have in this position. I can’t believe I got in to all of my prospective PhD programs. Suffering the anxiety and indecision is tolerable if it means I might choose ...
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Lovely
Sometimes, you just have to follow your gut and the best PhD fellowship. Fuck the brain drain.
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NYCARES
Is it terrible that I didn’t want to come back? The weather was fantastic for our whole trip, but the morning we left the NYC skies unleashed a downpour to usher us out. Pathetic fallacy? I think so.
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immaculate defiled
Five days until Curran and I hit NYC! We’ve been busy trying to get all schoolwork and extracurricular jazz sorted out before we leave on the 24th, so SB is launching a few days late this month. We’ve also started a handmade chapbook series with SB, so our excitement for the project has eclipsed all else. Curran has been gracious ...
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EDMONTON FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL
Wow. When we decided to take SB on the road, and I booked my plane ticket to Edmonton, I really didn’t know the city would enthrall me as much as it did. Five days of art galleries, hippies, blues, bluegrass, world music, and partying with Curran, Patrick and Ted, followed by a couple of days camping in Jasper National Park ...
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PARIS
…in 69 days! I’m already trembling with excitement. I just sent off my volunteer application to Terry at Shakespeare & Co. so I might be lending a hand in the most renowned bookstore in the world! Even if they reject me because they’re up to their ears with young volunteer writers from around the globe, I’m sure I’ll still be ...
