and we’re back.

I do believe I am officially done travelling for the near future as it appears that it’s finally time to move back to Toronto.   I’ve been saying this for two weeks now but it really is time.  Tomorrow night I’m going.  Adios Vineland. 

Last weekend I was in Sarnia catching up with Nathan and Darryl and had a great time.  Sarnia is on my top five places to move if the right situation presented itself.  I’m not sure of its rank but it’s somewhere amidst Ottawa, Philadelphia, Toronto or back to the WB.  I might just throw Oslo on there for my Norwegian friends but then I’d have to make it a top six list and I don’t think John Cusack would be down with that.

Darryl works at Boston Pizza and he honestly runs that shiz.  He is also getting married this summer and is saving himself for wild, passionate, awkward honeymoon sex, or so the facebook group he joined leads me to believe.  Nathan has 742 different things on the go and all of them revolve around people or places in Sarnia, except Epiphaneia.  Together they are also making a full length movie.  Seriously.   I do believe they finish shooting sometime this week.

Speaking of EP, we are back and better than ever.  The group of four decided not to plan a conference this year and are now looking ahead to The Evolving Church 2009.  The theme is hush hush for now but we are very…VERY excited about it.

The other day I had a thought that I would post on here about every other day for one month.  Now, I know we have all seen this before- the person who wrote on July 23, 2006 that they were going to post more often etc., and you’re reading this last post two years later.  I don’t think that’s going to happen here.  Instead, what I might do is force myself to write on here as a little discipline- see if it can happen.  I think I’m mostly going to avoid a summary of my activities and get back to trying to engage in some kind of issue each day.  I’m also thinking of joining a blogging community but I’m not sure I know enough Latin to be eligible for membership.  I’ll have my interview with Keith tomorrrow- see if I’m in. 

crickets

That’s been the sound around this blog lately.  Crickets.

I’m back in Vineland at the moment and it looks like I should moving to Toronto sometime next week for at least the foreseeable future.  ‘Foreseeable future’ implies that I have some idea what my life will look like for the next little while when the truth is it could all change tomorrow.  That’s not really a good feeling although it is slightly exciting in a nauseating kind of way.

After getting back last month I knew how the next three weeks would unfold and I was quite looking forward to them.  They did not disappoint.  I spent time with family, visited with Ian, Lauren & co. in Ottawa for New Years and then spent just under two weeks bumming around Philadelphia with Janell, Faith and other members of the cohort,  which was exactly what I felt like doing. 

Now I’m back and my day planner tells me that next week is wide open- perhaps the most wide open of any week since I spent my summers as a preteen at home playing video games and swimming .  I used to love that.  Weird.

I was able to make some serious discoveries in the last couple of weeks including two fantastic films: Juno and Once- go see them now.  I have also been making some headway in The Office Season Four and while it’s not quite Season Three funny, it is firmly reinforcing my belief that Andy Bernard is my favorite character on TV.

Reading?  Ya.  I’m reading.  What else have I been conditioned to do?  I bought a book at Barnes and Noble from the bargain bin called Peace Kills thinking it might have some interesting take on international peace efforts.  It turns out it is by FAR the worst book I have ever purchased.  ever.  period.  Thankfully I am now onto two other books: Peacemaking 101 which is a series of essays by people describing their jobs and how they got where they are, and Resident Aliens, which is “a provactive Christian assessment of culture and ministry for people who know that something is wrong”….or so the cover of the book says.  Seriously though- it’s good.

I also got the dvd drive fixed on my computer thanks to Toshiba who accepted the repair on the 90th day of the 90 day warranty.  It’s possible I will now watch movies on my laptop and make some sweet mix tapes, er…cds.

Well world I think that’s the update for now.  The End.