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So things have been a little turbulent for me lately.  Not necessarily in a bad sense, but turbulent in that things are changing in my life pretty quickly.

I got home from my Californian road trip last Wednesday on the 10th, and it felt about right to end the trip.  Everyone seemed tired and had their fill, and personally the best part of the trip (Coachella and the Red Woods) had passed so there wasn’t really much that interested me in the later end of it.  It was nice to be home again, and not to be constantly on the road without hearing or seeing much of my other friends.

I got to watch game 3 of the Oiler’s-Shark’s series with Mylore and Paolo, it was a riot.  Paolo and I also went to the blue mile (Whyte Ave) after game 4 to see the rowdy chaos of drunk Oiler fans.  I’ve never seen so many people congregate in one spot in Edmonton before, and everyone had this mob hooligan mentality.  It was entertaining.  “Let’s go Oilers!  F*ck you CheeChoo” is all I could hear the crowd chant all night long.  I love being in large hordes of people who are all random and pumped.

My 2 weeks of fun had ended though.  My family seems to be more strung thin than it has in a while.  Stress and tempers have been flaring, and it seems to be like this whenever I’m not around.  I usually do a good job of neutralizing and attempting to keep people sane, but now that Dad is working full time and taking night courses he’s been high strung.  To make matters worse, my mom seems to poke at him a lot and my brother isn’t very understanding of why things are the way they are in the house and can only think of himself.

The tension could be felt simply by being in the house, even when everyone is quiet in their own rooms.  No family is ever perfect (at least I’d like to think so) but it seems that mine has a strong dose of dysfunction in it.

I spent the last night in the house drinking the Hennessy cognac I bought at duty free with my brother, having a “heart to heart” about the going ons in our family.  This ended up with me sleeping a grand 2 drunken hours before hopping on my 6:30 AM flight to Ottawa.  It was quite draining to say the least.

I arrived yesterday with Melanie and Frank picking me up from the airport (awww… thanks guys!).  Ottawa is all rainy and grey, quite the contrast from California.  The drive into Barhaven was long, and yes, it is very FAR from Stats Can and downtown.  And when I say far, I’m saying that she drove for a bit on the highway to get there.  This still hasn’t deterred me from thoughts of cycling to and from work everyday.

Frank’s house is really nice; it’s spacious and furnished.  So packing my things to move far away to work temporarily won’t be as painful as my internship.  Barhaven also seems like a really nice suburb, but really any suburb is like that.  I think this is good for me too, since it’ll give me a chance to mellow out this summer and work on projects that need my attention.

I did get a chance to go see Ashleigh last night too.  Honestly, it felt really good to see her again.  Even though we broke up during reading week two months ago, I still have strong feelings for her.  Things aren’t like “how we left them”.  She seemed kind of off, and I can understand after all that we’ve been through.  I just wish we could experience that “closeness” that a couple first experiences before things get muddied up.  There’s no real unfolding over the summer, as I’ll be gone again… but I hope that we can enjoy time with each other while we have it.  Everything is always fleeting, and we only live by staying in the moment.

Anyways, my first day of work at Statistics Canada started with me heading into my office to find a few things missing.  Namely, my supervisor wasn’t there, there wasn’t a computer in my office, and my contract wasn’t ready for me to sign.  This meant that I had no real way of being productive all day, and that most of the day was wasted reading any newspaper I could find and playing Soduku.  Mmmm… stats can.  I also got a chance to head down to the nearby computer store to pickup a brand new monitor.

Yes, that’s right, I’m now part of the LCD crowd.  I know, I’m a late bloomer.  I bought a big 19″ ViewSonic.  It cost me quite a bit, and I could’ve gotten a 19″ LCD for much cheaper, but I might as well shoot for quality if I get one at all.  I also have internet setup here at Frank’s place, yay!

So here I am, typing this brain scattered post and procrastinating from blogging about my Cali road trip.  Hopefully things will settle down a bit and I can get back to working on some projects that I have in mind.

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I found out today that Douglas Copeland (one of my favorite authors) has published a new book called “JPod” that’s supposedly one of his best works.  I’m uber excited to pick up a copy.

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