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jazzfishFirst Vancouver visit's down.
I successfully accomplished the tasks I'd set myself: passport, router replacement, zipper replacement on my heavy coat. Though the zipper's been replaced with a womens' zipper, so I'll get to learn how to use that. I saw a number of people, did some boardgaming, watched the first half of the third season of The Good Place and saw Spider-verse again. I went to work, I did a lot of biking and a lot of yoga. I overspent on restaurants; will have to fix that for next time.
Had a number of painful and unexpected transit memories come up while riding buses or trains. Those, I assume, will dull eventually.
The Airbnb I stayed in this time did alright. The pillows were flat, and I didn't practice my viola at all due to feeling deeply awkward hearing noises from both upstairs and the suite next door (they'd subdivided their basement into two suites, I think). But the location, 19th and Fraser, was pretty great.
I've missed Vancouver. Explicitly: I miss boardgaming, I miss easy (or at least easier) sociability, I miss the vague sense of connection and social-network. I also miss biking and yoga, and transit, and a variety of stores and such.
Social might be solvable, once I get my apartment in better order. Will see. Biking and yoga... I don't think there are solutions for those, not during snow (roughly: November through April).
And yesterday I rode the Skytrain from New West to Commercial at six in the evening, and got to watch an absolutely lovely sunset.
I successfully accomplished the tasks I'd set myself: passport, router replacement, zipper replacement on my heavy coat. Though the zipper's been replaced with a womens' zipper, so I'll get to learn how to use that. I saw a number of people, did some boardgaming, watched the first half of the third season of The Good Place and saw Spider-verse again. I went to work, I did a lot of biking and a lot of yoga. I overspent on restaurants; will have to fix that for next time.
Had a number of painful and unexpected transit memories come up while riding buses or trains. Those, I assume, will dull eventually.
The Airbnb I stayed in this time did alright. The pillows were flat, and I didn't practice my viola at all due to feeling deeply awkward hearing noises from both upstairs and the suite next door (they'd subdivided their basement into two suites, I think). But the location, 19th and Fraser, was pretty great.
I've missed Vancouver. Explicitly: I miss boardgaming, I miss easy (or at least easier) sociability, I miss the vague sense of connection and social-network. I also miss biking and yoga, and transit, and a variety of stores and such.
Social might be solvable, once I get my apartment in better order. Will see. Biking and yoga... I don't think there are solutions for those, not during snow (roughly: November through April).
And yesterday I rode the Skytrain from New West to Commercial at six in the evening, and got to watch an absolutely lovely sunset.