Justifications for being online are suddenly seeming just that.

I really don't like the amount of time I've been spending in front of the computer. Damn chat services, and the faraway friends I miss so much who use them!

If only it wasn't so necessary for job-hunting, I think I'd be able to quit cold turkey.

But, for now, must use will power. "Appear Offline..."

Been doing a lot of thinking about how conflicted seem to be my desires/directions at this point in my life...

On the one hand, I relish the idea of community, of engaging in on-going projects and building up long-term relationships with people I can keep in my life and watch grow (and vice versa).

On the other hand, I am conducting an almost exclusively international job search which, if successful, will land me in another country where I'll have to start from scratch and will be unlikely to stay forever. And I'm pretty sure this is what I want for now.

I wish there were a way to combine the two...

The three things I would have missed most, had I not been lucky enough to have had David (a wonderful, honest soul) be the one to find my purse and return it intact:

1) Cell phone (only personal real-time means of communication these days. also, officially, belonging to my grandmother.)

2) Camera (not to mention the financial loss, I've grown accustomed to being able to capture digital freeze-frames at my whim.)

3) Writer's notebook (been keeping the same one, in my signature microscopic printing, since 2002. 'nuff said?)

Big phew. And thank-you. To those who helped in the search & rescue, and those who otherwise made my Harbourfront to Cherry Beach evening so grand.

Toronto is full of lovely people.

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Just home from the culmination at Mad Monty's.

Over 12 hours of weddinging (ceremony, reception & after-party) is tiring...

Congrats you guys, you were/'re both lovely :)

Sleep now, other stuff later.

I told you I'd write up the rest of the now-complete (for this round, anyhow) no-plan journey. Not now, but will try to return and do it later :)