Poop planning

I watched this and found myself praying to the cold impersonal universe to get it.
And was left wondering just how many metformin users have prayed for travel constipation, just so as to ease the effects of metformin on life while travelling.

Preparing to travel again

So I am about to travel again and have decided to reuse the same travelblog - starting a new one just seems like making more clutter on blogspot and there is enough of that already.

I am not going to Kalamazoo or doing anything medievalist-related, but I am also not going to update anything from when I was.  I don't want to spoil this thing as a celebration of when my life was significantly less shit.

I am just going to tack posts about the new trip on as if that wasn't spoiling the effect anyway.

And mostly just putting up this post so I can facebook it - facebook being a thing that was not yet part of my life last time I was out of NZ - and so I can pretend I am keeping people informed of how my trip is going without any real further effort.

Posts about the trip will start a day or so from when I travel (whether this is before or after I leave the country will be determined when I remember/find time/care to blog).

Videos of me and Aunt Ellen

Here are a couple of videos that feature me and my Aunt Ellen, among others (my dad mostly). The first is Dad and Ellen talking about nothing much in my Grandmother's kitchen. I'm ni the background beating up a small child.




The second is Dad narrating while he videos trees and Ellen, then some weirdo intrudes. Filmed at a camp ground on Buttle Lake (which is either right near or inside Strathcona Park).

Starfish

In Sointula, when I went crabbing, as described in Catching Crabs the Not Fun Way, I hauled a massive starfish from the water. The following is said starfish feebly trying to escape us. It was freed unharmed, though significantly away from the crab traps, later.

Crossing the Rockies

Here is another video, this one from the plane as I was flying from Toronto to Vancouver - the plane that didn't have my luggage in it...
15th of May - I think. I'm too lazy to check so will just have to assume that I'm right. Was definitely a Tuesday.

Loss

While I was at a session on queer theory in Sir Gawain (which was a waste of time, though the only time I actually contributed to a questions session - if a touch rudely with a list of corrections on what the presenter had had wrong) other people were at the session I actually wanted to be at.
Fortunately I'm just being jealous at a stranger....

If I ever go to the Zoo again, I'm going to the fun looking sessions - professionalism be damned.

Niagara Falls video

The following clips are both from my day in Niagara - in case the big ugly falls didn't tip you off. Both are on the maid of the mist. The first was me checking I could, in fact, make a video. The latter is a closeup on the Canadian falls from underneath - filmed through my Maid in the Mist plastic anorak to prevent the camera melting like the wicked witch of the west.