in vancouver i today

I just remembered that I never did update my blog about my current whereabouts.  I'm back in Vancouver now, sitting at my desk staring out at the mountains.   The sun is starting to set, and its not as amazing as Swiss sunsets, but it's still pretty beautiful.  Anyway, I'm in a pensive mood...I just got off the phone with some friends from college.  We've organized a foundation for our friend Janet Sekiguchi who passed away four years ago and are currently re-thinking our bare bones website.  I just googled her, and there she is, still quoted on the Stanford Linguistics page: 

"My 9th grade english teacher said one day i would major in linguistics. i was like, whatever. but then i took aave and syntax fall of sophomore year, and the rest is history." 

The tone, the grammar, the punctuation is all hers.   And here she is on a random website of Danny Chai's:

"When my mom let let me take her car to Stanford, I was quite excited; I would be able to run errands, go out to dinner, and drive home often. Of course, when I first met Danny, I never knew he was the con man that he is. He was rather cordial to me -- asked me how I was, when others did not. I enjoyed his company, and, at least seemingly, he mine."  

Okay, it's a bit far from Janet's voice (I'm pretty sure Danny wrote that poking fun of himself) but it totally makes me laugh, and it makes me miss her so much.  Anyway, check out our bare bones website if you'd like.  (Better yet, check it out at the end of September.)

Oh yeah, so I got in okay....pretty late....and I am now in weird state of strange languor/stupor.  I thought jet lag was easier when you fly West.   "East is least easy:" isn't that how the saying goes?  Pico Iyer says not to trust yourself for a week after you've flown anywhere.  The liminality of jet lag that makes things that are not normally a big deal, a big deal and not normally exciting or wonderful or sad, very exciting or wonderful or sad.  Pico Iyer also tries to make the most of this liminality, by seeing it as a new lens to see life.  I think that's what he says, I've been reading his latest book under the influence of jet lag, so I could be reading it very wrong.  Ha ha.  Anyway, he doesn't quite convince me...

Oh yeah, so I'm back in Vancouver....and that's about all I have to report.