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• The UK

  old school

  09.14.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  After a month and a half of skanky-dive viewing we settled on a fairly decent place in an “up and coming” part of town (read “mild chance of knife fights”: we’re actually 10min walk from the scene of a big case where a kid got stabbed for looking at some other kids “the wrong way”). [...]

• The UK

  please shower off after swimming

  07.03.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  We’re now 3 weeks into our potentially years-long London experience; Nazma has started her tepid wade back into the workforce; and I’m on the computer for what feels like 26 hours a day—shirtless and deadbeat, some would say. I would protest, however, that I’m actually neck-deep in rental listings, looking for that perfect (or [...]

• The UK, Vancouver

  movez-vous, s’il vous plaît

  04.18.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  The movers have come and gone, the house is (more or less) empty, and we’re living out of our suitcases from now till Thursday. Too busy wrapping up all the loose ends of a decadent, materialistic Western life to blog about our wonderful time in minimalist-by-circumstance Cuba. Once the dust settles, stories will [...]

• The UK, Vancouver

  week 1/0 (L/N)

  03.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  For this move to succeed I’ll have to be a bit more effective and efficient in my packing. My first week: I think I’ve managed 2 boxes. The problem is detritus. Actually, the problem is my borderline-obsessive/compulsive need to organise every little item, and worse, to think about it carefully before [...]

• The UK, Vancouver

  i guess they have to ask

  03.06.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Filling out our visa apps for the UK and just had to laugh at this. Err, if I said “yes”, can I still come in? Pretty please?

• The UK, Vancouver

  thankyougoodbye

  03.02.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Haha I’m actually quite sad now that my time at Ballard is over. Almost pathetically so. Today my last day there flew by in a eyeblink with the packing, the wrap-up, the goodbyes. 6pm rolled around, my cardboard box was still only half full, and the building had already begun to feel [...]

• The UK, Vancouver

  unemployment-a-go-go

  03.01.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  That’s it: my first grown-up job is a thing of the past, and I’m off to roads paved either with fulfillment or wretched unemployment. Growing up the son of immigrant parents, you almost expect that moving to an entirely new country and context should be easy: I mean, your parents managed to do it, [...]

• The UK, Vancouver

  alea jacta est

  12.30.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Crossing the Rubicon, figuratively or even when Caesar did it for real, never took as much deliberation as we two fools have. Maybe a fait accompli for everyone we’ve talked to about this, but we’ve finally decided to move to the UK. Nazma accepted the offer from her “smallish” concern, and now we [...]

• The UK, Vancouver

  pimps and cure-alls

  12.02.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Nazma had her first interview with an overseas firm the other day: a “smallish” concern from London (i.e. only 500 lawyers). While they seemed a bit reserved at first, the initial reports from the recruiter in the week since has been pretty favourable. He even suspects a forthcoming offer, but my experience with recruiters, corporate [...]

• The UK, Vancouver

  derailed by prodigious body-hair

  11.15.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Second post and I’m already going off-topic. Back in October we went to see an excellent outfit called Ladytron, who had all the shag-cut electroclash derelicts and gold-lederhosened tarty-tarts working the Commodore Ballroom floor-springs, while we rather self-consciously nodded our heads to the beat until Nazma slinked off because her feet were hurting. Don’t let [...]

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Junkies for that feeling you get just before you board a plane, train, or automobile for somewhere other than here, we're seeing as much of the world as we can, staying one step ahead of the trifecta spectre (trispectre?) of security, progeny and mortgages.

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