Random Shit

By Mike

SydneyI have officially been in Canada for a week now.  Oddly, the thing I’ve enjoyed the most has been sleeping.  The average night consists of going to bed around 10, sleeping like a log until about 7 or so, waking up, eating breakfast, and then napping for another three hours.  I must have needed it, too, because I have consistently done that for at least five of the seven days I have been here.

I went to a local climbing gym last night.  It was just so-so; the routes weren’t clearly marked at all, and I found their routes ranked very inconsistently.  Still - it was great to get out and do some climbing, and perhaps shake off some of the body mass built up over several days of eating copiously.

Sugar ShackA few of my friends from high school organized a very informal get-together a few nights ago; so informal, in fact, that only four or five of us showed up.  It was still a lot of fun, though, and I enjoyed the rapidfire “what happened to so-and-so” questions that always pepper events like this.  To my amazement, I learned about one schoolmate who is doing hard time for his involvement in Canada’s largest cocaine bust around 2000 or so.  Some high schools have the notoriety of a famous politician or actor; we are bestowed with farmers and druggies.  :-)

I’m still on track for my tourist day in Toronto, where I will do all sorts of silly things requested by my faithful blog audience some posts ago.  Look forward to more ridiculous hijinks to waste your bandwidth and precious time with.

One Response to “Random Shit”

  1. Stacey Says:

    Sleep is good. I’m looking forward to catching up on my zzz’s over the New Year’s holiday. I’m in desperate need of rest … so glad you’re getting some!

    Can’t wait to hear about your jaunt through touristy Toronto! If I had an ounce of creativity left in me, I’d try to think up something insanely cool for you to do, but I’ve got nothing.

    Cheers!

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