First update in 8 months... I'll quickly bring you up to speed. Cue montage:
- Oct. 2004: Visited friends and family in Toronto and Quebec City.
- Nov. 2004: Spent three weeks on ship for Naval Reserve training. Highlight was another visit to Seattle. This time, I was able to check out the Music Experience Project in its entirety and the new Science Fiction Museum.
- Dec. 2004: After four years of production, the Trenchcoat Farewell Project is finally published. The end of a fan fiction era, indeed. James Bow, the editor, published my first stab at fan fiction back in 1994.
- Feb. 2005: Moved out of my friends' basement into an apartment downtown, a block from the ocean. The fact that they'd sold their house and were moving later that month was a good incentive. :)
- March: Baptism of my goddaughter. Cutest baby in the world, bar none. I've learned a lot about babies these past eight months, but I refuse to change one unless he/she is my own. :)
- April: First new series of Doctor Who since 1989 debuts on CBC (two weeks earlier in the UK). The CBC last aired the series back in 1964. Very enjoyable so far. I also ran in the Times-Colonist 10k for the fourth year in a row. Still working on the 50 min. or less finish time...
And that brings up to present day. This week,
I fly out to Halifax for more Naval Reserve training. I was last there 4 years ago, and I look forward to re-experiencing the east coast aura. The remainder of the summer, I have an on-ship contract in Esquimalt.
Last year, I submitted some poetry to several Canadian literary review magazines, but to no avail. Here's my favourite of the bunch...
| WOLF |
Monitor's blip, beep heartbeat: Pulse of darkness veil Pierced by eyes yellow Watching paint dry. Flower basket pervades Anaesthetic air. Hairs bristle like quills As my fingertips Trace your withered claw. Under crimson cloak, |
