In which we discuss plans
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pecuniumThe next week is going to be busy. I have a VA app’t tomorrow (follow up on an earlier app’t to look at one of the symptomatic conditions of my Reiter’s). Friday I head out to Joshua Tree for the annual retreat of the Southern California Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (if anyone should like to attend, let me know; it runs from Friday to Monday. There will be walks, and campfires, and marshmallows and music and talk and [for those who are inclined, a Meeting for Worship on Sunday], and there is room).
The next Tuesday Obama is going to be inaugurated and Weds. I go to Canada.
The two have nothing in common. There are some people I’d like to visit, who wouldn’t mind seeing me, and someone who wants photography lessons, so the two will be combined and I’ll be in Ottawa for a month.
Happily, in the realms of ego-boo, the show I’ve been working on getting in Ottawa will probably open while I’m there. I don’t think (it not being a gallery per se, but an art/coffee house) there will be an opening, but I’ll be there the first night, and will be able to see some of the reaction. They have also agreed to carry cards on a regular basis.
In there I have some photography to work on (I still have photos of the mountains from a couple of weeks ago, when the snow level dropped to about 2,000 ft., and I ought to write something for TKP), and politics aren’t going to stop. The last few days of the present administration will see a fair bit of gamesmanship and stage setting (no small part of it by Republican apparatchiks and the sympathisers, who are doing their best to box Obama into a corner before he takes office; that the various agendae they have will be put into place. Some for their direct benefit, some to prevent prosecution for abuses they took part in during the past eight years and some with the hope of setting up failures, so they can say Democrats can’t be trusted to run things (after all the incoming administration is taking charge of a United States with a reputation unequaled in living memory, and being handed an economy few alive can recall the equal of).
So, that’s my schedule for the next week, or so.
The next Tuesday Obama is going to be inaugurated and Weds. I go to Canada.
The two have nothing in common. There are some people I’d like to visit, who wouldn’t mind seeing me, and someone who wants photography lessons, so the two will be combined and I’ll be in Ottawa for a month.
Happily, in the realms of ego-boo, the show I’ve been working on getting in Ottawa will probably open while I’m there. I don’t think (it not being a gallery per se, but an art/coffee house) there will be an opening, but I’ll be there the first night, and will be able to see some of the reaction. They have also agreed to carry cards on a regular basis.
In there I have some photography to work on (I still have photos of the mountains from a couple of weeks ago, when the snow level dropped to about 2,000 ft., and I ought to write something for TKP), and politics aren’t going to stop. The last few days of the present administration will see a fair bit of gamesmanship and stage setting (no small part of it by Republican apparatchiks and the sympathisers, who are doing their best to box Obama into a corner before he takes office; that the various agendae they have will be put into place. Some for their direct benefit, some to prevent prosecution for abuses they took part in during the past eight years and some with the hope of setting up failures, so they can say Democrats can’t be trusted to run things (after all the incoming administration is taking charge of a United States with a reputation unequaled in living memory, and being handed an economy few alive can recall the equal of).
So, that’s my schedule for the next week, or so.
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Date: 2009-01-13 12:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-25 03:06 pm (UTC)Anyway, do enjoy it, and if you decide to move to my homeland eventually, let me just say that Canada'll be the better for it.
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Date: 2009-01-25 05:21 pm (UTC)I apologise, since I was making jests (and not so well, you are far from the only person who made the comment) in the vein of, "if "X" gets elected I'm moving to Canada," which seemed amusing, since the guy we just elected is no reason for me to flee (though if I were to take an hiatus from the states, I think I can safely do so for a while).
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Date: 2009-01-25 07:38 pm (UTC)I (Canadian living in the US) will probably go back myself eventually, but at least now I don't feel like I'm being chased out. :)
Do enjoy your trip! :)))