Better Prayer Tiles Shot, originally uploaded by mrgord. I’ve just uploaded the rest of my processed RAW images from my trip to China in January. There are now almost 200 pictures in the set, and I’m considering it a complete set now. (Though a couple of shots are weirdly out of order.) There’s a link to my flickr account in the sidebar, but clicking on this image will let you get to a page that has a link for the China set. Go check it out!

Last night Lime and I met up with a couple of Clarion Westies (Guy and Tinatsu) and their respective spouses, and slept at Guy’s place. It was so wonderful to hang out, and Guy and I had another one of our long late-night talks, just like the talks we had in Seattle. It’s funny I call these classmates from Seattle “old friends” since we’ve only known one another since July 2006… but I guess shared baptism by fire tends to lend a depth to relationships that may otherwise require a lot of time to build up. Once again, Lime is …

We’re here in one piece, staying at a very nice hostel that, despite all expectations, I in fact prefer to the last one I stayed at in Montreal. We pigged out on Lebanese food, which we’ve both missed, and marveled at how lots of the places we’d planned to go had changed in the years since we’ve lived in the city. Tomorrow, we’ll start out early and go to a few places we wanted to go, eat a few more things we’ve missed, have an evening coffee with my friend Astrid, and prepare to leave for Vancouver on Friday morning. …

Having just arrived late Friday, I realize now it’s already Sunday, and Wednesday morning, we’re off to Montreal. This trip is turning out to be altogether too brief for me. Ah well. We’re meeting some old friends of mine for dinner tonight, as my mother is working a shift tonight. I think we might go and do a tiny bit of shopping beforehand, if I can get Lime to wake up. She’s more jetlagged than I am, and still asleep now at 3pm Sunday. No photos yet. I’ve just stopped being dizzy and exhausted, so maybe today I’ll get some …

We’re flying in about 20 minutes. This time I’m posting from the posh, lovely, important-people lounge. Nice. I wanna coffee, so that’s it for now.