Not a lot

Well, what has happened over the past few days? Denise has a stinking cold, so I have been offering possible remedies whilst dosing myself up so as not to get it myself. In fact she is hacking away in her room, in what sounds like a most painful manner :o( The weather has been fantastic, so there has been ice cream eating and moderate sunburn. I have finally bought myself a Nalgene bottle since I have to run 13 miles on Sunday, and whilst coming back from downtown heard on the radio that U2 were filming their music video at GM place and were asking for people to go and be in it. It is testament to my boredom with traffic that I couldn't be bothered to turn the car round and fight my way there, even though I was about a mile away. How sad I have become....

Last night we went to Denise's friend Mel's house, for pot luck dinner (which ended up being a lazy ordering of very good Thai food) and Napoleon Dynamite. Which was good, but not as funny as I hoped it would be. It was very amusing watching one of Mel's cats, however, as it has this huge body and a tiny head. Through no genetic mutation, it's just fat. And rather cute. I woke up this morning slightly annoyed that I'd left my just-bought cookies at Mel's house, so I have had to go and buy a big box of them from Safeway to make up for it. Which is obviously good for the training.

On Monday I went to see a room in a house that completely wasn't worth the money they were asking, so I am no further forward in my house hunt. However, there may be light at the end of the tunnel on the job front, since the cheery and energetic Sunshine has attacked my very non-Canadian resume with gusto, and is currently working to get it Canuckified, so I might actually stand a chance of getting gainful employ.* Apparently English resumes are completely different from Canadian ones. Damn my not knowing this for a long time..... So good luck to her, and let's hope she gets somewhere! She has already introduced me to the best pie ever at Granville Island, so I can feel my debts to her building up.

Also on Monday, the inside of our house finally became an oasis of lino-covered calm, after all the carpet and flooding trauma of the past week. We managed to convince the landlady to lino the kitchen and carpet the living room, rather than carpeting the whole place. And I have to say, it looks damn good. If only the deck wasn't going to block out every trace of sunlight when it finally goes up, I'd think about staying here. But sadly, even though it would be ok during the summer, I'd probably go mental when the winter came again, and everything descended into darkness.

* Here I feel I should point out that Dan also made some helpful resume suggestions a while back, lest he feel left out. My failure to implement them was simply because I am lazy, and he is in Boston, rather than being here and able to track me down if I don't get my arse in gear.....