Vancouver

I'm sitting on Brendan's couch in Vancouver. A cool breeze through the windows and I'm tired because I sat up all night playing scrabble online.

The good news is that I picked up some good reading material: Anna Politkovskaya's A Russian Diary and a magazine about the arts and culture of the Middle East called Bidoun. Should I call those my two passions? Russia and the Middle East. I think somewhere they will converge.

My throat is still sore so I will swallow another handful of Cold FX.

A quiet start to a long drive.