Squalor Victoria

I arrived in Victoria last Thursday via propeller plane with my dad who was attending a CMHA conference that weekend. It was a bit of a rainy autumn day, but I was very glad to have arrived. It was great to get a break from my mundane life just outside the city of Prince George. We were greeted by my wonderful sister at the airport and drove her off to her work where we then took off to see my other sister and her little one. We had a nice time with my oldest sister and her baby who was laughing and smiling at all the new energy in the room. I changed a diaper for the first time, and fortunately I was not peed upon. Having a baby looks pretty intense (not for me at the moment, though I am appreciative of all those who do). After the visit my dad dropped me off at UVic where I was to attend a religious studies meet and greet. It was quite a candid occasion, and got me very excited for going back to school in January. We discussed all the odds and ends of the discipline, had a nice Q and A, and introduced each other. All the profs from the department were there and I introduced myself to the ones I did not know. Though I know some of them only to see them they all seem like the typical eccentric academic types. I briefly discussed with one of them the works of Mircea Eliade, whom I am reading at the moment, I was delighted to find out that he will be my prof for a course I am taking next semester. After we all walked over to the Thursday CSRS lecture on constructing Islamic modernities with Dietrich Jung. Dietrich appears to use post-structuralist methodologies to analyse the conception of modern Islamic identities. I quite enjoyed it. I spent the rest of the time hanging out with friends, going to concerts, staying at my buddy Joey's flat above the Shine cafe right downtown (pretty sure that place is haunted though..) fortunately his cat Panther is keeping out all the squalor, and of course seeing someone whom I am captivated by, someone who when I think about makes me shiver, I am so fortunate to have to spent some time alone with.... and now I am back in Prince George, but only for the odds and ends of my existential debacle, only another couple of months. And yes the title is a reference to the National's song...