There is a place for me
Far, far away
On a distant moon,
Or on a silver screen.
With the perfect life,
Where you never die.
You just press rewind.
Jump Little Children - B-13
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Through various circumstances, I decided a few weeks ago to come up to Vancouver for a short trip. For years I'd had a desire to visit the city, even though I had no idea what to expect. I'd never even really been to the Pacific Northwest, with Crescent City, CA being the closest thing to it I'd traversed.
In the last few days, I've seen basically all of Vancouver. Wednesday and Thursday included a lot of walking around the city and seeing pretty much all of it. Friday my friend took the day off of work, so we took the SkyTrain out to Burnaby to see the studios where Stargate Universe is filmed, and the train went right over Vancouver Film Studios, home to Smallville, Eureka, Caprica, etc. So that was exciting to see. Somewhere on a camera that I didn't bring the cable for are pictures, though most of the photos are of Chad the Gnome, a small gift from an LA friend that's my travel buddy. Today we hit up Vancouver Island, taking a shuttle from the mainland over, then a bus down to Victoria, then a lot of walking around Old Town Victoria, and seeing underwater sea creatures at an underwater aquarium, and then headed back. Tomorrow brings a wine brunch event, and then soon after will head out to the airport and head back home.
I love this city. I really do. I could live here. I don't know if living here would make me happier with life, but I'd welcome the experience. I even found a job opening for a Mac tech, as well as a new Apple store opening up and hiring. But will I move here? Maybe some day, but not yet.
It's not that I don't want to live here, because I do, but there's a lot of complications to deal with. Aside from being an American citizen trying to live and work in Canada, the cost of living here seems to be on par or higher than Los Angeles. Additionally, the majority of my friends are down in LA or the greater SoCal area, and my family is still in the southeast. Not exactly closer to them, which is an eventual goal. Plus most cell phone long distance plans don't include Canada, so I'd either to have to call them more often, or it'd cost them more, and I can forget about my favorite communication method: texting.
No, Vancouver for now shall be a great vacation destination for me. Maybe I'll try and come up at least once a year. I say this, knowing that I don't even make it home once a year, so we'll see how that goes. I just need to land that job that pays me the crazy big bucks and maybe has a travel budget.
Speaking of jobs, no news on the job front. Things continue to dwindle, and this coming Friday is going to be a downer day at the office. Not sure what the next two weeks bring, let alone what comes after Scotland. When I put in for the time off, I was really concerned about how things would go at work while I Scotland. I expected us to be in the middle of production on a show or two, but unless something amazing happens, nothing will be going on. It makes me wonder what will be going on during those two weeks, and what I'll be looking forward to when I get back. Funemployment here I come?
