longitude

it's really weird when the "real world" is made real in your own pretty microcosm. i was reading the globe and cbc in the common computer today and saw the post about today's suicide bombing in haifa. i turned to my friend dalia, an israeli citizen, to let her now. she immediately called her partner on his mobile and then called her friends in israel on their mobiles to make sure they were all ok [they were] but it just hit home a bit

please note that when i whinge on my blog it's not somehow to be "woe as me" but to reflect my feelings of stress. i wasn't attempting to suggest that my life was a desparate slog of toil and strife but simply to say that i was feeling down. i know that there is much worse in the world but the relativity of our globe doesn't always fit into my own puzzle

bill graham wrote a feel-good piece in today's globe which was supposed to be about war but was more about being smiley, happy multicultural canadians. i think it was a veiled attempt at saying something constructive in a time of confusion but i think it just made him look like a head in the clouds when the world is collapsing at his feet

i am not going to japan this summer but richard is