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Today is my last day of work at JJ Bean, my last day making espressi and cappuccini for the masses. Go look at pictures of coffee.

Vernon

Oh, and before we went to Victoria we went to Vernon for a few days! Be sure to scroll to the next post down for pictures from the Victoria part of the trip.

Victoria

We try to hit up Victoria a few times every year, as we have several friends living there, and it’s just a fun place to spend a week or so. We’ll be heading back in a couple weeks even. You may infer from these pictures that we went for coffee alot. We did. Some terrific shops were mere blocks from pretty much anywhere we found ourselves, and I indulged in way too much espresso and whatnot. I also managed to get off a few very nice long exposures of an old buidling on the waterfront. Mind you without a tripod I was a bit limited in my composition options.

I’m really trying to slow it down here…Transition periods are always tough on me, in that I tend to dramatically overestimate the amount of work involved and get really anxious that things may not work out.  I tend to pressure myself to do additional things that really aren’t that important.  -But things always work out-.  Yet, I have yet to totally get rid of that panicky urgent feelings that can bubble up in times like this.  Usually I just need to stop and breath, evaluate what is involved as objectively as possible, and handle things one step at a time.  This quiets my mind and allows me to enjoy life.  What I’m contending with right now is preparing to move.  Tying up the loose ends here.  But I still have over a month until we go, and my last days of work are next weekend.  So really, there’s no big hurry.  That and things are going very smoothly.  We got a car, we have someone to help us move, and so on.

For posterity:  We went to Victoria this week, and Vernon the week before that.  It was terrific for the most part, pictures from Victoria to come.  In the meantime, here’s some stuff from Vernon and Vancouver:

 

PS- If anyone out there likes Unfoto, sorry I haven’t updated in an age. It’s a pretty thought intensive process and as you can see, I’ve been out of town for awhile.

newness

I’m about to start my last few weeks of work at JJ Bean and my last few weeks if work in customer service retail.  I could not be happier about this.  I’ve made the decision to get on with it and start something new.  Thus soon a close will be brought to a couple chapters of my life, and the overarching narrative of making cappuccini will finally see its end.  A journey that started with starbucks back in 2004, made a few other stops along the way, and provided me a living for many years is nearly over.

I’m sad about the part where we leave Vancouver.  Things have been so good here and we have done so well.  But after a year of looking for work in some sort of new and interesting field and failing to find it, I’ve made the decision to finish my post-secondary education.  I know what I want to study and I know why.  And I know I can no longer take toiling in the trenches of customer service, a place where there is no satisfactory future for me.  Maybe a return to Vancouver will be another chapter further along.

The autumn of 2009 has been a time of endings and beginnings, realizations, revelations, discoveries.  I’ve been having a hard time being retrospective as of late, and I think this is thoroughly a good thing.  I’m content with how things are, indeed happy.  I’m happy about the plans that have been made.  And now I’m enjoying, just enjoying how things are going.

 

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