Monday, October 02, 2006
Countdown - 5 Days
It’s a strange experience being back at my parents’ house. For one thing, it’s massive compared to our little one-bedroom in Toronto. But definitely more youth hostel then mansion. People are coming and going at all hours and sometimes they’re even related to us. My sister is constantly on the phone. There is a lovely Chinese couple, student boarders, living somewhere in the depths of this house who seem to show up for supper and then disappear again. And the kids! I haven’t seen my 5 year-old niece yet but my 16-month old nephew was here all day yesterday, screaming, laughing, hurling breakables on the tile floor and then himself down the stairs.
When I come here I go through a bit of shock. I realize how normal this frenetic energy was for me my whole life, and how my life has changed since moving. Toronto is big and noisy but it has nothing on my family. People come and go, like electrons, but they always seem to hover around this house, the nucleus.
My dad is talking about how people should be fined for butt crack exposure. It’s funny because he’s a plumber.
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