Lifestyles

My poor sister hadn’t gotten any sleep on the plane and by the time we got home she had been awake about 24 hours. Arriving in the evening has the advantage that you only have to stay awake for couple of hours, which she barely did. I remember trying to keep my parents awake until nine in the evening - who arrived mid-day - was quite a challenge, this was much easier. Rest of the evening I spent keeping company for Dragon who was watching Galactica, reading the new Viivi & Wagner album and eating salmiakki. Even the highly trained commando mosquitoes left us alone last night. In the morning my sister was awake and energetic and we had breakfast together while talking about ashtanga and yoga.

At work I’ve been having bizarre conversations with the new girl Pris. She asked me yesterday if I had an "European lifestyle" and I had no idea what to say to that. She couldn’t properly explain what she meant by that, only vaguely mentioned "freedom" and "relaxed" – all I could say was that it was my lifestyle, and I didn’t know of anything else. Apparently "European lifestyle" is a concept on this side of the Atlantic – maybe it’s something to do with long vacations and generally working less than our American counterparts.

At the same time we’ve been trying to get Pris to get into the West Coast lifestyle. Today Angelo tried to teach her to order his favourite coffee at Startbucks – that's grande sugar-free hazelnut latte with non-fat milk – when it turned out she had never set her foot in Starbucks before. This caused loud gasps in the office as Vancouverites are probably born holding a coffee mug and never let go, this city literally runs on coffee.

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