Anyone know how to upload photos onto Blogger using a Mac? Photos stored on iPhoto. The photo upload button on the Html tab inside Posting doesn’t work. PC girl is grumpy… Why can’t I just see the &**&%$$ code? (But grateful to Rita for providing the use of her machine…)

Safe in Taipei, and not even jetlagged. Drag a lot of nice green tea on JAL, took a bunch of assorted pharmaceuticals– Cold FX, homeopathics for jet lag, lots of vitimin C, some decongestant to ease head pressure during landing and take-off. I’m a human laboratory. Much fun flying with Roy and Rita (who took…

Sushi on the Drive, Magpie Magazines, High Life Records. It’s fall here and there are orange and brown leaves scattered all over the sidewalks. I had my first wipe out–slipped on some wet red brick in front of a new clothing store beside Cafe de Soleil. I’ve found myself a really cool place to live–…

Check it out, if you’re interested. trans-scribing Canada I’m off to Vancouver this morning, and fly to Taipei the next day.

Went to the cast room this morning and had the plaster cast removed. I was allowed to hang out with no cast on it for about 40 minutes, during which I pointed and flexed for all I was worth, and applied as much moisturizer as my skin would soak up. Then Jim, the technician, wrapped…

supper at The Coup yesterday with Aruna 

What’s the difference between Asian Canadian literature and Asian American literature? That’s the question for the first day’s panel in Taiwan. I like to think things are more fluid up here, that we use the concept of identity but don’t cling to it like a life raft. It’s problematic because to claim racialized identity is…

The plaster cast comes off early tomorrow morning, to be replaced by a lighter fibreglas one. Yip! I’m gearing up for Asia– really looking forward to the trip, although slightly concerned about my enforced helplessness. I found an envelope of Taiwanese New Dollars in my foreign currencies box from last time. Very happy about that.…