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I have been really busy lately. Since September I have had a big birthday, had many parties, travelled to Montreal to sail with Hugo and Alex and to Toronto twice, once to present the Pilot Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness I helped create at Queens Park. During that trip I also went to Burlington and had a conducted a great interview with a friend and colleague at the Rude Native, also conducted and interview with the oldest living data librarian in Canada and had a great bday dinner with really old friends. The second trip was to spend Thanksgiving with Su and Mark. I have also submitted a major collaborative research proposal and am in the process of submitting a second one that if successful, will support research on homelessness for 5 years for an awesome team of researchers. I also survived a bicycle accident, got my bike fixed up and now wear a helmet all the time. In the meantime I am trying to read for my Phd and can’t wait to start following up on the great interviews I conducted as part of the research. I have also helped a couple of Judo Olympic team members get a foothold in the region and will assist their dad in building a judo club at the university. Finally, I am getting prepared for my judo black belt exam coming up in the spring of 2010 and trying to find ways to keep fit for the winter. My hair is getting long and shaggy, friends tell me it makes me look softer, I think I look like I did when I did in the 70s when I was 12, I feel a little tired but I am quite inspired to do something creative. I would like to begin to sew again, and today in between waiting for responses to the research proposal documents, I am sewing some curtains. The biggest project however, is to learn to be patient with my teenager. I am turning into a monster and wonder why it is we can leave our boyfriends when we do not like them any-more, but we are forced to live with our kids when they are mean and still somehow I have to roster up the love and will to provide for the selfish critter. Perhaps, this is the reason I am very happy to escape into work! I am also looking forward to walking to walk and to share some time with close friends, one in Montreal that I miss dearly, a few close by and cashing in my ‘tea for two’ birthday present.