well. here i am. i'm okay! i keep getting panicked emails, and i realize that not everyone knows that I left Asia three weeks ago.

It's been one of those ridiculous europe tours that only north americans can do: england, france, spain, portugal, italy and switzerland... in three weeks.

My sister and I were roaming around europe and we didnt really hear much about the quake which struck on the morning of my 25th birthday.

I was in Ko Phi Phi, Krabi, and south of Phuket just last year. I look at the pictures and I just can't see anything familiar. It was July and the places were crowded... I can't imagine them at Christmas, the height of the tourist season. So many of the backpackers I met were on the same South East Asia trail as me - I just did it the other way. You just can't be sure of anything.

I'm flying to Canada on Wednesday. For good.

That's strange.

11:49 p.m. - 2005-01-01