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A little over a week ago I moved from Belleville to Hamilton Ontario. My mom moved from Belleville to Paris France. Well, maybe. She's there for some time, but I'm out for good, excluding some trips to get the rest of my belongings.
This is Vancouver
Hamilton/Hamtown/Steeltown/The Hammer, etc... is kind of a l combination of natural geographic beauty (we got mountains, we got valleys, we got a body of water, we got all that fuckin stuff) and unrelenting poverty. For the first time in my life, I need to watch out for Romani Gypsies. They'll get ya! With scams.
There are big swatches of sweet, precious sprawl.
I really love this video in EVERY CAPACITY
There's a lot of old military/industrial family housing and the city is constantly reconfiguring and shifting upon itself. I live right near the library/mall, some bars and cafes and all that. There's a trainyard 2 blocks from my window, huge as the one back home and just a junction for this place really, but it's quiet as a churched mouse.
I've started going to the gym regularly. I just walk/catch a ride, stretch, run, stretch, wash and feel very quite good. I am smoking substantially less, and I don't really have room to buy a bunch of shit food so incidentally I'm eating better. I need a job, but I haven't been here very long and already have a ton of applications out. Hopes are high. I'm hoping to work either at the local movie store or at a facility that repairs electronics, some of which we can keep.
The weather is bullshit hot, but I'm not feeling it as much as I would be. I'm starting to like it. Regardless I'm going to go have a cold shower.
I'm living with my previously very estranged half/sister Shannon, her husband Mario and my niece Cheyenne. I feel almost like it's cheating since I'm still living with a blood relative, but these are vastly different climes to what I'm used to. They grow a lot of their own food, worship Jesus in a way that is utterly alien to any Catholic ritual still rooting around in the back of my head, and listen to a lot of reggae and hip hop. IT'S LIKE I'M ON ANOTHER WORLD.
Strangely, all of the depressed, anxious, bored feelings I had have evaporated from my mind. I'm very happy, generally speaking. I'm still hunting for a job which makes me a little antsy, but finding one is in all respects a sure thing, it's just the one I want (pendant Video store) that makes me worrisome.
I learned to play Magic: The Gathering and then I got an AMAZING green/black deck from this guy Justin, for free, and he is also helping me find a job. Magic is really fun and simple and I don't want to get obsessed with it. Also, Shannon says she has problems with the witchcraft side of it so I can't teach my niece how to play. I don't think a 14 year old girl has a shit to give about Magic The Gathering anyway, to be honest.
I'll take some pictures around this place once I can afford a camera. It's got a really great aesthetic to it for me.
Im happy.
