It’s been a rough & strange 72 hours, as I try to put my official life back together, post-theft. It’s been hard, trying to stay positive, hoping that my stuff has probably been trashed, but worrying that someone might still have some malignant use for my personal I.D. and possessions. Out of this miasma of worry, here are a couple of random thoughts on the last few days that I’ve managed to assemble:
(1) When former students come back to visit you, DO enjoy their company…and TRY NOT to think that some of them have already finished their first year of university! Old age isn’t exactly banging on the door, but it IS waving at me from a far & distant mountain range…
(2) My new key chain feels far less heavy than my old one…and that’s not a welcome change. There was great comfort in the fact that my collection of keys was substantial and heavy…even the ones that were useless & long out-of-date provided a sort of twisted comfort! My new collection of replacements seems pathetic and paltry by comparison…and I miss the TARDIS key chain my sister gave me as a birthday present. 
(3) The Governments of Canada and Ontario don’t seem to give a damn about identity theft using birth certificates and SIN cards (quote from person over phone: “We don’t take theft reports”)…and if you’re hoping to speak to a real, live person on the phone when trying to replace these items…reconsider! You’re morely likely to pick up the phone and casually chat with God…and as for getting a new SIN card…well…you have to get a new birth certificate first, because you can’t get a new SIN card without it! I believe this is what is called a catch-22…
(4) Don’t see SHREK THE THIRD. I’ve been dragging my feet about writing a review of this film…and being a crime victim doesn’t help. Therefore, I’ll simply sum it up for everyone: in a series that prided itself on destroying the cliches of fairy tales and mass-market, Disney-ish culture…it is extremely disappointing to discover that it has become a victim of the very same cliches it skewered so deliciously in the previous two films. A movie dumbed down so that only 9 year olds will enjoy it, it has precisely TWO scenes of mind-shredding hilarity…the rest is boring, unmitigated trash. Watching-paint-dry boring…
OK…back to trying to cheer myself up…
