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I am so thrilled about this year's Nobel peace prize. The Grameen Bank is such a brilliantly simple and simply brilliant concept, and it's helped so many people. I hope we don't see the same sort of grouching as we did when Wangari Maathai won two years ago. I'm interested and pleased that the committee seems try and take a broad approach to the concept of "peace" -- the prize doesn't just go to people who try and end conflicts, but sometimes it goes to people who try to address the roots of conflict in the first place.

Current Mood: happy

I really, really want to go somewhere. Quite impractical as I haven't got any money and I DO have big mountains of debt... but I wanna vacation!

Am considering:

1. Trip out west in August or September -- I want to see

raithen and H and meet JJ and Indie and see the rest of the gang, and I could totally do it on points, and I haven't been in years.

2. England next May (ish), either on points or cheap charter -- I probably can't afford it, but I have many friends and family there (some of whom are eventually going to move back to Canada, so I should go while the going's good) and I haven't been on a "proper" vacation (scenery! interpretive plaques! sleeping bags!) in quite a while and and and I just WANT to, dammit.

Can't hurt to do a little planning at least, right? Right?