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.

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?