This is my first post-Christchurch Bookcrossing Covention update, bullet style.

• Mum seems to be enjoying herself in Queenstown, which is good, 'cause it's a cool place.
• I enjoyed the Convention myself, not bad for a first attempt - LOL.
• I'm making very vague and tentative future life plans around next year's Convention. The immigration controls in Australasia are too much to bear, so the time is drawing in for a new European life, preferably with an Australian spouse (de facto or de jure) by my side. That search continues muchly in earnest. Resettlement in Switzerland as a celibate would have to involve some pretty far-fetched long-distance/online dating plans, and relocating to the opposite side of the world to settle down and look for a (semi-)permanent job in the midst/aftermath of an economic depression is challenge enough. Plus, conservative Switzerland is often more of a "who you know" rather than a "what you know" place, and foreign vocational qualifications may have little to no value there, so getting menial job training on this side of the world, say, as a barista or card dealer, won't mean much. :( (FWIW, Aussie spouse or lifelong celibacy are my only two choices.)
• Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland are relatively desirable places to live in this generally terrible world of ours, but only Switzerland is willing to take me. So maybe Switzerland it has to be. At least maybe my family will be able to visit me every so often if I'm there.
• Et cetera.