I woke up this morning feeling very heavy. As if a truck went roaring past where I slumbered and the passenger stuck their arm out and yanked me violently from my sleep state and dragged me with them for a few hundred yards until the weight of me became to much to bear and the arm released me and I crumbled back onto my couch whose contact with my body caused me to awake and feel rather disheveled. What a way to begin the day. But at least it isn’t raining.
Here I am, a free Sunday. Free from rain. Free from obligations. And I sit at a study carrel at the centre of public library activity. Its an usual feeling to be here without urgent purpose. No notes to write. No practice questions to suffer through. No research to do. Its strangely exhilarating.
I found a CD by a group from Salt Spring Island called Carrot Revolution. It isn’t very good but I am still uploading it to my computer. It may grow on me over time. Mainly I like it because there is a picture in the liner notes of the band members jumping off of a dock into a lake and it looks very similar to the dock we hung out on when we went on a 2 night camping trip to Salt Spring Island. And it reminds me of good things. I like being reminded of good things.
The woman sitting at the carrel facing mine, adjoining mine, is reading one of the Lemony Snicket books. Oh, she is taking a break from her reading. She is… cleaning her ear…with her glasses?!?!?!? Seriously. I am not mistaken here. I wish that I were. I feel ill. I think it is time to go.
2 comments:
Sometimes it's nice to have no definite purpose, methinks.
People watching is fun sometimes.
jacqui v.
i think your blog is very good.
i'm glad you've joined in on the fun.
and ps. people clean their ears with the strangest things. on the bus i saw a dude doing it with his keys, and another person doing it with the string thing on his sweater (you know the one that sinches a hood up? i think with the hard plastic coating).
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