so today was a slothenly day. i can account for only a few of the hours in which i was awake - the best were spent running at the conservation area nearby and later playing soccer with some of my favorite women. it was warm, but dry, with a healthy cape-town wind. oh, and there was sunshine and me sitting by the chess board. and sunshine and me sitting at the window in my bedroom.
and like a bad dream, there was the mall. i went there out of guilt, i think. i'd (gasp) driven a vehicle that i've borrowed out to the conservation area, and thus felt obliged to make the most of being out there on steam not fed into my bicyclette. so i popped into the mall. it's been a long, long time since i've been there - possibly years. and i see why. it's a horrible place - meant to make me think that happiness is ownership. acquisitive nonsense, i say!! (plus, the sales people were too busy with their own lively dramas to want to help me, which might me the real source of my discontent) anyhow, i couldn't bring myself to do it. i'd thought i would finally replace my running shoes - they're coming unglued, and my attempts at repairing them have been thwarted. but i just couldn't - too many choices, but then really no choices at all. oh well, i guess i'm kind of attached to the pair i have, after all these years...
no progress on the cluttered space (hardly!) that is my apartment. better luck demain, i hope. maybe i should read now. i'm reading too many books at once, and it bodes well for none of them. the question is - do i put one or two aside now, in favour of a more focused reading experience, or do i keep at it, but add no new books. ah, the tribulations of the lazy summer bums!
19.8.04
18.8.04
got something to say?
just visited my friend andrea's blog, and decided that i simply must be as much like her as possible. and thus this blog is born.
easily done. but as for content - do i even have anything to say to you, oh wide and worldly web? likely not. but i'm a jolly good rambler, of this i'm sure. i should migrate to my hammock, and settle down to some proper musing.
ah, much better. i love my hammock, even if it's only blue. i brought it home with me from guyana, and another for my brother. i just installed it yesterday, here across the middle of my living room. yay power tools! i missed the beam on the far side (where i put my feet, and not my oh-so-precious, and somewhat heavier in spite of its bird-like proportions, head), so there's a little bit of disconcerting creaking sometimes when i climb aboard. i'm hoping that the drywall will hold. or at least that i'll be in the right frame of mind, when i finally fall, to look at it from an experientialist's perspective.
really, this is lovely. the sun is feeding my window of green, my apartment's clutter lies still far below me, and there's the sound of water (lucky fish) trickling, tickling m' ears...
today has been a lovely lazy day. we raucously celebrated my dear friend anne's impending move to another coast until the wee hours of what has become this warm and gentle day. i'm going to miss her dearly - she's all about being this super blend: of easy going & up for anything, with being honest enough to speak the hard truth if you need to hear it. i think that part of her charm, at least. a damn lot of fun, and the finest of friends. sounds a bit like i'm eulogizing her. well, she's certainly alive and well, but i guess i am mourning her of a fashion - since she's one of the many that wanders closer and then further in the socially-transient life of the grad. student.
well, perhaps i should busy myself a little with organizing some of the influx of STUFF that i've just added to my little apartment. things from london, where mamasue and papajohn are busy readying for a move to a much smaller abode. i can't quite believe i managed to fit: a table w/ 4 chairs, a large wooden blanket box, 2 more antique chairs, and a small side table into my 2 furnished rooms. but it all did fit, and actually seems to add to the feeling of spaciousness. who'daknown?
but i don't really want to work when there's fun to be had outside, do i? non. to lemoine point it is, rather. picture me frolicking in the woods. i'll be smiling, i promise.
easily done. but as for content - do i even have anything to say to you, oh wide and worldly web? likely not. but i'm a jolly good rambler, of this i'm sure. i should migrate to my hammock, and settle down to some proper musing.
ah, much better. i love my hammock, even if it's only blue. i brought it home with me from guyana, and another for my brother. i just installed it yesterday, here across the middle of my living room. yay power tools! i missed the beam on the far side (where i put my feet, and not my oh-so-precious, and somewhat heavier in spite of its bird-like proportions, head), so there's a little bit of disconcerting creaking sometimes when i climb aboard. i'm hoping that the drywall will hold. or at least that i'll be in the right frame of mind, when i finally fall, to look at it from an experientialist's perspective.
really, this is lovely. the sun is feeding my window of green, my apartment's clutter lies still far below me, and there's the sound of water (lucky fish) trickling, tickling m' ears...
today has been a lovely lazy day. we raucously celebrated my dear friend anne's impending move to another coast until the wee hours of what has become this warm and gentle day. i'm going to miss her dearly - she's all about being this super blend: of easy going & up for anything, with being honest enough to speak the hard truth if you need to hear it. i think that part of her charm, at least. a damn lot of fun, and the finest of friends. sounds a bit like i'm eulogizing her. well, she's certainly alive and well, but i guess i am mourning her of a fashion - since she's one of the many that wanders closer and then further in the socially-transient life of the grad. student.
well, perhaps i should busy myself a little with organizing some of the influx of STUFF that i've just added to my little apartment. things from london, where mamasue and papajohn are busy readying for a move to a much smaller abode. i can't quite believe i managed to fit: a table w/ 4 chairs, a large wooden blanket box, 2 more antique chairs, and a small side table into my 2 furnished rooms. but it all did fit, and actually seems to add to the feeling of spaciousness. who'daknown?
but i don't really want to work when there's fun to be had outside, do i? non. to lemoine point it is, rather. picture me frolicking in the woods. i'll be smiling, i promise.
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