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!
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