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  • I was in Duncan again this weekend. I have to stop doing this: I have things I should be doing here, instead. Next weekend I will probably stay put? Who knows. That’s so far away from now.

    Mum and I visited a gallery in Cedar on Saturday. It was delightful and full of purchase-able trinkets, which I did do (purchase things). There was also a garden and I liked it all.

    I also read my first Hermann Hesse this weekend. I think it went well. Not a big story, but written well, and about a painter with much description of that process, so that was handy and made me feel better. A little bit of a thinky book, less than emotional (despite the content) but I liked the thinky (i.e. I tried to stop reading it but then decided I would rather continue to enjoy more of the layers and such). It also wasn’t very long. It was “Rosshalde”.

    I also cut beans for bean soup. Cutting beans for soup is different than cutting them for canning. They are cut on an angle, and at about half the length as for canning. This means that it takes a long time to cut them. I was rewarded, however, with a trip to Superstore (for pasta) and WalMart (for a new winter duvet and cover). I was also rewarded with bean soup, made by Mum.

  • I hope it really is a day off today because I’m so not prepared to go anywhere. Except maybe dollar giant.

    I mailed some letters yesterday and since it’s a long weekend and no pick up until Tuesday, I am imagining my letters all alone in the mailbox still, waiting.

    The book I am reading now is “The Gargoyle” by Andrew Davidson. All the reviews I have read of this book said it is good, and I concur.

    I would like to note that this will be my first use of the word “concur” having only recently fully believed that it means “agree.” I first heard it used by Taylor at Camosun. He said “I concur,” and I was like “Oh good… Wait… does “concur” mean “agree?”” Apparently, it does.

    I fixed my fan yesterday. At first I thought I could just “hammer” out the solution, but in the end I went to Home Hardware and purchased nuts. I fastened these the the screws in the base of the fan, and now my fan remains upright indefinitely. Opposed to before yesterday, where it would stand for a while and then decide to lie down.

    P.s. My goddam awesome new phone isn’t connecting so I can’t goddam change my facebook status on it. This isn’t a problem as I am not actually anywhere away from my home computer, right? But I want it to work since yesterday I finally switched off my mum’s plan and have to pay for the GD thing on my own now. POOP in a HAT.

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    just read a book called “Mean Boy” but I don’t know how the dude in it was mean or anything. It was about poets and going to university to be a poet. I got bored in the middle, because I guess poets are boring? But anyway I got through it mostly because it was prettily written and I like to read that kind of thing.

    It’s been so sunny out, and therefore, also In, that I haven’t had my computer on for fear that its innards will melt. For also that it is too hot to sit at it to do anything. Therefore just leave it off, right? Whatever.

    I’ve been saying the words “good” and “lord” with different inflections, making my attitude toward things vary.

  • I haven’t posted for a while. This was because for a week my computer was broken. Then after I got it fixed I didn’t really have anything to say. I’ve been going to work then coming home and reading books or watching TV. Now you are caught up.

    The books I have read include: Julian Comstock, which was good, a bunch of HYD, also good. Now I’m reading Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen, which maybe isn’t as good as it is wordy and thoughtful. I have a gift certificate from Russell Books that I got as a going away gift from work, but I went in and there are no books I need at the moment. Come to think of it I’m not sure if I remember where this gift certificate has gone to now. I’ll have to find it and put it in a safe place. Or at least somewhere I can find it again.

    I’ve spent a lot of time researching a new cellphone for myself. I’ve made my decision now, and I don’t know if it’s the best of decisions, but it’s been made so I can stop thinking about it now. I had the option to get a new phone now and stay with my current provider, or wait until my current contract ran out and switch to a new provider. Then I had to choose a phone, then I had to choose a plan. Arg. I got my mum to phone up the current provider (I’m still on her plan) to see if I could get a deal, and that’s what I’m now going with, but I’m still a bit wary. I’m sure it will be OK, though and I get a new phone, which I am excited about.

    This weekend I have realized that there was a Doc. Who special I missed, and a Torchwood miniseries to watch.

    On Thurs I bought some coconut milk ice cream to try out. It was pretty good. I got it in cookie-dough flavour, which was good, but too rich for me, I think. It’s pretty pricey, but there are a bunch of new flavours.

  • I have “beans-in-cans” on my grocery list. That I note that they are in cans is to diferentiate them from “beans-in-jars” or “from-dad’s-garden” for which they might be mistaken should I write just the one word “beans”. What I mean is really pork’n’beans but I don’t call them that. I actually call them beans-in-a-can. Which I guess could also mean green beans, because I think one could purchase such a thing. I wouldn’t though, having ample stock of “beans-in-jars” which were once “beans-from-dad’s-garden” but have been preserved to eat in the winter, and having grown up with such, make “green-beans-that-are purchased-in-a-can” seem ghastly.

    I also need carrots, as the 5kg bag I bought months ago is dwindling and kind of gross. Was is 5kg? I don’t remember. There are 2 carrots left. Or one carrot and a piece of another carrot, so 1.5 carrots left. And macaroni salad season is here, so I better get some more.

    The other day when I was waiting for Susan in Chapters (before the opera) I saw about 6 books that I wanted to read in the SF&F section. Usually there are zero. I’m either in a mood or there are a bunch of new books out. I’ve ordered one at the library, Preventing Purchase (it’s fantasy so there’s little chance I will need to keep it). Some of the others are manga though… and I can’t remember the name. I’ve already had to go back to chapeters to remember the name of the book I ordered at the library. I could have been smart and looked at the manga too, but I didn’t, wanting to get out as soon as able, as to Prevent Purchase. Dag nabbit.

    I’m reading Tom Jones right now so it will be a while before I can read anything else (in theory). That’s Tom-Jones-the-novel, not Tom-Jones-the-singer-from-Wales. I’ve read the first few chapers on several occasions before and then stopped. It’s a thick and daunting book. But this time I’ve made it a bit further and it’s pretty addicting, if it takes me a while to get around some of the sentence structure sometimes to figure out what’s being said. It’s an old book. There are notes at the back I can look up, but they aren’t marked throughout the text, so I sort of have to guess what archaic references are going to be explained to me. Sometimes they are and sometimes they aren’t.

    Yesterday I had “Moving Day” by Fred Penner in my head. This is because I saw a moving truck.

  • Book sale today! Lots of books and people! I got some literature books, some art books and a book entitled “Shirley Temple’s Storybook” which I can’t decide whether to cut up or leave whole. I’ve also now completed my Mordecai Richler “collection” which consists of all the novels of his I like. That was Barney’s Version I got today, which I have read before but decided I should own. Just for, you know, posterity and lending purposes.