you're the best one of the best ones....
today i came to a funny realization: i am a yuppie. well, i suppose not completely, since the P in yuppie stands for professional, which i am not. this delightful piece of self-awareness dawned on me as i was walking down the street in kitsilano (and just being in kits is worth points in this department), listening to my iPod, drinking a starbucks latte, and wearing yoga pants. it was a little akward at first, but i decided that maybe that's just what i am now. i like listening to music when i'm out and about. yoga pants are comfortable. and i love coffee like nobody's business. i actually furthered the identity by going and buying myself a book by Clifford Geertz (my favourite anthropologist so far) called Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics. Take that, punk-rebel me from high school.
I got a lot done today. After I got my coffee, I went over to the house I'm hoping to move into in a little more than a week. I really really liked it. My room is a good size with hardwood floors and a big window. The kitchen is roomy and nice, the bathroom is cute (and has two sinks, hurrah), there is a really nice sitting area off the kitchen, and a big deck, though the charm of decks is somewhat lessened by vancouver's inclement weather. nobody gives a fuck about sitting outside when it's 30 degrees and sleeting. but anyway, i left her a message saying how much i wanted the room, so hopefully she will call me this evening, i will meet her tomorrow morning, and everything will be well. After this, I went to campus and got a few textbooks. I got the 2 for my anthropology of law seminar, and the reading package for 470 (topics in contemporary theory). then i walked down to MoA, and wished for the millionth time that we had a shuttle that goes down there. it was my own dumb idea to buy books and then walk to the other side of campus, but still. I got there and the place is under massive reconstruction, so after two detours just to find the front entrance, i had to ask jackie (who was working in the shop and followed her hello with "yes, i still work here") where all the offices went. redirected into a trailer in the side lot, i found my student folder but not the nomination certificate for excellence in tourism that i was hoping for, and gwilyn was away on holiday. oh well.
I am now back at Joey's, where I've been staying. He's at work. Activities for the rest of the day will include trying not to hear his roommates having sex (which wouldn't bother me NEARLY so much if a) my lover wasn't 900 miles away and b) if they hadn't just returned from an Anime Convention - nobody who goes to anime conventions has any business getting laid) and resting my blistered feet. I'm going to immerse myself in my new book (6 pages in and i already love it, Geertz is my hero) and wait for Gilly to call about the room and Casey to call about getting together tonight. I had to laugh cause when I called him this morning and asked if he was going to be around tonight, he said "I AM going to be around tonight", and then in unison he said "you want to get a couple drinks?" and i said "i was thinking we could get a couple drinks". there's something to be said for one of the founding factors of a friendship being a mutual love of rye. but i'm looking forward to seeing him and i'm sure joey is looking forward to not having to see me. we'll be seeing enough of each other as is when school starts.
Before I go, I would like to run over the inordinate amount of ridiculous things that have been happening to me since Sunday.
+ missed the 11:45 ferry out of Saltery Bay, and had a 2 sailing wait at Langdale.
+ left a bag of my laundry with my favourite jeans and ryan's UCD sweatshirt in dave and christina's truck. it's now in kelowna and i have to bribe her to mail it to me.
+ had to deal with the most unpleasant and stressful housing search ever.
+ was half a block away from 2 car accidents on 2 consecutive days, one on monday at 10th and Hemlock and one yesterday at 10th and Alma. neither were huge smashers but worse than fender-benders for sure.
+ went to buy my textbooks yesterday with joey and realized when i got to the checkout that i didn't have my wallet. turned out to be on joey's living room floor, but i still panicked a bit and felt like an idiot.
+ have horrible blisters from my feet from walking too much in too-new shoes, which i now have to wear barefoot cause i stupidly only packed one pair of socks.
+ last night while on the phone with ryan, i put my cigarette out against the stucco below the front porch railing like i've done a million times before, only this time, a chunk of the glowing ash landed in the bush and set the end of a branch alight. managed to break off that part of the branch and smash it around in the dirt and avoid a major conflagration, but it was still unnerving. if i had gone straight inside i wouldn't have smelt burning leaves and realized it had caught, and may well have burned down joey's house, or at least his front porch.
soooooooo yep. things are looking up, though. i have an awesome new book and probably an awesome place to live (that I can actually afford and will accept my little cat). i also think i'm going to go buy the new dashboard confessional cd, cause i've heard about 5 tracks from it and like them a lot. I also need to re-install my iTunes, because it seems to have gone on strike, and i'd really like to put a ton of stuff (for example, all my xavier) onto my iPod. Anyway, back into the book, but I feel like finishing off with one of my very favourite pictures from when ryan was in Lang Bay. i think it's really cute and it makes me happy, and you can see in my face (i think, anyway) that i have never ever been happier in my life.
cheers
I got a lot done today. After I got my coffee, I went over to the house I'm hoping to move into in a little more than a week. I really really liked it. My room is a good size with hardwood floors and a big window. The kitchen is roomy and nice, the bathroom is cute (and has two sinks, hurrah), there is a really nice sitting area off the kitchen, and a big deck, though the charm of decks is somewhat lessened by vancouver's inclement weather. nobody gives a fuck about sitting outside when it's 30 degrees and sleeting. but anyway, i left her a message saying how much i wanted the room, so hopefully she will call me this evening, i will meet her tomorrow morning, and everything will be well. After this, I went to campus and got a few textbooks. I got the 2 for my anthropology of law seminar, and the reading package for 470 (topics in contemporary theory). then i walked down to MoA, and wished for the millionth time that we had a shuttle that goes down there. it was my own dumb idea to buy books and then walk to the other side of campus, but still. I got there and the place is under massive reconstruction, so after two detours just to find the front entrance, i had to ask jackie (who was working in the shop and followed her hello with "yes, i still work here") where all the offices went. redirected into a trailer in the side lot, i found my student folder but not the nomination certificate for excellence in tourism that i was hoping for, and gwilyn was away on holiday. oh well.
I am now back at Joey's, where I've been staying. He's at work. Activities for the rest of the day will include trying not to hear his roommates having sex (which wouldn't bother me NEARLY so much if a) my lover wasn't 900 miles away and b) if they hadn't just returned from an Anime Convention - nobody who goes to anime conventions has any business getting laid) and resting my blistered feet. I'm going to immerse myself in my new book (6 pages in and i already love it, Geertz is my hero) and wait for Gilly to call about the room and Casey to call about getting together tonight. I had to laugh cause when I called him this morning and asked if he was going to be around tonight, he said "I AM going to be around tonight", and then in unison he said "you want to get a couple drinks?" and i said "i was thinking we could get a couple drinks". there's something to be said for one of the founding factors of a friendship being a mutual love of rye. but i'm looking forward to seeing him and i'm sure joey is looking forward to not having to see me. we'll be seeing enough of each other as is when school starts.
Before I go, I would like to run over the inordinate amount of ridiculous things that have been happening to me since Sunday.
+ missed the 11:45 ferry out of Saltery Bay, and had a 2 sailing wait at Langdale.
+ left a bag of my laundry with my favourite jeans and ryan's UCD sweatshirt in dave and christina's truck. it's now in kelowna and i have to bribe her to mail it to me.
+ had to deal with the most unpleasant and stressful housing search ever.
+ was half a block away from 2 car accidents on 2 consecutive days, one on monday at 10th and Hemlock and one yesterday at 10th and Alma. neither were huge smashers but worse than fender-benders for sure.
+ went to buy my textbooks yesterday with joey and realized when i got to the checkout that i didn't have my wallet. turned out to be on joey's living room floor, but i still panicked a bit and felt like an idiot.
+ have horrible blisters from my feet from walking too much in too-new shoes, which i now have to wear barefoot cause i stupidly only packed one pair of socks.
+ last night while on the phone with ryan, i put my cigarette out against the stucco below the front porch railing like i've done a million times before, only this time, a chunk of the glowing ash landed in the bush and set the end of a branch alight. managed to break off that part of the branch and smash it around in the dirt and avoid a major conflagration, but it was still unnerving. if i had gone straight inside i wouldn't have smelt burning leaves and realized it had caught, and may well have burned down joey's house, or at least his front porch.
soooooooo yep. things are looking up, though. i have an awesome new book and probably an awesome place to live (that I can actually afford and will accept my little cat). i also think i'm going to go buy the new dashboard confessional cd, cause i've heard about 5 tracks from it and like them a lot. I also need to re-install my iTunes, because it seems to have gone on strike, and i'd really like to put a ton of stuff (for example, all my xavier) onto my iPod. Anyway, back into the book, but I feel like finishing off with one of my very favourite pictures from when ryan was in Lang Bay. i think it's really cute and it makes me happy, and you can see in my face (i think, anyway) that i have never ever been happier in my life.
cheers