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Good thing I finished the final pages of my first Harry Potter book this morning. Yesterday I had trouble concentrating on a conversation with Mark because I kept eyeing the book. Yep. I'm one of those schmucks who *try* to multitask on the phone, but it never quite works out. Many a time the person has had to offer to "let me go", "leave me to ____", or simply let out a sudden "bye". It's not that it's not interesting conversation, it's just that I'm preoccupied. Did you hear??? Mikey Bustos is IN!!! (on Canadian Idol, if that left you puzzled.) I'm stoked. I'm on the bandwagon. He is so.. creamy sounding. ..Although I don't think Monday's performance was his best, I still voted for him. Boy was he nervous! But he sure is talented. He'll be in the top 5, I bet. I won't say more until I hear / see the others. Now I'm reading a new book, it's downstairs and I"m too lazy to go get it. I'm about a chapter in, and the book is about a Japanese woman who has to come to terms with her heritage and past in light of her estranged father's death. All she remembers is her father, with his long hair and his picture journals. Every day in her childhood, she recounts how her father would draw and sketch his dreams, his thoughts. His pictures represented her, his daughter, or him.. a neat notion. Perhaps I will begin to draw again too. I have been busy. Work, books, gym, runs, and sun. Today it reached 31ºC in Maple Ridge. It was NOT fun in the lab, where I had to bake batches of muffins. I thought I would die. I like my job. It requires learning and explaining, therefore reaffirming your knowledge. I could learn a lot from it...while my bosses want me to stay, I do not want to. I cannot. I've committed myself to a degree. I don't even really want the PHI / EHO label, I want the degree. I've promised it to myself, and to others. It'll be hard...but I'll do it. They've been a little pushy about it. In the past two days, all three of them have had a talk with me about me foregoing school and continuing in this path. Yesterday could have been a coincedence, but then today it just kind of blindsided me and I didn't know what to say. It feels good to be needed but wierd because well...they're the geniuses, what the hell do they want with me?! Anyhow. Sunday was spent at the beach getting a base tan, munching on beef kotkes (sp?), hummus, choco-chip cookies, and dolmathes. I had a ball experimenting with Greek / Mediterranean flavours. I will totally try the kotkes and hummus again. My sunburn is itchy.
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