2008-04-27

From Royal City to Prince George

What tree planting is like when you aren't yet planting, so basically, what sitting around in an empty apartment is like:
You wake up at 7, because the sun comes in through the windows and makes you wake up, and because it's not all too comfortable on the floor anyway.
You get up, and eat breakfast, or at least I do. Maybe I should just speak for myself.
So I eat breakfast, peanut butter and banana, and it's really delicious. Then I wait for lunch by either throwing a ball up and catching it, reading, playing cards, making small talk, or just sitting there. I also, occasionally, sneak myself away to do some exercises, to maybe, somehow, a little bit, prepare myself.
So then, at lunch time, you might eat lunch; or, I might, but today I just ate an apple because I hadn't expelled all that much energy yet. Then I walked to Value Village and bought 2 puzzles as a new addition to the morning time schedule, a drinking game, as a new addition to the night time schedule (actually, to be very honest, I picked out this game because the box was really very charming looking, and it intrigued me, and then I saw it was a drinking game, and thought, "fine"), cutlery, and a plate. I go to the library, and spend an allotted hour on the internet. The computer is laying down and behind some sort of tinted glass. Its position is a bit off-putting at first.
Soon, Pete, on his newly purchased roller blades, and me, in my sandals, will walk and roll (sorry, had to) back to the apartment. Maybe we'll all watch a movie. Maybe I'll start reading a new book. There's a huge number of possibilities, and our time is limitless. Though I expect, and am actually certain, boredom will ensue in no time.
This is Prince George. Last night I dreamt of a full moon (that looked something like the pancakes Drea and I made in Guelph) and I also dreamt I did something in my dream that I'd like to believe I would not do. So I woke up, and laying there, replayed the dream, but I changed it, ever so slightly, so that I had no choice but to do what I did. Funny that I didn't change what I did, but what someone else did so that I would have a perfect excuse for the circumstances that were to follow. This is all very silly when you think about it, because I didn't really have a choice in the first place. I mean, I was sleeping. Anyway, about the moon, it was enormous, impossibly big, and swirling. This must have come from the small talk the day before, about the moon, and how last year in Prince George all the animals came out at the full moon. This train of thought is very helpful to me because on my mental internet to do list, which of course I have completely forgotten, is "Find out when the full moon is." It's May 19th. May 5th, the first day of planting, there's a new moon. Haha outer space, very cute.

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