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bluegreen17) wrote2002-08-19 05:37 pm
bluegreen17) wrote2002-08-19 05:37 pm
avoiding mundania
havent been very ambitious today and couldn't force myself to do some things i need to do,like go shopping for socks,underwear and a new bathroom plunger. (pretty exciting stuff,which is partly why i can't get myself to do it.)
i'm disappoined in myself as usual.
i did what i HAD to do though...my last load of laundry until wednesday (our washer is so small i can usually only wash two days worth of clothes in one load,so i do a lot of laundry,but it's much better than having to go to the laundromat. i dread it if i have to someday go that route,because i have an aversion to dirty laundry and having to drag it somewhere would make me feel icky.yes,i do have some obsessive compulsive disorder problems.), my supermarket grocery shopping (i get the things i couldn't get at the natural foods store) and filling up the gas tank.
for fun,i went to the library. the librarian commented on the eclecticism of my checkouts...
1 book about canada
1 book about quebec ( i recently read a magazine article about quebec and now i want to go there! it sounds wonderful. i went there when i was nine years old but mostly it was for expo 67...which was a blast. we were there for two weeks,fortunately,because during the second week i came down with the measles and had to stay in a darkened living room on a couch away from my sisters and my cousins so they wouldn't catch it from me for a week. one the drive home,my mother made me lie down face down in the back seat and pretend i was sleeping so the border guard wouldn't see i had the measles and detain us! besides the exhibits at expo 67,including buckminster fuller's dome pavilion for the usa, the things i remember were that we couldn't find any chocolate ice cream,i have no idea why but of course i wanted some,and we visited an indian reservation and the montreal drivers were scary...at least it seemed that way from my father's swearing. also,the metro had just opened and it was clean and amazing... according to the article i read,the metro is STILL clean. i've also read that toronto is a very clean city...one more reason to move to canada,a less warmongering nation...)
1 book on judaism (do i sound anti-semitic if i say i can relate to a lot of jewish traits,especially the ability to kvetch? i also related to the great respect they have for scholarly pursuits.)
1 book called 'food is love' (that's practically my motto...i should marry a ben and jerry's delivery driver and simplify my life)
2 books on sartre...one is his autobiography and one is a literary discussion of his works. hey,he was on the top of my list on the ethics test,so i figured i'd check it out,even though i really don't like existentialism that much...though it seems i rather believe in it these days. kinda sad.
at the video store i got a flemish movie called 'pauline and paulette' that is new and it's about two sisters and one of them is crazy. i can sort of relate to that. (an understatement... and i'm the crazy sister.)
also got jakob the liar. i rented it once before because i love robin williams but got bored with it,but i wanted to give it another go because i read somewhere that mathieu kassovitz,who played nino in 'amelie' (i have a big crush on nino the character) has a small part in it.
one of these days i'll get around to watching lord of the rings,which i haven't seen yet.
i'm disappoined in myself as usual.
i did what i HAD to do though...my last load of laundry until wednesday (our washer is so small i can usually only wash two days worth of clothes in one load,so i do a lot of laundry,but it's much better than having to go to the laundromat. i dread it if i have to someday go that route,because i have an aversion to dirty laundry and having to drag it somewhere would make me feel icky.yes,i do have some obsessive compulsive disorder problems.), my supermarket grocery shopping (i get the things i couldn't get at the natural foods store) and filling up the gas tank.
for fun,i went to the library. the librarian commented on the eclecticism of my checkouts...
1 book about canada
1 book about quebec ( i recently read a magazine article about quebec and now i want to go there! it sounds wonderful. i went there when i was nine years old but mostly it was for expo 67...which was a blast. we were there for two weeks,fortunately,because during the second week i came down with the measles and had to stay in a darkened living room on a couch away from my sisters and my cousins so they wouldn't catch it from me for a week. one the drive home,my mother made me lie down face down in the back seat and pretend i was sleeping so the border guard wouldn't see i had the measles and detain us! besides the exhibits at expo 67,including buckminster fuller's dome pavilion for the usa, the things i remember were that we couldn't find any chocolate ice cream,i have no idea why but of course i wanted some,and we visited an indian reservation and the montreal drivers were scary...at least it seemed that way from my father's swearing. also,the metro had just opened and it was clean and amazing... according to the article i read,the metro is STILL clean. i've also read that toronto is a very clean city...one more reason to move to canada,a less warmongering nation...)
1 book on judaism (do i sound anti-semitic if i say i can relate to a lot of jewish traits,especially the ability to kvetch? i also related to the great respect they have for scholarly pursuits.)
1 book called 'food is love' (that's practically my motto...i should marry a ben and jerry's delivery driver and simplify my life)
2 books on sartre...one is his autobiography and one is a literary discussion of his works. hey,he was on the top of my list on the ethics test,so i figured i'd check it out,even though i really don't like existentialism that much...though it seems i rather believe in it these days. kinda sad.
at the video store i got a flemish movie called 'pauline and paulette' that is new and it's about two sisters and one of them is crazy. i can sort of relate to that. (an understatement... and i'm the crazy sister.)
also got jakob the liar. i rented it once before because i love robin williams but got bored with it,but i wanted to give it another go because i read somewhere that mathieu kassovitz,who played nino in 'amelie' (i have a big crush on nino the character) has a small part in it.
one of these days i'll get around to watching lord of the rings,which i haven't seen yet.
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But when you've lived there for over 18 years it becomes a little boring. So don't move in here! ;)
But I guess that's just the way everyone feels about the place they live in. At some point, you have seen everything there was to see...