My Random Day
Jul. 26th, 2007 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eponymous_roseFirst, I would just like to say that as I'm typing this, my oh-so-wonderful neighbour across the alley has brought out some sort of horrible woodchipping machine and is merrily screeching away at something that's undoubtedly pretty manly and shirtless and things. The upside to all that noise, though, is that it drowns out the ear-splitting barking and whining of his huge Rottweiler. The downside is that this condo complex forms some sort of magical auditory thing so that, if I don't want to roast and have therefore opened the window, even the softest whisper or the shuffle of sneakered feet on grass outside sounds like it's right in my very own bedroom! Someone in acoustics needs to take a look at this place and figure out how that works; I could make a fortune that way.
(Of course, the worst part is the splitting sugar-headache I've given myself. Heehee.)
So I decided to do something different today. It occurred to me that I keep blithering on about going to the mall but hadn't actually got around to doing it by myself. So this morning I walked in the general direction of work, then dramatically boarded a different bus and sped cross-city to the mall! (Note: I'm not quite as much of a slacker as this action makes me out to be. Just working ahead. Yes. I call it "procrastinating in advance".)
So I wandered aimlessly around the mall and wound up going in circles and just buying candy from a few different stores. And then I went to Chapters and wound up chatting with the cute guy at checkout over my t-shirt ("Buy fair trade and organic to defeat the evil robots") and my purchase (a luverly five-book box set of the Hitchhiker's trilogy, complete with a bright yellow sticker that proclaims that while the recommended retail price is a whopping CAN$ 84.95, it's mine for just CAN$ 34.95!). I then decided that I'm really a pretty boring mallgoer and toddled off to find a quiet corner to read my new books.
But it was fun. :D And then I caught a bus that was heading toward the university, got a bit claustrophobic and just hopped out at a random stop, and realized (once I'd wandered down an alley in search of identifiable landmarks) that I was only two blocks from home. So serendipity just saved me walking the twenty blocks from campus! Huzzah! Of course, I'll never remember where that bus stop was in the first place...
Okay, I've given up and have closed the window. I doubt it was helping with the temperature in here (currently 30.1 degrees and rising) anyway. I'm going to stop eating candy before I fall over, read me some Douglas Adams, and listen to Gregorian chants. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you summer!
(Of course, the worst part is the splitting sugar-headache I've given myself. Heehee.)
So I decided to do something different today. It occurred to me that I keep blithering on about going to the mall but hadn't actually got around to doing it by myself. So this morning I walked in the general direction of work, then dramatically boarded a different bus and sped cross-city to the mall! (Note: I'm not quite as much of a slacker as this action makes me out to be. Just working ahead. Yes. I call it "procrastinating in advance".)
So I wandered aimlessly around the mall and wound up going in circles and just buying candy from a few different stores. And then I went to Chapters and wound up chatting with the cute guy at checkout over my t-shirt ("Buy fair trade and organic to defeat the evil robots") and my purchase (a luverly five-book box set of the Hitchhiker's trilogy, complete with a bright yellow sticker that proclaims that while the recommended retail price is a whopping CAN$ 84.95, it's mine for just CAN$ 34.95!). I then decided that I'm really a pretty boring mallgoer and toddled off to find a quiet corner to read my new books.
But it was fun. :D And then I caught a bus that was heading toward the university, got a bit claustrophobic and just hopped out at a random stop, and realized (once I'd wandered down an alley in search of identifiable landmarks) that I was only two blocks from home. So serendipity just saved me walking the twenty blocks from campus! Huzzah! Of course, I'll never remember where that bus stop was in the first place...
Okay, I've given up and have closed the window. I doubt it was helping with the temperature in here (currently 30.1 degrees and rising) anyway. I'm going to stop eating candy before I fall over, read me some Douglas Adams, and listen to Gregorian chants. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you summer!
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Date: 2007-07-28 02:00 am (UTC)You sure you don't live near me? XD
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Date: 2007-07-28 02:03 am (UTC)What I forgot to add was: I envy your HHGG box set already. I only have The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and I think it's missing a few pages from the end (I got it from the library). *sigh*
Hurray for randomly taking different buses across the city!
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Date: 2007-07-28 03:06 am (UTC)Reading it on the bus was great, because the guy next to me was reading over my shoulder and snickering. I wanted to turn around and say something clever and then we could bond in our geekiness, but that was about when I started to get escapey-feelings and hopped out. Dangit.
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Date: 2007-07-28 03:04 am (UTC)I suspect a province-wide infestation of unnecessarily loud and macho neighbours! Horrors!
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Date: 2007-08-01 11:27 pm (UTC)Most likely there exists a correlation between the severity of the infestation and the hours of sunlight the province receives. *nods sagely*