August 2010
8 posts
This week I am confined, more strictly than usual, to a single room in which I sit in front of a computer at which I stare dutifully and diligently for most of the day. Not far from the ordinary, it may seem, but that the temperature in the room is much colder than I can comfortably bear, that I have a counterpart sitting at my left hand all day, that there are many more people moving and talking...
I sat with my nephew at the edge of the pool, our bare feet in the water. We splashed so much that our clothes were damp for the rest of the night. I held him with one arm across his baby-fat belly while he leaned over to dip his fingers in the water and send tiny droplets flying across the surface. He was so pleased, and looked around at me to laugh at our splashes, although he became serious...
I brought leftover pad thai with shrimp home from dinner tonight. I was out with a friend I hadn’t seen in four years, since I got married. We used to be best friends but we both changed a lot and stayed friends on Facebook but didn’t talk to each other for a long time. It’s hard to understand now exactly why. We were, and still are, at very different places in our lives, but...
sarahb:
One thing that never fails to amuse me is when I’m separating from someone in public to meet up again later, to shout, “I will find you! No matter how long it takes, no matter how far!” like Daniel Day-Lewis in the waterfall scene in The Last of the Mohicans. This has yet to make any other person laugh, but it’s been consistently funny to me for sixteen years, and I have no intention of...
I used to walk through the centre of downtown to get to my bus stop in the mornings, but earlier this summer they finished the renovation of city hall across the street, so now I take a direct route to a closer bus stop along the pathway right behind city hall a couple of blocks away from the city centre. The pathway is relatively quiet, with glowing new concrete and neat bright green grass and an...
