pair and pear alike

a selection of eleven of the things i did today:

1) begrudgingly got out of bed at 12pm, made a smoothie.

2) finished how soon is never, read a bit of farley mowatt's never cry wolf.

3) a)sorted out the pile of ideas and to-dos from my dressertop, copied them into my werkbook.

b) realized i didn't do anything that could be classed as productive this summer. emily reassured me that i worked on myself, and that is productive. ok.

4) ate two scottish oatcakes with almond butter.

5) did a lot of research errands, dredged up some good stuff.

6) drank enough tea (from my new tall sally mug) to suffice as ballast for a large ship.

7) got my vag in order and scheduled my annual. it's been more than an annum at this point-- it'll be interesting to see she finds while poking around my vaginal canal. so i opted for the package deal: a pap smear, breast fondling disguised as disease detection, and STI screening (STIs are apparently the new STDs. an image overhaul i guess. who knew?).

8) had a sweet time on the floor of the kitchen in the dark listening to tool (with a candlestick).

9) for supper: an enormous bowl of steamed broccoli with garlic tofu and some kamut bread with avocado and more garlic.

10) went to the north street sobey's for tonight's edition of my walk. actually i went a bit past the forum, but went to sobey's on my way back. i bought: pumpernickel bread, oregon chai tea, bengal spice tea, two bottles of san pellegrino for $3!, a buttercup squash, blackstrap molasses, a package of veggie bacon (which i didn't eat in the foyer), and two kinds of pears that i hadn't tried-- seckel and comice. when i got home, the comice pear was, despite my best efforts, smashed and jizzing pear flesh all over everything in my bag, forcing me to a) eat the battered pear corpse or b) compost the pear. i chose a) even tho i wasn't particularly hungry. comice pears, altho in this instance behave badly, are sweet and delicious.

11) and today, because i was so prompted, threw open my doors and let the foul, angry air out. it feels much better in here now, except for the occasional sickly breeze. it's funny how the returning summer breeze is so stifling (but so freeing at the time) and how the autumn breeze shows little addtional promise.

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