despite accomplishing almost
nothing this
weekend, this was really one of the better weekends i've had in a while.
friday the man came over, we went out for dinner at a local deli, rented movies, got some
wine and hung out. we were up until 4:30am just talking. we slept in on
saturday, then i got an itch to go buy more books about succulents and so we went to borders. a nice (but odd) lady started up a
conversation with me -- initiating it by saying she had overheard me mention
botany and asked if i knew from what part of
marijuana plants did industrial
hemp for rope and cloth come from. although i don't, and have never grown
marijuana (except one plant, once) i have a strong interest in entheogenic and medicinal plants, and so i pointed out to her some excellent reading which will educate about
marijuana without being a big
stupid how-to on growing dope in your basement or closet without your parents finding out. she mentioned that as a stewardess for an airline she became aquainted with a haitian
voodoo priest who educated her on medicinal plants of the area. i pointed out to her a fabulous book, called Pharmako / Poeia. although she seemed like an interesting and nice enough lady, i am just never very interested in maintaining conversations with strangers -- so i went back to reading a
succulent encyclopedia and figuring out which cacti and succulent book would best suit my needs.
i got it in my head that i wanted to cook
dinner for the man (the first time in over a year of dating). so i went to the store and got
chicken breasts, portabello mushrooms, orzo pasta,
tomatoes,
olives,
olive oil,
mozzarella and
parmesan cheese. so i made
dinner and his only
complaint what that i put too much
olive oil on the
pasta (i gotta agree, but it was still yummy).
we spent part of the evening having long
conversations and part of the evening having
wrestling matches. i wound up with a
bruised foot, but i gave him a good
punch or two in the
stomach so we're even.
sunday morning we slept in, then he left and i did my
laundry and cleaned the
house a bit.
today
wake up, take a
shower, go to
work.
early... they
should be roofing the apartment and they
should have my parking area blocked off between 7am and 5pm -- i have been going to work at 6:30 in order to avoid having my
car towed. but so far there hasn't been any sign of work on my building and other cars have remained parked in the lot. maybe i read the notice wrong. or maybe they're behind on their work.
anyway, this morning on my way out the door my neighbour was walking his
dog, lefty. lefty came over to say hi to me and i noticed that he was exhibiting behaviour i had only ever seen in my recently deceased dog -- we called it smiling, but most other people would think he was growling. danny used to
smile so much he'd make himself
sneeze over and over again. lefty smiled at me today. when i pointed it out to bill he said that anyone who'd ever noticed it assumed he was growling and was afraid. nah, i know that doggie
expression.
so now i'm at work, fixing my messed up computer and drinking
coffee. lots of
coffee. my computer is really being unhappy right now. overall, i like
windows 2000 better than
windows 98, but -- there are some things about it that really just rub me the wrong way. fortunately i do most of my work on various unixes, i use
windows 2000 only on the system from which i check my
e-mail.