"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"....
Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

I'm going to try to educate myself tonight and get some work done...I haven't been doing a good job of that lately.

Yay, PBS is airing an ABT performance of Swan Lake tonight. I can't stay up to watch it, but I picked up a tape and am recording it so I can watch it tomorrow. That's right a tape, old school VHS. Haven't used one of those in awhile. Tomorrow night I'll watch Swan Lake and do laundry. Tonight I went for an awesome bike ride, a little over 20km. It could become a regular route, just the right amount of up and down, in an area that kind of reminds me of Keppoch when we were kids, not a lot of traffic.

As I have complained about to just about everyone I have talked to recently, the whole not having a car business is really starting to get to me. I feel trapped. I want to go to the beach, I want to go to the movies, I want to go for a coffee, I want to be able to do things with people who aren't my neighbours. The thought of buying a car has crossed my mind, but it's not something I need to do yet. When exactly would be the appropriate time to do that I wonder. It will likely be the first thing I do after I get a job. The whole not having a sweet clue where I'll be next summer is one reason to wait.

I had something I wanted to talk about, but I can't remember what it was. I'm exhausted. We had a "pub crawl" last night, which means we bar hopped as a group, it wasn't really any more organized than that. Tonight Angela (my roommate) and I went to the Fort McMurray Filipino Independance Day celebration to see our other roommate Nerissa perform some traditional dances. It was crazy, they did one dance with candles balanced on their heads. There was a great buffet too. Now I'm just ready to crash.

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget"
Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"

You know how they say not to go grocery shopping when you're hungry? I've just discovered that it's worse to go when you're depressed. I now have lots of cookies and ice cream, I did manage to resist the fudge brownies, but man that was hard.

I really don't like Sunday evenings. It means that it's back to the real world for another week. It was a pretty good weekend filled with Cranium and Hoopla, along with a little Scotland Yard. Aside from that I just hung out with Rob. Now I should really get my lunch together so I can get to the bus on time tomorrow.

Needless to say, the dirt wasn't too healthy for me and my arm got infected. It swelled up like a balloon in two hours. I had to take half the day off work to get in town and get to the doctor so I could get some antibiotics. 

On Tuesday night I wiped out on my bike. It kinda hurt. I was going around the corner and there was sand on the pavement...I was going too fast. The sand ground itself into my flesh as you can see. I tried for 45 minutes to get it out and this is what was left. 

Why is it that when we haven't posted in awhile we always feel the need to make excuses? I find myself trying to make excuses all too often. I've been rowing lately, and I often find myself telling the coach, "I can't," because of this or that. I'm sure I do it for more important things as well. More important things just happen to be harder. I stayed home from work today due to illness, not vacation. That is sooo unlike me. I don't miss things for illness. I'm healthy, right? I have to convince myself to lay low this weekend. I don't know how well I'll do at that.