I haven't had more than 4 hours sleep - and they're limited directly between the hours of 4am and 8am- in about 3 days. We've just moved somewhere around 500 students out of residence in two days, and I still have a modicum of patience and a hint o' sanity left. And boys rooms are really gross and yucky, even when they think they're clean. You know, ps, in case you were wondering.
Jared left today for Calgary and leaves Friday for California until August to drum his little heart out. It was horrible to kiss him goodbye and say "See you in August". It might as well be friggin' January it feels so far away. And it's not exactly like the communication lines between upper mainland BC and Cali are stellar. Especially not when all I'll have for the most part is a tin can and some string. *sniffle*
But.. some happiness is pending. I depart on Wednesday for wilder, if not warmer climes, to Fort St. James BC. I suppose that answers your question dear Anonymous - I'm not going back up into Northern Alberta, rather Northern BC. Fully equipped with tent, boots, sleeping back, anti itch, super socks, crank up lamp and a bear bell, I'll be tree planting from April to hopefully start of August. Another great Canadian adventure for yours truly. I kind of hope it evens out my environmental karma - rape the landscape through oil and gas one year, replenish via treeplanting the next. I'm looking forward to being back outside. It was so wonderful last year, hard work and horribleness and rain and sun.. anything but being in a climate controlled building.
I'm looking for suggestions on reading material... (that's an appeal to you folks..)
3 comments:
I highly recommend Breakfast With Tiffany by Edwin John Wintle. I just finished reading it, and it was fabulous! Not related to the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's at all, it is a true story of a man who takes in his sister's troubled 13 year old daughter.
Tracks by Louise Erdrich -- a narrative about American Indians in the early 1900s. It's a very cool and highly imaginative novel. Heather
I'm going to go with the two big ladies of modern Scottish lit: Janice Galloway and A.L. Kennedy.
I've only read "The trick is to keep breathing" and "So I am glad" but each of them has crazy experimental stuff and loads of good non-fictiony things too.
Also, if you make any bad literary choices I suggest you imagine me in the middle of my class where I only read Moby Dick over and over for four months. That should sustain you.
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