it's been a low-key, boring, lonesome type of day. karey and elicia are both on the island. sarita spent most of the day and when i say most, i mean from before 10, when i got up to 8pm, watching live aide. she took a break somewhere in there to nap. heather went to the office to do some work. i watched live aide with sarita for a while, reading the georgia straight at the same time. i didn't know it was such a big thing for people. i've never watched it before, and didn't really know anything about it.. but i'm not typically in the thick of things. i ate some of sarita's white cheddar kraft dinner and two pizza pops. boredom came in waves. i bought some cycling stuff at MEC, but probably spent too much and then stopped at hidden city collect n' consign. there were lots of treasures there, like old camera stuff and a massive leather one volume, but it would usually be split in two, webster dictionary published in 1942. it was 50 dollars. i didn't get it, but i did get a dictionary of facts published in 1908. it has some hilarious snobby prescriptivisms in the language book of this dictionary. this section is entitled RIGHT USE OF SOME COMMON WORDS. the entry that first caught my attention and made me chuckle was this one " Dearest. Do not begin a letter "my dearest John," unless he is the dearest of three or more Johns with whom you are acquainted." it has to be read in a smug, snobby clipped accent. i came home and looked through the book thoroughly, and then took inventory of my three slr cameras. yeah i have three now. they're all pentax. mom sent me over the one dad bought from gil, next door, when he was jealous of grampa giving me his. gil's came with a million accesories that i don't know how to use, what they do, etc. i wonder if a nice camera man at a camera place would help me.

just as heather was coming home, i was leaving for blockbusters and mcdonald's. i was looking for a few older movies, but silly me, blockbuster's selection bites and i forgot that. so i got some others. sarita called while i was there to tell me that heather brought a movie home with her too. so we watched heather's first (after some more highlights of live aide). she got wilbur wants to kill himself. it was a dark humour scottish movie (i love scottish accents...) it was funny, and quirky and sad. then we watched one of mine, which was sea inside. it was interesting, but very long and it draaaaaagged on. there were a few poignant moments, with ramon and his family. i didn't feel much about the women, but there were some good moments between him and his brother and sister-in-law, father and nephew. there was some beautiful music though. sometimes i surprise myself and notice the music in movies now, but only sometimes.

i feel dull.

i spent canada day with fatima. she came over and brought her foot spa and an indian movie. it was called chori chori, i think, subtitled everyone falls in love. it was kind of like while you were sleeping. cute. fatima and i liked it when she was the beautiful sorrowful bride and he said "i've given you my happiness," and nods towards his family, "now can i take your sorrows?" and then as fatima says with hand punctuations, "she loses it." fatima had the indian towel and i had the caucasion one for our foot spa needs. by the time the movie was over we were dying the slow death of hunger. fatima wanted mexican and suggested las margaritas. sure, i said. so i sqeezed my car into a small space while lines of cars waited for me, and we sat on a bench outside, and watched the people come in and out and by, while we waited for our table. there was the fanny pack couple, and the group of guys and one girl. we tried to figure out which guy she was 'with', and agreed on the same guy. the other guy that showed some connection as well, we decided was probably her little brother, or a secret admirer. we like to do this sort of thing.

i had the salmon burrito and fatima hand the seafood enchilardas. we talked about dave, the set up fatima's getting. we were done in half an hour because we decided what we wanted while we waited outside, we ordered right away. after dinner we made our way to fifth avenue and watched war of the worlds. it was pretty intense. i told fatima that it wasn't really about aliens. it was about families and realizing what really matters. there were some funny doofuses in front of us in the theatres. we enjoyed watching their antics before the movie. fatima called them the non-impressives. after the movie we talked about the aliens and then we would say "but that's just what they want you to think" with a spooky voice and an ominous look. upon arriving back at my place we noticed that someone had egged fatima's car. she wasn't impressed by this. we washed it off, and she went home after stuffing all of her belongings into a big shopping bag, becasue she has a bag for everything, even foot spas. i wish she could have slept over.

the day's over but it was such an empty day.