when you're having fun

Today was a "big day," in my mom's words. It kind of snuck up on me; all the way through the pace seemed pretty slow but in the end I actually did a lot of stuff. Got up around 11, went downtown for volunteering at 12. Zed showed up and was recruited; we tryed to get donations but met almost no success. Just when we were about to leave the sound of marimbas caught his ear from far away. We followed it to CHLY's something something festival. After the marimbists was a performance by Tracy Myers & Myron Makepeace.

They're both local musicians; I have seen them play before (such as at a Wally Gator Watson concert). I even helped Myers put her kit away once after a Bel Canto Singers performance. I was really impressed by this show though... it was excellent. She did "Speak Resistance," as at the peace rally, and other good songs. Actually, it was kind of a 'spoken word' type performance, backed up by hand percussion and Makepeace on bass or guitar.

Afterwards we went up to Zed's and called Alleah. Headed up there, then off to the dam to swim. It was good, but I am very out of shape, so when I swam really fast, it was too much; I exercised too hard and got kind of sick. Alleah cut her toe. We dried off and headed back to Zed's, where he made dinner for us. That was some good dinner - noodles, chick peas, and fried vegetables all with soy sauce. I tuned his guitar while I waited.

Did I mention Zed had the CUTEST KITTEN EVER? Alleah & I couldn't get over the unparalleled and remarkable cuteness constantly exuded by the miniscule kitten. We played with it extensively, and I for one was highly delighted. Even Laura--who has dogs--was enthralled when we dropped the dishes off at Zed's house.

Anyway, on to the performance... we just barely got there in time; had to stop at 7-11 so Zed could get money for it. We were eating our dinner right until we went inside. I ate while I bought my ticket. The staff were helpful enough to put our plates in the fridge then microwave the food at intermission. All in all that worked out rather well. I saw many people I knew in the audience and in the play--including two Dover girls I met at a singles dinner with Olives, Farm, Lewis, Chris & Kim (before I got back together with my better half).

Laura asked how it was and I said "good," and then she made me promise not to say more. So, considering she will read this, I must leave it at that. Both Nikki and Sasja made me laugh a lot with their roles, it's safe to say. Stage makeup is strange. Saw Barbara & Drew there too; it seems he's still kicking around, so whatever. He keeps showing up where I least expect him. I challenged Hawker to an impromptu drum battle as his house was across the street, but he declined: everyone had to head downtown to see the fireworks.

Now, I learned this evening that Arts Alive students have a tradition of swimming from Swy-a-lana beach to underneath the bridge for the watching of fireworks: consequently, Laura was quite a wet girl afterwards, but I'm gettting ahead of myself. Zed was meeting with his fire-dancing friends, but they called that off. So, we took up position at the foot of the bridge, looking over the people (he's 6'2"-6'4" with his new women's flip-flops) at the fireworks. This year, unlike at Victoria Day, there was music. Also the fireworks lasted for about 20 minutes, and the larger budget really showed. There were some songs I enjoyed, such as "Drops of Jupiter" and "Complicated" and the show was really good.

This was the time when I had to drop the dinner dishes off at Zed's, as he had gone looking for his mother. We said goodbye to Geoff and Erin (they'd driven to Tofino so Geoff could drink like a hypocrite)--somehow I can't understand why they drove 5 hours in a single day for an out-of-the-way drinking location. I went to Laura's house, where she had dried off and changed out of ocean-water-clothes, and we had some sort of weird tea. It was o.k. though. Next time, I'm having Twining's of London English Breakfast tea, which is probably my favourite of all time. A gourmet strawberry might be nice too, but not to drink day in/day out for the rest of my life. [Check out this article on drinking green tea copiously].

When I got home I had some ice cream with chocolate sauce & maple syrup (hello diabetes and mouth-rot). Then I went downstairs and played Rampart with Cam for a while. I was planning to go to bed at 1AM (as I want to watch the sunrise later this week) but when I looked at my watch, it was 1:45! Of course, now it's like 3:10AM so that plan is out the window. Sorry for my wordiness, but I did a lot. Rock on.

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