27 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Well, somehow I missed commemorating my 1,000th post, so here’s post number 1,010. I was planning a big celebration with clowns and balloons and cake, but 1,010 just doesn’t have the same ring.
Tonight I took a walk around the ‘hood. I went into Marks & Spencer’s food shop. I was craving fruit. I think that’s a bad sign. My body must be starved of vital nutrients. We get free fruit where I live, but just apples, pears and bananas. I prefer more posh fruit — mango, melon, berries and the like. So I bought a cup of “tropical fruit sticks,” which includes fresh pineapple, mango and “orange melon.” Come again? Orange melon? What’s wrong with the word cantaloupe? I hope this is just some weird British thing and not Marks & Spencer trying to dumb down their produce, because I feel insulted. (Not really.)
Tonight while I was out walking, I stopped to gaze at myself in the window of a darkened apartment. Yes, I did. I wanted to see what my hair looked like. I’m sure it gave the appearance that I was peeping into someone’s window, but I didn’t care…until I turned around and a professor from my department was walking down the street and staring at me. My school is light years away from here, so I have no idea why he was in this neighborhood. He didn’t even acknowledge me, he just kept walking. I’m sure that now he thinks I’m a perv who stares in people’s windows. Lovely.
Then I had two different men approach me and ask if they could talk to me. I said no and ignored them and one of them followed me around for a bit. I am a magnet for any kind of psycho. [If you only knew.]
So you see, it was an eventful walk. Before I even left home, one of the residents where I live nearly broke my finger, which is now throbbing in pain. Perhaps I should have just stayed home, but the night air felt good. And I needed fruit.
Anglofille said @ 9:37 pm | personal |
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I wanted to stop by to compliment you on your photographs. Photography was once a hobby of mine. I started with rudimentary equipment in grade school and eventually graduated to some much better equipment when I was stationed in Europe. A few of your shots bring back some very fond memories. You have a painter’s eye for composition. (A friend once told me I had a sculptor’s eye for painting. It took me a bit to realize he did not mean it as a compliment. I do.)
I am now planning on retiring to Mexico, and I hope to get back to some serious photography.
Thank you for being a blog mentor.
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Hi! I really enjoyed this posting- it made me laugh and has me missing you big time!
Now I have a craving for some cantaloupe– uhhh… I mean orange melon!
XO, W-
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Steve: Thank you so much for the kind comments. I really appreciate them.
William: Thanks cutie!
