oh wednesday!

wednesday – wednesday and the last day of august. wednesday and the seeming start of fall. oh wednesday!

so to recap:

• i started out on saturday by canning 40 pounds of tomatos, and picking a lot of blackberries off my front bushes, after which i went to “creek daze” in roberts creek where i realized how many people i actually know on the sunshine coast. i got to hang out with david, saw the flying folk’s sound engineer, and reconnected with a musician i knew in east vancouver, and met up with my new friend andrew who i ended up having dinner and hanging out with into the evening. a really nice day all round, though i ended up being over-socialized by the end of the night (and thus really unable to make even polite coversation) and couldn’t force myself to also go on to the hall dance with folks. something about the flakiness of the creek makes me more spacey than normal – i’m sure of it. (oh – almost forgot, i also got my winter veggies planted in pots on the deck saturday morning)
• sunday morning i managed to can blackberry jam and blackberry sauce before my friend kevin (from california) showed up. i have not seen him since i visited in february and we had a day together which involved smoked salmon and avocados, swimming in chapman creek, and picking salal and blackberries and huckleberries and fireweed flowers on the trail home in the rain. i took him to the ferry and exchanged him for my friend rob who came to stay for a couple of nights to escape east van and get some academic work done.
• back to work on monday, ferry breakdown made me really late getting home and really low blood sugar (ie – gruuuuumpy) – which resulted in me working from home tuesday. rob and i got some catching up done, he broke his writer’s block, and then i drove him to the ferry last night.
• started today by leafletting at library square with some other union people for the labour day demonstration supporting locked out telus and cbc workers. i can’t make the demo, but i still want to help build it – it’s important! i have another date with my union sister tomorrow to do the same thing at my worksite as people are coming into work.

so the short of it is, things are pretty much as always. my naturopath prescribed an herb last week called rhodiola rosea, which is supposed to help with depression – it seems like a very powerful herb even though it hasn’t had time to fully enact yet . it’s hard to describe, like being spaced out and super-productive at the same time…. not negative, just different. i’m going to try for the second of the book-blogging installments today. we’ll see how far i get between actually doing what i’m paid to do and that!