Late Monday afternoon, James and his mother packed up and left for the Great White north, leaving me to clean house and sit all by my lonesome, for I had no car and my bike was blocked in the back room by many things.
Needless to say I called my mother, who promptly left her house and drove 45 minutes to retrieve me.
I felt the need to be surrounded by people, family may not be the right choice when it comes to high stress situations, but at this moment it's all I really wanted, they filled me up with food, free cable tv and after spending a lovely afternoon with my grandmother they sent me off to prepare for a shift that I'd picked up at the Corner Cafe (my previous place of employment) the next day.
Back in Carrollton spending the night alone in that big ol' round house wasn't quite as nice as I expected. Though I've done it many times, that night was different. Not only was I alone in my house, I was alone in the country.
Jessie (James' sister, one of four siblings, which is really four out of seven siblings, Jessie being the 2nd oldest of the 3rd batch) was out for the night so I rummaged through her movies, found some trash to watch and snuggled up with ten or more pillows.
When I was bored of that and of eating vegetable pot pie, I creaked downstairs, which was desolate except for a few remaining fruit flies, I had found them all sucking on a sponge I had left out, the only thing left there for sustenance I suppose, and was able to kill most of them though a few linger on and attempt to fly up my nose.
And after falling asleep waiting on a call from James, my alarm rang at 8:10,
of course I did the boring things like brush my teeth and feed my cats.
I found Jessie was home and we called her parents which is where James is staying, up in Peterborough, Ontario, a lovely university town.
Spoke with James, whom I had woken up only to leave for work before anything was accomplished.
I did learn that James and His mother were stopped at the boarder because Heather (James' Mom or Mum as he refers to her) had been taking pictures at the boarder, and after several boarder control officers pointed them on to the next officer, they were told to pull over an vacate the car, at this point the boarder control had begun searching James' car, and after many minutes and many questions as to why James had so many items woman's clothing in his trunk, the boarder patrol decided it was a lost cause, put their suit cases back into the back seat and told James and Heather they could load the trunk. And though many threats where made to take Heather's camera away and her merely saying her take it, she got to keep her camera. They had finally asked her what her occupation was, and when she responded "a political geography professor" they knew all their hard work was for nothing and James and his mother drove onto Toronto.
So here I am, waiting. "Spending time with my family"...and with boredom, my dog the only true company, yet
I am so extremely excited about Peterborough and Trent I can't contain myself, but hey....
you need to come see me.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
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2 comments:
I am on the phone with you right now :P
Keep up the good work.
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