up to date!

now that i've finally caught up with the goings on of the blog, i can start talking in real-time.
i posted a couple posts today which are listed with today's date, but today is the 28th, and that is the day concerned with this post, get it?
but first i'll talk about yesterday's grocery shopping trip to: rainbow market. it's a co-op or co-op owned, worker owned, something progressive and hippie like that. you bring your own jars and bags for the bulk things (or you can, anyway) but it's pretty much like a natural foods market. but thursdays are coupon days. we have a coupon giving us 20% off of everything. needless to say, wherever i went i was in someone's way, people are practically on top of each other and twice i heard elderly people yelling at other people for breaking the rules in a 'you can't do that' kind of way. it was interesting, and hopefully we've gotten enough groceries for the month because it was a stressful trip.

today i woke up at 9, to the surprise of abigail (you're up! to which i replied, 'only temporarily' on my way to the bathroom. 'egon's been licking me awake to feed her. you can't sleep through that.') went back to sleep and woke up around 11. i made breakfast of yogurt and granola and some lavender earl grey in this lovely tea pot and mug set that andria gave me. it made breakfast all the more delicious. after washing dishes, ted and i tackled cleaning the kitchen.
while i was cooling my heels in sebastopol, our apartment was infested with cockroaches. an exterminator came and took care of it and after, abigail and ted mopped and scrubbed and cleaned the kitched, except for a few things that i couldn't stand. ted graciously agreed to help in the cleaning of the dish drying rack, the trash can lid, the stove and the freezer.
everything was pretty standard:dirty, neglected, greasy, slimey or moldy. until the freezer. something had spilled. as i started taking things out, i discovered:a tube of toothpaste, those individual floss/toothpick things, several fake pearl beads and some mysterious metal objects, possibly for the pearl necklace. once all that was out, i was able to see 'the spill'. in the spill were shards of glass. 'oh! i think i know what this is from', spoke ted. 'nick tried to freeze a jar of stock and it exploded'. 'that would explain it. when was that?' 'oh, about a year ago. thanks for taking the initiative and cleaning it.'
a year. it wasn't hard to clean and i feel much better about the kitchen.
i don't usually walk around barefoot here, but i did and foolishly stepped on a glass sliver that went straight up into my foot. after and lengthy but minor surgery, i extracted the offending glass. it was pretty painful. so, no more bare feet.
then i watched the rest of jim jarmusch's 'dead man' that i started last night. it was quite good, i thought, though i'm generally unimpressed with his movies. i'd recommend it, especially to anyone interested in johnny depp. and there are many interesting male actors in it. and neil young composed and performed the soundtrack.
it's hot here today. last time i looked it was 90. un.comfortable.
my first 'orientation event' is tonight. 'student movie night-enjoy a private screening with fellow students, free popcorn and beverages'. that's all i know. and where it is, kind of. i was going to go to where the screening is early to get my student i.d., then i stepped on glass and decided to internet. then i started thinking that it's not that i'm particularly reluctant to go, sure it'll be kinda awkward and lonely feeling, but more that i'm just not jumping up to go on another solitary adventure.
i'll go and it'll be interesting for various reasons, i'm sure, i'm just not in an adventuresome, wandering around by myself kind of mood, i guess.
but it's now 5:07 and the screening starts at 7, so i'd better get in the mood, for i must leave on my travels soon.
that's the story for this friday. perhaps it wasn't even worth writing today, but too late, i already did.
the freezer bizarro world was worth it, i think. man. what were they DOING?