Third "Weekend at Home" note. Fourth weekend at home. I had given serious thoughts to going to Vancouver this weekend, especially since young Sean (as opposed to old Shawn) offered to give me a ride. My dad is looking after George and could pick me up from Nanaimo either tomorrow or Monday. I could have with minimal effort be in Vancouver this weekend. The expected extreme weather, however, made me not want to commit my dad to driving my car to Nanaimo to pick me up. I would drive (and have driven) in all sorts of crazy weather and bad conditions... I enjoy taking my life into my own hands... and every near-death experience seems to confirm that I'm not quite ready to die yet... but I wouldn't make someone else do it. Besides which, I think I might be avoiding Vancouver a little right now.
But no matter. There is plenty to do in Tofino. I can surf today and tomorrow... the only limitation being that I can't freeze myself to death because I've got a dive scheduled for Monday... which also means I have to make sure I have a dry wetsuit two days from now. Because of my dislike for communal wear and my not having bought the required apparel, I am diving in a surf suit... which is less than half as thick as a dive wetsuit... which is still so cold that anyone who does any diving around here does so in a drysuit. So in short, I'm into suffering.
And I guess when I'm not freezing my fingers off in the water this weekend, I could make a gingerbread house (just found out that instead of actually making complicated calculations, 1.618 is about as close as I need to get)... or I could translate the parable of the Stachelschweine... or one of the many Sonnets to Orpheus. You probabaly already knew about Project Gutenberg, but there's also Projekt Gutenberg (which as far as I can tell is on the Times website) which has more than any student needs. And when I discovered that OUP will ship to Canada (not from the useless Canadian site though)... I lost another reason to go past the junction.
It's time for the cold.
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