I'm not thinking of the world anymore...

My stickers still haven't arrived. I have been checking my mail everyday, hoping to find that package from Texas in my mailbox. But it hasn't happened yet. I did, however, get a letter from SFU today... I could see "Thinking of the World" through the envelop.... and I was pretty sure that it was soliciting a donation. I wasn't even going to open it... but I did... and found that it was a letter from the English department asking for money rather than the university asking for money... and, it was sent from the Chair of the English Department, which now happens to be the prof who supervised my honours thesis... which really was nothing more than a longish paper, the length of which was such that I couldn't finish it in one night, unlike every other paper I had ever written.

Incidentally, he was also the supervisor for T's MA thesis, which I never did find out whether he finished or not. Anyway, I wrote and said hello and told him I was in Tofino, and said to look me up if he's ever out here. He wrote back and said that he would, perhaps this summer, even. Imagine that... a visit from several lifetimes ago. I think the last time I saw him might have been September 11th, 2002.

I realized that I've really, finally been able to not think of the world much anymore. This evening, my thoughts are mainly about my surfboard... my beautiful blue surfboard, with whom I had a date at Cox Bay. We were out in the small glassy surf... and I was totally in love. I was on the green and walked the blue path between the two stringers. I had an exchange with a shortboarder:

him: wow! you're getting a lot of mileage on that!
me: yup.
him: how big is that?
me: 11.
him: I'm on a 6'10"
me: that's a lot of work.
him: well, I figure the harder I work, the faster I learn.
me: yeah, I suppose, if you like pain and misery.

Mwahahaha.

Of course, it was such tiny surf today that it really was my beach... well... mine and Brigitte's... she was borrowing my 11' NSP. Every wave was green... and now she wants to get an 11' board too. Before you know it, we'll have this place looking like waikiki.