Yesterday - Friday - is one of my 'busier' days in that I do a lot of back-and-forth between main campus and the Barn. It is still a typical day in that I am up at 5, give myself an hour to wake up with coffee (and morph from haggered-zombie into haggered-mostly-human), and settled in the Barn by 615. Give-or-take-some-depending-on-how-the-ol-shadoobie-maker-is-functioning. Work till 1215pm, go home to eat, then head to main campus for PaCE quiz at 12:45. PaCE is a program I am in, and it stands for Progressive Academic Education. It's really just this extra thing to do, we have mandatory quizzes and case studies, and even though its a chunk of time out the day... I still find the beneficial aspects of it. Hence, enough said.
I was done PaCe by 3pm. Back to the Barn. Study. Then spend 45mins to an hour reviewing last semesters notes, because then from 5-7pm on Friday's I tutor a group of 1st semester students. Hike back across campus for this.
Then I absolutely had to go to the store because I literally do not have food in my apartment. If you open my fridge you will see: Water, and 1/2 an avocado-that-was-being-a-stubborn-bitch-and-refused-to-ripen (and because I had nothing else to eat at lunch, I had chunks of hard avocado. Turns out, not so palatable).
And if you open all my cupboards you will find: olive oil and Braggs Sauce (which I try to ration out such that it will last me until Aug 17th. So I can only use a couple squirts here and there).
And. That't it.
Of course there were none of my staple vegetables in there (ie. pumpkin and peppers), so I got a pineapple and prunes (the only dried fruit I can find here that is acceptable). Just noticed that's a lot of P's. Back to Barn. Got in half-a-breath more studying. Headed home to fill my tummy with pineapple and prunes while I had a lovely skype chat with the wicked-awesome Cassidy Newfield.
This morning I slept in till 530, met my friend Megan around 645, and we went to the Portsmouth market. I prayed for pumpkin. And when I got there and saw a vendor with pumpkin I was ecstatic! I bought all the pumpkin she had - I wasn't taking any chances. I'm pretty sure it would take a while for pumpkin to go bad, and at the rate through which I go through it... I'm more than confident spoiled pumpkin would never be an issue in my life. I was also blessed enough to get a bag of spinach (which is a HUGE deal to me) and green peppers. We were starting to head back out and then I spotted another vendor with pumpkin. Of course I got it. All.
As you can imagine I'm friggin glowing of pure joy at this point. It was like that shopper's high you get, and you reach a point where you are so high on the endorphins and other chemical-soup swishing through your brain, that you start to go a little overboard. But there's no reining you in. You can justify any purchase. Especially from that point on...
Megan's all "alright I think I have everything I want. And it looks like those heavy bags full of pumpkin are cutting off the circulation in your arms... So are you done?"
I'm all "Oh ya totally". We are so close to being out of the market. And then I see this man standing in the back of his truck. And it's full of WATERMELONS. I stop. Walk over. "I'll take a small one. No. I'll take a medium one." He pulls one up to show me, and I'm all "that's PERFECT! I'll take it!". He weighs it. It's 10lbs. All. For. Me.
I pay him. And as he half-bent-over to grab the money from me... I see it...hiding in the corner...whole. pumpkins. "I'm going to need that pumpkin too please." He points. "Yes. The whole pumpkin. you'll cut it up and take out the insides for me right?" He's all "oh yes darling of course". I'm all "Awesome".
Megan tried to interject here to point out that perhaps I already had a lot of pumpkin. "Megan! I am reaching my dream of having an entire Pumpkin Patch! Plus, it is such a deal, and it TOTALLY goes with everything!"
Then because I was carrying 500lbs of pumpkin and 10lbs of watermelon and a few other trinckets, I figured it was only logical to get a coconut, for the water of course. Clearly I had worked up quite a sweat and I needed to replenish my electrolytes. You're welcome body.
I'm in the Barn now. Studying the rest of the day. I just realized I got to this point in the story and got a little lost in the whole 'pumpkin' part of this message, and didn't even get to the animals and rain part.
Let's just say it has been raining a shittonne the past few days because we are getting the effects of some Tropical Wave. And that's the extent I know of it. It rains hard. Which consequently made the tile walkway up to my apartment door slightly more that friggin slippery. I totally ate it hard. And landed in a pile of a trillion dead moths (the swarm of them from last night evidently drown over night). It was a good moment for me.
The rest can wait.
xoxo
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