Today is the greatest day I’ve ever seen

Well, not really, but it’s better than yesterday. I’m at school, writing in this blog before I begin a dreaded, proctrastinated essay for Communications. Right now, I definatley don’t want to pursue Communications as it is so dry, boring and seeminly useless. Who the fuck cares about genre analysis? Not me. I’d rather drink tea and eat hickory sticks all day.

At least the sun peaked out today from behind stretched cotton candy clouds. It was not bright, but hazed behind the gray blanket. I saw Mount Baker on the Skytrain today, all covered in snow, giant. I thought about how it is a live volcano, and if anyone was skiing on it today. It’s amazing that it’s so big and so far away. I imagined it exploding all over Washington and BC, and felt the vibrations beneath me. I saw the ash fill the air, blind my vision and fill my lungs full of fiery ash and soot. Oh the joys of living in the ring of fire.

What would happen if we had an earthquake? I’d go flying off the train, a magnificent way to die. A horrible way to die, with other screaming people on top of me, bits of broken glass and shards of metal stuck in my scalp. Suffocating under a cement block, hoping someone will dig me out. I would think about earthquake victims in Pakistan that I watched on TV, and how I thought it would happen here someday, and here it is now, and we’re not prepared. How could we prepare for something this big? It’ll just swallow up our earthquake proof buildings, our stores of food and water, our flashlights and first aid kids, into the depths of the earth where we can’t find them.

One day I saw the sunset while riding the Train. The clouds were in strange formation. They were all over the place, stretched, puffy, flat, long,small, billowed, in all directions. My eyes were drawn to a large formation just above the melting sun. A large, long oval of dark cloud, and inside it was all jagged, like a shark’s mouth trying to swallow the sun and earth below. It was very striking, and I couldn’t stop staring at it. I had to strain my neck as the train drove away from it in the opposite direction.

Today it’ll probably be raining when I leave, and I forgot my umbrella. We’re going to see “The Stars” in concert today at the Croation Cultural Centre. I hope it’s good. We’re going with Ashlee, our roommate.

Signing out,

R.