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October 21, 2004
A Refrigerator Like That of an African Refugee
Today has been delightfully slow. I slept in until 11 a.m., then spent the next couple hours writing my piece on community investing for my small group project. I will post it below--it's quite short, only about 3 pages.
Then I took a L-O-N-G shower, wasting water but reviving my soul. I then traipsed around in my fleece robe for another hour or so, puttering around, attempting to wash my dishes, putting on copious amounts of lotion, and catching up on email. I spent a good hour calling two dozen local landlords. Most of them weren't home, so I left messages. All the ones I managed to speak with informed me there were no apartments available.
By then it was late afternoon and I was STARVING. Alas, there is virtually nothing to eat in the apartment. I went on a massive left-over eating scourge, finishing the chocolate bar, the soup, the pasta, and some of the chips I had left. Still hungry (all the leftovers amounted to about a cup of total food) I ate some granola and yogurt, wishing it was something else.
At some point in the afternoon, a guy called in response to my message about the apartments. He has a 2 room place in downtown Karlskrona that I'm going to go look at tomorrow morning. Yippee! I'm just sure something will come through at the last minute--no need to panic quite yet.
Also, my toothache is getting better, despite conflicting ideas on why it was taking to long to heal. You would think that *I*, the person with the toothache, would have a fairly good idea of the problem, but apparently my dad, the dentist, believes he has a better one. Hmph.
I went back to work on the second document I'm writing, which is a piece on social sustainability. This 1-page piece will be included in the final small group paper, so I have to find a way to describe the basic tenets of social sustainability (which must agree with the TNS framework--which I have strong concerns about) and fit in with our larger topic of ecovillages. So far, I have a couple paragraphs, which instead of addressing social sustainability, really fit best into another part of the introduction--the basic definitions of ecovillages. Sigh.
And now that it's later in the evening, I'm hungry again. Unfortunately, all the grocery stores nearby close at 7 p.m. so I'm out of luck. Guess it's more granola and yogurt.
