A quest...

Today I have a quest. My quest, should I choose to accept it, is to buy a lamp. The part of this quest is to take a maxitaxi for the first time. Elspeth talked me through what I do so I don't look like a fool. So my plan for now is to hang out with my one hour of internet time, get a snack (probably a roti), and then go to Tunapuna by foot (not far at all from here) and get a lamp and come to think of it, a cutting board.

I ran into Elspeth on my walk here. What amuses me in a warm, fuzzy way is that we ran into each other quite accidentally and she said she somehow knew we were going to run into each other. Also, while I was talking to her outside the bank, she saw her mom, sister, and dad at separate times. To go along with that, I'm starting to recognize familiar faces and people as I walk around.

The evenings can be strange. We don't have a television or cable yet, nor do we have internet. All this is coming by Friday, yay. So after dinner, everything is so quiet. In some ways, it's nice. I've always maintained that I'd be perfectly happy living without a television. But in other ways, it makes me a little melancholy and I start thinking about my birds (with them, it was NEVER silent) and my friends back home, etc. I think once things will feel more "homey" with the television going and me on the internet all evening, that evening melancholy will fade.

It rained this morning on my walk, and as I was coming home, it had gotten light and the rain had faded, and there was this ethereal mist over the mountains behind us over the forest.