Weekend Update
Do you ever acquire lucidity in the middle of a dream and are convinced, even for but just a moment, that what you’re experiencing is reality? With this perception that this is a reality you experience everything as if it were real…but then as your mind analyzes the self-constructed reality you start to get this feeling that something’s a little off. You then question if you’re in a dream…perhaps even realizing you are and then taking off into the air like Superman in a lucid dreamworld where you are in full control. This kind of parallels how I’ve been feeling all weekend, well at least the “something’s a little off” feeling. I kind of felt like a waif floating from one thing to the next.
That said, this weekend was great. I’m probably just tired to the point where I’m a bit light-headed.
Ashtanga with Shivaun kicked off Friday night - always my favourite way to start the weekend. Wandering home in my zen state I came to find my vehicle not where I left it. After a couple walks around the block and questioning my own sanity I ran into a friend on the street w/ an apartment right nearby. We got to talking and it turns out last week they cleaned the leaves off the streets in the neighbourhood and moved around a bunch of vehicles from one night to the other to clean where they were parked. I don’t drive much…I had no idea. So I called Winnipeg 311 (handy service by the way!) and they confirmed that they had moved it to 102 Langside. Sweet - I had over there. Shit - there is no 102 Langside. Where the fuck did they put my car? Another phone call later I find out they wrote down the wrong location and had no idea where my car was. Solution: bike around the neighbourhood for a few hours until I found it a ways into Wolsely. Needless to say I was late to the moving out party and things were well under way once I got there. I wish I had got there earlier so that I would’ve been able to help out with things a bit more. Oh well, as incredulous as I was about losing my vehicle earlier in the night I found it and everything worked out alright.
Saturday…typical lazy morning spent lounging, reading the paper, and a nice home made breakfast. I checked out SkeptiCamp at Aqua Books in the afternoon - Arthur Schafer (an old philosophy prof of mine) was speaking on belief and I really wanted to hear what he said. In class he had always simply dismissed religious based arguments and said that those arguments were beyond the scope of the class, so I was really interested to see his stance on not just general belief but religious belief as well. In a half hour talk he couldn’t delve too deep into the details of his argument but he presented his conclusions. I don’t really agree with his conclusions but found it an interesting point of view and now want to spend some time studying the work of William Kingdon Clifford. We grabbed some good eats at Eat Bistro afterward and had some good discussion, then headed over to the exchange for some thrifting (Andrea was looking for some costume stuff and I wanted to find some old philosophy and film theory books).
Saturday night I was serenaded by the music of Peter Katz and Ben Whytinck. Close friends, new friends, great talent, and an intimate venue…I wish every Saturday night could be like that.
Sunday was full of bicycle rides in the nice weather, reflection, long overdue errands, good conversation, great company, and scary movies. Paranormal Activity 2 was a lot of fun - first scary movie I’ve ever seen in the theater. I was a little apprehensive about not being able to pause at my own pleasure, but I really had a lot of fun. It was a really good day and nice end to the weekend.
Anny is in town tomorrow! I am excited - long distance friendships are a little easier with Skype BUT it sure as hell is no substitute. We had a shoot lined up after work tomorrow but it’s supposed to rain. I was so looking forward to it, I haven’t clicked the shutter on my camera in over a week and it makes me kind of sad. I’ve been taking a bit of a step back and refreshing myself for when I do feel the need to pick up my camera again…that or doing some sort of tantric practice before my new camera body gets here! :P
Well there’s a little glimpse into my weekend…life is good.
Peace and love.
