A boring entry

I feel like blogging, but I'm afraid I don't have very much to blog
about...but since I'm trying to cultivate getting myself to actually
blog...I thought I'd go with the feeling.

I had a really fun time tonight and really a quite wonderful day in
general. Nothing particular marvelous happened, but I just really
enjoyed the people I was with today, the conversations I had, the things
I read, the forum I listened to. I ate well today, too. I prayed with
Mary and Emmanuel in the morning, which was quite nice; caught up with
Sarah which was also quite nice; chatted a bit with a few people in the
library; read part of an interesting article on how the Reformed
tradition ie Jonathan Edwards downplayed the image of the church as
mother; bought a book by Julian of Norwich; listened to four panelists
talk about their experiences with community which was so fascinating, so
insightful; figured out who was enamored with Betsy; listened to a interesting
and long-winded monk; ate dinner at Guu on Robson with a friend. That
was really good. I've never been to that Guu before. The atmosphere
is not as nice as Guu with Garlic, closer to Denman, but
it's still very good. Get the grilled cod, I think that was my
favorite.

Remnants of a past life

Today, my friend Sara personally delivered the remnants of my mail from San Francisco.  Apparently in my absence, I had accumulated quite a bit of mail that my conscientious former roommates had kept, and transported all the way to their new digs in SF.  I've visited the Bay Area a few times since my move, and this mail is always a subject of discussion.  I've always told them to throw it out, since it was probably all junk mail, and I forwarded everything important.  Besides---what could there be?  I only lived with them on Villa Street in Mountain View for 3 months in the summer of 2004.  But no, they insisted.  Come get your mail.  

I never did get my mail, and today it reached me (bizarrely via a British Indian friend who stayed with them during a recent trip to SF).   Here's the inventory:  One, Cry the Beloved book, a gift from Ann---thank you Ann!  Several miscellaneous pens and markers that really were not mine to begin with.  One notepad with Janet's mom's phone number.   Eight credit card offers.   One Costco insurance offer, with plea to respond by May 5, 2005.  One AAA membership for a car I no longer have---expires June 8, 2006!  And my personal favorite: a 2005 Sears calendar in Chinese.   When did I ever shop at Sears?