sombre

in the last 72 hours, for various reasons such as lack of time, being tired of chicken, not having done my grocery shopping for ages, and most of all my pure laziness, my only intake of food summed up to 3 bagels and two thin pieces of fried veal (the only non-white meat i had).

The problem is also partly becuz the nearest major super market (Dominion) is a subway station away. Even though it connects right to the subway and the next station is practically beneath my building, there's still a few minutes of walking involved, and dragging all those bags is tedious and unaccomodating, to say the least.

So I usually buy stuff on my way home from school at Rabba's, but their selection is limited and their meat doesn't strike me as fresh, so my shopping bag from there usually only consists of Humus, pita, and occasionally chips.

But today i felt so weak that I decided to cut the crap and shop from Dominion, so I did, and if I'm not my usual lazy self I might make myself a steak dinner tonight ... although ... it's getting a little late, ... so I think I'll just have it tomorrow lunch ... or ... anyway i'll see. I bought fruit as well, the easy stuff, grapes, strawberries and bananas (I know how religiously interested you are in knowing what kinds of fruit i buy, that's why i mentioned it).

The point is today was quite sombre and bleak, and it got worse when I went to get coke from the grocery shop downstairs (they don't have anything else, pretty much, so I just buy the heavier stuff like coke and milk from there).

The owner used to be an Iranian lady, which was surprising cuz there aren't many Iranian owned grocery shops in downtown. But she was very nice and it was just great to have her there. She knew i'm living alone here and always addressed me as "pesaram" and was always super nice to me, like never charged me tax (despite my insistance) and overall it just felt good to know there is a "hamzaboon" (!!! I hate that term btw, very javad) around, specially in downtown where there are so few Persians.

Anyway, but she was talking about selling the place cuz she wasn't happy at all, since a while ago. Well when I just went there, she wasn't there. There was a new guy, I think afghan, or I dont know, he speaked a weird and broken Farsi, and the place looked different (more products, more organized, cleaner). So I asked the guy did she leave? He said yes.

That really sucks, I didn't even get to say bye.