After I wake up in the afternoon, this Saturday becomes another lovely Rhonda + Adam time. We decide to go to the movies and see my suggestion, The Green Knight, which was recommended to me by a few people. We both really enjoy it, and after it’s done we decide to keep the night going by grabbing some food on Davie Street.

When I saw that there was a heat wave coming to Vancouver and that today would be the worst of it I texted my work manager and asked for tonight off.

I know what heat does to my sleep, my mood, and my overall will to live. This seemed like as good a time as any, then, for me to use some of the holiday pay that I've been banking since I started with ( Read more... )

A few new music releases that I'm keen to listen to today. My interest in this sort of thing is about what it has always been--idiosyncratic, inconsistent, but meaningful. Lucy Dacus is one of the first shows I have plans to see as events like that start to happen again. Her new album just came out, so I'm listening to that one first. I'm at work.

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Rhonda got her second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine last night. She reports that her arm is a bit sore, and the soreness has started to spread a bit, but she doesn't have a fever like I did, and she feels generally all right.

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I walk through downtown Vancouver to a spot at Coal Harbour that the Internet tells me has happy hour until 6. So I can ( Read more... )