Adventures in Cartoon Land

When I was a little girl, I was convinced I could draw a door on the back of my TV and enter my favourite cartoon, Battle of the Planets. One day, Mom found me poking around behind the TV with a pencil in my hand and shooed me away. I never got the chance to fight the intergallactic menace – Zoltar. Now that I’m all grown up, I realize I can’t fit into my TV ~ but I’m sure I would have been able to when my body was smaller ~ if my plot hadn’t been foiled. I’m not bitter.

I got thinking about that little snippet of my early years today, and came to the conclusion that even if we don’t have a super-portal from the real world to cartoon land, I think that those who inhabit cartoon land actually do have a super-portal. My theory is based on 3 things: 1) Roger Rabbit. 2) The Simpson’s episode where Homer gets stuck in a vortex and winds up in the real world. 3) As I walked out of the Student Union store today, I took a deep breath of fresh~ish Autumn air and surveyed my surroundings. The trees were a bright yellow, the sky was a clear blue, students were milling about as students do…and a large, fuzzy, white duck with a big yellow beak was walking by carrying a briefcase. No word of a lie. Not only was this “duck” strolling down the street, nobody else seemed to notice! I love this campus.

So there you have it. Even though I was never able to get to cartoon-land myself, I’m now content to wait for cartoon-land to come to me.

Adventures in Squirrelyness

The day has finally arrived when I’ve folded my summer clothes for the last time this season. All my t-shirts, tank tops and gauzy cotton shirts have been tucked away and vacuum packed in a space bag. Sigh.

I don’t know what it is about Autumn that makes me feel like a squirrel stuffing my nest for the winter. I’ve been freezing soups and stews like a madwoman, I’ve been cleaning out closets and nooks and crannies and even that mysterious cupboard under my sink. I’ve started crotcheting a blanket, and the other day I thought “Hey, I wonder how you make pickles?”

OH – and it’s Halloween today. I nearly forgot. So far the only Trick-ot-Treater I’ve had tonight is my neighbour, Tracy. She wasn’t even looking for candy, she was bringing me soup. I think she’s also feeling like a squirrel.

Adventures in Hiking

I went hiking yesterday with some friends from here, but there was a bit of a misunderstanding. I thought that a 1.5 hour hike was round-trip. Nope. It took just under 2 hours to get up the hill (becuase I’m a slow-poke) and another 1.5 hours to get back down the hill. Nonetheless, it was a gorgeous hike, the view from the peak was fantastic and the weather couldn’t have been nicer. By the time we got back down to the bottom, we were tired and hungry and exhilerated. We stopped for one of the best Galbi dinners I’ve had here (Galbi = BBQ’d pork strips). So, one I finally crawled into bed last night, I had such a good sleep . Although today, I’ve been hobbling around like an arthritic duck; I’ve got blisters and my bum muscles are sore. We hope to go again once more of the autumn leaves start to show their colours. (And my legs become fully functional again!)