The road less cycled

What kind of impression am I making on people lately? On one hand, I’m an incredibly hypocritical environmentalist – discussing vegetarianism over a Philly steak sandwich at Bobby Sox diner with my bro, his gf, and a co-worker. My god, what was I thinking ordering that instead of a salad? But it’s a longtime since I’ve had a decent salad in a diner unless it was slathered in some way too rich dressing which drowns out the salad part. Then there’s the pizza delivery part – advocating interurban rail and better transit on the one hand, and then spending 5 evenings a week criss-crossing the entire city numerous times over. Truly, my left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing….

Then my dad can’t be too impressed either – I stated a good two hours ago now that I was going straight to bed, and he said it was the first good idea I’d had in about 3 weeks. Ouch. Then again, he wasn’t overly impressed when the cops showed up at my house last week asking why my car was parked on a shoulder on Sumas Mountain – without me in it. I was safe and sound at a friend’s place, dozing soundly with the intention of picking the car up in the morning and absolutely no clue that just about all of my friends had been contacted to see if they knew where I was…whew..talk about blowing things out of proportion. HAH said I could have embellished the story a little – but no, just having the cops involved was embellishment enough for me. Wouldn’t even have been a decent story if the police hadn’t found my car parked there.

Then there’s as good as ditching the EnviroClub temporarily – no involvement at all since the big forum in January. Poor quality and late assignments too – all things considered my conduct lately is enough to raise a few eyebrows.

Guess I’m making up for all the grey hairs I didn’t give people in my first two decades. At least I haven’t set any woods on fire yet as Henry David Thoreau did, or screeched through town blaring country music with plants pots in my car hood as Edward Abbey did (not sure on the logistics of that one.)