I'm totally zonked today... It's been a busy four or five days for me and I am really beginning to feel it. Perhaps that guy was right last week...maybe I really am old.

I went to Vancouver last Friday so that I could finish off my pottery projects at Hide's studio the next day. It was fun doing the glazing part and took me a whole lot of time to decide on colours and such. However, I did it and am waiting to see the results of my decisions after the firings are complete. In fact, it was a lot of thinking and in the end took little time to complete the actual application of colour. Then, I was on public transit and then the ferry back to the island where I met a rather interesting individual named Doyle.

I've never met anyone with that name before. It's funny because he seemed like he was in the same caffeine-induced type of "coma" that I'm in today... Strange, non?

Travelling to the big city on Friday was definitely an experience. After completing a rather slow-paced day at the office, a friend and her two children picked me up and we go onto the ferry. I feel sorry for kids when they get cooped up in the car for such a long time but it didn't help that they "overdosed" on the skittles that I got for them at the store on campus. Needless to say, they were tired and miserable by the time we got them home. Even I was feeling a little fidgety from being cooped up.

So, how do I fix that? Just pump more caffeine into my body... I went to my favourite Japanese cafe on Robson Street and had Royal milk tea and Japanese cheesecake.

The trouble is that now it's been five days straight that I've been consuming caffeine so that I can stay awake and I am close to vibrating from being so strung out on the stuff. Now, I am trying to cleanse myself by drinking lots of water yet I can still feel my attention span shortening by the second. I even had to listen to techno music to keep my energy level up. I'm tempted to eat chocolate to curb the drowsiness but I know that's not going to help the situation in the long run. Time to have another glass of water, I suppose...

Continuing on the creative side, I went to a vocal clinic last night and must say that I haven't had that much fun singing in a long while. Mostly, we did strange drills that involved just connecting with the part of the body where the true sound comes from but there was lots of laughter and some really good information. I may even sign up for voice lessons one of these days. When I do, Britney & Nelly will certainly get a run for their money... ha!

After the clinic last night, I managed to miss my bus and thus got home way later than I intended. Seriously, I think I'd better move out of the suburbs and closer to town so that I don't have to worry so much about transportation...

I went for a long walk with a friend on Sunday to try and clear out some of the cobwebs. However, all I managed to do is get stiff legs and get overtired. That said though, we laughed a lot because we were both pretty much in the same twisted frame of mind. Lucky I didn't have to really think that much, the craziness just slipped out of my head and out of my mouth. I suppose that my state of mind has some actual advantages...

We laughed so much that day about things like what I'd heard about Amy Winehouse heckling Bono at some awards ceremony. Not that we were there but it is amusing that the big-headed Bono gets heckled whilst someone was trying to give him an award... So, despite the sore muscles and brain, I really had a great time out walking by the ocean on such a brilliantly sunny day! I'm sure that my friend enjoyed it too.

Anyway, that's about all I can recall right now. The mind is clouding over and the eyes are becoming heavy. It must be time for a nap...