Good morning… gorgeous.
My allegeries acted up yesterday. In short my eyes totally swelled up and my my nose stuffed and I couldn’t stop sneezing. That’s hot. 😐
I didn’t get anymore writing done after I returned from the airport, which put me behind for Camp NaNoWriMo. I’m at around 7,741. Well I just have to hit 11,000 by Sunday and I’ll be good.
That brings me to…
Day 3
August 5 – YVR Vancouver International Airport
It’s the second largest airport in Canada… is what I learned from CTV News at 11 yesterday.
I went to the Domestic Flight area and sat down right by a huge window that overlooked the… well I’m not sure what it’s call. It was the part where the planes taxi up to the airport and let passengers board. These are all technical term here, people.
There was a food court right in that area, so I sat down with my Subway dinner. I got here way later than all the other places I’ve gone to, by the time I got here, I was already feeling tired and ready to go home. Because I usually went home around 5, so I can have dinner.
I usually eat lunch out.
Which reminds me, I really do need to cut down on spending. I’ve ate out at whatever place I’ve gone to these past three days and spent more money than I usually do in a month. Mind you, I rarely go shopping and my spending comes in bursts… but I’ve spent $35 in the past three days. I consider it paying the rent on the place I park my ass all day. Well I guess I’m going to have to eat at home first so I don’t have to spend as much money on food.
I got to tell you though. I’m pretty loose with my money so if I see something I really want when I’m out today, I’ll probably buy it.
At least if I eat first I won’t buy as much. My house doesn’t really have much food, so … T&T buns it is.
I got distracted from the airport.
As a writing spot, it was great. For me, the problem was that there were too many distractions. Namely, the wifi and the airplanes outside the window.
Wifi allowed me to spend a lot of time spamming people’s streams on Twitter and surf the internet in general. Basically, not writing.
The airplanes outside the window. Well. I think airplanes are pretty cool
For that reason alone, I kept looking and and watching the airplanes for a while before I realized what I was doing.
There was also a lot of people. Given.
They weren’t as distracting though. The conversation level was at a “dull roar” as my math teacher liked to call it. No one stood out, but everyone was talking.
There were a few situations where this was not true.
An adorable pair of little blond twins who looked like they were around 2. They were the cutest things I have ever seen. And I work with children regularly, through volunteering. Their grandma lifted them up to the windows and they were oohing and ahhing, IN UNISON.
Oh my goodness, I wanted to take them home with them x). But unfortunately (also fortunately for my productivity), they left to catch a flight to Calgary or Edmonton. Yes, I have really good hearing. It’s not eavesdropping if they were talking loudly near me.
There was also a woman doing her homework who asked me suddenly to look up the word “meniscus” for her, the one relating to anatomy. Apparently she was studying to be a personal trainer. She said she might as well have trained to become a doctor, so was learning all of those things already.
There was also a mum who bitched her son out. I guess, he left for a while and immediately on his return, she demanded where he was. They exchanged some other words, she started yelling at him. He didn’t exactly help the situation though, all of his replies were flippant. I’ve already learned this lesson from my mum, gotta head her off quickly when she’s yelling and tell her I’m giving in.
Good place to write overall, I was just easily distracted. And people are interesting. It’s a good place to get inspiration from, you can imagine the stories of everyone that passes you by.
I will revisit. Maybe I’ll try the International Flights area next time. It might be less distracting especially if there are a lot of tourist around there that can’t speak English. It’s harder to eavesdrop – I mean, accidentally overhear conversations, when you can’t understand them.
But then again, we get a lot of Chinese tourists, since Canada and China signed that deal. Mandarin conversations are more distracting for me than English ones.
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Today I plan on going to Science World/Granville Island. I’m getting off of the skytrain at the Science World stop, but if there isn’t anywhere to sit, or if I just feel like it, I’m hopping on the Aquabus or False Creek Ferry or some other name, and going across the water to Granville Island.
It’ll cost me $11 bucks though for a two way trip though. Well, maybe I’ll just hang out in the area around Science World. It overlook the water and there’s a park somewhere around there according to my mum.
For now, the destination is Science World – which I still have a pass to until November…. maybe I’ll go inside. Or not. We’ll see in tomorrow’s wrap up.
heiding away. 