Longing for the little things…

I haven’t done many of the following things in at least 7 months (actually I did some of them at Christmas time but I still miss them):

- Basketball.  I miss this more than I thought I would.  I guess I could say it’s my second favourite sport.  I daydream about playing while I’m rotting away at my desk.  I can’t wait to playing again.
- Golf.  Even if I were at home the past 7 months it wouldn’t have been golf season anyway but I look forward to hitting a golf ball. 
- The Simpsons.  It’s one of those filler shows you can watch over and over again.  Maybe it’s not actually the show that I miss but just the act of lying down and veging out in front of the TV. 
- School.  I never thought of myself as one that liked school but it sure beats working.
- The beach.  When was the last time I went to the beach?  2005?  Hmm… it’s been so long I can’t remember. 
- Grass.  I may have mentioned this before but for some reason I miss seeing nice green grass and the crunching sound it makes when you walk on it.  The only time I notice grass here is when I go to play soccer, and that grass is pretty brown and dead.
- My alarm clock.  I have one here but the alarm is a loud BEEP BEEP BEEP that scares me awake.  I used to use the radio alarm function on my clock at home and wake up to soft music.  Now I think my body purposely wakes up before the alarm goes off so that I can turn it off before it gives me a heart attack.
- Bubble tea.  I remember back in the early days of high school, I considered bubble tea (aka bbt) a fob drink and I was sort of opposed to drinking it.  Then it turned into an almost weekly event as it was pretty much the default thing to do if we couldn’t think of anything else.  Again, maybe it’s not actually the drink itself that I miss, but the hanging out with friends and the ambience of the bbt place, whichever place it may be. 
- Sleeping/walking around without socks.  It’s too cold to do it here.  Even in summer I think I wore socks just because I didn’t trust the floor being clean, which is probably why the soles of my socks were always brown. 
-A real bed.  I used to think it was a hassle making my bed, which basically meant throwing the sheets back over my bed.  Here, I am actually making my bed.  Every night, I have to lay the futons down, put the sheets on (one thin one on the bottom, a towel on top of that for the warmth/comfort, a thin sheet to cover up with, a sleeping bag on top of that, then finally a futon blanket), and get my pillow out of the closet.  Then in the morning I put it all away.  Whoever said sleeping on the floor is good for your back probably never slept in a bed.  Most mornings my back feels sort of stiff or sore.
- Sitting in a car.  The only time I sit in a car here is if I go out to lunch with some of the other teachers.  And that only happens during the exam periods, so about every 2-3 months. 

That’s it for now.  And I watched I Am Legend today.  I liked it.  Will Smith’s character was always talking to himself so it reminded me of me.  I’ve started to talk to myself out loud just out of boredom and because I can.