Today I was back in school, although I didn’t want to go at all. I was away yesterday because Bruce and I were going to a bike auction at the university. It was really bad. The bicycles there were all beat up and probably didn’t even work. Somehow I pictured it differently. But there were no auction paddles, no shiny new bikes. I was really upset because I had gotten my hopes up so much. On the way home Bruce and I stopped at Pierik’s Cycle Shop and bought new bikes which are amazing. They’re both the same in design and colour, but Bruce’s bike is smaller than mine. I’m so happy now. I rode it home from the store and almost got killed on Main Street where the highway comes into the city. I took the long way home and I was so tired at the end of my ride. I must ride it more often so that I can get my cardio vascular system running nicely. I couldn’t ride it today though because it’s freezing rain outside.
My kitchen ceiling leaked again this morning. It’s the first time I’ve been there when it happened but I know that it’s happened before. I’m so anxious to move in with Bruce in June. As the time gets closer though it seems that we’re reconsidering it a little, but I know we’ll be happy in our new place. I hope we can move into the Aberdeen Apartments or the Herkimer Apartments. It would be nicer to live in the Herkimer Apartments I think, but they’re so expensive. Andrew says that they’re probably around a thousand a month, but I think they’re worth it if you can afford it. Maybe they’ll give us a discount for some reason, but probably not. I’m thinking of taking my statue from school home and putting it in our new apartment, but it might not fit.
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- The Herkimer Apartments
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- The Aberdeen Apartments
Robin was not in art class today but she was yesterday, and she put the web around the cocoon on our stage set. I think she did a great job. I worked on my painting while Kathy talked to me about going to the “Cow” last night. It’s some bar on King Street where people go to play pool and drink. She says that all the men there are perverts and they wanted to take her home with them. She got really drunk and stayed out all night. I told her I might go to Toronto on the weekend to see my friend and she thought I was going to a rave, which is some time this weekend. But no, I’m not.
I went to the photography room at lunch and did some spotting for some of the pictures of Kathy, to get rid of the white specks on the prints. I was even asked by Sandra Ham for advice on her photos. Jamie Johns was working at the table opposite me and I stared at him a lot. Then his brother Luke came in, and I couldn’t help staring at him too until he left. I was supposed to take Mina Mihajlovic to the darkroom today but I didn’t see her at her locker when I went to tell her that she might as well not come since I don’t have any photo paper today. I think I’ll have some tomorrow though. Maybe she can come then. I don’t want to spend much more money on photo supplies because I am saving my money for our trip this summer and to pay off my new bike. I only want to finish Kathy’s pictures and then do Aaron’s. I think I can finish it with twenty sheets of photo paper. Three more for Kathy and ten for Aaron, plus the extra seven for my mistakes. Then I will have plates made for them and print them in book form. I might even be able to sell a few, if even a few.
It will be sad to make Aaron’s pictures. I was so upset about him on Tuesday that I cried on the way to school and I cried all day at school. I had made up my mind that Aaron either had, or was going to get AIDS and be dead soon. I was thinking this because of all the stories I’ve been hearing about him. People say that he’s doing coke now. And they say he lives with this guy Junior who’s HIV+ and I think they’ve slept together and Aaron said he doesn’t care if he gets AIDS or not so he doesn’t even wear condoms anymore. It was very upsetting for me and Bruce, but I think now that I was overreacting a bit. I don’t know that any of this is true at all. So I’m not upset anymore.
Before something happens to Aaron, I hope he gets to meet Paul Langlois from the Tragically Hip. It seems like he wants to meet him. I miss Paul and Joanne. It’ll be nice to see them again soon.
