S-H-O-PP-I-N-G… we’re shopping.
I was in the Chaffer’s Park New World getting Kerry some groceries at 9pm, and it was amusing to see the place full of numb tourists realising this was pretty much the extent of Wellington’s nightlife (outside bars) on a Tuesday evening! I must’ve heard disgruntlement in six different languages.
When I lived in Brooklyn, that supermarket was the closest, but I wouldn’t shop there regularly now. Everything is about 10-20% more than the suburban supermarkets, and they have a nasty habit of having small expensive items close at hand, so you have to hunt out the larger, cheaper items. A litre of soy milk (don’t look at me, it’s Kerry’s diet) costs 60 cents more if you get it from the fridge.
Salient is looking good, but there’s a sharp and often hilarious contrast between the pages that have been properly sub-edited and the ones that Laura’s boyfriend has written Kerry didn’t get to. Check it out for 1.75 pages of my cartoons.
I think I’m going to pull out Corey Comet this week. I’m photographing the radiant Charlotte tomorrow – she changed the time to 5:30, then asked what I would do if there wasn’t any sun. “Put you under a strong light and hope,” I replied.
March 12, 2008 at 9:08 am
pretty much the extent of Wellington’s nightlife (outside bars) on a Tuesday evening
Of course. Tuesday night is singles’ night.
(Get well soon, K!)
March 12, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Why would a radiant person need the sun, anyway?
March 13, 2008 at 3:45 am
For the sake of contrast.
March 13, 2008 at 9:08 am
… and the vitamin D in sunshine is very useful, too!
Although I don’t think Char is vegan, is she?
I’m very conscious of trying to get enough sunshine myself, since my diet has been economically pitched towards meat-free for a fair while.
Vegan’s easier to do than gluten-free, actually… but combine the two and you get a very short list of things to eat.
So I don’t really stick to it!
Chaffer’s s/mkt is a nasty bomb-site of a place, but they do make very good sushi, which used to be my personal shopping-nite reward for making it out of there with a flat’s worth of groceries, back when I had a van & did the shopping for the whole flat at once.
Back to the Shining Ones – thanks to my knight in shining shopping bags for the extraordinary & hugely appreciated help, mwah!
March 13, 2008 at 9:16 am
& p.s. thanks, Brett!
March 14, 2008 at 11:51 am
& p.s. thanks, Brett!
You’re welcome. I’m afraid that you won’t be seeing much of me in the flesh for much of this trimester. ‘Heavy teaching commitments’ means work/eat/sleep becoming WORK(class, meetings, marking, moderation, writing lectures, general running around covering for injured course co-ordinator)/eat/sleep(a bit).