The movie adaptation of the sequel to your life

I've spent a lot of time with Jay lately because I've been available and the boy hasn't. Jay will be calling for the boy and then has wound up hanging out with me instead. On Thursday Jay called to hang out walking and so I went as I wasn't doing anything else. We walked the Canal and drifted my the Loblaws on Isabella. I mainly sat around and listened to him talk. And fuck can he talk. I don't know. It ran the usual gamut of topics and we had a good time. Eventually I realized how late it was and I went home...

Friday and after e-mailing with Pietro during that I called to see if he was up for checking out Westfest and Joel Plaskett or if he was too busy studying. He was down with seeing Joel Plaskett so I strapped on my blades and skated over... rough roads to the path... eeek! I got to his condo and I changed into the shoes I brought- re-packed my bag opting to leave my skates behind and Pietro and I start walking to Westfest. Good talking along the way and we get to the park just before Joel Plaskett and the Emergency hit the stage. Find our way through the barriers and realize hmmm we're in the beer garden. *shrug* Find our way to the front and then Joel Plaskett came on. Totally awesome show!!! Hilarious girls in front of us who weren't really digging the show but did a lot of picture taking of each other (Pietro and I are totally in the background of so many of their pictures!), and the gratuitous two girls kissing and finally the best was the girl rolling a joint- she even had the mini-grinder. When we saw them doing that we just could not stop laughing and P leans over to me and comments- someone should've pre-rolled... hahaha. So ridiculous but girlie did manage to roll it and pass it around between the 4 of them. They finish smoking and then disperse out of the crowd. Definitely some funny entertainment during the show. Joel Plaskett was fun- he gave a shout out to my fave Thrush Hermit song which was cool- only thing was he didn't play one song that I had been hoping for. But meh, I survived. After the show we drifted down through Westboro. Thought we'd hit up the Works for a milkshake- but no dice...as was the case with a bunch of places on that first strip. We wound up at O'Connells for a pint but food was not in the cards because the kitchen was not open. So when we got back to his place we had crackers and hummus.... mmmmmmmm tasty. Finally made it home after an exhilarating bus ride where smoking apparently became optional and the driver decided to motor pass the Kent St stop even though I'd dinged it... which led to my yelling out for the bus to be stopped because I had called it. buh. Splendid!

Saturday was all about the Ferraris! The boy and I went down to Carling and Preston to watch all the Ferraris and racing and laps. The rain held off so that was good. The cars were so awesome. Good speed trial things and some wicked burn outs! Took a ton of pics and video. I don't know why I like this event so much but man! It's just so awesome to watch. Wandered home and hung out for awhile. Jay called and talked to the boy. He wanted to see what he was up to that night but the boy was off to the Oak in Kanata for Brian's birthday. Anyways, I thought I was seeing Pietro for Westfest again so I was busy... however, later when I called I wasn't able to reach him and surprisingly hadn't heard back from him so I was settling in for the night when the phone rang... Jay. All class. He decided to give a last call before heading out to Westfest so I decided to pack it in and go out instead of spending the night in. Met him at Bank and Cooper and we bussed down. Did that classy drinking gin and tonic from the water bottle thing and then we detoured to the LCBO before going to the park. Climbed the usual barriers and staked out a place to watch the show from. The crowd was way different from the last night as Buffy St. Marie was the headlining act... So more of a sitdown thing. We snagged a grassy patch and proceeded to enjoy the show. I had cheesy popcorn in my bag so munched away with my ghetto liquor in water bottle thing. I actually really enjoyed the show. I was skeptical about it at first but on balance it was a good night. Afterwards we followed the flow of the crowd down Richmond and Jay wanted to head to the bus- I did persuade him to walk some... In fact normally I would have just walked all the way back downtown... nice weather, I wasn't all alone so yah... but after our slow walk he wore me down with wanting to take the bus. Caught the bus at Tunney's and yah. Chatted a lot more. Eventually we headed to ESD because I wanted poutine. He made fun of me for calling it ESD instead of calling it Elgin Street Diner... slick. Only thing is I didn't think about the time when we were heading over and it was just gone 2am so all the bars were emptying out and so we get in line and hem and haw for a moment to decide should we ditch it and go to Dunn's instead but stuck with it and the wait wasn't long just highly obnoxious. Some annoying fucker was pushing us when we were at the front of the line and seriously there was plenty of room to just walk around so I asked him to please not touch so what does he do? Proceeds to touch me again- pushing me aside and says that he's not trying to cut in line, he's just looking for his friends, I reply to him that I don't care even if he is cutting in line but to please NOT TOUCH ME. Fucker touches me again to see around me so the twelve year old in me grabbed his cap and tossed into the crowd. Jay starts to laugh. Buddy turns around to me and then attempts to spit on my face but instead drools all down his shirt. Way hawt! Got seated right after that and ordered some delicious ESD poutine... mmmmm bacon, onions and poutine together at last. It was good. Rest of the night was quiet and stuff.

Le garcon stayed out in Kanata so I had a quiet start to Sunday. Pietro was writing an exam so no breakfast outing. Just lounged around watching tv and reading. In the afternoon I was supposed to got out with Pietro and Kristen but I felt too lazy in light of all the rain so just stayed in vegging.

I have a training course for the second half of this week that I'm quasi looking forward to. I picked it out and all but I'm just hoping that it won't be really dry. It will however be useful...

The spell breaks with Matthaeus. For all his sporadic e-mails, yesterday's was I guess the most shallow- fitting with the subject line of- even a deep lake has a surface. So very true, with him... His last reply to me left me a bit stranded as to what to write back and just illuminated that he has me down all wrong. I took a diplomatic route in pointing that out and struggled with what to reply to his, um, request and then today when I checked my e-mail, I re-read what he'd written and how I'd responded and then it was suddenly meh, whatever. Write back or don't. You were awesome to meet and talk to but over e-mail you remind me of that guy who's trying to score on the first date but trying to do it with I don't know? Pretension? At any rate I suddenly was reminded of this guy Barry whom I briefly dated in uni who kept trying to get into my pants but I wasn't really interested and I just didn't care. With M though, it's kind of a shame. He is really intelligent with a lot to say and maybe I screwed up by not talking a lot when we were together but then my sister was there and I found it more interesting to listen to what she had to say and just generally observe her. That sounds odd, but when you've seen me and my sister together and our complete dissimilarity it does make sense. Plus I don't know what to make of the lines that M spun to me, which seem to be the same lines he spun to her. Blah.

Having that case of itchy feet. Wednesday was Sukkot and I went with the family to Berel's for supper in the sukkah. Ariel was visiting from Israel so had a bit of chat with her about that. She transferred there for her second year of university and has been there for the last eight years- finished school and is working with a think tank. She is currently looking for work in North America because she's had her fill of Israel for now. And right now with that feeling of neither here nor there it has me thinking and looking at different options... well to a certain extent. I don't hate my job or my life but it all feels blah. And I know it's one of those myths that people are happier elsewhere because in the end people are the same everywhere... but a change of scenery feels in order right now. And I guess this is all still residual feelings from coming back from Poland and seeing the differences there and if Tim and I manage the UK trip in November it'll just exacerbate that feeling, but I don't think that that's such a bad thing.

Finally went out and saw Tiffy's new house in Munster yesterday with Tim. They met me after work and we gorged ourselves on ESD poutine before going back to my house. Dropped stuff off and then we began our drive out to the 'country.' Tim and I were our charming selves on the way- teasing Tiff about living in Munster and she was really good about it. Her house is fucking fantastic!! Really gorgeous kitchen and main-level; love the hardwood floors. The rec room and den downstairs have an awesome set up- very comfy couch. Backyard is pretty big and Tim and I sat on the canopied porch swing thing while Tiff kept chasing Calvin away from trying to jump on the pool liner cover thing. Absolutely awesome!! Drive back into the city with Tim was a bit of a jolt when on Richmond two deer ran out in front of my car- thank you responsive brakes! Oh and thank-you pick up truck behind me for not rear-ending me on sudden stop. Confirmation that I do indeed have a heart and it does seem to work... jumped right in the throat with the deer. After getting back to my place Tim and I walked to his place so he could change shirts before going to Aloha. So I also got to see his new place :) His bachelor is really cute. Well decorated and good use of a smaller space. I really liked it!! Did up some drinks at Aloha- both of us in mellow/happy moods. It was a really good night.

Well I met up with Tym last night for a drink at the d'Oak. I always find it a bit of a laugh when I get to the bar first and am sitting there alone with a pitcher and a couple of glasses.... looking like I'm with my invisible friend or getting stood up... or that I'm an alcoholic just pretending to meet someone. What can I say... vivid imagination? Had a good chat with Tim. It was bitching session the second for the day as he'd also met me at lunch and heard my frustrations/adventures then.... He then headed off to Evan's and I walked back home. Quiet-like night... been spending a lot of time reading outside on the deck as I try to escape the inferno that is the apartment. I think tonight is poutine with Tim and Tiff... mmm delicious. Tomorrow I might actually be seeing Gord again for the first time in many many months. He e-mailed me out of the blue a couple weeks ago- well really when he got back to working at CRA. It's been good to talk to him again, I am hoping we'll manage a coffee or something tomorrow.

Final dance class on Thursday. Both Jen and Diane have been talking about using a different song for the pole part. I'm just meh on that. As long as I don't speed through what I've been working on- it's all good. Practicing at Catherine's on Sunday was good. Maybe a bit too much as I've got all the bruises now on the inside of my right leg... just from my knee to ankle- too much camel spin... It was actually really good to see Martha out at Catherine's... that girl is a lot of fun!

Hair appointment coming up soon with Bella... now must pick a cut and some colour.