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charloween) wrote2007-05-21 09:50 am
charloween) wrote2007-05-21 09:50 am
Montreal return
Am back from Montreal stop. Had a crazy time with AG and KH stop. Next time need more than a day in the city stop. PICTURES!!!! stop.
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piratefanatic is just as lovely in person as she is online. I get the feeling we would've been friends even if we'd met in rl first. Which is an awesome thought. *waves!*
-stickchick596 is also quite lovely, and a total superhero for driving all. that. way. *waves, too!*)
- having a guide and/or a Plan would have been useful. It's better to be in a city you don't know with someone who can show you around. Also: taking the subway down to Old Montreal would have been more awesome than just taking it back.
- having more direction would have meant that we wouldn't have wandered through the boring parts of the city and would have made it directly to the fun parts (some of which I found when I went out for a walk Saturday night).
- “17 degrees and overcast” is obviously Montreal French for “22 degrees and barely a cloud in the sky” because MAN the weather was gorgeous.
- “depanneur” is French for “fun little store which sells beer and ice cream”. There need to be depanneurs in Ontario.
- Jaques Cartier had a shop-vac.
- I should probably learn to take more pictures.
Now I know the places I'd like to go back and see again, and I also know that on my next trip to Montreal I'll give myself at least a week because a day isn't nearly enough to relax and explore.
In other news, today isdantae_hicks's 20th birthday! My little brother... no longer a teenager... *sniff*
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piratefanatic is just as lovely in person as she is online. I get the feeling we would've been friends even if we'd met in rl first. Which is an awesome thought. *waves!*-
stickchick596 is also quite lovely, and a total superhero for driving all. that. way. *waves, too!*)- having a guide and/or a Plan would have been useful. It's better to be in a city you don't know with someone who can show you around. Also: taking the subway down to Old Montreal would have been more awesome than just taking it back.
- having more direction would have meant that we wouldn't have wandered through the boring parts of the city and would have made it directly to the fun parts (some of which I found when I went out for a walk Saturday night).
- “17 degrees and overcast” is obviously Montreal French for “22 degrees and barely a cloud in the sky” because MAN the weather was gorgeous.
- “depanneur” is French for “fun little store which sells beer and ice cream”. There need to be depanneurs in Ontario.
- Jaques Cartier had a shop-vac.
- I should probably learn to take more pictures.
Now I know the places I'd like to go back and see again, and I also know that on my next trip to Montreal I'll give myself at least a week because a day isn't nearly enough to relax and explore.
In other news, today is
dantae_hicks's 20th birthday! My little brother... no longer a teenager... *sniff*
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Also, I added you on facebook. :)
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I have a plan that involves next year and a full week in Montreal. And/or this fall and hosting people in Toronto. Toronto and Montreal are two so very very different cities. Am still vaguely coherent from all the activity this weekend.
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Word to that. I lived in Montreal for my first four years in Canada. I strongly prefer Toronto, but YMMV.
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Has just eaten a lot of very yummy Thai food and is now trying to decide which item to remove from the two pastry fridges. Mmmm. Eclaires and bittersweet/white chocolate cheesecake and lemon cardamon poundcake and chocolate rasberry torte and black forest cake and Boston creame pie and and and and...
Also, Kacie says hi.
Our crack is goooooood. Want some?
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Drag her along, too. It'll be awesome.
*looks at the stale pizza on the desk* Drag some of those pastries along too, yeah?
Hi to Kacie, too!
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Dude! Carly and Alina and Charlotte in Toronto! This is a Good Idea.
Carly and Alina and Charlotte and Yummy Food is an even better idea. Yay! Mmm.... and speaking of pastries, guess who just at a hot cross bun fresh out of the oven?
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We'll be the terrors of Bloor Street. First stop: I'll take y'all to the Toronto Reference Library! Then: to the dance cave! Win!
Guess who got pastries... not me. *pouty* That means... it was... lil' Danny Jackson, on the Best Mission Ever, to the planet thereafter referred to by Jack as "PX-OhGodThosePastries".
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Alina reads: PX-OhGodThosePasties
*headshake*
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*headshake*
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YAY mostly substanceless comment!
Oh, and happy birthday Brother (who is older than me by a blasted week)! (Yes, I'm two days late. It happens.)
substanceless! Yummy! like jello!
Next time you're in Canada (if/when... heh) I'll drag out The Brother for you to meet him.
Re: substanceless! Yummy! like jello!
Yay! I will be in Canda, and sooner rather than later. I swear it! The fall break trip is contingent on theatre (is anything in my life not?), but damnit, I will make it to Torronto!
Oh, Of Montreal. *giggles*
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We had our last "eParty" (*cringe*) last night, and I got lots of questions about York's theatre program. Oh, theatre. Lots of dance students, too... dance students who still hadn't heard back about their application and/or got secondary offers to the theory (rather than studio) program and were whining about it. *whispers* They're all insane!
I'll make yet another note to myself to send along that "Tim, I Wish You Were Born A Girl" song. Unless I already did that. *makes other note to self: take a nap, stat*
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And yes, dance students are insane. That's all there is too it! Though to be fair, so are most theatre students. And academics in general. *shakes head*
And eParty? Whot, pray tell, is that? It sounds... special.
And lastly- I've not yet heard "Tim, I Wish bla bla bla" though I've been singing a crazy combination of "Lollipop" and "Grace Kelly" for the past week. Kacie and I keep humming little bits of the songs and discovereing that we're both singing the same thing. Cue a short and very silly dance party as everyone else in the room tries to figure out what the hell we're doing. Heheh.
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Hee - "vegeterranian".
An eParty is a chance for prospective students to "chat" in a real-time "chat room" in order to ask questions of current students, professors (theoretically) and administrators. The first one of the year (in early April) tends to have questions about what the programs are like, the kinds of courses available, etc etc. This final one happened a few days before the deadline students have to accept their offers. There were some kids who were still trying to make up their minds, but there were many more who thought that if they told us how much they liked dance/film/whatevs (I was working the Fine Arts chat room) that we'd somehow send them an offer of admission. *facepalm* I don't care if a kid's just written a 20,000 word screenplay. If they didn't admit him, he's still boned. *facepalmx2*
I still haven't sent you the song. Damn.