Montreal return

[charloween]

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.



- 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*

Comments

substanceless! Yummy! like jello!

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Tee hee! I should've put Of Montreal on that mix CD...

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!

[piratefanatic.livejournal.com]

Ewwww, jello! *cringes*

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*

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I quite enjoyed jello, once upon a time.

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*

[piratefanatic.livejournal.com]

My dad's mum forced him to eat utterly vile jello salads when he was small (vile to the tune of orange jello with carrots and celery in it, served on a piece of iceberg lettuce and a garnish of mayonayse *shudders*). Appropriatly, he's been terrified of jello ever since then, so we never had much in the house. Also, that whole vegeterranian thing- not so much with the geletain.

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.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

My family doesn't go in for jellied salad (thank the gods) but for a while, our choir's end-of-year banquets were catered by the church's Little Old Lady Brigade. There were, therefore, gross abuses to innocent jello and tinned fruits. Now, Mum and I can't keep a straight face for giggling when confronted with jellied salad.

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.